New Year is a special holiday for every person. But all nations have their own traditions of celebrating it, with specific sacral meaning. We have talked to Ruxue Wang, one of our students from China, and learned how this holiday is celebrated in her home country.
– New Year is celebrated in your country in February. So, while you live in Russia, you get a chance to celebrate it twice?
Dear students and postgraduates, members of the academic and administrative staff!
My most sincere greetings to you on the coming year of 2026!
The busy and dynamic year of 2025, that has been marked with many bright events, is coming to an end. Over this time, we have not only strengthened our scientific and educational potential, but have also laid a solid foundation for further development of South Ural State University.
Students from around the world obtain their education at South Ural State University: each one of them has their own culture and traditions, but we are all united by our love to one the main holidays, the New Year! In December, we are all looking forward to this magical night, when we get together with our nearest and dearest ones around the festive table and make a wish!
On the eve of this holiday, our international students have recorded a video with their New Year’s greetings for their fellow-students and the teaching and administrative staff members of our university.
Another eventful and fruitful year in the history of South Ural State University is coming to an end. During this period, significant advances have been made in education, research, innovation, and youth policy. We will remember 2025 for the implementation of major joint projects with industrial partners, victories in competitions for participation in federal educational programs, outstanding sporting achievements, and big-scale creative events.
The Institute of Linguistics and International Communications organized a concert on the occasion of the upcoming New Year at the “Nash etazh” (“Our Floor”) student space.
The Institute’s first-year students of all majors had prepared creative performances and tried to convey the atmosphere of every year’s most expected holiday.
Director of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications Maksim Gutenev explained why it is important to hold such festive events:
Researchers from South Ural State University have developed a new hierarchically structured material that significantly improves the thermal stability of plastics and exhibits high sensitivity as an electrochemical sensor. This discovery not only has practical industrial value but also points to the possibility of new, previously unexplored laws of nature.
In university sports, where academic workloads compete with the athletic schedule, and young athletes must not only master new tactics but also mature, the path to medals requires a special approach. How can you cultivate a champion's spirit in a young team, maintain a balance between studies and training, and turn the team into a true family? We discussed this with the women's basketball coach Elena Iskandarova, who has been leading her team to victories in regional and national tournaments for several years now.
The annual Christmas Blues Concert has been held at the Assembly Hall of South Ural State University. It has become one of the most heart-warming pre-winter-holidays traditions of our university.
Georgy Anokhin, a musician, composer, founder and artistic director of the jazz band of the SUSU Recreation Centre, is an inspirational figure for this concert. He has been doing this work for more than 20 years now, and he is shaping our city’s residents’ tastes in music.
Researchers from South Ural State University, jointly with their Chinese colleagues from the Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research, have created a textbook for international students of the SUSU's Institute of Architecture and Construction. This first-of-its-kind Russian-Chinese textbook and dictionary will help students from Asia master complex professional terminology in Russian.
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.
