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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

The St. Petersburg Mining University continues short-term educational programs, which the university organizes together with the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO. Students from ten foreign countries participate in the summer schools. Representatives of technical universities will take a course of lectures in the online format, and then a full-time practice in St. Petersburg.

What can surprise the asphalt. The road surface, which first made itself known during the construction of St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Two square meters were poured with it. The future autobahns could not be discerned from it.

In exactly one year, in November 2023, St. Petersburg Mining University will be 250 years old. Celebrations to mark the event will take place all over the country. The decree on the celebration of the anniversary was signed by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.