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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…

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»