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”.

The Great October Socialist Revolution, which marked the beginning of mankind's deliverance from the exploitative system and the transition from capitalism to socialism, is the greatest event in world history. There is not a single significant phenomenon of social life that has not been influenced by it. With particular force the influence of the Great October Revolution has affected the struggle of oppressed peoples. “The Great October Socialist Revolution dealt the strongest blow to the entire system of imperialist colonial domination, was a powerful stimulus to the development of the national liberation movement”, a turning point in its development. It proved the real possibility of complete national liberation of peoples, opened to them the prospect of social progress, awakened them as an active independent force in international life and marked “the advent of the era of liberation of oppressed peoples”.

The XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which set the majestic task of building a communist society within twenty years, went down in history as a congress that raised the banner of humanism high. The new Party Program adopted by it convincingly revealed before all mankind the inseparability of peace and communism. “To destroy wars, to establish eternal peace on earth,” it says, ”is the historical mission of communism."

The First Russian Revolution is the most important milestone in the history of the Russian and international labor movement. It shook the system of tsarist autocracy to its foundations and dealt the first serious blow to the domination of landlords and capitalists in our country.The revolution of 1905—1907 put an end to the thirty-four-year period of relative quiescence in the world workers' movement that had come after the fall of the Paris Commune; since 1905 the epoch of gathering and preparing the forces of the proletariat has been replaced by an epoch of deep revolutionary upheavals and storms.