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They will be attended by students and graduate students from Armenia, Belarus, Iran, China and new Russian regions. On Tuesday, July 4, at the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University the season of summer schools - short-term educational programs, prepared especially for students from partner universities - began. Among them are the University of Shiraz (Iran), the China University of Mining and Technology, the Belarusian National Technical University and many others.

In 1938 the Balkhashtsvetmet plant produced the first copper, which had previously been imported from abroad, and in 1942 molybdenum, essential for the country’s tank-building industry, was produced. Severonikel produced the first nickel for tank armor and aircraft parts in 1939 and cobalt in 1940. ”Norilsk Combine” in 1939 received the first copper-nickel matte and high-grade matte, and by 1944 gave the first tons of platinoids and began producing 40 to 60 percent of all Soviet nickel.

He called the events unfolding in Russia today a challenge not only for the country’s leadership and security forces, but also for every citizen. On Saturday, June 24 the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Chairman of the Presidium of ”Nedra” Consortium which includes more than one hundred domestic higher educational institutions, Vladimir Litvinenko addressed the academic and business communities. He called the current situation an ordeal for our country as a whole and for every citizen in particular.

The main one, but not the only one, is the presence of six universities, which are implementing a new concept of higher education in Russia in connection with our country’s withdrawal from the Bologna process.

St. Petersburg Mining University is one of six Russian universities, which this year will start a pilot project to withdraw from the Bologna process

China is a country of global competition. From a place on the road for one’s bike to a place in life for one’s person. Here even the draft army is recruited on a competitive basis. No matter how you look at it, it’s a billion four hundred million people. And if you don’t work or study 24 hours a day, you’ll be somewhere at the bottom of that list.

At the end of the 18th century the Russian Empire included Belarus, the Right-Bank Ukraine, Crimea, the Sea of Azov, and the lands between the Bug and Dniester. Russia ”took under its patronage” Georgia, Russian America - Alaska - appeared. In addition, the unexplored Urals and Siberia beckoned with their wealth. The new lands required detailed research ”economically, economically, geographically and in other respects”. One of those who Alexander I put in charge of this undertaking was Vasily Severgin, elected professor of the Academy of Sciences at the age of 27.

A representative delegation of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University arrived in China for the first time since the pandemic.

The most famous Russian pianist and composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff maintained an active correspondence with relatives, friends and colleagues, leaving behind an enormous archive of photographs and letters. Unfortunately, not all of his correspondence has survived to this day: some of it was destroyed by order of his daughters. However, among the surviving library, an interesting photograph was found, in which the maestro is playing music with a man who, by his profession, is quite far from art…

Since the children of the royal dynasty received a home education, the personalities of their tutors played a crucial role in shaping the worldview of future sovereigns. Mentors for the grand dukes were selected with particular care… Admissible were exclusively ”persons of good character, conduct based on sound intellect and honesty, and who could treat their children pleasantly and kindly” - reasoned Catherine II, in whose era were laid the basic principles of education of the heirs to the throne and the grand princes.