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St. Petersburg Committee on Science and Higher Education wraps us the ’Student of the Year’ contest by announcing its winners

The Valley of Geysers – a landmark of Kamchatka – was discovered by accident. In believing hoary legends, local hunters avoided this place. Yet one day, Tatiana Ustinova, in a dog sledge, left to explore the territory of the Uzon volcano and saw something she had not expected at all.

Following the death of miners in the accident at the Listvyazhnaya mine, St. Petersburg Mining University holds a memorial service at the university’s house church

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.

Olympiad winners and runners-up are entitled to apply to almost any university of their choice without entrance examination

Igor Sikorsky, known outside of Russia as Mr Helicopter, made a small rubber band-powered helicopter at age 12. Forty years later, a machine of his design became the world’s first mass-produced helicopter. Yet few know, the model he had designed might have never seen the light of day if not for the help of another Russian, a famous composer who had nothing to do with aviation.

St. Petersburg Polytechnic University hosted the finals of the Peter the Great Case Championship, in which 24 teams participated

The Mechanical Engineering team won one of the most large-scale and vibrant competitions held for students of Mining University

Roman Kuchin, Rector of Yugra State University, talked about the recent scientific developments, the results of this year’s enrollment campaign, domestic and international collaborations.

Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko and Oberbürgermeister of Freiberg Sven Krüger held a working meeting marking 310 years since Mikhail Lomonosov’s birth