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The oldest known image of the labyrinth dates back to 1200 BC. Its author lived in the Peloponnese. Not far from the island of Crete, where later, according to Athenian mythology, the inventor Daedalus, the father of the winged Icarus, built a labyrinth for King Minos. In it, Theseus defeated the Minotaur and was able, with the help of Ariadne’s thread, to return back.

Vladimir Putin held a meeting on the implementation of the Far East development program as part of his visit to Buryatia

This is a historic achievement. No other Russian institution of higher education has managed to do anything like this before.

This fall marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg Mining University. Why was it necessary to open a college for engineers in Russia a quarter of a millennium ago?

The International Scientific and Practical Conference ”Mendeleev Readings. Chemical Processes in the Earth’s Interior” started.

The unprecedented sanctions imposed by the West on Russia have frozen cooperation between Russian universities and American and European partners. What next?

In 1948 one of the most destructive earthquakes in the history of mankind, the intensity of which reached 9-10 points, occurred in the region of Ashkhabad city. According to various estimates, 110,000 to 170,000 people died. The number of injured went off the scale. In the first hours after the disaster, a 60-year-old man came to the emergency response headquarters. ”The city is buried under the rubble. I am not a doctor of medicine, but I am a doctor of science. And I want to offer my help,” he said.

Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, suggested ”returning to the traditional basic system of education in universities.”

On average, it takes several decades for a university graduate who wants to build a research and teaching career to become a professor. If he turns out to be capable of it at all. However, Grigori Helmersen, the son of a Livonian baron, received the position the year he graduated from the Mining Institute. In the future he was to head his alma mater, become one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society, an ordinary member of the Academy of Sciences, as well as the initiator and first director of the Geological Committee.

The next group of 340 students of St. Petersburg Mining University have begun studying the theoretical course of the basic scientific competence ”Philosophy of Science”