In Russia, the Agriculture and Processing Industry Workers' Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of October every year. In 2025, this professional holiday is celebrated on October 12th and not only by agricultural workers, specialists and top managers of agricultural enterprises, workers of the food processing sector and food manufacturers, but also by the SUSU researchers, who study biotechnology and make a serious contribution to solving of relevant problems of the agroindustrial complex.
On October 10th, a gala show of the SUSU Talent 2025 festival was held in the Assembly Hall of South Ural State University. Among the performers were the contest winners from various categories. The SUSU Talent 2025 festival is not only a traditional event that helps identify talented first-year students, but it is also a great opportunity for students to begin their career in creativity.
Vice-Rector for Student and Social Affairs Anastasiia Lapo offered the welcome speech:
On October 8, 2025, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of metal-organic frameworks” was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Australia), Richard Robson (Australia), and Omar M. Yaghi (USA).
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a construction kit in which metal units (iron, zinc, and zirconium ions) are connected via organic linkers, resulting in a "superporous" material.
A research study by an international team of scientists from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, India, and Russia on new capabilities of flow meters, has been published in the Scientific Reports journal. The team of scientists also included our fellow citizen Deputy Head of the SUSU Laboratory for Self-Validating Sensors, Systems, and Advanced Instrumentation Vladimir Sinitsin.
The scientists’ research focuses on the use of machine learning for modelling heat transfer in nanofluids.
On October 8th, Anton Korzhov, First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research at South Ural State University and Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), participated in a meeting of the Council of the National Research and Education Network for Machine Tool Engineering Consortium, held at the Crocus Expo IEC in Moscow.
The main topic of the meeting was uniting the industry's strengths: developing a common scientific and technical program, building human resources, and exploring growth opportunities for machine tool engineering in Russia.
Experts from South Ural State University have conducted the first detailed study of the impact of telephone scams on the regional household economy. Nataliia Golubeva, Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Finance, and Financial Law at the SUSU Miass Branch has published a research paper based on telephone scam data from the city of Zlatoust for the first quarter of 2025.
October 1st through October 3rd, the 3rd All-Russian Conference on the "Territory of Digital GROWTH" was held at the IQ Park in Ufa. In Russian the conference is titled "Территория цифрового РОСТа", where the РОСТ abbreviation stands for "Развитие. Образование. Сообщество. Технологии", or "Development. Education. Community. Technologies" in English.
Matvey Sholokhov, a lecturer at the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations and graduate student of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, has been selected as a participant in the SHUM All-Russian Award. He is presenting the "Two Great Victories" music video. The public vote, which is a key requirement for winning the competition, is currently underway.
As part of the Fundamentals of Project Management discipline, first-year students of the “Heart of the Urals” Advanced Engineering School have been taken on a tour round the leading mechanical engineering enterprises. Excursions and meetings with professionals have helped the students gain an inside look at production processes and obtain valuable experience.
ПИШ-101 group visited the DST-URAL tractor plant. The students observed the main production stages and visited the Kalachevo testing ground, where they examined modern bulldozer models.
An expert forum on transformation of local self-government in Russia was held at the Chelyabinsk City Duma. The event, moderated by the Director of the SUSU Institute of Law, Doctor of Sciences (Law), Professor Elena Titova and Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Candidate of Sciences (Law) Nataliia Koneva, brought together heads of representative bodies of municipalities from the Ural, South, Volga, and Far Eastern Federal Districts.
October 2nd to 3rd, 2025, a cross-university peer review was held at South Ural State University. Representatives of the Social Centre team, together with the SUSU Transformation Team, analyzed the results and promising areas of work at South Ural State University in terms of their alignment with the strategic objectives of the Priority 2030 Program.
September 25th and 26th of 2025, the 13th annual meeting of the Association of Sino-Russian Economic Universities (ASREU) was held at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON). This event was timed to coincide with the 95th Anniversary of UNECON and was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
South Ural State University has been a member of the Association of Sino-Russian Economic Universities (ASREU) since 2015.
A meet-the-artist event with renowned Russian director, actor, and public figure Nikita Mikhalkov was held at South Ural State University. The event gathered a full house of students, teachers, and Chelyabinsk residents who came to meet the master of cinema in person. The Chelyabinsk Region Governor Alexey Texler and State Duma deputies Yana Lantratova and Aleksandr Babakov also were among the guests of honour.
Alexey Texler was the first to greet the gathered guests:
A new issue of the NTU 2025 international ranking has been published. It is drawn up by the National Taiwan University and evaluates research studies: number of articles being published by universities, how often those are cited by scientists, and which journals publish those papers.
The final ranking has included 11 Russian universities:
Lomonosov Moscow State University in the 374th place;
The “Digital Innopolis Days” International Forum on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Innovations in Education and Personnel Training opened at Innopolis University on October 2nd.
On October 2nd and 3rd, 2025, a cross-university peer review is being held at South Ural State University as part of the Priority 2030 program.
The university's teams, which work with experts, include vice-rectors, representatives of structural divisions, heads of strategic technology projects, students, and representatives of industrial partners.
Two athletes from the Chelyabinsk Region participated in the tournament: SUSU alumnus and two-time Chessboxing World Champion Amina Akhmadulina and Sergey Faizulloev.
At the tournament held in Serbia, the team of Russia took the first place having gotten ahead of their opponents from the USA and France. Amina was among those who won gold medals for our national team.
Scientists from South Ural State University have become the first in Russia to create a fundamentally new composite material capable, under the influence of ordinary sunlight, to convert inexpensive organic compounds into commercially valuable products. The results have been published in the Catalysis Letters journal .
The technology will make the production of pharmaceutical components and polymers safer, single-step, and less dependent on imports.
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.
