We spoke with our student Mortada Khaled and learned how Iraqis celebrate the main holiday of the year!
– What New Year traditions do you have in your homeland?
– We get together and give each other presents, prepare traditional dishes for the holiday table. The most important thing is that we are together. New Year is a big family holiday, we are especially happy to see those whom we have not seen for a long time during the year.
– Is there a difference in the customs of our two countries?
Father Frost (Ded Moroz) and Santa Claus are the main characters of winter holidays in different cultures. However, despite some similarities, they have a number of significant differences, from the history of origin to their attributes and symbols.
The Christmas tree is the main symbol of the upcoming holidays. Tatiana Vekovtseva, Head of the Department of Technology and Design of the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service of South Ural State University, shares on how to decorate the green beauty, as well as what decorative elements to use for table setting.
Christmas Blues New Year's concert, which featured performers from the SUSU jazz orchestra and the Baby Jazz municipal children jazz studio, was held at South Ural State University Assembly Hall on December 20th.
The concert was inspired to be organised by musician and composer, founder and artistic director of the jazz orchestra of the SUSU Recreation Centre Georgiy Anokhin. He has been engaged in this activity for over 20 years and has been shaping the musical taste of residents of our city. People have been getting to know good jazz music for many years now.
South Ural State University has celebrated its 81st anniversary. Marking this event, the Chelyabinsk State Philharmonic Hall prepared a gift: a “Bird of Happiness” symphonic music concert by the Ural Brass Orchestra and soloists of the Philharmonic Hall.
In celebration of the SUSU birthday, a concert by the Ural Brass Orchestra of the Chelyabinsk State Philharmonic Hall was held. The Rector of our university, Alexander Wagner, congratulated students and staff members:
The opening of “The Path to Interethnic Unity” interactive exhibition and a lecture on the topic of friendship of peoples was held at South Ural State University on the Constitution Day of the Russian Federation on December 12th.
The exhibition was organised in a format of a labyrinth of stands, where the images generated by the neural network reflect values that unite the whole multinational people of our country.
The opening ceremony of the Historical Documentary Film Festival was held at South Ural State University on November 26th. As part of the event, the film “Donbass: Memory of Generations” was presented to the audience. The festival is organised by the Russian Historical Society with the support of the History of the Fatherland Foundation.
The Rector of South Ural State University Alexander Wagner welcomed the festival participants:
On November 26th, as part of the Historical Documentary Film Festival, films War through the Camera Lens, and At the Origins of Russian Archaeology were presented at South Ural State University.
The Historical Documentary Film Festival of the Russian Historical Society with the support of the History of the Fatherland Foundation will be held in Chelyabinsk on November 26th. Among the festival organizers is South Ural State University (National Research University), which is the major university in our region and one of the major universities in our country. Films created by prominent Russian documentary filmmakers will feature there.
On the occasion of the Psychologist Day professional holiday, students of the SUSU School of Medical Biology organised a spectacular concert and matriculation ceremony for freshmen on November 20th.
The professional holiday of specialists who "heal the soul" is celebrated annually on November 22nd. It has become a tradition at SUSU. The first department of psychologists was opened at Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute (now SUSU) in 1990.
On October 18th, the South Ural State University's Creativity Centre celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festive concert brought together the heads of the creative groups, students and alumni of the university who had taken their first creative steps within the walls of our university.
SUSU does everything to teach students admire beautiful things, to cultivate their love for art, and the ability to appreciate the beauty of the world around them. On October 16th, the exhibition “City as a Theatre: Architectural Heritage of the Creator” opened in the university’s Art Gallery. It is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of the Honoured Architect of the Russian Federation, Professor of the SUSU Department of Architecture Boris Baranov (1939–2021).
In Chelyabinsk, the 9th City Occupation Guidance Forum and Exhibition “New Generation Chooses!” is wrapping up. South Ural State University is among its participants.
