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On June 10 and 11, International students - graduates of the preparatory department of the International Department of Ukhta University passed the exam in Russian. Students from Nigeria, India, Zimbabwe, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, Sudan impressed the commission not only with knowledge of the subject, but also with a thoughtful attitude to the educational process, mature reflections on the lives of great people, their own future and moral norms of society.

Ukhta State Technical University took part in the VII Summer School in Colombia with a lecture entitled “Some remarks on how technical requirements and regulations for the offshore drilling industry adopted after the oil spill occurred in the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico are affecting exploratory drilling activities in the Arctic offshore”. The lecture was given in Spanish by Ramon Alfonso Perdomo Salcedo, a USTU graduate student.

On May 17, 2019, Maria Lukesova an undergraduate student from Czech Republic completed her internship course with the International department of USTU.

Maria arrived in late December in Ukhta from Masaryk University (Czech Republic, Brno) for an internship in the International department and conducting classes for foreign students in the Russian language in the preparatory department. Masaryk University is among the top five universities in the Czech Republic. Maria is studying at the faculty of arts at Masaryk University.

The whole of April 2019 at Ukhta state technical University was dedicated to the Institute of Geology, oil and gas production and pipeline transport department. Various events were organized. The organizers introduced students to the activities of their Institute in a creative way. The month began with "Week of geological museums" for schoolchildren, students and residents of the city, which was held on the eve of the Day of the geologist – in 2019 it was be celebrated for the 53rd time.

On April 25-26, 2019, the international scientific and practical conference “Communications, Society, Spirituality” was held at Ukhta state technical University (This year it became the nineteenth - "without anniversary year". The geographical data of participants was diverse including: Russia, the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine, and even Kyrgyzstan. Researchers, teachers, doctoral students, graduate students, young scientists and specialists enrolled in master’s programs, as well as high school students and middle school students attended the forum.

Two of USTU lecturers were guest lecturers at a university in Serbia, they led a couple of lectures with students of Novi Sad university (Mihajlo Pupin Technical Faculty) courtesy of the joint international educational program "Industrial engineer of oil and gas", which Ukhta State Technical University partnered with NIS Oil industry of Serbia and the Technical faculty "Mihajlo Pupin" of Novi Sad University (Serbia) to bring the program to reality.

Ukhta State Technical University has entered the ranking of the most influential world universities according to the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings 2019, which compares educational institutions on the basis of achieving the United Nations goals in the field of sustainable development. The social and economic impact ranking of universities covers more than 500 institutions of higher education from all over the world who have submitted their data for THE.

A teacher from the USA, a good friend of our university, Nicholas Ourusoff visited USTU once again. This time, the professor flew into the Ukhta airport on March 12. The task of the professor was to conduct lectures at the department of computing, information systems and technologies, as well as the organization of seminars and master classes for students and teachers.

Within the framework of cooperation between Ukhta University and the world society of petroleum engineers SPE, guest lectures of the world's leading experts in various fields of the oil and gas industry are organized on a regular basis. On March 25, 2019, an open lecture was held by USA SPE lecturer Hedengren John David at USTU. The topic of the lecture: "Drilling automation and downhole monitoring with physical models."