Diego Monterrey

On the eve of the New Year in the Pskov region, on the territory of the special economic zone Moglino a new high-tech enterprise ”Titan-Polymer” was opened

It depicts the façade of the historic building of the country’s first higher technical school, which was built by the great Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin

Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko presented a draft strategy to radically improve the quality of training and use of specialists with higher technical education

After joining the Bologna Process, Russian universities stopped training specialists in some fields of study in non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy

Their lectures will take place weekly in a remote format, and, as both sides assure us, this is only the beginning of a large and fruitful work

In the early 1970s, the Swedish magazine ”Wonders of Science and Technology” published an article about an extraordinary invention made back in the 18th century by Russian scientist Alexander Karamyshev. In it the historian Reynar Hagel described the creation of a device capable of overturning humanity’s ideas about the nature of things. It was about giving complete transparency to opaque in nature of bodies…

A retired colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service, advisor to the president of Rosneft, and expert of the Valdai Discussion Club, Andrei Bezrukov, gave a lecture in St. Petersburg on ”The Future of Russia and the World”

The Federal Service for Intellectual Property has published a rating of universities, research institutes and companies that have filed the largest number of electronic applications for patents in 2022

The Dzungarian Gate is a corridor, 50 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, between the mountain systems of the Altai and Tien Shan, the most important section of the main branch of the Great Silk Road. Here is the continental pole of the planet - the point of greatest distance from the world ocean. Today through this ”portal” passes the shortest railroad route from Europe to Asia. About the saturated energy of the place does not let you forget the constant strong wind - nature has created here a natural wind tunnel.

Fourteen years ago, for the first time in 200 years, there was a new blue pigment. Scientists at the University of Oregon were experimenting with materials for electronics and unexpectedly received an inorganic compound with a rich blues color. It turned out that it is practically non-fading and, unlike its predecessor, cobalt, is not toxic. But its brilliance is equal to that of classical ultramarine, which was made from semiprecious lapis lazuli and was in honor with the artists of the Renaissance.

The results of the ”School Premier League” competition of youth research projects were summed up in St. Petersburg. More than 400 high school students from all over Russia came to the Mining University to present their own inventions in the field of efficient subsoil use to the scientific community. What are young minds capable of today?

On the one hand, almost all experts talk about the tremendous prospects for using the thermal energy of the Earth’s bowels, but on the other hand, no one really knows anything about it.

One of the most urgent tasks facing Russian scientists and industrialists today is to create as many full-fledged value-added chains as possible within the country.

The most important thing is that the level of training of graduates of technical universities should meet the needs of the market, and they themselves could adapt to production as quickly as possible.

Almost half of the students of St. Petersburg Mining University in their free time engage in various sports clubs

Alexander II personally harvested 150 bears during his not particularly long life. Some of the trophies went to the participants of the hunt, others were used as diplomatic gifts or donated to museums and educational institutions. The bear killed on 9 March 1865 in Lisino near St. Petersburg the emperor left in the form of a stuffed animal in the Winter Palace, as a reminder of his decisive role in saving the horn-bearer Nikonov on that hunt.