A meeting between the General Director of PAO Rosseti Ural Dmitriy Vodennikov and the SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner was held at South Ural State University.
SUSU has been cooperating with Rosseti Ural for a long time now. In July 2025, at the INNOPROM 2025 exhibition, the parties signed yet another cooperation agreement aimed at training highly qualified specialists for the electric grid complex and developing science and innovations in the industry.
To discuss further joint plans and goals, a visit to our university was paid by General Director of Rosseti Ural Dmitry Vodennikov, Acting Deputy General Director and Head of the Office of PAO Rosseti Ural Nataliia Baldova, Director of the Training Centre of Rosseti Ural Sergey Savosko, as well as Director of the Chelyabenergo branch of Rosseti Ural Sergey Zolotarev, Deputy Director, Chief Engineer of the Chelyabenergo branch of Rosseti Ural Viktor Obvintsev, and Head of Human Resources Elena Samsonova.
During the visit, the First Vice-Rector and Vice-Rector for Research Anton Korzhov made a report on the “Key Achievements and Proposed Development Directions of the Department of Electric Power Plants, Networks and Power Supply Systems” within the framework of interaction between SUSU and PAO Rosseti Ural.
The Head of the Department of Electric Stations, Networks and Power Supply Systems Aleksey Gorozhankin held a tour for the delegation around the department's laboratories and introduced them to the department's material and technical equipment.
"We have synchronized the goals and objectives of further cooperation, because we have a long history of cooperation with PAO Rosseti Ural and we want to understand the vectors of development of the education system and the company in the context of our cooperation," said the SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner. "Dmitry Vodennikov could have a look at the laboratories for which an agreement on material and technical support from Rosseti for their modernization has already been reached."
At the end of the meeting, representatives of PAO Rosseti Ural visited Sberbank’s School 21 as part of the guided tour.