Diego Monterrey

Five graduate students from the China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) come to the St Petersburg Mining University to validate their research findings

The U.S. does not abandon attempts to reduce Russia’s federal budget revenues from the export of raw materials by any means. Which consequences will this have?

The beginning of the end for the Invincible Armada and the harbinger of the end of Spain’s golden age was a sudden, violent storm in the Atlantic. At the end of May 1588 130 ships left Lisbon in the direction of the Channel to destroy the English fleet, but were forced to stand for a long repair in La Coruña in the north-west of the Pirine Peninsula.

Scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University joined the study of the Early Cretaceous complex of Shestakovo locations in the Kemerovo region, where new species of dinosaurs were found.

In 2015, the feature film ”Territory” was released, made on behalf of and with the personal support of Vladimir Putin. The head of state’s name was even in the credits, and it premiered at the Kremlin. The extreme North-East of the country, the vast tundra and obsessed with the idea of finding the ”big gold” main character, the prototype of which was a famous graduate of the Mining Institute.

Every third shell and the armor of every second tank were made of the steel of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works during the Great Patriotic War. Today its products are used to manufacture construction, quarry and other special equipment, equipment for shaft sinking and rock processing. It is also used for all coins in Russia from 50 kopecks to 10 rubles. However, a tragic fate awaited the initiator and designer of the country’s largest metallurgical production…

Very soon will start 68th season of Russian Antarctic Expedition, which will traditionally send scientists from St. Petersburg Mining University, as well as the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute to the scientific station Vostok. Last year the oldest technical university in our country sent a record number of its representatives to the White Continent, 7 people at once, four of whom had no experience of being at the polar stations before. Forpost asked them to recall their typical day in Antarctica. ”First thing in the morning, I put on my felt boots.”

The first man appeared on earth two and a half million years ago. And the first fish appeared 450 million years ago, in what is now called the Devonian period. That was the time when four-ton sharks came ashore to turn into crocodiles in another two hundred million years. Or well, at least that’s what researchers of prehistoric and even ”pre-dinosaur” eras claim.

A surprising picture was observed by climbers in the Carpathian Mountains in 1989. Young men, climbing awkwardly over rocks, were carrying a large classroom board and notebooks. Ahead of them, a gray-haired, bearded man with a mandolin in one hand and a sheaf of books in the other was practically running up. This was exactly how the summer school for talented geophysicists and mathematicians looked like. The reason for its popularity lay in its organizer…

Despite the fact that our first blast furnaces appeared in the 17th century near Tula, and the rapid production of pig iron began under Peter the Great, a century later Europe and the United States rapidly overtook Russia in the production of iron-carbon alloys. While from 1800 to 1860 iron production in our country increased twice, in England it increased by ten times and in France it increased by eight times. Introduction of technological innovations was very late and with an eye on the Western world.

Most career guidance experts agree that it is best to start working in this area with children 10-12 years old. By the age of 14 the student can already make the first conscious step toward his future profession: start attending elective courses and elective courses or enroll in a high school, the so-called pre-university.

The ”Real” Left-handed man, as opposed to the hero of the story of the same name by Nikolai Leskov, did not call to abandon the use of bricks when cleaning rifles. On the contrary, he began to actively use abrasive, though another - innovative - materials, when polishing blades of cold weapons.

St. Petersburg Mining University has completed the assembly of a pilot delayed coking unit

On June 22, 2022 there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Afghanistan, the waves of which were also felt in Pakistan, Uzbekistan and India. As a result of the natural disaster, more than 1.5 thousand people died and about 2 thousand more suffered. All of them lived in provinces, which 70 years ago Soviet geologist and seismologist Georgiy Gorshkov identified as potentially dangerous for underground shocks in this region.

On the last Sunday of August, Miner’s Day is celebrated in Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2022, the holiday fell on August 28. On the congratulatory posters, there are pictures of stark, ”black gold”-stained faces of the miners. What are coal industry public relations people not telling us?

Many people think that the colonial era is a thing of the past, but in fact… it is not.