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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.

Five graduate students from the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) come to the St Petersburg Mining University to validate their research findings

Scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University joined the study of the Early Cretaceous complex of Shestakovo locations in the Kemerovo region, where new species of dinosaurs were found.

In 2015, the feature film ”Territory” was released, made on behalf of and with the personal support of Vladimir Putin. The head of state’s name was even in the credits, and it premiered at the Kremlin. The extreme North-East of the country, the vast tundra and obsessed with the idea of finding the ”big gold” main character, the prototype of which was a famous graduate of the Mining Institute.

Every third shell and the armor of every second tank were made of the steel of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works during the Great Patriotic War. Today its products are used to manufacture construction, quarry and other special equipment, equipment for shaft sinking and rock processing. It is also used for all coins in Russia from 50 kopecks to 10 rubles. However, a tragic fate awaited the initiator and designer of the country’s largest metallurgical production…

The first man appeared on earth two and a half million years ago. And the first fish appeared 450 million years ago, in what is now called the Devonian period. That was the time when four-ton sharks came ashore to turn into crocodiles in another two hundred million years. Or well, at least that’s what researchers of prehistoric and even ”pre-dinosaur” eras claim.

A surprising picture was observed by climbers in the Carpathian Mountains in 1989. Young men, climbing awkwardly over rocks, were carrying a large classroom board and notebooks. Ahead of them, a gray-haired, bearded man with a mandolin in one hand and a sheaf of books in the other was practically running up. This was exactly how the summer school for talented geophysicists and mathematicians looked like. The reason for its popularity lay in its organizer…

Despite the fact that our first blast furnaces appeared in the 17th century near Tula, and the rapid production of pig iron began under Peter the Great, a century later Europe and the United States rapidly overtook Russia in the production of iron-carbon alloys. While from 1800 to 1860 iron production in our country increased twice, in England it increased by ten times and in France it increased by eight times. Introduction of technological innovations was very late and with an eye on the Western world.