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During the war, more than 185 students and staff of the Mining Institute died.

This became possible thanks to their successful performance at the annual CASE-IN engineering championship in the “Digital Atom” field.

A fifth-year student of St. Petersburg Mining University became the best among 15 thousand students in the project of the Presidential platform “Russia - the country of possibilities.”

A preliminary agreement on establishing the Centre for Studying Russian Language and Science was made at the working meeting of Vladimir Litvinenko and Ivanka Popović, rectors of St. Petersburg Mining University and the University of Belgrade. The Centre will be set up in one of the faculties of the Serbia-based university. In an interview for Forpost Press, Ivanka Popović, Rector of the University of Belgrade, told about the prospects the new Centre would open up for Serbian students, along with the functions it may serve.

The preliminary agreement about this was reached during the visit of the delegation of the Belgrade University to the City on the Neva.

Mining University continues to improve its position in international rankings.

Traditionally, the freshmen’s meeting was held on Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, in front of the front entrance to Russia’s oldest technical university.

For many years, he, who can be rightly called the ”father” of space robotics, was left unknown, as his name was kept classified. The creator of the first-ever lunar rover, the Mars lander vehicle, and author of numerous unique inventions — he became known only with the fall of the USSR. There is even an asteroid that was named after him. Alexander Kemurdzhian was born in 1921 in Vladikavkaz. He is a craftsman and inventor of impossible machines and mechanisms. No one would have suspected at the time that this childish hobby would make the boy a world-famous constructor.

The university’s rector Vladimir Litvinenko showed the guest the university’s infrastructure, as well as its unique collection of minerals, models, and natural samples related to mining.

The summer season of the sports and health camp for students of St. Petersburg Mining University has come to an end. The level of organization and success of the project can be judged by the reviews and photos of its direct participants.