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Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolay Patrushev visited St. Petersburg Mining University. The main topic discussed during his meeting with the rector Vladimir Litvinenko was the training of qualified engineering staff for the national economy.

In an interview to Forpost, Gleb Turichin, Rector of the Marine Technical University, spoke about how to prevent the engineering education from degradation, when Russian universities will meet employers’ requirements, and why so far no one can take our country’s institutions for PhD studies seriously.

Some time later, the Belarusian BELAZ Company also announced the creation of robotic dump trucks. They were sent to the Chernogorsky coal mine in the Republic of Khakassia, where the SUEK Company operates.

The Great Patriotic War was one of the most tragic and at the same time heroic pages of the city’s history.

This structure is headquartered in St. Petersburg and regularly expands its network of partners. It already accounts of more than a hundred technical universities, as well as energy and mining companies in countries such as Austria, Great Britain, China, Germany, and many others.

The first higher technical university in Russia was established by a decree of Empress Catherine the Great, following a request with which a mining entrepreneur from the Ural addressed her. But who was the person who established and headed the educational institution? A famous son of a famous father he was.

In 2020, for the first time in Finnish history, a mass explosion was carried out without the use of TNT and dynamite. It was loaded exclusively with Russian-made cartridges and detonators. The head of the department for new projects at Azot-Blast, the largest company in Russia and the CIS for the production of drilling and blasting agents, talked about what radical changes have taken place in the industry and how to build a successful career today.

St. Petersburg Mining University became the leader of the updated rating of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN, compiled according to the results of student teams’ performances over all seasons. The university took first place in the categories “Geological Exploration” and “Mining.” In addition, its teams ranked in the top three in “Oil and Gas” and “Electric Power.”

“The Slavyanov cylinder” in 1893 at the world exhibition in Chicago received a gold medal with the wording: “For the technical revolution produced.” His photographs, accompanying the relevant news, appeared in many newspapers in Europe and the United States. What kind of scientific breakthrough was he talking about?

As was initially planned by the city leaders of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, switching to distant learning should have caused university students to leave the cities, thereby reducing the pressure on hospital capacity brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to a Master’s student from Serbia, many non-locals and foreigners preferred to stay. She also spoke about the expectations of international students who study in Russia.