The 70-year history of the Mining Faculty of the Karaganda Technical University named after Abylkas Saginov begins from the moment it was opened in 1953, along with the formation of the Karaganda Mining Institute. The first deans were Petr Ivanovich Kiryukhin and Aleksey Nikolaevich Lebedev, who for eight years, until 1961, laid the brunt of the first steps in the formation, creation of human resources, material and technical base, construction of educational buildings and dormitories, as well as the methodological basis of education faculty disciplines.
A great contribution to the development and formation of the Faculty of Mining and the training of highly qualified mining engineers was made by Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, Hero of Socialist Labor A.S. Saginov, who headed the institute and the department “Development of mineral deposits”. Now Karaganda Technical University has been named after him, which is the pride of the entire team, both the faculty and the university as a whole.
Saginov A.S., Obukhov Yu.D., Kashikov Sh.K., 1978
In subsequent years, the deans of the Faculty of Mining were: Lebedev A.N. (1957-1962), Kenzhin Z.M. (1963-1964), Samsonov M.T. (1964-1968), Valstein G.I. (1968-1988), Smagulov Z.M. (1988-2000), Samartsev G.I. (2000-2004), Isabek T.K. (2004-2008), Baimuldin M.K. (2008-2009), Obukhov Yu.D. (2009), Arystan I.D. (2009-2014), Ozhigin S.G. (2015-2018). From 2018 to the present, the faculty is headed by Ph.D. Zholdybaeva G.S.
Dean Gennady Isaakovich Valshtein and his deputies, Ibatolla Dairovich Arystan (1982-1989) and Farit Kamalovich Nizametdinov (1987-1991) and others who worked with him actively and with great dedication for a long time, left a noticeable mark on the development of the faculty, and others, who subsequently effectively used gained experience and skills in the organization of educational, scientific and educational work, heading various departments of the university.
During this period, a new mining building was built, educational laboratories were equipped with new stands and educational devices, a large number of teaching staff defended doctoral and candidate dissertations. For the first time, the institute began training mining engineers in the state language. The faculty has consistently occupied a leading position among the faculties of the university.
Active members of the Mining Faculty:
- row from the bottom – Grashchenkov N.F., Obukhov Yu.D.,
Valshtein G.I., Suslov V.V., Ermekov M.A.;
- row – Sattibaev A.S., Borisenko Yu.N., Podorvanova N.S.,
Fesenko A.A., Anisimov A.N.;
- row from the bottom – Root E.G., Khodjaev R.Sh., Mamontov A.Ya.,
Selivanov A.M., Akhmetzhanov B.A. (1980)
The first graduation of mining engineers took place in 1958, and in total over 70 years of its existence the faculty has trained more than 20 thousand mining engineers.
Today it is a modern division of the Karaganda Technical University, located in a separate building – the Mining Faculty. The faculty has 4 graduating departments: “Development of mineral deposits” (Head of Department – Assoc. Prof., PhD Imashev A.Zh.), “Mine surveying and geodesy” (Head of Department – Assoc. Prof., Candidate of Engineering Sciences Khmyrova E.N.), “Geology and exploration of mineral deposits” (Head of Department – Assoc. Prof., PhD Isataeva F.M.), “Mine aerology and labor protection” (Head of Department – Acting Prof., Candidate of Engineering Sciences Medeubaev N.A.).
The high level of training of specialists for mining industries directly depends on the quality of the faculty and the university as a whole. The faculty of the Mining Faculty consists of 115 people, including 8 doctors of science, 67 candidates of science and PhD doctors, 40 masters of science. The average age of the faculty is 41 years, the degree level is 70%. The faculty has created and effectively operates Dissertation Councils in the areas of “Mining” and “Geology and exploration of mineral deposits” for obtaining the PhD degree. Every year, up to 10 applicants successfully defend their dissertations, thereby replenishing the youth personnel reserve of the faculty, university and other universities of Kazakhstan.
Thanks to the Corporate University consortium, the faculty’s teaching staff has close scientific ties with such enterprises as Qarmet JSC, Kazakhmys Corporation LLP, Shubarkol Komir JSC, Zhairemsky GOK JSC, AK Altynalmas JSC, KAZZINC LLP, SSGPO JSC, Kachary Ruda JSC, etc. Every year, the Mining Faculty’s teachers conclude business contracts worth more than 200 million tenge.
As part of international cooperation, the departments interact with universities and organizations in neighboring and distant countries. The main ones are: Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov, Tashkent State Technical University named after I. Karimov, St. Petersburg Mining University, Mining Institute named after N.A. Chinakala SB RAS, State Administration of Geoinformation and Land Management Baden-Württemberg, Beith University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technology, NUST MISIS, etc. (joint publications, internships, foreign consultants).
The faculty annually invites foreign scientists with a high Hirsch index from universities in Germany, the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Poland, etc. to give lectures and exchange experience.