Contribution of the North-Eastern Federal University to advancement in the mining industry of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia

Abstract

The need of the engineering brain power training based on the local youth drastically motivated foundation of the Yakutsk State University in 1956. In 2010 it was transformed into the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. The basic mission of the University is to train engineering personnel for the mining industry of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia. By the outside estimates, the University successively manages the governmental task of education of qualified engineers, organization of basic and applied research and development of innovation projects and sustainable regional socioeconomic development programs. The article informs on activities of the mining subdivisions in the structure of the University. The specialists in the area of mining are trained at the Faculty of Geology and Survey, at the Mining Institute and its divisions in Neryungri and Mirny in the south and west of Yakutia, respectively. The sessions and studies are implemented in close cooperation with the top mineral producers in the region, namely, ALROSA and Yakutugol Holding. An indicator of the benefit and efficiency of the university education in the field of engineering sciences, with the deep insight into the basic, special and applied science is the success and achievements of the University graduates. Over a period of 60 years, the University has trained more than 7 thousand geologists, miners, hydrogeologists and production engineers, and still makes ponderable contribution to the mining industry of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia. The University is to a high degree integrated in the socioeconomic life of the Russian Far East and the Arctic and tends toward dealing with challenges of the regional development.