On Friday, November 26, St. Petersburg Mining University held a meeting of the Academic Council. It began with a moment of silence in memory of the miners and rescuers killed in a methane explosion at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass. As Vladimir Litvinenko, the rector of the university noted, the cause of the tragedy is a reckless attitude to the system of staffing of high-tech industries, which includes the entire mining sector.