September 30th, archaeologists from scientific centres and universities of Chelyabinsk gathered together at the Public Meeting House of the State Museum of the South Ural History. They summed up the results of the summer research season. Besides the researchers of the prehistoric past, our city’s mass media journalists were also among the attendees.
September 29th through September 30th, South Ural State University hosted a cross-university peer review as part of the Priority 2030 program. Over the course of two days, the university team and invited experts analysed the key areas of SUSU’s development, identified growth areas and jointly sought specific solutions to help our university move forward.
Alikhan Begenov grew up in a small village of Ozyornoye in the Kurgan Region and attended an ordinary rural school where robotics was not part of the curriculum. Today, he is a leading specialist at the university’s Robots Forge Shop Student Design Bureau and an engineer at the SUSU Industrial Robotics Development Centre. His programs control real robots at a manufacturing plant, and he is among the young specialists supported by the university with housing. We spoke with Alikhan about his life path.
An open meeting with an outstanding alumnus of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute (former name of SUSU), Mikhail Grishankov, has been held at South Ural State University. He is a Russian statesman, political figure, and a top-manager with many years of experience in the security sector, legislation, and big business.
South Ural State University has become an offline venue for the Nuclear Dictation Quiz.
Every year, the Atomnye Goroda (Nuclear Cities) Union of Nuclear Industry Organizations holds the Nuclear Dictation Quiz, an international educational project for university students and staff. This year, the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics have organized the offline event, which has brought together students from the institutes and pupils from the Aerospace Engineering class.
South Ural State University has signed two cooperation agreements with the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chelyabinsk Region. The agreements are aimed at developing cadet education in our region and fostering cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence.
The SUSU Sport Science Research Centre has launched a research study that for the first time in Russian practice will conduct a comprehensive medical and biological evaluation of phygital loads: hybrid competition impact, where physical activity of athletes is inextricably bound with digital environment. The object of this study is table tennis using augmented reality glasses (VR table tennis). Qualified practicing table tennis players acted as the experiment participants.
An Architecture and Construction major class has opened at South Ural State University in partnership with Chelyabinskgrazhdanproekt Head Planning Institute. Its students are pupils of the tenth form of Multidisciplinary Lyceum No.148.
Training began with an initiation ceremony for the SUSU young constructors. Director of the SUSU Institute of Architecture and Construction Aleksandr Kiianets addressed the pupils:
Researchers from South Ural State University have proposed a method that uses the data on the monthly average consumption of electricity to quickly and easily calculate the real peak load on grids. This development is especially relevant for regions where people have no gas supply or central hot-water supply systems – there, electricity becomes the only source of energy, and the power supply networks are pushed to their limits.
September 15th, an international online webinar on “Artificial Intelligence and Settlement of Disputes: Problems of Law and Ethics” was held at South Ural State University. This event was organized by the SUSU Institute of Law and Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics jointly with the Guangzhou Arbitration Commission, as part of the Year of Russia-China Cooperation.
A “Chelyabinsk: ARCHI-SPECTRUM 290” photo exhibition of student projects on the occasion of the 290th birthday of our city has opened on the third floor of the main building of South Ural State University.
A team of scientists from South Ural State University and Zhejiang University, China, have developed a technology of calcareous sand reinforcement using enzymes, coconut fiber, and calcium carbonate. Such a material is up to five times stronger in case of dynamic loads and is environmentally friendly. The results have been published in the Sustainability international journal.
Robots Forge Shop Student Design Bureau of South Ural State University has become the winner in the competitive selection among student design bureaus of educational organizations of higher education. The contest was held by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as part of the “Universities for the Generation of Leaders” federal project under the “Youth and Children” national project. The total of 174 applications were submitted for the selection.
Students, staff members, leading scientists and the Rector of South Ural State University took part in the opening ceremony for the second-phase facilities of the “South Urals” Interuniversity Campus.
The event was opened by the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexey Texler. He visited the exhibition of the scientific achievements by the resident universities.
South Ural State University has hosted the official opening of the fifth anniversary season of the SUSU Accelerator, a big-scale program supporting student entrepreneurship and innovative ideas. Hundreds of young people ready to turn their own ideas into real business projects have joined the initiative.
September 10, 2026, a portrait sculpture of Semyon Khokhryakov, twice awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, was installed at the Military Training Centre of South Ural State University.
Starting from 2021, the Military Training Centre had been named in the honour of Semyon Khokhryakov, twice awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. That is why the installation of his portrait sculpture is an important event for all the Centre’s students and teaching staff.
The following guests of honour attended the ceremony:
The first-in-Chelyabinsk Aerospace Engineering class has opened at South Ural State University. Its students are high-school pupils of Educational Centre No.5. A ceremony of their initiation as young engineers of the SUSU Faculty of Aerospace Engineering has been organized for them.
During the ceremony, the pupils were awarded their attendee cards and SUSU academic record books. For these children, these are their first university documents and an important step towards their future status of students of our region’s leading university.
A unique “Porcelain in the Interior Scene of History” exhibition has opened at the People and Technologies of the Urals teaching museum-and-exhibition complex of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities. The exhibit introduces its visitors to porcelain as part of the cultural heritage and everyday history of various epochs: from the traditions of the 18th-19th centuries to the modern original art. This is the anniversary tenth exhibition project of the university museum.
September 1st through September 4th, the 11th Eastern Economic Forum was held in Vladivostok. Zhao Tengteng, a postgraduate of the 3rd year of study, majoring in Russian as a Foreign Language, from the Institute of Linguistics and International Communications of South Ural State University, participated as a volunteer in this forum.
A ceremony of opening the “Behind the Glass” exhibition of works by a professional photographer Sergei Koliaskin has been held at the Art Gallery of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities. The exhibit includes 15 big-scale photo works created as a result of an unusual artistic experiment with plants.
Starting from September 1st, biometric entrance will be available in the buildings of South Ural State University. The biometry-based ecosystem already now helps integrate the entrance access with payments for food at canteens and vending machines, and even with identity verification for the distance mode of taking exams. SUSU is the first in Russia to turn biometrics from a stand-alone service into an ecosystem of everyday university life.
Treatment of acute pancreatitis is one of the pressing issues in modern medicine. Patients feel immense amounts of pain, which only addictive drug substances can help relieve. Sometimes the load on body is so high that it cannot cope with it and multiple organ failure occurs, followed by intensive care or fatal outcome. In some cases surgery is required, and this is also a difficult decision to be made since pancreas surgery has high mortality risks.
This contest is held in order to support those international students in Russia, who have special achievements in the fields of education and science, youth policy, student leadership, public activity, volunteering, creativity, and sports.
As part of Viktor Khristenko’s “Step into the Future” Grants Program, postgraduate student Nataliia Zhivulina is working on the development of fine single-crystal ferrite powders. Nataliia’s research results could be used as cathode material for promising zinc-ion power sources.
Alumnus of South Ural State University, Hero of Russia, pilot cosmonaut Dmitry Petelin is preparing for his second space flight. As part of the permanent crew for ISS Expedition 76, he has been assigned the commander of Soyuz MS-30 crewed cargo spacecraft. It is planned that the crew will head to the International Space Station in February-March of 2027.
