During their day in Chelyabinsk, our guests from the People's Republic of China visited the places most important in student life: world-class inter-university campus; Quantorium Technology Park for children; Faculty of Mechatronics and Robotics; International China-Russia Joint Laboratory for Bioresources Processing; Teaching Laboratory of Food Biotechnology, as well as the Chelyabinsk campus of School 21.
Researchers at South Ural State University have patented a software program for automatic planning of evacuation routes in case of fire in various types of buildings and structures. The system, based on a convolutional neural network, analyses architectural elements to generate emergency routes, eliminating errors caused by the human factor.
Today, methods for designing evacuation routes still require manual analysis of architectural plans, which makes the process labour-intensive and time-consuming.
Students of South Ural State University welcome the long-awaited spring with bright and delicious festivities. Today, the university’s indoor athletic stadium has hosted the traditional “Pancake Run!”, a sports and gastronomic festival that annually brings together the most energetic and positive participants. The event has been organized by the SUSU Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service.
For several years now, Director of the Eurasian Studies Research and Education Centre of South Ural State University, Doctor of Sciences (History) Aleksandr Tairov has been working on solving the mystery of the origin of a dagger found in the forest-steppe zone of the South Trans-Urals region.
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A meeting with a legendary Russian athlete, multiple-time World Champion in mixed martial arts Fedor Emelianenko took place at South Ural State University. The event brought together students, faculty members, representatives of the sports community, and regional authorities.
For several years now, South Ural State University has been traditionally organizing master classes on making Russian pancakes for international students. This joyful tradition coincides with Maslenitsa (Pancake Day) celebrations and allows students to immerse themselves in the holiday atmosphere by trying their hand at cooking.
The event not only helps students acquire culinary skills but also fosters intercultural communication: students work in teams, help each other, and share experiences. This helps overcome potential communication barriers.
Scientists from South Ural State University have patented a program for searching for enzymes for breaking down milk proteins. Developed using a highly specialized database, the application allows users to quickly select biocatalysts within the system to extract the desired peptide from raw materials. The resulting raw materials are used to produce food products for people with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.
On February 16th, students from the People's Republic of China, who are obtaining their education at South Ural State University, together with their Russian friends and teachers, celebrated the coming of the New Year according to the traditional Chinese calendar.
More than 1300 students from China study at SUSU. And celebration of the Chinese New Year has long become a good tradition for our university, so that these students can feel at home even if they are thousands of kilometres away from it.
Director of the SUSU China-Russia Research and Education Centre for System Pathology Aleksei Sarapultsev, together with scientists Igor Kritskii, Aleksandr Zurochka, and Vladimir Zurochka, have created a method for performing a screening test for antibodies in tourists coming from foreign countries. During the COVID pandemic, when people had been taking tests for coronavirus directly at airports, scientists had managed to collect a vast amount of data on immunoglobulins in the blood of Chelyabinsk residents and classify those according to their travels “geography”.
South Ural State University has participated in the "Industry Support Tools – 2026" regional conference, a key discussion platform for state and regional support measures for the industrial sector. The event has brought together representatives of government agencies, development institutions, industrial enterprises, and educational organizations interested in our region's technological development.
Team of South Ural State University has participated in the traditional 62nd “Druzhba” (“Friendship”) Spartakiad held at Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University. SUSU has demonstrated decent results and has come in second in the team rating.
The event’s main goals are the development of mass physical culture and sports among academic and administrative staff members of universities; strengthening sports and research ties between competing universities; and the promotion of physical culture and sports as the most important means of forming a healthy lifestyle.
South Ural State University has developed an intelligent system for monitoring the corrosive wear of metal structures designed for use in challenging industrial conditions. The development was completed by a team of scientists led by Dmitry Shnaider as part of the Priority 2030 strategic academic leadership program.
The system is designed for long-term monitoring of wall thickness changes in pipelines, pressure vessels, and other critical equipment components at oil refineries, chemical plants, and energy facilities.
Scientists from South Ural State University have developed a system for controlling the functional status of athletes, what dramatically changes the approach to training. This method allows to look “inside” an athlete in order to accurately measure out the loads, prevent overtraining and improve the performance. This technology has been tested as part of the system of Traktor Ice Hockey Club, and a patent had been obtained for it.
On February 12th, at the People and Technologies of the Urals exhibition-and-museum complex of SUSU, an opening ceremony was held for an exhibition on “Magic of Metal: Ancient Metallurgy of the South Ural Region” dedicated to the history of metallurgy of the 3rd-1st millennium BC.
On February 5th, at the National Centre RUSSIA in Moscow, as part of the opening ceremony for the big-scale "Russia – a Family of Families" educational marathon, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin officially announced the beginning of the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia.
A ceremonial meeting dedicated to the Day of Russian Science has been held at South Ural State University. In the University Council hall, the university’s research community summed up the results of 2025 and became acquainted with ambitious projects planned for the near future.
Opening the meeting, the SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner gave a detailed overview of the broad scope of research studies and highlighted a key trend:
Innovations developed at South Ural State University are intended to bring not only benefits to society but also financial returns to the university. In the category “Best Practitioner of Research Commercialization”, the victory is shared by researchers from the SUSU Advanced Engineering School: creator of the AIMS-Eco environmental monitoring system Vladimir Shepelyov and Director of the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute Ramil Zakirov.
As part of their project-based learning at the Mechatronics and Robotics Faculty, students of South Ural State University have come up with a non-standard method to test their development: the future engineers have used Minecraft, a popular gaming platform, for the simulation of perimeter safeguarding of a robotic cell.
The team had quite a serious task, to design and visualize the work of perimeter safeguarding for industrial robots. Such systems are important for safe operation: they must automatically stop the robot if a human approaches it, in order to prevent injuries.
South Ural State University hosted a Regional Lecture Course of the Russian Geographical Society, within the framework of which a documentary film entitled Citadel was screened. The event brought together students, faculty members, and distinguished guests around the themes of historical memory, heroism, and continuity between generations.
Winners in the “Leader in Scientists Training” category are: SUSU President Aleksandr Shestakov, Director of the SUSU School of Medical Biology Irina Potoroko and Head of the Department of Electric Drive, Mechatronics and Electromechanics Maksim Grigoryev.
At the meeting of the Russian Federation Government's Grants Council, held in Moscow on January 28, 2026, participants of the track for supporting young and promising scientists presented the main results of work over the 2024-2025 period.
Among them, was a Senior Research Fellow of the Quantum Engineering of Light Laboratory, manager of the Megagrant for Young Scientists, Head of the IR Metrology Based on Quantum Interferometry Laboratory of South Ural State University, PhD Anna Paterova. She delivered a report on IR Metrology Based on Quantum Interferometry.
Polytechnic Ice Hockey Club of South Ural State University is enjoying a bright and intense home series of games in the Student Ice Hockey League Championship. On February 2nd, a match between Polytechnic (SUSU) and Burevestnik from Tomsk took place at the Traktor Ice Hockey Academy.
The match was opened by the Rector of South Ural State University Alexander Wagner, who performed the ceremonial puck drop. In his welcoming speech, the Rector noted that the game held special significance for him:
Governor Alexey Texler chaired at the meeting of the regional Council on Artificial Intelligence. Participants discussed the transition from pilot projects to a systemic implementation of AI into the economics, social sphere and state government, as well as the role of our region in the fulfilment of general national tasks.
Opening the meeting, Alexey Texler noted that artificial intelligence has become a key factor of the global competitiveness and a base for the technological sovereignty of our country:
