First-year students from the "Heart of the Urals" Advanced Engineering School visited major industrial enterprises in the Ural region three times during the semester (at the end of September, October, and November) as part of their "Fundamentals of Project Activity" course.
At the city of Chusovoy (the Perm Territory), the third round of the Russian Cup in ski race wrapped up. On day two of the competition, in the finals of the freestyle sprint race, a native of the city of Zlatoust and SUSU student Danila Karpasiuk won the bronze medal having lost one second and a half to the gold winner – leader of the Russian team, Sergey Ardashev. Sergey Volkov came in second.
In 2025, a new strategic object has appeared on Russia's map, designed to ensure sustainable growth and technological transformation of domestic industry. In close cooperation with the Chelyabinsk Forge-and-Press Plant and the Russian Robot Plant, and with the support of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, the Industrial Robotics Development Centre of South Ural State University was established in August of 2025. The project is one of the satellite centres in a federal network headquartered at Innopolis University.
Twice a year, during this conference, students present their achievements in experimental and project activities, as well as new scientific developments and technologies are introduced. Over the two days, thirty-four reports by school children, 1st and 4th-year students, and postgraduates were heard at the scholarly meeting.
The main conference topics included the issues related to the design, control systems, power supply for rocket and space equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles.
On South Ural State University's birthday, a beautiful tradition was renewed: recognizing employees who have made a special contribution to SUSU's development and successfully solved the most complex and important professional and production challenges.
The SUSU Recognition Award 2025 included several categories: “Sport of the Year”, “Mastery of the Year”, “Culture of the Year”, “Education of the Year”, and “Science of the Year”. The best employees were selected by independent voting.
On December 16th, a new exhibition dedicated to the Stone Age opened at The People and Technologies of the Urals Museum of South Ural State University.
Lidiya Lobodenko, Director of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, offered a welcoming speech:
On its Birthday Anniversary, our university resumed a nice tradition of awarding its staff members, who have made a special contribution into development of SUSU, as well as have been successfully solving the most challenging and important duty- and production-related tasks.
On December 15th, South Ural State University celebrated its 82nd birthday! This is a special day for everyone related to SUSU: students, alumni and the teaching and administrative staff members.
As part of the “SUSU’s 82 Years on the Move!” festivities program, guests enjoyed vibrant creative performances by student teams and musical surprises from the Recreation Centre.
The university President Aleksandr Shestakov offered words of congratulations to students and staff members:
For the first time in Russia, SUSU scientists, jointly with their colleagues from the Chelyabinsk Centre for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring and the Yakutsk Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Physical and Technical Problems of the North, are implementing a big-scale project to develop and use methods of remote sensing from space to monitor environmental pollution.
According to the results of the National Contest among Russian Cities, Chelyabinsk has become the holder of the “Russia’s Capital of Culture – 2027” honorary title. This decision was made by an expert jury at a gala ceremony at the “Russia” National Centre in Moscow.
In the first contest round, Chelyabinsk had become one of the eight finalists. In addition to Chelyabinsk, spectacular presentations were offered by Vologda, Kaluga, Novosibirsk, Ryazan, Sochi, Stavropol, and Ulyanovsk.
In his speech at the ceremony, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexey Texler stressed:
South Ural State University welcomed applicants and their parents at a new open event.
We are developing and striving to keep up with the times, and so for the first time, the traditional Open House Day was held in a new format, an open session. SUSU's vice-rectors and heads of departments discussed innovations of the 2026 admissions campaign, new educational programme formats, opportunities for additional specializations, extracurricular opportunities, and career paths with real employment prospects.
A ceremony of opening of the first-on-campus mother-and-child room has been held at Dormitory No.3 of South Ural State University. This place was created specially for students with a very important life status, “mother” and “father”, so that they could take a break from the bustle and take care of their children.
A unique device for dynamically balancing of rotor structures has been developed by researchers of South Ural State University. The invention will help compensate for the deviations in rotor operation without interrupting the production process.
The development by the SUSU researchers is a bright example of technology transfer from the aerospace industry to general mechanical engineering. Their new device is applicable to rotating structures such as large turbines, machine tool rotors, shafts, and propellers.
On December 10th, the final event of an educational and entrepreneurship program, Demo Day at the SUSU Accelerator, was held at South Ural State University.
December 11th–13th, a “Digital Ural: Digital Transformation Technologies” Education-and-Practice Forum is being held at the Sigma academic building of South Ural State University.
Among the forum participants are mainly students of the “Digital Ural” Centre for Training Top IT Specialists. This Centre was created so that students in parallel to their training had a chance to communicate with the SUSU industrial partners and participate in solving real production and business tasks.
On December 10th, a ceremony for the prize winners of the “SUSU’s Best Representatives 2025” annual award was held at South Ural State University. The best students from the fields of science, sports, social activities and volunteering were named. The jury experts honoured the most successful and talented students, who had made a significant contribution to the development of our university and its extracurricular activities.
The university Rector Alexander Wagner opened the awards ceremony with a welcome speech:
Scientists from South Ural State University have patented a design of a robot that can be used as a delivery robot, home security guard, or to explore hazardous areas, and descend into mines. A unique SPPA program specifically developed for simulating robotic movements in confined spaces allows for fully automated robotic movements without connection to the Internet or GPS.
The unique SPPA control algorithm means that the robot can think like a human and includes four principles: S – sense, P – perceive, P – plan, A – act.
A meeting between Sociology and Political Science students and Roman Vollert, Deputy Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, has been held at South Ural State University. The event was held in the format of an open dialogue, where the future specialists were able to directly ask questions to the regional government official and discuss current issues and trends in their professional field.
At the start of the open dialogue, Deputy Governor Roman Vollert talked about the key stages of his professional development, sharing his personal and career experiences.
The year comes to an end and high school students are facing the time of important decisions: passing examinations, choosing a career, a university, and their future path. On the eve of its birthday anniversary, the leading university of the South Ural region invites applicants and their parents to the main educational event of the year that is now ending, Open House Day!
Volunteer Day is celebrated in Russia on December 5th. The date was established by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation on November 27, 2017. As part of this event, South Ural State University organised an awards ceremony for student volunteers who actively participate in events at various levels: from regional and all-Russian to international ones.
Students from the SUSU School of Economics and Management, along with their mentors and the School’s Deputy Director for Discipline Work Ekaterina Fediay, attended a "Chelyabinsk, the City of Your Student Years" immersive tour organized by the “Youth Attraction Centre” Autonomous Nonprofit Organization with the support from the Chelyabinsk City Administration.
The district semi-final of the "It Is in Our Family" all-Russian competition was held in Yekaterinburg November 27th through 29th. The family of Dmitry Ardashev, a father of five children and Professor at the SUSU Department of Automated Mechanical Engineering, won the Ural Federal District semi-final. The Ardashevs will now represent the Chelyabinsk Region in the competition finals, which will take place in Moscow in the summer of 2026.
Teaching staff members of the Department of International Relations, Politology and Regional Studies of the SUSU Institute of Linguistics and International Communications Maksim Dvoinenko and Nataliia Khomutova have become participants of the “Meaning Creators. DNA of Russia” federal program.
