The Moscow Mining Academy was established1 in 1918. The main task of the Academy was to train mining engineers and techni- " cians, to popularize technological achievements among miners, to work on important problems of mining and metallurgical engineering arid to direct scientific research.
There were three departments in the Academy2: mining, geological prospecting and metallurgy. The Moscow Mining Academy introduced a new course in coal mining mechanization which provided the basis for the development of mining engineering. The two scientists A.M. Terpigorev and M.M. Protodyakonov wrote the first textbook on machinery for mining bedded deposits.
Much credit for the establishment of the Moscow Mining Academy and the development of co-operation among outstanding scientists and educators is due to3 Academician I.M. Gubkin, a prominent geologist and oil expert.
In 1925 the Moscow Mining Academy was one of the best-known educational institutions in Russia.It had well-equipped laboratories, demonstration rooms and a library which had many volumes of Russian and foreign scientific books and journals.
The Academy established close contacts with the coal and ore mining industries. The scientists carried out scientific research and worked on important mining problems.
The rapid growth of the mining industry called for the training of more highly-qualified specialists and the establishment of new educational institutions.
New collieries and open-cast mines, concentration plants, metallurgical works and metal-working factories for processing non-ferrous and ferrous metals appeared in the country. The people took an active part in the construction of new industrial enterprises.
The Academy alone could not cope with the problem of training specialists. In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was transformed4 into six independent institutes. Among the new colleges which grew >out of the Academy's departments were the Moscow Mining Institute and the Moscow Institute of Geological Pro-specting. Later, the scientific research Institute of Mining appeared near Moscow.
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