Regional university as a center of science

The author analyses the forms and mechanisms of the determination of the scientific research activity of a regional university functioning in the multicultural society (in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic as the example). The article reveals that in contemporary science and contemporary Russia most of the problems existing in the humanities that are traditionally referred (and refer) to the “local and insignificant” ones become urgent issues of national and global importance

Geological and engineering conditions of deposits as foundation of their safe development

The article studies geological and engineering conditions of the mineral deposits located in cryolithic zone. The demand to study and analyze geological and engineering conditions is justified by safety requirements established to development of the deposits. The article is focused on pebble-phosphate deposit located in Polar Urals. The geological and engineering conditions of this site fall within very severe category, which is connected with endogenetic and exogenic processes of its accumulation. It is the genesis of the deposit that generated the factors that complicate drilling-in conditions, included but not limited to weathering crusts with significant depths and discontinuity, frozen rock mass and its cavernous porosity