NATIONAL MINING UNIVERSITY OF UKRAINE-DNEPROPETROVSK
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One can find a similar higher educational institution in terms of profile
diversity and high quality of training specialists for the national economy,
scientific potential of professors, and richness of the traditions. But there
are not many institutions in the country, which scientific and cadre potential
laid the basis for more than two tens of educational institutions and
scientific-research institutes. Among them there are Dnipropetrovsk Institute
of Chemistry and Technology (1930), Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute
(1930), Northern-Caucasian Mining and Metallurgical Institute (1931),
Scientific-Research Chemistry Institute named after Melikishvilli in Tbilisi
(1929), Moscow Welding Institute (1925), All-Union Scientific-Research
Designing Technological Institute of Pipe Industry (1929), Institute of
Physical Chemistry named after Pisarzhevskiy in Kiev (1927), and others. To
crown it all, this institution became the first higher educational institution
in the whole Katerinoslav Region.
The
ceremony of Katerinoslav Higher Mining College (KHMC) opening was conducted on
October 12, 1899. At the beginning Mining Higher Mining College had two
departments – mining and factory ones, but their academic curricula differed
slightly (only in number of hours in some disciplines).
The
curriculum according to “Statute of KHMC” foresaw 23 disciplines: God’s study,
higher mathematics, analytical mechanics, construction mechanics, applied
mechanics, mine-factory mechanics, physics, chemistry, electrical mechanics,
mineralogy, geology and science on deposits, geodesy, mining art, ore and coal
dressing, surveying, metallurgy, technology of metals, drawing and drawing
geometry, accounting and mine-factory economy, technical translations from German
and French, first aid at accidents. The training process was provided by 13
teachers.
At
the very beginning there was founded a two department library, a mineralogical
museum, chemical, mechanical and probe laboratories, cabinets in each
disciplines. Nevertheless the College had a lot of problems for a long time.
Ten years after KHMC establishment there were only 9 teachers, and a stable
cadre leakage took place. This made it urgent to equal the Technical School in
rights with higher educational institutions and to turn it into Katerinoslav
Mining Institute. On June 19, 1912 the State Legislative body adopted a bill on
restructuring the KHMC into Mining Institute since July 1. At that time there
worked outstanding scientists, mainly graduates from Saint-Petersburg Mining
Institute. They were Ya. Grdina, V. Guskov, S. Zaborovskiy, L. Ivanov, N.
Lebedev, P. Leontovskiy, V. Makovskiy, L. Pisarzhevskiy, M. Protodiakonov, P.
Rubin, A. Terpigorev, M. Fedorov, S. Sharbe.
The
publications of scientific works in technical periodical journals, monographs,
study books, atlases testified of high scientific potential of the educational
institution. The KHMC systematically edited “News of Katerinoslav Higher Mining
College” since 1905. Up to 1917 there had been edited 23 collections of “News”,
published about 500 scientific works including monographs and study books. In
the period of the educational institution formation there were established
scientific schools and directions: Ya. Grdina became one of the founders of
cybernetics, A. Terpigorev and V. Protodiakonov – the school of mining, V.
Guskov – mineral dressing, Leontovskiy – the school of surveying, geodesy and
geometry of deposits, M. Lebedev – geology and stratigraphy of Donbass, P.
Rubin – metallurgy and coke chemistry, L. Pisarzhevskiy – electron chemistry.