Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2015 8) 1551-1559 ~ ~ ~ УДК 378.095:622.276 Petroleum Engineering Education in NEFU, Yakutia Albina A. Goldman* Mirny Polytechnic Institute (branch) of Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) 5/1 Tikhonova Str., Mirny, Sakha (Yakutia), 678170, Russia Received 27.05.2015, received in revised form 01.06.2015, accepted 12.07.2015 The article deals with petroleum engineering higher education in the Mirny Polytechnic Institute (branch) of NEFU and the oil and gas industry in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. <...> Yakutia possesses the largest oil and gas deposits in the Russian Far East. <...> The discovery and exploitation of petroliferous deposits resulted in the opening of Petroleum Engineering major in the Mirny Polytechnic institute of NEFU. <...> Specializing in the fi eld of petroleum engineering, the Mirny Polytechnic Institute’s portfolio of programmes has been specifi cally tailored to meet the demands of the oil and gas employment market in the area. <...> Today, the Mirny Polytechnic Institute is the prominent educational, scientifi c and cultural centre of Western Yakutia, always at the forefront of innovative education and research. <...> Introduction Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is the largest region of the Russian Federation. <...> Today Yakutia possesses the largest oil and gas deposits in the Russia Far East surpassing even the Sakhalinskaya Oblast. <...> As of January 1, 2015, Yakutia’s State Register of Mineral Reserves included 59 types © Siberian Federal University. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: mptisvfu@mail.ru # 1551 # of mineral and hydrocarbon deposits located in more than 2,000 fi elds. 455 of the deposits are widespread mineral deposits. <...> Also on the territory of Yakutia, more than 16,000 emersions of different kinds of mineral and hydrocarbon crudes were discovered, as the First Deputy Chairman of the Sakha Republic State Committee for Geology and the Use of Subsurface Resources Vitaliy Kalashnikov reported at a meeting with ROSGEOLOGIYA on May 28, 2015. <...> The most prominent of are GAZPROM, them SURGUTNEFTEGAZ, Albina A. Goldman. <...> Petroleum Engineering Education in NEFU, Yakutia SAKHATRANSNEFTEGAZ, Yakut Fuel Energy Co., TAASURYAKH NEFTEGAZODOBYCHA, GAZPROMNEFT ANGARA, ROSNEFTEGAZ, IRKUTSK Oil Company, and others. <...> Yakutia’s State Register of Mineral Reserves includes <...>