- Directorate
- Structure
- Educational Programs
- Research work
- Training practice
- International cooperation
- Social Life
The Institute of Earth Sciences has begun its history since 1991.
Directorate
Deputy Director for educational and methodical work – Tatyana A. Polyakova, associate professor of the department of nature management and land cadastre, candidate of geographical sciences,
e-mail: Polyakova_T@bsu.edu.ru, т. (4722) 30-11-72
Deputy director for scientific – Anastasiy G. Narozhnyaya, associate professor of the department of nature management and land cadastre, candidate of geographical sciences,
e-mail: Narozhnyaya@bsu.edu.ru, т. (4722) 30-11-76
Deputy director for social and educational work – Antonina M. Mitryaykina, associate professor of the department of nature management and land cadastre, candidate of geographical sciences,
e-mail: Mitryaykina@bsu.edu.ru, т. (4722) 30-13-00 * 21-21
Deputy director for international activities and career guidance work – Ekaterina A. Drozdova, associate professor of the department of geography, geoecology and life safety, candidate of geographical sciences,
e-mail: Drozdova@bsu.edu.ru, т. (4722) 30-13-00 * 20-74
Structure
The main educational and scientific structural units of the Institute of Earth Sciences are the departments of:
- geography, geo-ecology and life safety
department chair – professor, doctor of geographical sciences Andrey G. Kornilov, e-mail: Kornilov@bsu.edu.ru - nature management and land cadastre
department chair – associate professor, candidate of geographical sciences Tatyana A. Polyakova, e-mail: Polyakova_T@bsu.edu.ru - applied geology and mining
acting department chair – candidate of technical sciences, associate professor Ignat M. Ignatenko, e-mail: Ignatenko_I@bsu.edu.ru
The structure of the Institute also includes 4 basic departments:
- geology and mining, on the basis of mining enterprise JSC «Kombinat KMA-ruda»
department chair - candidate of geological and mineralogical Sciences Ivan M. Kora - management of land resources on the basis of «Belgorod federal state budgetary scientific institution «Belgorod Federal agricultural research centre of RAS»
department chair – professor, doctor of biology Lidia G. Smirnova - agroecology on the basis of FGBU «Center of agrochemical service «Belgorodskiy»
department chair – professor, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Sergey V. Lukin - engineering geology and hydrogeology, based on JSC «VIOGEM»
department chair - candidate of technical sciences Aleksey A. Voronin
The staff of the Institute of Earth Sciences, December 2022
Scientific divisions in the structure of the Institute:
- Federal-regional center for aerospace and ground monitoring of objects and natural resources,
head - PhD, professor Lisetsky Fedor Nikolaevich, e-mail: Liset@bsu.edu.ru; - Scientific-research laboratory of mineral raw material enrichment,
head - candidate of technical sciences Gzogyan Semion Rayirovich, e-mail: Gzogyan@bsu.edu.ru. - Geological and Mineralogical Museum named after A.N. Petin,
head - Lipnitskaya Tatiana Alexandrovna, e-mail: lipnitskaya@bsu.edu.ru . - Center for Applied Research and Geotechnologies,
head - Kitov Mikhail Vladimirovich, e-mail: kitov@bsu.edu.ru - Regional Carbon Balance Monitoring Center of the National Research University "BelSU",
head -Goleusov Pavel Vyacheslavovich, doctor of geographical sciences, professor, e-mail: goleusov@bsu.edu.ru
The Institute has 63 educators, including 13 doctors of sciences, professors, 42 candidates of sciences.
Educational Programs
The amount of students on January 1, 2023 is more than 900 people.
