Doctor of Sciences (Jurisprudence) and famous Russian lawyer, statesman and public figure, TV presenter and writer Pavel Astakhov has arrived on a working visit to South Ural State University.
Over the period from 2009 through 2016, Pavel Astakhov was holding the position of the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation. He is also well known as a long-time host of the Chas Suda (Hour of Judgment) TV show.
On September 23rd, an opening ceremony for a "Little Ancestors: Childhood in the Bronze Age South Urals" exhibition was held at the People and Technologies of the Urals Museum of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Director of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, Doctor of Sciences (Philology) Lidiya Lobodenko offered a welcoming speech:
Supplementary professional advanced-training programme has been developed at the Industrial Robotics Development Centre of South Ural State University. During a one-week course, students will gain skills of safe commissioning, programming, and diagnostics of industrial robots, including offline programming, basic maintenance, and their integration with peripherals. Classes for the first 40 students will begin already on September 29th.
Intermetallic compounds feature a number of useful properties (e.g., high hardness, corrosion resistance, etc.), but their widespread industrial application is hampered by one key drawback: high brittleness. A team of SUSU scientists has proposed an original solution to this problem.
To identify and support university teachers working in higher education programs and demonstrating outstanding achievements in teaching and academic work, SUSU has held an internal competitive selection of applicants to the "Alfa-Future Grants for University Teachers" program.
34 teaching staff members participated in the contest.
A delegation from Southwest Forestry University, China, has paid an official visit to South Ural State University. The program included meetings with students and signing of a new agreement to expand our partnership.
The SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner welcomed the guests:
South Ural State University has held a meeting of its leadership with representatives of Scientific Production Association “Bazalt”. As a result of the negotiations, the parties have agreed to develop their collaboration in the fields of science and education.
Scientific Production Association “Bazalt” is a defence-industry enterprise of the Russian Federation, which manufactures and supplies arms and munition for ground troops, air forces and naval forces. It is part of the Concern “Techmash” within the Rostec State Corporation.
South Ural State University has hosted the official opening of the new season of the SUSU Accelerator, a big-scale program to support student entrepreneurship and innovative ideas. This year, the project has brought together students from universities from the Chelyabinsk Region and Kurgan: young people ready to try their hand at business and startup development.
Minister of Education and Science of the Chelyabinsk Region Vitaly Litke welcomed the project participants:
The SUSU Medical Centre had been founded in 1999. On September 15, 2000 it obtained its license, and its specialists started their mission on taking care about the health of people. By the way, this is the first university-based medical centre in the Chelyabinsk Region.
The “Successful SUSU”, traditional festival for first-year students, was held brightly and on a grand scale at South Ural State University. For one day, the university turned into a real centre of student energy and creativity, uniting the students who are just starting their journey at one of the leading universities in our country. This event, which became the hallmark of the beginning of the academic year, was organized by the SUSU Extracurricular Activities Office together with the Student Council and the Trade Union Committee.
Who connects all the systems within our university? You do not see these people, many do not even know where to find them, but it is thanks to them that the Internet, telephone communications, websites and multimedia classrooms of our university work, the mobile application gets improved, and server attacks are repelled. We are talking about the staff members of the SUSU Informatization Office.
On Programmer's Day, we have decided to talk about the work of this office and show those who do not allow us to lose contact with each other at the university.
South Ural State University organized a presentation of the Heirs or Renegades. The State and Law of the Thaw Period of 1953–1964 book by the State Duma Deputy, Doctor of Sciences (Law) Pavel Krasheninnikov. This is the eighth book in a series about the history of the Russian state and law from Kievan Rus to the present day.
September 11th-13th, an anniversary 20th All-Russian Conference "Immunology Readings in Chelyabinsk" with international participation is being held at South Ural State University. It has gathered more than 500 leading scientists and young specialists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, as well as from Belarus and China.
Adaptation meetings for first-year students of the SUSU Institute of Law are traditionally held at the Nauka Recreation Camp on the first weekend of September.
During the first month, it is very important for freshmen to get to know each other better and build a friendly, close-knit team. As part of the two-day camp session, first-year students completed various tasks to get to know each other in an informal atmosphere. Heroes of legal science and practice, teaching staff of the SUSU Institute of Law, helped them.
The first All-Russian Forum of Young Metallurgists, organized by the "Young Guard of United Russia" All-Russian Public Organization with the support from the Government of the Chelyabinsk Region, wrapped up in Chelyabinsk.
"Flow Cytometry in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics" international school with elements of a school for young scientists opened at the China-Russia Research and Education Centre for System Pathology of South Ural State University on September 8th.
More than 20 participants, including not only Master's degree and postgraduate students, but also medical practitioners, arrived from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Tyumen, Petrozavodsk, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk and other regions of our country to take part in this school.
The "Heart of the Urals" Advanced Engineering School at South Ural State University has completed the development of a unique test bench for testing of fuel and additives.
The installation is designed to conduct tests using a globally recognized evaluation method, which is based on the use of the Mercedes M102 automobile engine.
The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Yekaterinburg Luo Shixiong paid an official visit to South Ural State University. The visit program included meetings with the university and regional leadership, university tours, and communication with Chinese students obtaining their education at SUSU.
The visit began with an exhibition of scientific developments by researchers from South Ural State University. First Vice-Rector, Vice-Rector for Research Anton Korzhov spoke about our university's current key areas of research.
On September 5th, a “Journey to China” exhibition of works by photo artists well-known in the modern People's Republic of China opened at South Ural State University. More than 70 photo works printed on silk paper are exhibited in the Art Gallery on the 1st floor and in the hall of the 3rd floor of the main university building.
A big-scale Science-to-practice Conference on "Artificial Intelligence: Promising Application Scenarios" was held at School 21 at South Ural State University. The event became a discussion platform for representatives of government, science, business and education.
Participants included the First Deputy Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Stanislav Mosharov, Deputy Governor of the Region Aleksandr Kozlov, and the SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner.
Another all-Russian contest for grant support for startup projects of students and postgraduates, “Student Startup” (6th wave), has wrapped up. The jury selected 2500 winners who will receive one million roubles each for the development of their projects. Among them are students from South Ural State University, who have once again confirmed the high level of competence in the field of technological entrepreneurship.
The Chelyabinsk Region can be rightfully proud of its young talents: 18 students out of 24 regional winners are from SUSU.
The SUSU “Heart of the Urals” Advanced Engineering School announced the launch of a project called “Smart Eco-city Intelligent System: New Technologies for the Maintenance of Road and Transport Infrastructure”. The work is aimed at introducing modern digital technologies in the management of urban infrastructure, in particular, in the cleaning of road surfaces using municipal equipment.
At one of the largest technological platforms in Russia, Technoprom-2025 Forum, the team of the SUSU "Heart of the Urals" Advanced Engineering School demonstrated their innovative developments in the field of artificial intelligence. Vladimir Shepelev, head of the Digital Transport Logistics educational programme, presented a report at the roundtable discussion on the “Practices of Advanced Engineering Schools in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies”, which was organised at the stand of the Federal State Autonomous Scientific Institution “Sociocentre”.
On September 1st, our university's Foreign Citizens Testing Centre opened after a large-scale reconstruction. The flooring in the Centre were refurbished and the walls and ceilings were painted − a well-thought-out business interior has been created, which will become more comfortable both for staff members and visitors. For many foreigners, acquaintance with Chelyabinsk and Russia begins here, and the university staff have made a lot of efforts to create an atmosphere of hospitality, friendship and cooperation.
