Kseniia Pavlova

It is extremely undesirable to burn them as ordinary firewood since it is dangerous for the environment and for the health of those who get into the area where the products of combustion spread.

More than five hundred employees of St. Petersburg Mining University received an injection of the first component of the vaccine against COVID-19, some of them have already received the second injection.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to create an interdepartmental working group for the development of hydrogen energy. Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak will head it.

The competition was the central event of the International Oil and Gas Youth Forum, which was held in Almetyevsk.

Students from Yekaterinburg, Kemerovo, Moscow, Tyumen and Ukhta who study at the summer school of the St. Petersburg Mining University in the field of “Geomechanics” got acquainted with the construction of the Teatralnaya station.

Russian Railways has already become interested in the new preventive trains because the problem of efficient transportation of coal, crushed rock, iron ore, and other raw materials during the winter period has not yet been fully solved.

Pictures of historical exhibits from the Mining Museum will be included in the catalogue commemorating the 300th anniversary of the petroleum industry in Russia.

The Rector of the first higher technical university in Russia talks about the institution’s efforts to create a positive educational environment.

Using a naturally occurring mineral will make it possible to replace expensive and hard-to-manufacture synthetic aluminosilicates.

At the same time, the problem with recycling industrial wood residues is solved.

In The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Alexander Pushkin wrote about a squirrel cracking wondrous nuts. It is not by chance that the gemstones appeared in the fairy tale. In August 1931, when Pushkin finalised his poem, Saint Petersburg had been already taken over by the ’emerald fever’.

A new catalyst for water electrolysis can replace expensive platinum-group metals.

RZD, alongside Mining University, are working together to implement a technology for managing wastewater residuals.

St. Petersburg Mining Museum’s researchers have recreated the look of rare 19th-century fluorite vases. …Matthew Boulton, an English manufacturer, was one of the first in Europe to start making decorative items from fluorite, a rare naturally occurring mineral. In late-18th-century Birmingham, his factory produced such art objects as candelabra, bowls, potpourri vases. They were not made by hand, though. The workers carved them using machines powered by a steam engine.

Rospatent has registered computer programs engineered by SSTU’s research team.

More than a hundred students from Russian, Belarusian, and Armenian oil and gas higher schools arrived in St. Petersburg to participate in the Mining University summer schools.