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St. Petersburg Mining University ranked 12th place in the QS subject ranking, improving its last year’s result by 6 positions at once. This is a record: in the history of ranking, Russian universities have never risen so high in the prestigious international charts. The Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and many other politicians, industrialists and public figures sent congratulations to Russia’s oldest higher technical school.

Russia’s first technical university ranked the top in the ranking of domestic institutions of higher education in international rankings

In 2020, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky became the top trending Russian musician outside the country. A billboard with an image of his was erected right in central New York, on Times Square. Yet notwithstanding the international recognition of the composer’s music, the Tchaikovskys are also known for having had connections with another industry, traditionally the key one for Rusia’s economy.

In the summer of 1955, three geologists of the Amakinskaya expedition sent a secret radiogram to their superiors: ”We smoked a peace pipe, the tobacco is excellent. Avdeyenko, Elagina, Khabardin”. According to the official version, they are considered the discoverers of one of the largest primary diamond deposits in Russia… But there are still disputes about the authorship of the discovery.

St. Petersburg Mining University held a student flash mob ”Back to Science” as part of the events timed to coincide with the opening of the Year of Science and Technology.

An international photo exhibition “Let’s save the heritage of centuries!”, timed to the 30th anniversary of the inclusion of the historic center of St. Petersburg in the UNESCO World Heritage List opened in the Main Library of Mining University.

In an interview to Forpost, Oleg Baulin, Rector of Ufa State Petroleum Technological University (USPTU), explains whether distance learning can replace contact study sessions and what competencies employers require from fresh graduates, aside from the field-specific knowledge and skills.

The students, who missed their alma mater, were in a working mood on the first day of school.

Rector of the University of Mines Vladimir Litvinenko held a working meeting with the Governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District Dmitry Artyukhov. The parties discussed the training of priority specialists for the region, as well as areas of possible scientific cooperation.

Valery Falkov also answered the question about whether it is planned to shorten the summer vacation so that students could fully work off the missed practical and laboratory classes.