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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.

Students of St. Petersburg Mining University laid carnations at the spontaneous memorial that arose near the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan on Vasilievsky Island. They joined tens of thousands of citizens of St. Petersburg who since yesterday have been bringing flowers, candles and soft toys as a sign of support and sympathy to the victims and relatives of the victims in Kazan.

The scientific team, created in February 2021 on the basis of the Department of Geology and Exploration of Mineral Deposits and the Mining Museum, returned from its first field trip to the Putilovsky open pit.

All six developments of the scientists of Mining University, presented at the international HI TECH exhibition, were awarded various prizes of ”The Best Innovative Project of the Year” contest. According to the expert council, this was the result of “very strong scientific and technical solutions, which have already gained commercial distribution in the Russian and foreign markets.”