The exhibition commemorates his 100th anniversary. From a school bench to the war fronts Ivan Penkov (1923 - 2021) is warmly remembered as a prominent geologist, teacher, mentor, avid skier, gymnast, enthusiast fisher, and an overall good-hearted optimist. Penkov's descendants and relatives The future geologist was born in 1923 in the village of Sokolovka, Nikolskoe District, Penza Oblast. He...
The event was organized on 3 November. Over 200 middle schoolers and high schoolers joined the competition, including young people from Orenburg Oblast and Moscow Oblast. This year, the topic was natural gas. The contestants had to defend their cases before a jury. Everyone was greeted by First Vice-Rector Dmitry Tayursky, Head of the Section of Secondary Education and...
The Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery has studied the influence of sodium metal nanoparticles on oil recovery. Unfavorable geological conditions and low economic efficiency of oil production intensify innovation activities for the creation and further application of new technologies. Among the technological innovations are nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, in particular, organic dispersion of metallic sodium nanoparticles. It...
The conference, titled Science Policies: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects (part of the Boiling Point cycle), was organized to celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Directorate of Research and Technology Programs, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia and held at NUST MISIS. KFU was represented by Head of the Laboratory of...
7th International Golovkinsky Conference on Upper Paleozoic in Russia was held on 23 - 25 October. The forum is named after Nikolay Golovkinsky (1834 - 1897), one of the authors of the empirical law on the regular sequence and age sliding of facies in a sedimentary basin. It laid the basis for sequence stratigraphy. Golovkinsky was...
On 24 October, IGPT students met with experts of the University's Section of Crime Prevention of the Department of Comprehensive Security. The visitors spoke about extremism and terrorism prevention among students and popular phone fraud techniques. In his turn, Vice-Rector for Comprehensive Security Rishat Guzeirov met with the employees. He presented popular cybercrime schemes and instructed the...
The new database for 2022 features nine names associated with our University. The ranking draws statistics from Scopus, a citation index with over 20 thousand scientific journals and other printed materials. The list for KFU is as follows: Airat Dimiev, Lead Research Associate, Laboratory of Materials for Green Energy; Rawil Fakhrullin, Chief Research Associate, Center for Analytical Biophotonics and...
The Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies headlined the event with support from Russian Science Foundation. The event featured over 60 young scientists and contributions from Mexican Petroleum Institute, Xi’an Jiaotong University (China), the University of Alberta (Canada), Chengdu University of Technology (China), Niroo Research Institute (Iran), Samarkand State University (Uzbekistan), Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis...
The conference was organized at Perm State University of Humanities and Pedagogy on 4 – 6 October. Among the topics were environmental issues of the Kama Region, regional infrastructure, synergy between education and the industry, and new energy sources. Four workgroups comprising experts from various fields were formed, and each group was to defend its own project...
The annual oil and gas forum was held on 2 - 5 October. The 2023 event became the largest ever, having been attended by 160,000 visitors, comprising 350 thematic sessions with 1,600 contributors, including over 40 ministers and 120 executives of the energy sector. ADIPEC is organized by ADNOC, Ministry of Energy of UAE, and Society...
