Diego Monterrey

The ”Resonance” team of the Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress took third place at the university hackathon organized by Gazprom, which was finalised in Ufa. The task of its participants was to develop a data converter for geophysical well surveys. In other words, a program that could take files with logging information collected over a long time and not meet the uniform requirements to modern standards, as well as upload them to a centralized repository with a user-friendly interface.

Exactly two hundred years ago, in 1824, Yegor Karneev was appointed as the director of the Mining Cadet Corps and the Department of Mining and Salt Affairs, which was the main government department responsible for managing the mining industry and state-owned mines and smelting plants. Interestingly, although he was not an expert in metallurgy, geology, or mining, the years under his leadership are considered to be among the most successful for the Mining Institut

The past academic year at St. Petersburg Mining University, which is currently implementing a pilot project to improve the system of engineering education according to the decree of the President of Russia, has aroused great interest among academics.

No technical university in the Russian Empire or the USSR produced as many writers, prose authors and poets as St. Petersburg Mining University did.

”The tale of Tula’s oblique Lefty and the steel flea” ends with:

In the distant 1685, Louis XIV signed an edict in Fontainebleau revoking the Edict of Nantes. Freedom of religion, given to the Huguenots by the light hand of Henry of Navarre, was eliminated. Protestant nobles flocked to Russia. One of them was Georges, then Egor, de Marny. Here he commanded the Vyborg regiment, was the commandant of the Vyborg fortress, but most importantly, he became the father of another Egor. Egor-Barbot (this is the second name) de Marny, who became the founder of a fantastic dynasty.

On the night of October 24-25, 1917, the Provisional Government was arrested at the Winter Palace. These events are known to everyone, thanks to Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry about them. «Which ones are temporary here? Get off! Your time is over».

In the first year of the oldest higher technical educational institution All 1944 budget places have been filled in Russia, and 68 more people will study at the expense of the university’s own funds. As its rector Vladimir Litvinenko noted, the main distinguishing feature of this summer was an increase in the level of competition, which suggests an increase in the popularity of engineering specialties among applicants and their parents.

The summer school season at the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University has come to an end. The last group of students to attend were from the Chinese University of Mining and Technology in Xuzhou. Over the course of two weeks, they attended lectures, participated in workshops, practiced on simulators, and explored the northern capital and its industries as part of field trips.

The opening ceremony of the summer school, the program of which was created specifically for guests from Xuzhou, was attended by the Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in the city on the Neva, Mr. Luo Zhanhui.

They particularly expressed how the host university managed to find the optimal combination of lectures, laboratory work, practical visits to production facilities and excursion programs.

The internship season at industrial enterprises has ended at the St. Petersburg Mining University of Empress Catherine II. This year, many Belarusian companies, among others, have opened their doors to students of the oldest technical university in Russia. In particular, BELAZ, Minsk Tractor Plant and Belaruskali, one of the largest suppliers of mineral fertilizers.

We are talking about both scientific partnership and joint projects in the field of personnel training. On Friday, July 19, a delegation of the subsidiary of CNPC JiChai Power, the largest oil and gas corporation in China, headed by CEO Miao Yun, arrived at the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University on a working visit. Its specialists are engaged in the production of energy equipment used in the development of hydrocarbon deposits.

The interaction between Iranian and St. Petersburg universities is progressing both thoroughly and rapidly. It would seem that these two definitions should contradict each other, especially in the field of serious research, but in this case, these are certainly compatible parameters. It happens in science.

The parties agreed to establish joint scientific, educational and research centers, as well as exchanges of students and teachers

As you know, the pilot project to improve the higher education system, which is currently being implemented within the walls of the first technical university of Russia, is based on a sharp increase in the time allowed to master fundamental knowledge and gain practical work experience in production. The upgraded curricula, in particular, assume that the first internship is mandatory at the end of the second semester.