Kseniia Pavlova

Students from Hanoi University in Vietnam and Taiyuan University of Technology (TUT) in China came to the Mining University to participate in the International Summer School programme, named ”Underground Coal Mining”.

Garnet is a mineral which to a great extent resembles pomegranate seeds in appearance. However, while almost everyone had a taste of the fruit with wine-coloured seeds inside it, not everyone was lucky to to hold the stone in the hands.

Lapis lazuli is a mineral that very rarely takes the form of individual crystals but rather often forms dense granular masses. As per colour, the mineral can be turquoise, aquamarine, purple, at times also blue or green.

Students of the Lebanese International University came to Saint-Petersburg to participate in the summer school program of the Mining University, called ”Geodetic Engineering: Theory and Practice”. On the completion of the education, they shared their impressions and explained why they decided to be trained here for a second year in a row.

Russian scientists have made a brand new discovery – a physical phenomenon that will improve the efficiency of intercontinental ballistic missile control and allow building the spacecraft capable of flying under extreme conditions of the outer space.

Students of the faculty of political science at the University of Bologna went through training at the International Summer School in the Mining University. Italian students came to St. Petersburg to gain new knowledge and participate in the summer school program named ”Social-political Conflicts of Modern Society”.

More than half of the students of technical universities would not want to work inside the Arctic circle regardless of the circumstances. Meanwhile, the local population is rapidly declining. Can something be done about it?

Top management of Caterpillar paid a visit to St. Petersburg and met with Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector of the Mining University. The key topic of the meeting was linked to activities of the International Competence Centre for Mining-Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO.

The research and educational center will be established at the premises of Saint-Petersburg Mining University.

Russian experts of the Association were granted exclusive rights to certify specialists of extracting and processing enterprises. What is the core of the agreement?

The contest has been held by the UK-based Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) since 2005, when it took place for the first time. Students from different countries – China, Australia, Great Britain, South Africa among them – participate in this prestigious international competition.

More than 1300 young oil-industry workers from sixty-two countries came to St. Petersburg to participate in the Youth Forum of the World Petroleum Council. During this week, young specialists exchange experiences with each other and meet the industry leaders.

Kirill Molodtsov, the Assistant Head of the RF President’s Administration, who is on a working visit to St. Petersburg, gave his comments on why the Youth forum of the World Petroleum Council has been so greatly supported by our country’s leaders.

Thanks to this agreement, Russian public companies will manage to increase their capitalization through improving human resource capacity.

The project has already been supported by Alexander Shokhin, the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

The largest Central European oil and gas company supports an idea that cooperation in the science and technology is the key to prosperous life in the future.