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He was awarded such a high award for his great services in scientific and pedagogical activities, training of qualified specialists and many years of conscientious work.

”The patriarch of the diamond industry of the Republic of Sakha and the non-ferrous metallurgy of the USSR”, ”the man-epoch” is how Taras Desyatkin has been called for decades. This is not just a figure of speech or high-flown compliments. It is not a joke because during a quarter of the century under his direct supervision, the teams of enterprises, pits, mines and artisanal teams of the region produced 760 tons of gold.

Representatives of five universities - Mining University, ITMO, Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg State University and Higher School of Economics - took part in the ”Spelling Bee” competition, which is very popular in many countries of the world, but so far little known in Russia. Its essence is to spell words correctly, reproducing their written form.

The city on the banks of the Neva River hosted the International Forum on Nature Management and Conservation of the World Natural Heritage, which brought together delegations from 70 countries. Representatives from Brazil, Peru, Cuba, South Africa and other countries are looking forward to a new stage of cooperation in the field of mining and higher education. The event was organised in cooperation with the International Competence Centre in Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO. Interaction always presupposes a two-way interest.

This week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s visit to Russia included the unveiling of a monument to Fidel Castro in Moscow and talks between the top leaders of the two countries. Young scholar Yusmira Savon Vassiano said that Cubans in St. Petersburg watched the news with a feeling comparable to the one both countries had 60 years ago, when that very song ”Cuba is near!” was born.

On Thursday, November 24, a delegation from Acron (Veliky Novgorod) paid a working visit to St. Petersburg Mining University. The guests made a presentation of the holding company and talked about innovative solutions enabling a full cycle of fertilizer development and sales as well as career prospects for students in case of their future employment at the Group’s enterprises.

In all closed university sports complexes, the total area of which is almost 11 thousand square meters, 880 people can train in parallel

The main author of the theory of the abiogenous origin of oil, Nikolai Kudryaevtsev, spent decades fighting the ”geological elite,” proving that oil comes from non-biological sources of carbon and hydrogen deep in the Earth’s crust and mantle. He received years in camps for his work, but the concept became popular worldwide and eventually changed the established view of the future of mankind.

This autumn people continued to die in mines and mines around the world. Some of the tragedies were caused by non-compliance with safety rules, while others were caused by rockbursts. Forpost decided to find out whether scientists can predict and prevent such cataclysms.

In less than a month, eight scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University are planning to go to Antarctica as part of a seasonal glacial-drilling team, which also includes representatives of the AARI