School pupils of the 8th–11th forms have visited several interactive venues and learned about the professions, for which they can obtain education at the School of Economics and Management, Institute of Law, Institute of Linguistics and International Communications, Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service, and Multidiscipline College of the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service.
On October 10th, the Communication Leader of the 21st Century All-Russia Youth Mediaforum started at the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities. Among its participants are young specialists defining the future on the media sphere in our country. Director of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, Professor, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor Lidiya Lobodenko opened the mediaforum.
The Minister of Education and Science of the Chelyabinsk Region Vitaly Litke welcomed the event's participants:
On October 8th, an exhibition of unique archive photos “Liberation. Path towards the Victory. The Rear” opened in the hall of the third floor in the main building of South Ural State University. Among the authors of the photos are legendary photojournalists of the Soviet Information Bureau: Ivan Shagin, Aleksandr Ustinov, and Yakov Khalip. The exhibition is organized by Rossiya Segodnya international media group, with the support from the Presidential Grants Fund.
This year, as part of the “In the Tamerlane’s Valley” project (application number 24-2-002168, being implemented with the support from the Presidential Grants Fund and RSF grant No. 24-18-20055), a research study of two mounds has been conducted in the territory of “The Kesene Burial Complex” cultural heritage site of federal importance in the Varnensky District of the Chelyabinsk Region.
Philologists from the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities listened to Nadezhda Matsenko, lecturer of the Znanie (Knowledge) Russian Society.
Nadezhda Matsenko is an art lecturer, artist, researcher of the viewer's experience, and author of the course on the "Living Artists". The topic of her lecture, which took place on October 3rd, was "Pushkin as an Artist".
This year, Rossotrudnichestvo agency jointly with South Ural State University launch the implementation of a big-scale program on advanced training for Chinese teachers of the Russian Language as part of the grant on the “Innovative Methods of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language in China”.
The first-year students' festival "SUSU Talent − 2024" has started. The first day of the selection round was held in the "Maneken" studio-theatre.
On October 1st, SUSU began the traditional first-year students’ festival “SUSU Talent – 2024”, which will last until October 9th.
In the Maneken studio-theatre, Deputy Director of the Creativity Centre Svetlana Vostrikova greeted the jury members and all participants of day one of the selection round of the SUSU Talent Festival 2024 and wished everyone good luck.
Very soon, our South Ural State University will welcome young people from all across Russia – those who will be creating and promoting media in the future! So, October 10th through October 11th, the Communication Leader of the 21st Century All-Russia Youth Mediaforum will be held at our university.
International Translation Day, a holiday dedicated to important specialists, whose usefulness cannot be overestimated, is celebrated annually on September 30th. Senior lecturer of the Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies, translator of the Academic Writing Office Ekaterina Shefer tells us about the profession and its specifics.
– Let us first get to know each other a little. Please, tell us what your path in obtaining the profession of a translator was like?
As part of the SUSU Accelerator, a three-day “SkLab. SUSU” laboratory for generation of ideas of technological projects was organized. Its participants gathered a team, created ideas and developed their project. Experts from Skolkovo were invited to act as experienced speakers and mentors.
International Literacy Day, a holiday aimed at proving the importance and relevance of this phenomenon, is celebrated worldwide on September 8th. On this occasion, we spoke to Associate Professor of the SUSU Department of the Russian Language and Literature, Candidate of Sciences (Philology), linguist Larisa Kornilova and discussed the understanding of literacy in the modern world, trends associated with it, criteria for a literate person, and much more.
– Could you please define literacy? Does this concept have a specific interpretation?
Today is an anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, one of the well-known and bloodshed battles during the Patriotic War of 1812. The Russian army lead by General Mikhail Kutuzov entered the decisive battle with the French in the vicinity of Borodino village near Moscow 212 years ago.
Our university supports family values among young people. One such example is a couple of graduates from the School of Economics and Management. We share their love story in this article.
