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The first-year students’ meeting at the oldest higher technical school in Russia will open on September, 1, at 10 a.m.

The first AGL was created in the 1930s by a young designer who had not even graduated from university. The cruel irony is that in 1941, he was accused of plotting the production of technically unfinished and unsatisfactory weapons systems and was executed by shooting. And in 1967, the US Navy kick-started the production of an analogous weapon, which is still exported to dozens of countries.

Tyumen Oblast is one of Russia’s leading regions in developing new industries and competencies, with a primary focus being on graduating specialists for the oil & gas sector. It can be said that the entire federal subject depends on it.

Today the final list of applicants to the Bachelor’s and Specialist’s degree programs at St. Petersburg Mining University has become known. The numbers for 2021 are strikingly different from those of the previous few years. Applicants submitted more than 33,000 applications to the university’s admissions committee. By comparison, in 2018 there were 16,000, and in 2019 and 2020 - 17,000.

As part of preparations for the new academic year, exercises of the Emergencies Ministry have been held on the premises of St. Petersburg Mining University. Why this time those were held at night?

This year, 213 people from 32 Russian and foreign higher educational institutions took part in them.

On the territory of the three academic buildings and nine dormitories of Mining University, there are 51 bins for plastic, glass, and paper.

Mining University created all the conditions to increase the number of vaccinated students, but no compulsory vaccination is stipulated.

1910’s Russia-wide Festival of Aeronautics was marred by a tragedy: an aeroplane went to pieces whilst in the sky, and the shocked spectators observed the death of a pilot, all happening right in front of their eyes. This was the first-ever air crash to have occurred in the Russian Empire. Strangely enough, but this is what inspired a Russian actor from St. Petersburg to invent the knapsack parachute.

Magomed Mintsaev, Rector of Grozny University (GSOTU), shared his opinion on the most pressing problems faced by the domestic higher education system and how successfully they are solved.