The First Mining School in Russia

The Moscow Mining Academy was established in 1918. The main task of the Academy was to train mining engineers and technicians, to popularize technological achievements among miners, to work on important problems of mining and metallurgical engineering and to direct scientific research. There were three departments in the Academy: 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. ThetwoscientistsA.M. Terpigorev and M.M. Protodyakonov wrote the first textbook on machinery for mining bedded deposits.

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 mining industries. The scientists carried out scientific research and worked on important mining problems.

In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was transformed 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 Prospecting. Later, the scientific research Institute of Mining appeared near Moscow.

7) Ответьте на вопросы по тексту:

1. What was the main task of the Moscow Mining Academy?

2. How many departments were there in the Academy?

3. What did the scientists do?

4. Was the Moscow Mining Academy transformed into twelve independent institutes?

Вариант 2

1) Напишите следующие существительные во множественном числе и переведите:

1. a roof, 2. a branch, 3. a woman, 4. a tooth, 5. a century, 6. an island, 7. a device, 8. an engine, 9. a stage, 10. a source.

2) Определите функцию глаголов “tobe”, “tohave” в следующих предложениях. Предложенияпереведите:

1. M. Lomonosov was the first who discovered the vegetation origin of coal.

2. While at the college he had a lot of friends. 3. He has to redo the task.

4. Jane didn’t go to see the film last night because she had seen it before.

5. We are translating an interesting text at the moment.

6. We are to pass three exams this winter session.

7. Sediments are formed by action of glaciers.

8. Many research centres were established by V.I. Vernadsky.

3) Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык:

1. There are many subjects at our University.

2.There will be new collieries and open-cast mines in different parts of our country.

3. There were only a few higher educational establishments which trained geologists and mining engineers.

4. There are many lecture-rooms, laboratories and a large library in our Institute.

5. There is a wide range of courses and programs at higher mining schools.

6. There was nobody in the laboratory.

4) Подчеркните местоимения и укажите их типы. Переведите предложения на русский язык:

1. She likes her study.

2. I see a car. Its’ colour is black.

3. My father works as a mining engineer.

4. He meets me every day.

5. Why did you enter a higher mining school?

6. For many years he headed the Russian Geological Committee the staff of which was made up of his pupils.

5) Составьте к каждому из следующих предложений вопросы (общий, альтернативный (or) и разделительный). Повествовательные предложения переведите на русский язык:

1. Shepassedherexamswelllastyear.

2. They will become mine surveyors in 5 years.

3. The Moscow Mining Academy trains geologists, mining engineers and mine surveyors.

4. Russian higher educational establishments offer different specializations for students.

6) Переведите текст на русский язык со словарем: