Ural State Mining University, Yekaterinburg, Russia:

A. V. Dushin, Acting Rector
N. G. Valiev, First Pro-Rector, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences
Yu. A. Lagunova, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, yu.lagunova@mail.ru
A. G. Shorin, Executive Secretary, Ural State Mining University Bulletin (Izvestiya UGGU)

The article tells about interaction between two higher education establishments of the Ural and Moscow Mining Universities within their 100 years long history. The Ural State Mining University (initially the Ural Mining Institute) was founded by the graduator of the Saint-Petersburg (Petrograd) Mining Institute, Petr Petrovich von Veinmar. The Moscow University (former Moscow Mining Academy) was established by Dmitry Nikolaevich Artemiev who pursued investigations at the Saint-Petersburg Mining Institute. Despite similar level of education and, later on, destiny, (both von Veinmar and Artemiev emigrated from the Soviet Russia), the universities they founded were different. The Ural Mining Institute was initiated before the revolution, while the Moscow Mining Academy was already a Soviet establishment. For this reason, the interaction between the institutions began as rivalry and, moreover, as confrontation, and initially the universities could be considered as distinct and in many ways opposite educational systems. In what followed, during the Soviet period, both institutions became analogues with each other, and, although subordinate at first, they became independent later on but that time as two Soviet universitiesalike in every particular. Their cooperation, launched long ago, continues until now,  and this article describes different periods of history of this interaction. The cooperation starts in 1920 at the time the Ural Mining Institute affiliates with the Soviet-era Ural University. Such leading scientists as A. N. Shubnikov (further Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences) and P. K. Sobolevsky moved to Yekaterinburg from Moscow at the time. The second stage onset is 1937 when Moscow hosted the 12^th Session of the International Geological Congress while Sverdlovsk (the Soviet name of Yekaterinburg) organized a science and production exhibition as an element of the touristic route of the Congress. The exhibition gave origin to the presentday Ural Geological Museum at the Ural State Mining University. The third stage of teamwork began in 1941 when the USSR Academy of Sciences created a committee on mobilization of resources for national defence in Sverdlovsk. Complementary to these stages, the article describes cooperation of the two mining universities in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and in the recent period.

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