On the eve of the professional holiday, Teachers' Day, a conference on the "Modern Digital Technologies in Education" was held at the campus of School 21 of South Ural State University for the heads of general education institutions in Chelyabinsk.
Vitaliy Litke, Minister of Education and Science of the Chelyabinsk Region, addressed the conference participants and noted that the integration of different levels of education is key to the successful future:
The awarding ceremony of the Legislative Assembly for the Chelyabinsk Region has been held in Chelyabinsk. The Rector of South Ural State University Alexander Wagner has become one of the laureates.
The prestigious award was bestowed for dedicated work, high professional excellence, and significant contribution to the development of our region’s higher education system and training of highly qualified specialists.
Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly for the Chelyabinsk Region Pavel Kiselev addressed the ceremony guests:
Tushar Madhukar Sonar, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Welding Equipment and Technology at the Institute of Engineering and Technology of South Ural State University, has been ranked among the TOP 2% of world scientists in 2025.
The TOP 2% ranking is conducted annually by Stanford University and the Elsevier international academic publishing company.
The 24th International Scientific and Technical Conference “DIGITAL REALITY: Space and Spatial Data, Processing Technologies” was held in Yekaterinburg. This is a basic platform for discussing innovative developments in Earth remote sensing, geodesy, cartography, and related sciences. Developments by South Ural State University were presented by the Director of Geoinformation Systems Research and Education Centre Valentina Maksimova.
The Rector of South Ural State University Alexander Wagner and General Director of the Autonomous Non-profit Organization "Industrial Robotization Centre" Vyacheslav Zyryanov have signed a strategic cooperation agreement in the field of education, research, and innovations.
An Industrial Robotics Development Centre successfully operates at SUSU. Its activities are focused on the integration of industrial robots and robotic systems, development of new technological solutions, and training of specialists for developers and integrators of robotic systems.
Students of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications of South Ural State University celebrated European Day of Foreign Languages.
This holiday is relatively young: European Day of Foreign Languages was first celebrated only in 2001. At the beginning of the new millennium, UNESCO unofficially proclaimed the 21st century the century of multilingual education under a motto: "Learning Languages throughout Life!"
September 24th through 29th, the Chessboxing World Championship will be held in Serbia. Alumnus of South Ural State University Amina Akhmadulina will be representing the Chelyabinsk Region in this tournament.
A cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Physical Education and Sports for the Chelyabinsk Region and the Student Ice Hockey League was signed as part of the Youth Ice Hockey Cup. The document outlines plans for developing student ice hockey in our region, supporting young athletes, and organizing new tournaments.
Student Ice Hockey League Managing Director Anton Khramtsov emphasized the importance of this cooperation:
The World Pharmacists Day is celebrated every year on September 25th. This holiday, established by the International Pharmaceutical Federation in 2009, is celebrated by pharmacists, pharmaceutical sales representatives, medicine scientists and other professionals standing guard over the health of people. Shortly before this holiday, we talked to Senior Research Fellow of the SUSU Research Laboratory for System Pathology and Advanced Medicinal Products Mariia Komelkova.
A vibrant sports event, the Youth Ice Hockey Cup, featuring a match between the Chelyabinsk Region Student Ice Hockey League team and the White Bears Youth Ice Hockey League team of the Traktor Ice Hockey Club system, was held in Chelyabinsk.
The First Deputy Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Stanislav Mosharov addressed the players and fans with a welcome speech:
September 16th-17th, staff members of the Department of Town Planning, Engineering Networks and Systems from the SUSU Institute of Architecture and Construction, Professor Valentin Olenkov and senior lecturer Alena Kolmogorova, participated in the IV International Symposium and Reporting-and-Election Conference NC ICOMOS, Russia in Moscow.
Doctor of Sciences (Jurisprudence) and famous Russian lawyer, statesman and public figure, TV presenter and writer Pavel Astakhov has arrived on a working visit to South Ural State University.
Over the period from 2009 through 2016, Pavel Astakhov was holding the position of the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation. He is also well known as a long-time host of the Chas Suda (Hour of Judgment) TV show.
On September 23rd, an opening ceremony for a "Little Ancestors: Childhood in the Bronze Age South Urals" exhibition was held at the People and Technologies of the Urals Museum of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Director of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, Doctor of Sciences (Philology) Lidiya Lobodenko offered a welcoming speech:
Supplementary professional advanced-training programme has been developed at the Industrial Robotics Development Centre of South Ural State University. During a one-week course, students will gain skills of safe commissioning, programming, and diagnostics of industrial robots, including offline programming, basic maintenance, and their integration with peripherals. Classes for the first 40 students will begin already on September 29th.
Intermetallic compounds feature a number of useful properties (e.g., high hardness, corrosion resistance, etc.), but their widespread industrial application is hampered by one key drawback: high brittleness. A team of SUSU scientists has proposed an original solution to this problem.
To identify and support university teachers working in higher education programs and demonstrating outstanding achievements in teaching and academic work, SUSU has held an internal competitive selection of applicants to the "Alfa-Future Grants for University Teachers" program.
34 teaching staff members participated in the contest.
A delegation from Southwest Forestry University, China, has paid an official visit to South Ural State University. The program included meetings with students and signing of a new agreement to expand our partnership.
The SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner welcomed the guests:
South Ural State University has held a meeting of its leadership with representatives of Scientific Production Association “Bazalt”. As a result of the negotiations, the parties have agreed to develop their collaboration in the fields of science and education.
Scientific Production Association “Bazalt” is a defence-industry enterprise of the Russian Federation, which manufactures and supplies arms and munition for ground troops, air forces and naval forces. It is part of the Concern “Techmash” within the Rostec State Corporation.
South Ural State University has hosted the official opening of the new season of the SUSU Accelerator, a big-scale program to support student entrepreneurship and innovative ideas. This year, the project has brought together students from universities from the Chelyabinsk Region and Kurgan: young people ready to try their hand at business and startup development.
Minister of Education and Science of the Chelyabinsk Region Vitaly Litke welcomed the project participants:
The SUSU Medical Centre had been founded in 1999. On September 15, 2000 it obtained its license, and its specialists started their mission on taking care about the health of people. By the way, this is the first university-based medical centre in the Chelyabinsk Region.
The “Successful SUSU”, traditional festival for first-year students, was held brightly and on a grand scale at South Ural State University. For one day, the university turned into a real centre of student energy and creativity, uniting the students who are just starting their journey at one of the leading universities in our country. This event, which became the hallmark of the beginning of the academic year, was organized by the SUSU Extracurricular Activities Office together with the Student Council and the Trade Union Committee.
Who connects all the systems within our university? You do not see these people, many do not even know where to find them, but it is thanks to them that the Internet, telephone communications, websites and multimedia classrooms of our university work, the mobile application gets improved, and server attacks are repelled. We are talking about the staff members of the SUSU Informatization Office.
On Programmer's Day, we have decided to talk about the work of this office and show those who do not allow us to lose contact with each other at the university.
South Ural State University organized a presentation of the Heirs or Renegades. The State and Law of the Thaw Period of 1953–1964 book by the State Duma Deputy, Doctor of Sciences (Law) Pavel Krasheninnikov. This is the eighth book in a series about the history of the Russian state and law from Kievan Rus to the present day.
A scientist from Chelyabinsk, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics of Nanoscale Systems of the SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Liudmila Svirskaia, jointly with her colleague from Lomonosov Moscow State University Iurii Dumin acting as a co-author, have published a paper "On the nature of subharmonics of the electron emission from ultracold plasmas". This article has been published in the Physics of P
