National Mineral Resources University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia:

V. Yu. Bazhin, Dean of a Faculty, Professor of a Chair of Metallurgy, e-mail: bazhin-alfoil@mail.ru

Chemical and Metallurgical Faculty was founded together with Mining and Prospecting Faculties as a part of a first Russian high technical institute – Mining institute. Experts and scientists of Saint-Petersburg Mining institute made a huge contribution to development of Russian metallurgical industry and chemical productions. On the basis of the Faculty, there were created the largest scientific and design institutes as VAMI, Mekhanobr, Gipronikel. Nowadays, employees and teachers of Chemical and Metallurgical Faculty (Faculty of Processing of Mineral Resources), using modern equipment and applying innovative approaches, carry on the traditions of scientific development of great scientists. This article gives the historical information, and the leading schools of sciences and prospects of development of the Faculty are presented.