RECTOR

Prof. Vladimir LITVINENKO

Date of foundation: November 1 , 1773
st

History: The first technical higher education institution of Russia. In 1996

the Mining University was included in the state register of the most valued
examples of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian
Federation.
Status: The highest state status of the Russian education system (license
from the Federal Agency for Supervision in Education and Science
0295 dated 17.08.2012)
Location: center of St.Petersburg
Number of students: 10200
Foreign students: 567
Degree programs available: bachelor, master, engineer (specialist),
candidate of sciences, doctor of sciences
Number of lecturers: 721
Number of lecturers with academic degrees: 638
Faculties: 8
Geological-and- Prospecting Faculty, Mining Faculty, Mechanical Faculty,
Chemical-and-Metallurgical Faculty, Faculty of Economics, Construction
Engineering Faculty, Oil and Gas Faculty, Power Engineering Faculty
THE MINING UNIVERSITY OFFERS PROGRAMS
FOR ENGINEERS DEGREE IN THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES
(DURATION OF STUDIES 5 YEARS):
08.05.01 Construction of unique buildings and structures
Area of expertise: Construction of unique buildings and structures
11.05.01 Radio electronic systems and facilities
Area of expertise: Radar systems and facilities
21.05.01 Applied geodesy
Area of expertise: Engineering geodesy
21.05.02 Applied geology
Areas of expertise: Surveying and exploration of solid mineral deposits
Oil and gas geology
Ground water exploration and geological engineering survey
Engineering geochemistry, petrology and mineralogy
21.05.03 Technology of geological exploration
Areas of expertise: Geophysical methods of exploration of mineral
deposits
Exploration techniques
21.05.04 Mining (duration of studies 5 years 6 months)
Areas of expertise: Mine construction and underground excavations
Mine surveying
Mining industry ecology
Opencast mining
Underground mining of stratified deposits
Underground ore mining
Process safety and mine rescue work
Mining machinery
Mining transportation systems
Electrification and automation of mining practice
Mineral processing

BACHELOR PROGRAMS IN THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES

(DURATION OF STUDIES 4 YEARS):
05.03.06 Ecology and environmental management
Profile: Environmental management
07.03.01 Architecture
Profile: Architecture
08.03.01 Building and construction
Profile: Industrial and civil engineering
09.03.01 Information technology and computer engineering
Profile:
09.03.02 Information systems and technologies
Profile: Information systems and technologies
11.03.04 Electronic engineering and nanoelectronics
Profile: Industrial electronics
12.03.01 Instrument engineering
Profile: Quality control and diagnostics instrumentation and techniques
13.03.01 Heat power engineering and heat technology
Profile: Power supply of enterprises
13.03.02 Electrical power engineering and electrical technology
Profiles: Electric drive and automation
Electric power supply
15.03.01 Mechanical engineering
Profile: Technologies, equipment and automation of machine-building
plants
15.03.02 Production machines and production machinery
Profile: Oil and gas processing equipment
15.03.04 Automation of technological-processes and production
facilities (trade-wise)
Profile: Automation of technological-processes and production facilities
18.03.01 Industrial chemistry
Profiles: Industrial chemistry of natural energy sources and carbon
materials
20.03.01 Technosphere safety
Profile: Safety of technological processes and production facilities
21.03.01 Oil and gas engineering
Profiles: Oil and gas well drilling
Operation of gas distribution and consumption networks
Operation and maintenance of oil and gas production facilities
Operation and maintenance of natural gas production and gas
condensate installations and underground storage facilities
Operation and maintenance of handling and storage facilities of oil, gas
and plant products
Reservoir engineering and field development of offshore hydrocarbon
deposits
Construction and repair operations of pipeline transportation facilities
21.03.02 Land management and cadastres
Profile: Urban cadastre
22.03.01 Materials science and materials engineering
Profile: Materials science and new materials engineering
22.03.02 Metallurgy
Profile: Nonferrous metallurgy
23.03.01 Technology of transport processes
Profile: Logistics and automobile transport management
23.03.03 Operation of handling and production machines and
systems
Profile: Automobiles and vehicle fleet
27.03.01 Standardization and metrology
Profile: Metrology and metrological assurance

27.03.03 System analysis and control

Profile: Theory and mathematical method of system analysis and control
in technical economic and social systems
27.03.04 Control in engineering systems
Profile: Information technologies in management
29.03.04 Technology of ornamental material processing
Profile: Technology of ornamental material processing
38.03.01 Economics
Profiles: Accounting, analysis and audit
Business economics
38.03.02 Management
Profiles: Production management
Project management
MASTER PROGRAMS IN THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES
(DURATION OF STUDIES 2 YEARS):
09.04.01 Information technology and computer engineering
Program: Method of analysis and synthesis of design decisions
12.04.01 Instrument engineering
Program: Instruments and systems of mining and technical supervision
and control
13.04.02 Electrical power engineering and electrical technology
Programs: Electric drives and operating systems
Automated electromechanical complexes and systems
15.04.01 Mechanical engineering
15.04.02 Production machines and equipment
Programs: Production machines and equipment for removal of peat
Metallurgic machinery and equipment
Metallurgic machinery and equipment
Oil and gas processing equipment
15.04.04 Automation of technological processes and production
facilities
Program: Automated control systems in metallurgy
Automated control systems in oil and gas processing
Automated control systems in mechanic engineering
18.04.01 Industrial chemistry
Program: Industrial chemistry of natural energy sources and carbon
materials
21.04.01 Oil and gas
Programs: Oil fields development modelling
Oil field development
Well operation in abnormal conditions
Technology of oil reservoir penetration
Drill fluids technology
Technology of petroleum reservoir penetration in abnormal conditions
Drilling in abnormal conditions
Engineering diagnostics in gas transportation systems
Hydrocarbon pipeline transportation
Resource-recovery technologies transport and hydrocarbon storage
22.04.02 Metallurgy
Programs: Nonferrous metallurgy
Heat engineering of metallurgical processes
27.04.03 System analysis and control
Programs: Theory and mathematical method of system analysis and
control in technical economic and social systems
System analysis of organization and management activities in large
scale systems
38.04.01 Economics
Programs: Business accounting, analysis and audit in mining industry
and geologic exploration

