On April 21st, South Ural State University hosted the annual event "Nuclear Technologies: Advantages, Risks, and Safety", organized jointly with the Ministry of Public Security of the Chelyabinsk Region. This year, the meeting commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster.
The event was opened by Valery Ustinov, Deputy Minister of Public Security of the Chelyabinsk Region. He greeted the students and noted the special significance of remembering those events.
On April 18th, South Ural State University announced the results of the B.N. Khristenko Interregional Financial Literacy Olympiad for Schoolchildren. The scale of this year's event broke all records: approximately 400 participants from 27 regions of our country had competed for the right to reach the finals, and the top 25 high school pupils had been solving cases at the legendary Business Games and Active Learning Laboratory that few first-year university students could handle.
SUSU scientists continue to develop new materials, combining sometimes unexpected components. This time, they have succeeded in combining glass and aluminium alloy. This alloy could serve as a thermal barrier coating for pistons of internal combustion engines, which operate under extreme conditions.
A presentation of the best practices from the "MediaImpuls. Chelyabinsk" Regional Student Media Centre of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science was held at South Ural State University as part of the "Activate Values!" Youth Media Meeting. This event became an important platform for exchanging experiences, discussing current trends in youth media, and understanding the role of values in the modern media landscape.
Within the frameworks of developing our international cooperation, the delegation from South Ural State University headed by Vice-Rector for Education Marina Potapova have paid a visit to Qingdao Huaxin Technical School in China. As part of the visit, meetings with students have been organized. Children have shown a great interest in obtaining higher education in Russia, and in particular, in enrolling in SUSU.
Olga Kovtun, Associate Professor at the Department of Theology, Culture, and Arts of South Ural State University and Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), has published a study in the SUSU Bulletin (Social Sciences and the Humanities series) on a unique monument of church art — a shroud made for the Church of the Ascension in the city of Kasli in the 19th century.
SUSU scientists have presented a universal modular antenna capable of operating with any communication standard, from 3G to 6G. This development, supported by the Foundation for Innovations Support and the V.B. Khristenko grants program, combines the properties of a "construction kit": adding or removing layers allows the device's characteristics to be instantly modified to suit new tasks.
The 2026 China – Russia Conference on Development of Education and Industry Integration has begun its work in the city of Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
The 28th “Digital Signal Processing and its Applications” International Conference (DSPA-2026) has wrapped up in Moscow. The event has brought together researchers from Russia, Belarus, Vietnam, India, Turkey, the United States, and Syria, as well as industry representatives including Rosatom, Rostec, and Yandex.
While working on a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, researchers from South Ural State University have patented two databases for assessing creativity levels in children and adults. A neural network trained on data from these unique databases delivers almost instant results for the Torrance test, significantly reducing the time required for expert evaluation.
On the eve of the Cosmonautics Day, South Ural State University organized a big-scale event dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, as well as to the opening of the new Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. This event brought together representatives of industry, education and scientific community, and highlighted the strategic role of our university in the development of high-technology sectors.
The Ecoanalytics Shared Use Centre, a laboratory opened by the Chelyabinsk Region Governor Alexey Texler in December 2023, has been functioning at South Ural State University for several years now.
The Centre includes a mobile and a stationary laboratory.
The mobile ecological post is an automated complex equipped with modern equipment—everything an ecologist needs. Its purpose is to quickly monitor the environmental conditions by measuring various pollutants in the atmosphere.
South Ural State University, jointly with TNT-Teleset, have screened the new season of the "Sokrovishcha Imperatora" ("Emperor's Treasures") show for Russian and Chinese students.
"Emperor's Treasures" is a popular adventure reality show. The third season was filmed in Chongqing, the largest city in the world. Participants travel hundreds of kilometres, complete extreme tasks, and endure a veritable marathon of trials in the competition for 10 million roubles.
Researchers from South Ural State University have developed a new highly sensitive method for detecting mercury ions in aqueous solutions. The innovation is based on a specially modified electrode capable of identifying the toxic metal, even at ultra-low concentrations, within just two minutes.
An international team of researchers, including Professor Dmitry Ardashev from the SUSU Department of Automation Engineering and scientists from China, have proposed an innovative method for polishing glass surfaces that leaves almost no scratches. The technology can significantly improve the quality of displays for TV-sets, smartphones, and tablets, and may eventually be used in the production of quantum-optical chips of the future.
During the first plenary meeting, while discussing such topics as “Changing Architecture of the Russian Media System”, “Current Practices of the Media Discourse”, and “Digital Linguistic and Socio-cultural Modelling of Media Text”, scientists from the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities (IMSSH) shared their achievements in the field of studying the media effects of mass media materials on ecology available in the regional media space, as well as in studying the transformation of corporate media communications in the era of generative AI, and the issues of modern blogging.
Evgenii Martiushev, Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), Associate Professor at the SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and lecturer at the “VirtUM” Centre for Top-level Academic Programmes in the Field of AI, jointly with his colleagues from Finland and the Czech Republic, have developed a method for automatically building solvers for systems of equations composed of Laurent polynomials. Unlike standard equations studied at school, where variables appear only with non-negative powers, Laurent systems also allow for negative powers.
On March 31st, South Ural State University hosted day two of “The Greatness of the Demidov Dynasty” scientific forum organized jointly with the International Demidov Foundation.
Social Navigator project by the Rossiya Segodnya international media group and the Brand Analytics system for analysing of social media and mass media have presented a ranking of communication strategies effectiveness among Russian universities. It includes more than 250 universities subject to the Government, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
Jointly with their colleagues from Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Wuhan city in China, scientists from the SUSU China-Russia Research and Education Centre for System Pathology Aleksei Sarapultsev and Mariia Komelkova have summarized data on the social buffering of stress in rats from more than 40 research studies over the period of 2008-2025. This allows to evaluate the importance of the animals’ “biochemistry of friendship” in overcoming of difficult situations.
On March 27th, the “Technological Leadership: From Expertise to Strategy” symposium was held, focusing on the results of technological expertise and the outcomes of the meeting of the Council of the “Priority 2030” Federal Academic Leadership Program. The event brought together vice-rectors, rectors, heads of strategic technological projects, and industry partners of universities.
In the new, eighth edition of the Forbes ranking of the best Russian universities, Moscow universities traditionally dominate, holding 14 positions in the top twenty. Also, three universities from Saint Petersburg, one university from Tatarstan, one from the Novosibirsk Region and one from the Sverdlovsk Region have made it to the Top 20.
March 26–27, 2026 the 8th “Health and Safety through the Eyes of the Youth” All-Russian Student Conference with international participation is being held at South Ural State University. This event has brought together students, postgraduates and young scientists from the leading universities of Russia and Tajikistan.
Organizing the celebration of Nowruz, springtime New Year’s festivities, has already become a good tradition at South Ural State University. Thanks to this event, we can become more closely acquainted with the ethnic groups of the SUSU students and staff members.
