Society

The number of state-funded places at Russia’s oldest technical university has increased significantly this year.

Working in the Far North or in an office in St. Petersburg? Onshore or offshore field? On the staff of a foreign or Russian company? The mineral and raw materials complex of Russia provides differentiated scenarios of career development for core specialists. Viktor Feller, a graduate of St. Petersburg Mining University, has had time to work on various projects and today holds the position of Chief Expert of Offshore Projects Expertise Department at PAO Gazprom.

A delegation of Caterpillar headed by Regional Director for Eurasia and the Middle East Markus Gebauer paid a working visit to Mining University.

An international conference “Cybersecurity and problems of combating new types of cybercrime” took place at Mining University. The forum brought together information security specialists, heads of law enforcement agencies from Russia, Germany, and Israel, teachers of the largest Russian technical universities, lawyers, and specialists of the banking sector.

In 1805 the first Russian textbook on mine surveying “Practical underground geometry” was published. This was a turning point in the formation of the specialty, without which 200 years later it is impossible to imagine either the development of minerals, or construction of subway lines, or the construction of underground passages or mine shafts.

В Горном университете прошёл День карьеры лидера российской золотодобычи и одного из крупнейших производителей золота в мире компании «Полюс»

A concert dedicated to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held in the Gorny IFC.

A regular meeting of the Academic Council was held at Mining University.

They speak about the need to preserve the historical truth about the crimes of the Nazis committed during the Great Patriotic War.

British scientists have revealed that breathing causes lead compounds to form within disposable face masks. It reminds of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s lines, ”as our days entered the water pipe, worked by the slaves of Rome”. Which is a typical example of how lead pipes bring about a decline in the population’s average life expectancy.