The article addresses some problems of management of mining education in pre-revolutionary Russia. The author pays much attention to departmental subordination in higher education in general and in the first technical higher education institution of Russia - St. Petersburg State Mining Institute - in particular. Different periods in the history of Russian education related to the state reforms of the 19th - early 20th centuries are considered. The situation of mining educational institutions subordinated to the Ministry of Finance is analyzed, taking into account the activities of the Ministry of Public Education. As a result, the author concludes that the problem of choosing between two systems of education - centralization of the educational process in the hands of one ministry or subordination of special educational institutions to the relevant industries - was very relevant in the Soviet period.
Архипелаг Земля Франца-Иосифа — один из наименее изученных в геологическом отношении участков территории СССР. Следствием этого является и недостаточная разработанность стратиграфической основы, в частности, изученность фораминифер — основной группы для определения возраста отложений при бурении. Начавшееся в последние годы бурение скважин на архипелаге настоятельно требует восполнить этот недостаток ...
