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St. Petersburg Mining University team named ’Oil Workers and the Pump’ took second place in the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship

Alexander Column, the focal point of Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, is set to last at least another 300 years. That’s what conservation professionals, who are taking care of the monument, say. However, local geologists have expressed their doubts about the accuracy of the figures. What are the odds the column won’t collapse right before our eyes?

In the late-19th century, Alexander Auerbach, a renowned mining engineer, set up mercury production, becoming thus the first to do so in Russia. His business was expected to be an imminent success. So how come 20 years later, he declared himself bankrupt?

Nikolai Zelinsky first familiarised himself with poisonous gases in 1886 when he accidentally synthesised mustard gas whilst running an experiment. Thirty years later, when the Germans began using this substance as a chemical weapon in World War I, he invented an ”antidote” — the world’s first-ever gas mask.

Vladimir Shukhov is renowned for designing Russia’s first oil pipeline and refinery. He was also the first to commercialise motor gasoline into production. Yet, nearing the end of his life, he was sentenced to a ”suspended death by shooting”…

Ivan Romanchuk talking about UTMN — now and in 2030

10th Forum of Engineering and Technological Universities, hosted by BNTU in Minsk, Belarus, came to an end

The first event to take place on the renovated premises was a meeting of Vladimir Litvinenko with group prefects

Panel conference in memory of Nikolay Putilov, one of Russia’s greatest metallurgists, took place at Mining University

Admiralteysky Tournament of Connoisseurs — an intellectual game, similar to ’What? Where? When?’ — came to an end