The Institute provides education in the following areas:
Bachelor Degree Programs:
- 05.03.02 Geography, profile of preparation " Monitoring and management of territorial systems";
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education);) - 05.03.03 Cartography and geoinformatics, profile of preparation "Geoinformatics",
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education; 5 years-part-time education);) - 05.03.06 Ecology and natural resource management profile of preparation " Geoecological foundations of rational nature management",
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education);) - 21.03.02 Land management and cadastres, profile of preparation " State registration of real estate and land management activities",
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education; 5 years-correspondence education) ;) - 20.03.01 Technosphere safety, profile of preparation "Occupational and environmental protection",
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education; 5 years-part-time education);) - 35.03.10 Landscape architecture, profile of preparation "Landscape planning",
qualification (degree) – bachelor (4 years – full-time education; 5 years-part-time education);
Specialist Degree Programs:
- 21.05.02 Applied Geology, specialization «Search and exploration of groundwater and engineering-geological surveys»,
qualification - mining engineer-geologist (5 years – full – time education; 6 years - correspondence education). - 21.05.04 Mining, specializations «Mine surveying» and "Underground mining of mineral deposits";
qualification-mining engineer (specialist) (5.5 years – full – time, 6 years - correspondence education). - 21.05.05 Physical processes of mining or oil and gas production, specialization «Physical processes of mining»,
qualification-mining engineer (specialist) (5.5 years of training – full – time, 6 years - correspondence education).
Master Degree Programs:
- 05.04.01 "Geology", master's program "Mining and oilfield geology",
qualification (degree) - master (2 years-correspondence education) - 05.04.02 Geography, master's program " Geoecology, GIS tec hnologies and integrated geographical expertise",
- 05.04.06 Ecology and nature management, master's program "Research of natural resources by aerospace means",
qualification (degree) - master (2 years-full-time education; 2.5 years-part-time education) - 21.04.02 Land management and cadastres, master's program " Land resources and real estate management",
qualification (degree) - master (2 years-full-time education; 2,5 years-correspondence education) - 20.04.01 Safety engineering, master's program "Safety management and protection in emergency situations"
(2.5 years - correspondence education)
qualification (degree) - master (2 years-full-time education;)
Postgraduate study
- 1.6.15 "Earth Sciences", training program "Land management, cadastre and land monitoring"
- 1.6.21 "Earth Sciences", training program "Geoecology"
- 2.8.3 Geology, exploration and mining, training "Mining, oil and gas field geology, geophysics, mine surveying and geometry of mineral resources" and "Geomechanics, destruction of rocks, miner aerogasdynamics and mining thermal physics"
Training Courses:
- Change of geosystems under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors: on the example of the Eastern Europe centre.
- Energy saving.
- Geographic information systems in public administration.
- Geoinformatics and remote sensing in ecology and nature management.
- Features of engineering surveys on the most dangerous, complicated and unique objects.
- Surveying and industrial safety.
- Search and exploration of groundwater and engineering-geological surveys.
Training ground "Mine"
Research work
The main directions of research work of the Institute:
- ecological and geographical research and geoecological justification of rational nature management;
- natural and anthropogenic evolution of soils;
- study of natural and man-made ecogeosystems of the Kursk magnetic anomaly region;
- agroecological justification and advanced land use systems;
- monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions;
- urban ecology and geography of the population;
- monitoring studies of exogenous geological processes in the region;
- the problem of placement and disposal of industrial waste of metallurgical enterprises of the region;
- * Retrospective and modern studies of technogenic transformation of landscapes of the Belgorod region;
- development of new technologies for restoration of ecosystems in disturbed territories, as well as reproduction of water resources, objects of the animal and plant world;
- geomechanics, rock destruction;
- mining geology and hydrogeology in the development of iron ores, etc.
Students of the Institute take active part in research works. Since 2002, the Institute has had the Student scientific society, which serves as an advisory and organizational center for student’s research.
Every year students of the Institute take part in competitions of scientific works on the regional and Federal level, as well as in all-Russian Olympiads. Received in the course of field and cameral work the actual data is used by students for preparing term papers and theses, as well as for reports submitted at all-Russian, regional and intra-University scientific conferences.
