- 45, nab. Leytenanta Shmidta
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59.929868966306, 30.269965856601 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- Water level sign overlooking 21st liniya
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Историческая справка
The Mining School, the oldest higher technical educational institution in Russia, was founded in 1773 by decree of Catherine II. The school was located on the Neva embankment, in two buildings purchased from Count Pyotr Sheremetev. Initially, among others, the school enrolled students of Moscow University with some knowledge of arithmetic, geometry, chemistry, Latin, French, and German. The first mining officers finished school in 1776.
In 1804, the Mining Cadet Corps was established on the school basis and in 1806-1811, a group of Empire-style buildings designed by Andrey Voronikhin were constructed on the same land plot. The main facade overlooking the Neva was decorated with a twelve-column portico. The both sides of the portico were adorned with such statuaries as The Abduction of Proserpine by Pluto by Vasily Demut-Malinovsky and Hercules Strangling Antaeus by Stepan Pimenov. The side wings of the building featured two friezes by Demut-Malinovsky: Apollo Comes to Vulcan for his Chariot and Venus asks Vulcan to Forge an Armor for Mars.
In 1816, the Mining Cadet Corps received a collection of 3,400 samples of fossils from the Imperial Hermitage. Most of the items were from the mineral cabinet of Empress Catherine II. This collection marked the beginning of the Mining Museum. Nowadays, the Mining Museum with its unique collection of minerals is considered one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. Its funds number 240 thousand exhibits.
In 1834, the Mining Cadet Corps was reorganised into the Institute of the Corps of Mining Engineers and in 1866, into the Mining Institute. The Institute became an open higher educational institution with a five-year term of study. Upperclassmen were officially called students and no longer received the rank of a noncommissioned officer. At the same time, the student still wore the colours of the mining department. The Institute library boasted up to 28 thousand titles of books.
Thirty years later, the Institute was named after Catherine II and in the 20th century, it repeatedly changed its name and status. For example, in 1956, the Institute was named after one of the founders of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Georgy Plekhanov who had studied at the Mining Institute in 1874-1876. In 2016, the Mining Institute received the status of a University and was renamed after Catherine II.
The Institute graduates include academicians Alexey Borisyak, Aleksandr German, Vladimir Obruchev, a discoverer of the Verkhnekamsk deposit Pavel Preobrazhensky, Baron Pyotr Wrangel, one of the founders of Russian volcanology Sofia Naboko, Director of the Leningrad Branch of the RAS Institute of Oceanology Raisa Demenitskaya, historian Felix Lurie, and many other prominent historical figures and scientists.
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