The traditional match in memory of Vladimir Lyapkalo took place at the SUSU hockey rink for the tenth time. Veterans of Polytechnic team and students of the coach went to the ice.
The head coach of the SUSU Polytechnic hockey team Artyom Pletnev said that organizing a match every year is not difficult: all the participants treated Vladimir Lyapkalo well, and they respond on occasion at the first call.
On January 21st, International Postgraduate Day is celebrated all over the world. It was on this day in 1925 that documents regulating the system of training university researchers were signed. This holiday is celebrated by graduate students, scientific supervisors, and specialists working in research institutes of any field of study. Natalia Shaburova, Head of the Centre for Doctoral Studies at South Ural State University, spoke about the specifics and importance of the centre's work at our university.
On January 21st, future applicants and their parents were able to get to know the schools and institutes of our university better, and also learned about the new admission rules for 2024.
The famous Yurait federal publishing house has recently published a Digital Forensics textbook, the authors of which were scientists from the Institute of Law of South Ural State University.
This is already the second edition, revised and expanded (the first one was published in 2022). The textbook is certified by the Academic Methodological Association of Higher Education and can be used in any Russian university that trains specialists in this field.
International students of South Ural State University from Sri Lanka and Ethiopia took part in the traditional Russian Orthodox ceremony of Epiphany dip, which is held on January 19th.
Today, on January 17th, Kid Inventors' Day is celebrated around the world. This holiday is for young scientists, who despite their young age invent many interesting and useful devices to make our world a better place.
There are more and more young discoverers and kid scientists nowadays. This happens, among other things, thanks to the support from the government authorities and various educational institutions.
Temperature meter, detector, sensor − all these are the names of the device that has been developed by employees of the SUSU Research Institute for Non-conventional Materials and Resource-Saving Technologies. The device measures temperature many times more accurately than similar devices currently available in the world.
The Chelyabinsk Region will soon celebrate its 90th anniversary. On the eve of the anniversary, students of South Ural State University, together with the State Philharmonic and workers of culture of the South Ural region, have made a video showing the uniqueness of our region.
The director of the video was SUSU graduate Matvey Sholokhov, the director of photography – SUSU TV staff member Daniil Rukavitsyn, and the producer – SUSU student Valeriia Bondar.
On January 18th, a presentation of the book Chelyabinsk Cinemas of the 20th Century took place at the Chelyabinsk Public Assembly House. The co-authors of the book were Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign History of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities Evgeniy Volkov and Associate Professor of the same department Maksim Sapronov. Other authors were local historians Dmitriy Grafov, Iuriy Latyshev, and Mikhail Khabirov.
Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin announced the results of the competitive selection of the Advanced Engineering Schools federal project. In 2022, 30 universities had become winners of the project; in the second wave of selection in 2023, 57 applicants from 40 regions were heard, as a result, 20 winning universities were selected. South Ural State University entered the second group with funding of 230.4 million roubles in 2024.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia has published a ranking on media activity among Russian universities as of December 2023. South Ural State University has improved its standing by 10 positions and has taken the 11th place in the overall ranking.
The Internet is filled with reports of artificial eggs being sold in stores. They may look real, but can lose their shape, the yolk can turn blue when boiling, and the shell, made of plaster and paraffin, turns out to be flammable.
Most of these reports copy each other and refer to the story of a Chinese man who allegedly worked at an artificial egg factory. Is it a fake or not?
Within the frameworks of the regional week, Chairman of the State Duma's Committee for Industry and Trade, First Vice-President of the Russian Engineering Union (SoyuzMash) Vladimir Gutenev has held a series of meetings with young people of Samara.
In the course of this dialogue, young people raised various issues: from choosing a profession and staff shortage to providing help to the front and the geopolitical situation. Among the key discussion topics at each meeting were the upcoming presidential elections.
SUSU and the DST-URAL Tractor Plant have joined forces to create a remote-control loading machine. Compared to analogues, the Russian machine wins in price on the special-purpose machinery market. This machine has already been tested for clearing snowdrifts in January 2024.
Winter is the time of spreading flu and respiratory infectious diseases. Anyone can become infected. And being in a crowd or at public celebrations increases the chances of transmitting viruses.
Whooping cough and whooping cough-like diseases have now begun to spread in Chelyabinsk. How to avoid this illness?
On January 14th, many Russians celebrate a holiday with an unusual name − the Old New Year, that is, the New Year in the old style, which is celebrated on a smaller scale than the night from December 31st to January 1st.
We talked about the history of this holiday to Natalia Parfentyeva, Head of the Department of Theology, Culture and Art at the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities.
The first issue of the SUSU’s corporate publication, the SMART University newspaper, was published on December 6, 1956. On the occasion of the professional holiday, editor-in-chief Nadezhda Yushina shares on the traditions and everyday life of the editorial office.
The main objective of the project is to develop a youth tourism system in order to raise the cultural level of young people, stimulate the interest of young people in participating in scientific, educational and professional events on the territory of interuniversity campuses.
Scientists of South Ural State University have patented a unique self-cleaning concrete based on sludge. The new building material is biologically safe and can be used to keep the exterior of buildings clean.
Today in industry, conventional networks distributing electricity are being replaced by DER systems − active energy complexes that distribute energy resources in exact accordance with demand. A lean approach has recently been typical for developed Western countries; for example, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands spent 2.5 times less energy per dollar of GDP compared to Russia and Uzbekistan.
Once a year we find out that for the next 365 days we will be living under the protection of a certain zodiac animal, be that a dragon, a tiger, or a rabbit. But few people have ever bothered to learn why each year is assigned an animal. There are many legends about it, and all of those originate in the East. Let us examine the most popular one.
My most sincere New Year’s greetings to you! This is a wonderful holiday and everyone’s favourite!
In a little while, the year coming to an end will become yet another page in everyone’s life and in our common history. In these closing days of the year, we have celebrated the 80th anniversary of South Ural State University. We have many things to be proud of, along with a huge number of achievements and victories.
For Russians, New Year's celebration traditions almost always include a decorated fir-tree, Russian salad, tangerines, Father Frost and Snow Maiden, merry-making, and confetti. And what about other countries? Here is a selection of New Year's symbols from various corners of the world.
Senior researcher at the Big Data and Machine Learning Laboratory at South Ural State University, Professor Sachin Kumar, has developed a neural network model for brain tumour detection on MR images.