Economics and management at enterprises of the raw materials

complex
38.04.02 Management
Program: Strategic management
CANDIDATE AND DOCTOR OF SCIENCES PROGRAMS IN THE
FOLLOWING RESEARCH AREAS
(DURATION OF STUDIES 3-4 YEARS):
05.06.01 Geo-sciences (25.00.05 Mineralogy, crystallography;
25.00.07 Hydrogeology; 25.00.08 Engineering geology, permafrost
studies and ground science; 25.00.09 Geochemistry, geochemical
methods of mineral exploration; 25.00.10 Geophysics, geophysical
methods of mineral exploration; 25.00.11 Geology, surveying and
exploration of solid mineral deposits, mineragenia (study of ore minerals);
25.00.26 Land management, cadastre and land monitoring; 25.00.36
Geoecology (in ore mining and processing industry)
09.06.01 Informatics and Computer Engineering (05.13.06
Automation control of technological processes and production facilities (in
metallurgy))
12.06.01 Photonics, Instrument Engineering, Optical and
Bioengineering systems (05.11.13 Instruments and methods of control
of natural environment, substance, materials and products)
13.06.01 Electric and Heat Engineering (05.09.03 Electrotechnical
installations and systems)
15.06.01 Mechanic Engineering (05.05.06 Mining machines)
21.06.01 Geology, Mineral Prospecting and Development (25.00.13
Mineral processing; 25.00.14 Technology and technique of geological
exploration; 25.00.15 Technology of drilling and well development;
25.00.16 Applied mining geology, oil and gas geology, geophysics, mine
surveying and subsurface mineral resources geometry; 25.00.17
Development and exploitation of Oil and gas fields; 25.00.19
Construction and exploitation of mines and underground structures;
25.00.20 Geomechanics, destruction of rocks, mining aerogasdynamics
and mining thermophysics; 25.00.21 Theory of designing mine
engineering systems; 25.00.22 Geotechnology (underground, open and
construction))
21.06.02 Geodesy (25.00.32 Geodesy)
22.06.01 Materials Engineering (05.16.02 Ferrous, non-ferrous and
rare metals metallurgy)

Participants in preparatory course receive training in the technical profile

and study the following subjects: the Russian Language, Physics,
Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering Graphics and
regional geography.
Participants in preparatory course, who want to enter masters course or
postgraduate studies study only the Russian language.
Classes are organized in groups consisting of 8-10 persons.
At the end of academic year all participants in preparatory course take
final examinations.
List of documents required for entrance the Mining University and
preparation of an invitation:
- a copy of passport,
- a filled application form,
- a personal questionnaire,
- the original document confirming education and its notarized copy
(certificate of secondary education, bachelors degree diploma, engineers
degree diploma, masters degree diploma),
- a medical certificate including AIDS test,
- a birth certificate,
- 6 photos.
The documents are to be submitted to the Mining University until July 10 th
2014. All documents are to be translated into Russian and authenticated
either in the embassy (consulate) of Russia in the country issued a
document confirming education or by the Russian notary officer.
Our program fees :
Preparatory course 120 000 rubles,
Bachelors degree program 260 000 rubles,
Specialists (engineers) degree program 260 000 rubles,
Masters degree program 260 000 rubles,
Postgraduate program
(Candidate of science degree, Ph.D) - 440 000 rubles,
Postgraduate program (Doctor of science degree) from 500 000 rubles,
Internship - 10 000-40 000 rubles a month.
Other expenses:
Dormitory accommodation is from 2000 to 9000 per month depending on
facilities (all foreign students are provided with dormitory housing),
medical insurance 6 000 rubles annually.

Academic year: is divided into two terms, the autumn term lasts from
September 1st to January; the spring terms lasts from February 9 th to
June.
Language of training: Russian
Preparatory course for foreign students:
The course is designed for two terms; the academic year lasts from
September 1st to June 30th.

I N F O R M A T I O N

NATIONAL MINERAL RESOURCES UNIVERSITY

(MINING UNIVERSITY)

Address of the Mining University:

2, Line 21, Vasilievsky Ostrov,
St.Petersburg
199106, Russia
Telephone: 7-812-328-86-42
Fax: 7-812-328-86-42
E-mail: foreign@spmi.ru

St.Petersburg
2014