The conference will be held in the Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute, in the old part of the city of Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg is a city situated in the North-western Federal District of Russia, on the delta of the Neva River at the east end of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. It is informally known as Peter and was formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and Leningrad (1924–1991).

Saint Petersburg is Russia's second biggest city, Europe's eleventh largest metropolitan area, a major European cultural center, and the most important Russian port on the Baltic. The city has a total area of 1439 square km, which makes it the second biggest city in terms of area among cities with over a million inhabitants in Europe, after London.

Amongst the cities of the world having populations of over one million people, Saint Petersburg is the northernmost. The city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Saint Petersburg State Mining Institute was the first technical university in Russia, which was founded in 1773 in accordance with Ekaterina II Decree.

Building of the Mining Institute, architect A.N. Voronikhin