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Most career guidance experts agree that it is best to start working in this area with children 10-12 years old. By the age of 14 the student can already make the first conscious step toward his future profession: start attending elective courses and elective courses or enroll in a high school, the so-called pre-university.

The ”Real” Left-handed man, as opposed to the hero of the story of the same name by Nikolai Leskov, did not call to abandon the use of bricks when cleaning rifles. On the contrary, he began to actively use abrasive, though another - innovative - materials, when polishing blades of cold weapons.

On June 22, 2022 there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Afghanistan, the waves of which were also felt in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and India. As a result of the natural disaster, more than 1.5 thousand people died and about 2 thousand more suffered. All of them lived in provinces, which 70 years ago Soviet geologist and seismologist Georgiy Gorshkov identified as potentially dangerous for underground shocks in this region.

On the last Sunday of August, Miner’s Day is celebrated in Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2022, the holiday fell on August 28. On the congratulatory posters, there are pictures of stark, ”black gold”-stained faces of the miners. What are coal industry public relations people not telling us?

Many people think that the colonial era is a thing of the past, but in fact… it is not.

”For 35 years, the entire economy of the Soviet Union was based on Tatar oil,” said Nikolai Baibakov, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, referring primarily to the Romashkinskoye field. The country applauded its discoverers. Of course, the first place in Russia in terms of reserves and the status of a unique super giant according to the international classification made it a legend. However, there was a scientist, who did the impossible - he could increase the economic significance of the field many times over…

It took hundreds of millions of years for geological processes to form a single supercontinent, Pangea, in the Late Paleozoic. About 220 million years ago, it split in two. Today, the six continents on Earth are very slowly but surely moving toward each other. The Mining Museum now has the opportunity to visualize the history of the Earth’s crust and its dynamics in the future, as well as many other natural processes on the Earth and other planets with its new acquisition - a digital demonstration complex with a spherical screen.

On the first Sunday of September every year, Russia celebrates Oil and Gas Industry Workers Day, often referred to simply as Oilman Day. Although the first mention of the sources of ”black gold” in the country can be found in the 10th century treatise of Byzantine Emperor Constantine Bagrjanorodny ”On State Management”, specialists of the key industry for the national economy got their professional holiday only in 1965 after miners, railwaymen, builders and metallurgists. What happened in the middle of the XX century?

According to Rosstat, in our country scientific research and development is carried out by 475 organizations, of which 990 are higher educational institutions. Moreover, if over the past 20 years the total number of organizations has not changed significantly, the share of research institutes in it has fallen by 40%, and the share of universities has increased almost threefold. There is an increase in the role of university science in the country’s research potential.

All 11 graduate students of St. Petersburg Mining University, who worked for half a year on their research projects in Germany, have safely returned to the city on the Neva