Culture and heritage

Exchange students share their experience of studying in Kazan and Beijing

Complex Data Analysis in Geosciences, the Institute's master's program in English, includes an exchange agreement between Kazan Federal University and China University of Petroleum signed in 2019. This year, three students from each side moved to another country for a semester. CUP student Zhou Ling talks about her life in Kazan, "It was difficult in the beginning,...

Shtukenberg Geological Museum opens exhibition commemorating Professor Ivan Penkov

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...