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Pavel Preobrazhensky, a former minister in Kolchak’s government, is primarily known for discovering the world’s largest deposit of potassium salts. Nowadays, it serves as a source of raw material for Uralkali.

Representatives of at least 10 higher educational institutions from Azerbaijan, Belarus, India, China, Poland, South Africa, and several other countries will take part in short-term educational programs at Mining University

The main task is defending a dissertation and solving a specific engineering problem within it, related to progress in a particular scientific direction

He graduated with honours from Russia’s oldest technical university in 1967.

13 September 1941, a guerrilla unit composed of Mining Institute students and professors went on a mission behind enemy lines. 35 diversionists left the city, yet only 17 returned 3 months later.

This year it is taking place in five Russian cities.

The university will receive the basic part of the grant in the amount of 100 million rubles. In addition, it became one of the 18 educational institutions recommended for additional support under the ”Research Leadership” track.

This year, the British Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) accredited 27 short-term educational programs of summer schools of St. Petersburg Mining University.

This was made possible by the DAAD and Erasmus+ International Programs.

Once Ivan Gubkin, a Soviet petroleum geologist, was asked about his work before 1917, and he replied by saying that he ”was increasing Russia’s petroleum wealth”. This ambitiousness was quite common amongst Mining University graduates, which is better understood if considering the historical context.