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Their lectures will take place weekly in a remote format, and, as both sides assure us, this is only the beginning of a large and fruitful work

The results of the ”School Premier League” competition of youth research projects were summed up in St. Petersburg. More than 400 high school students from all over Russia came to the Mining University to present their own inventions in the field of efficient subsoil use to the scientific community. What are young minds capable of today?

The most important thing is that the level of training of graduates of technical universities should meet the needs of the market, and they themselves could adapt to production as quickly as possible.

Almost half of the students of St. Petersburg Mining University in their free time engage in various sports clubs

Today, even in scientific publications about the invention of the legendary explosive ”Sinal-AK” during the Great Patriotic War one can meet a very simplified interpretation of events: they say that the cry was raised and a scientist far from military affairs, after thinking for a while, immediately gave a new composition. In July 1941 the City Committee of the CPSU(b) agreed to the proposal, and in August the products produced thirteen Leningrad enterprises and scientific organizations. One can guess that events developed somewhat differently…

The founder of the new scientific field of petrochemistry, President of the All-Union Mineralogical Society, laureate of the Lenin and two Stalin Prizes, Alexander Zavaritsky, according to the recollections of his colleagues, was a very private person. This was due not only to his high state positions and developments of defense purposes, but also to certain circumstances of his life.

One of the largest Russian crystallographers of the 20th century, Ilarion Shafranovsky, became a doctor of sciences at the age of 35. The creator of a vast branch of science - mineralogical crystallography - devoted more than 50 years to research and teaching. However, few knew that the professor had another equally strong passion…

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.