DUSHANBE, December 16, 2009, Asia-Plus — The G. V. Plekhanov St. Petersburg State Mining Institute and Technical University has allotted Tajikistan a quota of 25 students for the academic year 2009-2010, according to the Ministry of Education (MoE).
The source at a MoE said that an agreement on that subject was reached during a meeting of Tajik Minister of Education Abdujabbor Rahmonov with Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrey Fursenko that took place in Moscow on December 15 on sidelines of the session of the Council of the CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation (IFHC).
The sides also agreed to set up the single center for state exams at Russian-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) in Dushanbe.
We will recall that the St. Petersburg Mining Institute is expected to open its branch in Tajikistan next year. As it had been reported earlier, an agreement on this subject was reached at a meeting of Tajik Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov with St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko that took place in St. Petersburg on September 11.
The G. V. Plekhanov St. Petersburg State Mining Institute and Technical University is Russia’s oldest higher education institute devoted to engineering. Located in St. Petersburg, the institute is one of the oldest mining schools in Europe, and home to one of the world”s finest and most exclusive collections of minerals, gem samples and mining equipment miniatures used for teaching purposes.
The Institute was founded on October 21 OS/ November 1 NS 1773 by order of Empress Catherine II. It was known as the Mining School until 1804 when it became the Mining Cadet”s Corps; in 1833, it became the Institute of the Corps of Mining Engineers. Since 1866, it has been known as the Mining Institute. During the Soviet period, it was renamed after Georgi Plekhanov, who attended the institute in the 1870s, and became known as “the G.V. Plekhanov Leningrad State Mining Institute and Technical University.” Since 1869 the institute is the headquarter of the Russian Mineralogical Society.
