The main features of training specialists and raising the professional level of teachers at the Mining School - Mining Institute for the first 150 years since its foundation are considered / the role of teachers and graduates of the Institute in the organization of higher geological education in the leading mining and geological institutes of our country is emphasized The peculiarities of the system of training of engineering and geological personnel, established in the USSR in the 50-70s, which provided the mineral reserve of our country and guaranteed the basis of its economic independence, are highlighted.