Kseniia Pavlova

A fifth-year student of St. Petersburg Mining University became the best among 15 thousand students in the project of the Presidential platform “Russia - the country of possibilities.”

A preliminary agreement on establishing the Centre for Studying Russian Language and Science was made at the working meeting of Vladimir Litvinenko and Ivanka Popović, rectors of St. Petersburg Mining University and the University of Belgrade. The Centre will be set up in one of the faculties of the Serbia-based university. In an interview for Forpost Press, Ivanka Popović, Rector of the University of Belgrade, told about the prospects the new Centre would open up for Serbian students, along with the functions it may serve.

According to the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the average depth of oil refining in Russia has reached 84% – much less than in post-industrial countries.

Anatoly Chubais, ex-head of RUSNANO, made a new statement concerning the future of hydrogen, the lightest chemical element.

The preliminary agreement about this was reached during the visit of the delegation of the Belgrade University to the City on the Neva.

Mining University continues to improve its position in international rankings.

Two hundred years ago, the gold fever took Russia by storm. Hereditary nobility, merchant adventurers, ordinary people — everyone was leaving their settlements, abandoning their routine life, and heading straight to Siberia. These events followed the Senate edict allowing to freely look for and mine precious metals.

Traditionally, the freshmen’s meeting was held on Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, in front of the front entrance to Russia’s oldest technical university.

For many years, he, who can be rightly called the ”father” of space robotics, was left unknown, as his name was kept classified. The creator of the first-ever lunar rover, the Mars lander vehicle, and author of numerous unique inventions — he became known only with the fall of the USSR. There is even an asteroid that was named after him. Alexander Kemurdzhian was born in 1921 in Vladikavkaz. He is a craftsman and inventor of impossible machines and mechanisms. No one would have suspected at the time that this childish hobby would make the boy a world-famous constructor.

Every last Sunday in August, Russia celebrates Miner’s Day. How has the advent of the digital age affected the earnings, working conditions, and prospects of the riskiest profession in mining? At the end of August 1935, Alexey Stakhanov, a miner and two face-fitters held a record-breaking shift, mining 102 metric tons of coal - 14.5 times the norm. This was the beginning of the Stakhanov movement that went beyond the industry. To commemorate these events, in 1947, the Ministry of Coal Industry initiated the establishment of a professional holiday.

The university’s rector Vladimir Litvinenko showed the guest the university’s infrastructure, as well as its unique collection of minerals, models, and natural samples related to mining.

The summer season of the sports and health camp for students of St. Petersburg Mining University has come to an end. The level of organization and success of the project can be judged by the reviews and photos of its direct participants.

The first-year students’ meeting at the oldest higher technical school in Russia will open on September, 1, at 10 a.m.

UrFU’s research team presented a new type of ’Kanatokhod’ robot updated to apply special anti-icing coatings on wires and OPGW cables of high-voltage lines. This allows working on HV lines without disconnecting them.

The first AGL was created in the 1930s by a young designer who had not even graduated from university. The cruel irony is that in 1941, he was accused of plotting the production of technically unfinished and unsatisfactory weapons systems and was executed by shooting. And in 1967, the US Navy kick-started the production of an analogous weapon, which is still exported to dozens of countries.

Some 500 years ago, Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro captured the last Incan emperor Atahualpa. Although a ransom for Atahualpa’s release was paid with gold, the emperor was still executed. Soon the conquest of Peru was completed; the indigenous people kept fighting off for a few more decades, but the Spanish had firearms in their hands. This drew a final line under the invasion of the country.