Nguyen Thang

Young scientists from St. Petersburg have been interning in the People’s Republic of China for over a month. In addition to conducting joint research with colleagues from Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT), they continue to intensively explore the country’s manufacturing sector by visiting landmark enterprises and industrial sites. Next on the list is TZCO, one of the largest factories in the country for the production of mining and construction equipment.

Iran and Russia share a similar aspiration — to actively develop science and industry under the conditions of Western sanctions. However, the Islamic Republic has significantly more experience, given its 44 years of living under restrictions and without access to advanced foreign technologies. Russia and Iran are now working together on promising projects, with the collaboration between Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and Shiraz University playing a special role in this process.

Students of the first and second years at Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University became the first in Russia to complete an in-person scientific internship at Shiraz University in Iran, conducted in English.

Less than two months remain until the awarding of diplomas at Russian universities. The labor market will be replenished with thousands of engineers, but not all of them will be in demand by multinational companies.

In June 2021, a major accident occurred on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in the United States due to the thawing of permafrost. The pipeline supports began to bend, creating a risk of rupture. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources responded to this challenge by installing thermosstabilizers on the pipeline. These contain a refrigerant that helps maintain the low temperature of the soil around the support.

The final protocol of the second meeting of the Working Group on Education, Science, and Technology of the Joint Russian-Malaysian Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical, and Cultural Cooperation includes a point about the establishment of a permanent communication platform in the mineral resource sector. The document was signed by the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, Airat Gatiyatov, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia, Megat Sani Megat Ahmad Supian.

A delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University has begun discussions with colleagues from the University of Malaya in the Malaysian capital on the roadmap for the events of the first session of the Raw Materials Dialogue. It will be held in Kuala Lumpur in the autumn of 2025.

In the first half of April, the last group of participants from the Antarctic team of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University returned to the city on the Neva. For the first time since November 2024, the group of scientists who carried out research during the 70th Russian Antarctic Expedition gathered together in full and shared the results of the completed season.

During the official visit to St. Petersburg, the delegation from Balochistan visited Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University. Rector Vladimir Litvinenko, during a working meeting with the governor of the province, Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail, proposed to begin cooperation by including a representative from Balochistan in the annual program for training foreign managers in the raw materials sector, ”Managing Subsurface Resources Issues.” If there are more potential participants, the Mining University is prepared to create a separate group for Pakistanis.

The scientists from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and the University of Malaya thoroughly introduced each other to the most promising components of their countries’ resource bases during the first joint online meeting, held on April 16-17.

A delegation from Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University embarked on a two-month internship at Taiyuan University of Technology (TYUT) located in Shanxi Province, the coal capital of China. There, the group of young scientists began collaborative research with their Chinese colleagues in the fields of energy and mineral enrichment.

By March 2014, when the United States and the European Union imposed the first package of economic sanctions against Russia, the share of domestic equipment in our oil and gas sector was 43%. The forced restriction of imports stimulated domestic production growth, and this share increased to 62%. The goal for 2035 is 90%.

On Wednesday, April 9, a working meeting was held at Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University with representatives from the University of Malaya, one of the oldest and leading universities in Malaysia. In a videoconference format, the parties discussed the details of organizing the Russia-Malaysia Raw Materials Forum.

The main participants of the meeting were the principals of 350 Russian schools, mostly from the academic partners of the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University . Specifically, the educational institutions involved in the ”Leader of Schools of Russia” project and UNESCO-associated schools.

In St. Petersburg, a three-day brainstorming session on improving the quality of school education concluded, with the participation of 350 school directors from across Russia, representatives from the university community, and invited experts. The All-Russian Academic Session ”Education in the Interests of the State and the Individual” was initiated by the Empress Catherine II Saint Petersburg Mining University and the International Center for Competencies in Mining Education under the auspices of UNESCO to develop consolidated proposals on the stated topic.

The result of the working group’s trip from Saint Petersburg Mining University to Eastern India was two roadmaps signed with the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur and Dhanbad.