Kseniia Pavlova

Are streets of EU towns and cities decorated for Christmas? What about traditional fairs and festivals? Have they been cancelled this year? And how badly has the spread of the Omicron variant affected the sentiment amongst locals?

The team is currently stationed at the Progress research station, with the first group of polar explorers set to take a flight to the Vostok Station on Dec 23

St. Petersburg Mining University team named ’Oil Workers and the Pump’ took second place in the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship

Alexander Column, the focal point of Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, is set to last at least another 300 years. That’s what conservation professionals, who are taking care of the monument, say. However, local geologists have expressed their doubts about the accuracy of the figures. What are the odds the column won’t collapse right before our eyes?

St. Petersburg Mining University hosted a ceremony of awarding young scientists with grants covering their work on research projects in Germany

The RUSAL Laboratory competition of research student works is held annually, with the winners determined within five categories

Oil prices, previously exceeding USD 85 per barrel, have fallen due to Omicron risks

A seminar for the leaders of study groups took place at Mining University, the primary focus being how to integrate students into the university’s research teams

Alrosa’s sales of rough and polished diamonds show impressive growth, as indicated by the figures revealed for November 2020

A regional Competence Center in the field of mineral resources complex will be opened in Tatarstan. The agreement was signed today by the President of the Republic Rustam Minnikhanov and the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko. Almetyevsk State Petroleum Institute, the supporting higher education institution of Tatneft company, which will take an active part in the creation of the new structure, has been chosen as the site for the regional centre. The agreement was also concluded today, signed on behalf of Tatneft” by CEO Nail Maganov.

St. Petersburg Mining University researchers, now stationed at the White Continent, wish everyone be healthy, happy and lucky in the New year

In the late-19th century, Alexander Auerbach, a renowned mining engineer, set up mercury production, becoming thus the first to do so in Russia. His business was expected to be an imminent success. So how come 20 years later, he declared himself bankrupt?

Nikolai Zelinsky first familiarised himself with poisonous gases in 1886 when he accidentally synthesised mustard gas whilst running an experiment. Thirty years later, when the Germans began using this substance as a chemical weapon in World War I, he invented an ”antidote” — the world’s first-ever gas mask.

This previously unknown mineral was first discovered in the late 18th century by Abraham Werner, a German geologist from Freiberg, Saxony. He was studying lavas from Mount Vesuvius when he found several fine crystals of the mineral.

This mineral was on the list of critical commodities during the First World War. Peaceful uses have been found eventually, now the stone being part of any large celebration.

Vladimir Shukhov is renowned for designing Russia’s first oil pipeline and refinery. He was also the first to commercialise motor gasoline into production. Yet, nearing the end of his life, he was sentenced to a ”suspended death by shooting”…