Chelyabinsk has hosted the Construction 2025 Ural Exhibition and Forum, where students and Master's degree students from Russia, China, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Angola have participated. Also, member of the teaching staff and Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture of South Ural State University Vyacheslav Yudin has presented low-rise residential buildings made of "composite timber strips".
Any contest, and especially an international one, is a history of sorts, the very landmark that gives a start to new great events in the life of school pupils and students learning Russian as a foreign language.
The Federal Customs Service of Russia makes a worthy contribution to strengthening the economic security and protecting the national interests of our country. Today, the customs service is rightfully the most effective mechanism for state regulation of foreign trade, replenishment of the revenue side of the federal budget and compliance with foreign trade legislation. Evgeny Stepanov, Head of the Department of Customs Affairs at the SUSU School of Economics and Management, speaks about the specifics of the customs officer's profession and the department's work.
Participants of the university's Startup as a Diploma Project competition have defended their projects before the representatives of business and academic communities.
The "Friend from the South Ural Region" regional program is a unique educational project implemented in the Chelyabinsk Region, aimed at developing active youth. The program covers many aspects, including economic, cultural and social development, which allows young people to acquire new knowledge and skills that contribute to their personal and professional growth.
On Russian Entrepreneurship Day, Irina Solovieva, Head of the Department of Economics and Finance at SUSU, spoke about how the entrepreneurial environment has changed in recent years, what competencies are really important for startups, and how the university helps students take their first steps in business – from testing entrepreneurial skills to gaining the first million for project development.
— How do you think the role of entrepreneurship in Russia has changed over the past 5−10 years?
Iulia Bolotina, Head of the Office for Strategic Work with Applicants at South Ural State University (SUSU NRU), speaks about the key changes and features of this year's admissions campaign. In the interview, she in detail talks about the deadlines for submitting documents, new opportunities for applicants, the number of state-funded places, and the most popular areas of training.
– When will the start take place and what innovations can we expect this year?
The contest is held annually at North-Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) and is aimed at building up a creative platform where young people present the results of their professional training in the field of multimedia journalism. Students from different parts of Russia participated in it. Chelyabinsk was represented by two leading universities: SUSU and CSU.
The application deadline for the fifth anniversary season of the International Prize #WeAreTogether has been extended until June 23, 2025. This global competition brings together volunteers, activists and non-profit organizations from all over the world, the projects of which are aimed at helping people and improving the quality of life.
Students of the SUSU Presidential Programme are implementing a social project for young patients and their parents at the City Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Chelyabinsk.
The MBA Centre and Business School of the SUSU School of Economics and Management have a number of supplementary education programmes. Of course, these are all different, but these are united by an important characteristic – all of these programmes are practice-oriented.
SUSU scientists compared well-known brands of modern coagulants for water purification and came to a conclusion that in order to increase the effectiveness of chemicals, water can be pre-turbidified with carbon powder.
No matter how much they talk about innovative "reagent-free" water purification methods, nothing more effective than coagulants has been invented yet. Scientists and industrialists continue to search for their optimal composition.
Day of Slavonic Alphabet and Culture is of special importance for preserving national identity and cultural code of the Slavonic peoples. This event is inseparably associated with the names of distinguished educators — Saints Cyril and Methodius, Equals to the Apostles and creators of the Slavonic alphabet. Their activity laid the foundation of writing and spiritual development of the Slavonic world.
Yet another excursion and practical seminar on the topic of “Operating Modes of Heating Points” was held at the BRANT Energy-efficient Equipment Plant. Students of the AC-325 group studying in 08.03.01 Construction programme, in Heat and Gas Supply and Microclimate of Buildings speciality, visited the production facility together with the senior lecturer of the department Svetlana Degtyar.
On May 15th, an online meeting was held between representatives of the Department of Food Technology and Biotechnology of the SUSU School of Medical Biology and representatives and students of Shenyang University of Technology (SUT), China. SUT first-year students, who are taking training under a joint-with-SUSU academic programme in Bioengineering in Food Productions, presented their reports in Russian on the topics of geographic and natural specifics of Chinese provinces, as well as on national and cultural traditions of their country.
Scientists from South Ural State University have patented a computer program that allows for highly accurate prediction of the physical and mechanical characteristics of aluminium alloy castings. This development was created as part of the research conducted by SUSU specialists jointly with regional enterprises.
"Zvezda" Multidisciplinary Engineering Olympiad, held by the Russian Engineering Union with the support of South Ural State University, has set records in all key indicators in the current cycle.
In the 2024/25 academic year, 580963 schoolchildren took part in the competition (by 27% more than the year before). More than 77000 schoolchildren reached the finals, and 7639 became winners and prize winners − this makes "Zvezda" the largest non-state engineering Olympiad in our country.
On May 19th, South Ural State University hosted a practical conference on the "Methods of Improving the Prestige and Quality of Engineering Education in the Fields of Mechanical Engineering and Metallurgy in the Chelyabinsk Region". Among the participants were representatives of 20 industrial enterprises of our region.
On May 16th and 17th, South Ural State University hosts an Open Forum on Ecology and Preservation of Water Bodies as part of the Ecology national project. This is a key industry event in the South Ural region, where opinion leaders, experts and innovators meet annually. The event included a traditional exhibition of scientific achievements by the university and partner enterprises in the field of environmental preservation.
The 4th Open Forum on Ecology and Preservation of Water Bodies, held within the frameworks of the Ecological Well-Being national project, began its work at South Ural State University. The forum brought together more than a thousand participants from 18 regions of Russia, including heads of large enterprises, government officials, scientists and public figures.
The annual “SUSU Is a Sports University!” festival, which brought together more than 3000 students, athletes, guests and residents of our city, was held at Elena Elesina Track-and-field Complex on May 16th. This year, the event is dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and is organised in the spirit of the legendary 1980 Olympics.
The opening ceremony was decorated with a real Olympic flame, symbolizing the desire for victory, unity and sporting spirit.
International Museum Day is celebrated every year on May 18. Nadezhda Ivanova, Head of the Museum and Educational Complex, Director of the Museum the History of South Ural State University, and Yulia Vasina, Head of the People and Technologies of the Urals Museum and Exhibition Complex spoke to us about the importance of museums today, about the history of their formation in Russia, about the qualities necessary for this profession and many other things.
South Ural State University received a federal grant to create a network of engineering classes by winning a competition from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The project will cover the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions.
Engineering classes are to be opened at the premises of general education institutions, where high school students will master the latest engineering and transport technologies. This work will be supported not only by South Ural State University, but also by industrial partners: AO Kurgandormash and the Automobile Plant URAL.
More than 1000 people, including students of the SUSU Military Training Centre, teaching staff and veterans, took part in a ceremonial formation on the square in front of the main university building of South Ural State University on the eve of the Victory Day on May 7th.
Maksim Gutenev, who is the Head of the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Regional Studies of the SUSU Institute of Linguistics and International Communications, took part in the Arctic Circle India Forum held in New Delhi May 3rd through May 4th, 2025.
On May 9th, Chelyabinsk once again joined the all -Russian campaign called the Immortal Regiment March. For the first time since 2022, the procession took place in a traditional in-person format. Together with our whole country, students, academic and administrative staff of South Ural State University carried portraits of heroes of the Great Patriotic War along the streets of our native city.
