October 2018

Viktor Khristenko President of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) Business Council, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SUSU Dear friends! Today we can hardly imagine the Ural’s industry without alumni of South Ural State University. In the basis of its research and educational activity lies an alliance of traditions and innovations. SUSU degree is some kind of quality mark in employers’ minds, the mark that distinguishes the alumni all over the country. This degree in many aspects predetermined my destiny as well, and I am proud of having studied in this university. Read more German Vyatkin President of SUSU, corresponding member of RAS, D.Sc. (Chemistry) Dear colleagues! From the bottom of my heart I congratulate you all on the 75th anniversary of our university! South Ural State University has been dynamically developing for three quarters of a century. Our university has an incredibly rich history! In each certain period – from CMEI to SUSU – the university significantly contributed to development of the country. Nowadays, it is one of the leading higher education institutions of the Russian Federation and is listed among the best universities of the world. Read more Vladimir Myakush Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region Dear Mr. Shestakov! Dear lecturers, postgraduates and students of South Ural State University! On behalf of the Legislative Assembly deputies and from me personally as from an alumnus of Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute, allow me to offer my sincere greetings on the occasion of the university’s anniversary. Read more Michael Train President of Emerson Corporation Dear professors, researchers and students of South Ural State University! I would like to congratulate you with the 75th anniversary of the University! For more than half a century South Ural State University has been training highly qualified specialists. Your graduates successfully work in different spheres and their skills are required both in Russian and abroad. Read more John Mitchell Temporary Head of the British Consulate-General Office in Ekaterinburg Dear Mr. Shestakov! Allow me to congratulate you and the whole team of South Ural State University on the 75th anniversary from the moment of establishment of the higher education institution! Let this significant date will become one more impulse to go forward to bringing to reality all intended plans and projects. I wish you good luck and further prosperity! Pavel Shilyaev General Director of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Dear Mr. Shestakov! My congratulations to you, and the academic staff, students and alumni, represented by you, on the 75th Anniversary of SUSU! Throughout its whole history the university has been continuously improving and growing, always keeping up with the times. Over the three quarters of the century it has made a significant contribution into expanding of the intellectual potential of South Ural region, having become an integral part of the mechanism of solving the tasks of the social and economical life of the latter. Read more Aleksandr Permyakov Director General of PK NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika AO Dear Aleksandr Shestakov! Allow me to extend my sincere greetings on the remarkable event of the University headed by you! On the day of the University’s 75th anniversary, I would like to wish academic teaching staff, students, and future postgraduates of South Ural State University prosperity, outstanding achievements, daring projects and new discoveries. Read more

Dear colleagues, postgraduates and students! Greetings to you on this very important event, the 75th Anniversary of SUSU! The history of our national research university is testimony to the fact that it has always met the demands of the time. Since the date of its establishment the university took the path of innovative development, and through overcoming difficulties while preserving its dignity, it achieved significant results at all stages. In 1943 Chelyabinsk became the centre of tank manufacture industry, and Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute was established. Its first Department was called Wheeled-Track Machines, and was headed by Nikolai Dukhov, a three times Hero of Socialist Labour subsequently (a most rare case in our country’s history). In the 50s–70s of the last century the industrial enterprises that emerged in the Ural region during the war time kept developing. To supply the sector-specialising employees to them, Chelyabinsk Mechanical Engineering Institute was transformed into Polytechnic Institute. Big faculties in all the main engineering fields were created. In the period of reformation, which took a heavy toll on the system of higher education, our university kept steadily developing. Faculties in humanities were opened, and we started training specialists in market economy. The epoch of “stalls” ended up, but the humanities faculties at the university remained. At the same time we began developing the fields of natural sciences, which later on, during the post-reformation period, formed the SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Thus a versatile university was formed, which preserved all engineering academic programmes, but at the same time created and developed the fields of natural sciences and humanities. And now we are striving to occupy good positions at the international level, and are doing our best to solve this challenging task by choosing the strategic vector of our development: digital transformations. I am sure that we have many victories and achievements before us! May we reach new heights in science and education! Happy Anniversary, my friends! Aleksandr Shestakov Rector of South Ural State University