Tag - Shtukenberg Geological Museum

Cooperation agreement signed with Nafta College

The signing was part of the DECOM-2025 oil and gas discussion forum held in Kazan on 8th to 10th September. KFU students took part in the tournament on managing the development of a digital oil and gas field based on the interactive simulator PetroCup. On the third and final day, a short film, Nikolay Golovkinsky. The Basic Law...

Geologists explain how meteorites help glance into both the past of the Solar system and the depths of the Earth

All the five meteorites found in Republic of Tatarstan are stored at KFU’s Geological Museum, one of the richest in Russia with 430,000 items and 220 years of history – as long as the university itself. The earliest local meteorite was found in 1899 near the village of Chuvashskie Kisy – and was named as such,...

Carbonate Sediments 2025 Conference opens at KFU

On 13 - 15 August, the participants are discussing pertinent questions of this niche topic. Deputy Director for Marketing of the Gazpromneft-KFU Center Vladislav Sudakov explains, "This conference unites young and experienced researchers of carbonate sediments for a second year in a row. We try to make it interesting." Acting Director of the Institute Vladimir Silantyev...

Shtukenberg Geological Museum celebrating 220th anniversary

The first room of geological rarities, officially the Cabinet of Natural History, was founded with the University itself. Museum Curator, Associate Professor of the Department of Paleontology and Stratigraphy Milyausha Urazaeva told about the history and collections of one of the richest natural science university museums in Russia with more than 430,000 storage items. “In 1804, in...

Vice-Rector Danis Nurgaliev speaks with Regional Director of the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Russia and the Caspian Region Aleksey Borisenko

They were joined by Deputy Director of IGPT for Continuing Education and Industrial Partnerships Ildus Chukmarov, Deputy Director of IGPT for Research Pavel Krylov, Deputy Director for Marketing of Gazpromneft-KFU Center Vladislav Sudakov, and Chairman of the Student Research Society of Petroleum Engineers of KFU Radmir Bakhtigaraev. Talking about SPE, Mr Borisenko noted that the organization...

Open Doors Day held at Institute

On March 2, more than 60 students of grades 8, 9, 10 and 11, as well as their parents, gathered for the Open Doors Day at the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies. Many came from other cities - Nizhny Novgorod Region, Almetyevsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhny Novgorod, Yoshkar-Ola, Samara, Oktyabrsky, Gelendzhik, etc. After registration, the students...

Director Vladimir Silantyev: “If there was time travel, I would only travel to the future”

Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies gave an interview to the KFU Media Communications Center before the new academic year. Vladimir Vladimirovich, many boys are interested in dinosaurs. Did your love for geology and paleontology also begin with them? V.S.: I was not interested in dinosaurs as a child. My love for geology was...

Breakout session in petroleum science held as part of OIC Scientific Youth Congress

The event took place on 27 - 28 November. The session attracted young researchers from Russia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Nigeria. During the first day, KFU's Junior Research Associate Ameen Al-Muntaser presented his report, and the participants toured the Geological Museum and the Center for Liquid Hydrocarbons' laboratories. The second day featured presentations in front of...