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Mining University has resumed summer school programmes following the last year’s break caused by the pandemic. Upon completing the studies, some of the participants have already left for home. What is their opinion on the educational programmes, practical training opportunities, and the organisation of the learning process as a whole?

More than five hundred employees of St. Petersburg Mining University received an injection of the first component of the vaccine against COVID-19, some of them have already received the second injection.

The competition was the central event of the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum, which was held in Almetyevsk.

Students from Yekaterinburg, Kemerovo, Moscow, Tyumen and Ukhta who study at the summer school of the St. Petersburg Mining University in the field of “Geomechanics” got acquainted with the construction of the Teatralnaya station.

Four students of St. Petersburg Mining University have defended their Master’s degree theses under the triple diploma program “Modern methods of development of mineral resources.” Now each of them will become the owner of three certificates of higher education at once: from the Freiberg Mining Academy (Germany), the Leoben Mining University (Austria), and their alma mater.

The students who completed their studies at the summer schools of St. Petersburg Mining University passed the baton to their peers from other universities. They were succeeded by 103 people from 25 higher educational institutions, members of the Nedra Consortium.

More than a hundred students from Russian, Belarusian, and Armenian oil and gas higher schools arrived in St. Petersburg to participate in the Mining University summer schools.

China imposed a ban on coal exports from Australia late last year. Canada, the US, Russia, and Indonesia expressed their interest to replace its market share. Yet, it was Mongolia that became the leader of the race. The vice president of one of the country’s largest mining companies, MAK, spoke on where the profits from coal sales would go to.

Mahmoud Vaezi, head of the Iranian presidential administration, announced that Washington had agreed to lift sanctions on all economic issues. The head of the Iranian-Russian Center for Academic Cooperation, one of Iran’s largest universities, commented on what the first steps would be after they had been lifted.

In the second half of the 19th century, Azerbaijan became the center of the world’s hydrocarbon production. However, the mass development of “black gold” deposits threatened with frightening consequences. After direct distillation of Baku oil, the yield of the main commercial product, kerosene, was a little more than 30%, and the rest was called “oil waste.” They were simply poured into the sea or burned…