Contribution of scientists of St. Petersburg-Leningrad Mining Institute to the development of open pit mining (to the 200th anniversary of the Leningrad Mining Institute)

Abstract

In the second half of the 18th century, the rapid development of iron and copper works, as well as gold and salt mining in Russia, created the necessary prerequisites for the organization of a domestic school to train mining and technical personnel, which was urgently needed by industry. The Mining Cadet Corps, now the Leningrad Mining Institute, established in St. Petersburg in 1773, became such a school - the oldest technical educational institution of our country. Over its 200-year history, the Mining Institute has educated a large army of talented scientists, production organizers, engineers, whose work contributed to progress in various branches of science and technology. A significant contribution was made by the Institute's students to the development and improvement of the open-pit mining method - a method that has always been of great importance, and in our time has become the most widespread in the mining industry of the country.