Анастасия Литвинова

An international conference “Cybersecurity and problems of combating new types of cybercrime” took place at Mining University. The forum brought together information security specialists, heads of law enforcement agencies from Russia, Germany, and Israel, teachers of the largest Russian technical universities, lawyers, and specialists of the banking sector.

In 1805 the first Russian textbook on mine surveying “Practical underground geometry” was published. This was a turning point in the formation of the specialty, without which 200 years later it is impossible to imagine either the development of minerals, or construction of subway lines, or the construction of underground passages or mine shafts.

В Горном университете прошёл День карьеры лидера российской золотодобычи и одного из крупнейших производителей золота в мире компании «Полюс»

St. Petersburg Mining University hosted a presentation of the book Learning to Love Russia by Hans-Joachim Frei, German director, founder and continuous director of the famous Dresden Opera Ballet. It is unique not only because it presents the opinion of a foreigner about our country and the people who live here, but also because the foreword for it was written personally by Vladimir Putin.

Students of St. Petersburg Mining University laid carnations at the spontaneous memorial that arose near the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan on Vasilievsky Island. They joined tens of thousands of citizens of St. Petersburg who since yesterday have been bringing flowers, candles and soft toys as a sign of support and sympathy to the victims and relatives of the victims in Kazan.

The scientific team, created in February 2021 on the basis of the Department of Geology and Exploration of Mineral Deposits and the Mining Museum, returned from its first field trip to the Putilovsky open pit.

All six developments of the scientists of Mining University, presented at the international HI TECH exhibition, were awarded various prizes of ”The Best Innovative Project of the Year” contest. According to the expert council, this was the result of “very strong scientific and technical solutions, which have already gained commercial distribution in the Russian and foreign markets.”

Politicians, scientists, and business representatives from our country and Germany, who spoke at the opening ceremony, spoke in favor of the development of partnership, despite the U.S. sanctions.

On the eve of Victory Day, a wreath-laying ceremony took place at the oldest technical university in Russia. Wreaths and flowers were laid at the foot of the memorial to the students and professors who died during the Great Patriotic War.

In 2019, the EU decided on a new economic development strategy that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century. This means that the demand for coal, oil, and gas from European countries will be reduced to zero in less than 30 years. Is this possible in principle? And how will Brussels’ plans transform the Old World’s partnership with our country? After all, for the most part, we export hydrocarbons and refined products there.

Mining University held a seminar dedicated to the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Its participants noted the high level of measures taken by the university’s management to improve the safety and quality of work and educational processes. Constant modernization of infrastructure, regular sanitation of premises, medical examinations of employees, reimbursement of food expenses, and a number of others are among them.

Mr. Koji Toyoshima, the head of the Moscow representative office of the Japanese National Oil, Gas and Metals Corporation JOGMEC visited St. Petersburg Mining University. During the meeting with the rector Vladimir Litvinenko he discussed the prospects of the partnership between the parties in such areas as scientific support of the company’s projects in our country, as well as research in the field of transportation and storage of hydrogen.

The university guides graduate students on scientific projects with high practical potential and accelerates the development from idea to thesis defense.

Another German Week has started in St. Petersburg. Every year hundreds of events and interactive projects - film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, seminars, and business forums - take place within the framework of this project. Forpost decided to find out whether Germans are in reality interested in developing economic, cultural, and scientific relations with Russia and, in particular, with the city on the Neva? Or is it more of a tribute to a tradition that will soon die out?

A delegation of the Dresden Government, headed by its Oberbűrgomistrator Hilbert Dirk, paid a working visit to Mining University. The representatives of the capital of Saxony came to St. Petersburg to participate in the German Week.

The Ministry of Finance has opposed the introduction of tax incentives for high-viscosity and extra-viscosity oil fields before 2024. According to the officials, it will lead to a loss of budget revenues. Forpost decided to find out why this raw material, which in its commercial appearance looks like very thick black honey, is important for the national economy and why in the Komi Republic it is extracted from not a well, but a mine.