The history of the Leningrad Mining Institute is inextricably linked with the progressive and revolutionary movements of Russia in the XIX and early XX centuries. Mining students are represented in all three generations of Russian revolutionaries. The most remarkable thing in the revolutionary traditions of our Institute is that the best representatives of the mining student youth joined the Marxist movement in the years of Lenin's St. Petersburg “Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class” - “the rudiment of the revolutionary party, which is based on the labor movement, leads the class struggle of the proletariat, the struggle against capital and absolute government”.