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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.

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.