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Hydrocarbon production accounts for 88% of Angola’s GDP. The country ranks second in oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, falling behind Nigeria only, and third in gas reserves, with Nigeria and Mozambique ahead. However, the Republic of Angola halted the production of natural gas in 2015.

21,000 tons of oil products in Norilsk, most of which found their way into the waters of northern rivers. Pollution of the ocean and the death of marine fauna in Kamchatka, one of the causes of which was named the Kozelsk pesticide landfill. And, of course, Usolye-Sibirskoye, where the bankrupt Usoliekhimprom poses a danger to the entire Irkutsk Region. Here mercury concentration exceeded the maximum permissible level in wastewater by 34 thousand times and in the air by 367 times.

Following the British QS, the second of the world’s three most authoritative companies for grading institutions of higher education noted the progress of St. Petersburg Mining University.

A delegation of the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas headed by Deputy Minister Tarun Kapoor paid a working visit to St. Petersburg Mining University. During the meeting with Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, they discussed such issues as training qualified specialists for the oil and gas industry and prospects of using hydrocarbons in the global fuel and energy balance

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.