Scientific and technical base of the Institute includes specialized laboratories, allowing to lead classes and research at a high level:
- laboratory of landscape and geochemical studies
- laboratory of diagnostics and monitoring research
- laboratory of regional geoecological research
- laboratory of ecoanalytic analyses
- laboratory of GIS technology
- laboratory of real estate cadastre
- laboratory of construction technology and cadastral works
- laboratory of landscape design
- laboratory of rock and soil mechanics
- mining laboratory
- laboratory of engineering surveys and methods of geophysical research
- laboratory of Engineering Geology and Mining
- laboratory of surveying and geodesy
The Institute of Earth Sciences has its own library, which fund has more than 3 thousand educational and methodical literature, video library.
On the initiative and with the active participation of A.N. Petina geological and mineralogical Museum of BSU was established. Nowadays it is one of the best in Russia and the best in the Belgorod region.
At the moment, the Museum funds include more than 4.000 samples of minerals, rocks and fossils, many of which are unique. The Museum consists of 9 departments, which are placed in 5 halls.
The main exposition of the Geological and mineralogical Museum
Training practice
Theoretical training is accompanied by practical exercises, including a fascinating field practice in Crimea, on the Islands Solovetskie, St. Petersburg, in the Caucasus, Altai, Baikal, as well as in the picturesque places of the Belgorod region and the environs of Belgorod (at the recreation center of the NRU «BSU» on the Nezhegol river, in the Botanical garden of the NRU «BSU», State nature reserve «Belogorie», etc.). Also, our students participate in educational practices during the expeditions. Students pass education-productional and scientific-pedagogical practice in research institutions, public and commercial structures.
Sampling of rocks on the educational geological practice in Crimea
In practice in a career in Kuzbass (Kemerovo region)
International cooperation
The Institute expands the boundaries of international cooperation: established scientific and methodological contacts with universities of of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, national academic institutions of Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, as well as with educational institutions abroad: universities of Iowa and Missouri (USA), Liaoning technical University (China).
Since 2015, the Institute has been implementing a joint educational program in the direction of master's training 05.04.06 Ecology and environmental management with the Kazakh national University. al-Farabi, allowing students to get a double degree. With Samarkand State University (Uzbekistan) a similar program 05.04.06 Ecology and Nature Management is also being implemented with get a double degree.
Since 2017, in accordance with the Agreement on the network form of implementation of the educational program between the NRU "BelSU" And the Russian state geological University named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze" (MGRI-RSU), with the Agreement on cooperation between MGRI-RSU and Liaoning technical University (China), students of the Institute are trained at Liaoning technical University.
Students from 13 countries study at the Institute of Earth Sciences, 10% of students are foreign citizens. The Department of nature management and land cadastre successfully develops cooperation with colleagues from the United States.
Students of the Institute at the International Conference "Topical issues of sustainable development" Minsk, Belarus
The international scientific conference "Problems of nature management and ecological situation in European Russia and neighboring countries", held by the Institute since 2004, attracts researchers from the USA, Belarus, Uzbekistan and other countries, and has already become a well-known forum for geoecologists. The conference "Geoecology and rational subsoil use: from science to practice" is regularly held for young scientists.
Social Life
Social and educational work of the Directorate and curators is aimed at increasing the role of student self-government in the organization of weekdays and holidays at the Institute, supporting the initiative and creativity of students, improving the interaction of curators with the asset of academic groups, departments, parents.
Students of The Institute of Earth Sciences are actively involved in University-wide activities; organize the work of their creative associations.
Every year, first-year students are initiated, "The Last bell" and the presentation of diplomas, visits to theater productions, concerts of the Symphony orchestra of the Belgorod state Philharmonic.
Events on September 1, 2022
Special attention is paid to the health of students and improvement of physical culture. The Institute has basketball, volleyball and football teams. Students actively participate in inter-faculty competitions in athletics, table tennis, swimming and other sporting events, where they often take prizes.