Ural Federal University

The Ural Federal University is the largest university in the Urals, the leading scientific and educational center of the region, and one of the largest universities in the Russian Federation. About 35,000 " https://urfu.ru/en/about/today/ students are studying in it, including about 32,000 full-time students (according to this indicator, Ural Federal University is comparable only with Moscow State University , St. Petersburg State University and Southern Federal University). Educational process provide more than 4000 teachers, among them more than 650 doctors of science and about 2100 candidates of science, more than 30 members of state academies.The training is carried out in 64 areas of undergraduate, 26 areas of master, 126 specialties of postgraduate studies and 42 specialties of doctoral studies. 30 dissertation councils operate at the university ^{[3 ]} .

In July 2013, Ural Federal University became one of the 15 universities of the Russian Federation that received the right to additional funding as part of a competition for entering the world university rankings. ^[4] .

The rector is Viktor Anatolyevich Koksharov , Ph.D. (Hist.), Who previously served as head of the government of the Sverdlovsk Region .

Until the beginning of 2013, the post of president of the university existed, from the moment the post of president was established, doctor of technical sciences , professor , corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Stanislav Stepanovich Naboychenko , former rector of the Ural State Technical University -UPI .

Establishment of a State University

The first university was established in the city of Yekaterinburg by decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR of October 19, 1920. Initially, it included institutes: mining, polytechnic, medical, agricultural, pedagogical, social sciences, as well as a working faculty. Due to a shortage of teachers in 1922, the division into institutes was abolished, 3 faculties remained in the university: chemical and metallurgical (including also chemical and engineering-forest departments), mining and medical. In 1924, the medical faculty was transferred to Perm State University , and the Ural University, which consisted of the remaining 2 faculties, was renamed the Ural Polytechnic Institute, in which the timber industry faculty was also organized in 1925.

In the following years, the institute created (or restored) the faculties: exploration, mining, timber, and mechanical. In 1929, the Faculty of Civil Engineering was established, and the chemical and metallurgical department was divided into chemical and metallurgical faculties. In 1930, during the reform of higher education (Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of July 23, 1930 “On the reorganization of universities, technical schools and labor schools”), the UPI was divided into 10 institutions (universities).

UPI and USU

In 1931, the Sverdlovsk State University was restored as an independent university (in 1936 it was named after A.M. Gorky , who took an active part in organizing the Ural University in 1920). On June 22, 1934 UPI was recreated on the basis of 7 out of 10 universities, then it became known as the Ural Industrial Institute (UII) (in 1934 the institute was named after S. M. Kirov ).

Thus, since the mid-1930s, there were two independent large universities in Sverdlovsk. In 1945, Sverdlovsk State University was renamed the Ural State University named after A.M. Gorky. In turn, in 1948, the Ural Industrial University was again renamed the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI). On December 24, 1992, the UPI was transformed into the Ural State Technical University (USTU) (order of the Ministry of Science, Higher School and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation No. 1133 dated 12.24.92). April 23, 2008 Ural State Technical University was named after its graduate Boris Yeltsin .

Greater Eurasian University

In the early 2000s, the administration of the Sverdlovsk region and the leadership of the two largest universities in Yekaterinburg - USTU-UPI and USU - came up with the idea of ​​creating a Greater Eurasian State University (BEGU) by combining technical and classical universities, as well as several other universities. The university project included the construction of a campus on the forest site behind Lake Maly Shartash and was included in the master plan for the development of Yekaterinburg . Despite the support of the regional leadership ( E. E. Rossel ), the construction of the BEGU was skeptical at the state university , the integration supporters were defeated in the rector’s elections in 2007. In December 2008, the BEGU project was announced and the Ural Federal University formed on the basis of its achievements (UrFU). The new concept is less ambitious, but supported by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation .

Creation of the Federal University

In the future (in the light of the organization of federal universities in Russia), it was decided to apply for the creation of a federal university on the basis of two universities ^[5] .

The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin was founded by decree of the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev No. 1172 dated October 21, 2009. According to the Presidential Decree, the Ural Federal University was created on the basis of the Ural State Technical University - UPI named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin ” ^[6] .

On April 2, 2010, an order was issued by the Government of the Russian Federation on the creation of the Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, a federal state autonomous institution of higher education ^{[7] [8]} .

On April 8, 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Novosibirsk (at a meeting on the modernization of higher professional education in Russia) announced the appointment of the former head of the government of the Sverdlovsk region , candidate of historical sciences Viktor Koksharov, as rector of the Ural Federal University ^[9] . The order was signed on April 9 ^[10] .

On February 2, 2011, Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation A. A. Fursenko signed order No. 155 ^[11] on the reorganization of the Ural Federal University by joining the Ural State University (clause 1) within three months (clauses 5.1 and 5.4).

Subsequently, on May 12, 2011, an entry was made in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on the termination of activity of the Ural State University named after A. Gorky as a legal entity , as well as on the corresponding reorganization of the Ural Federal University by joining the Ural State University ^[12] .

Institutes and faculties

Secondary general education institutions

Lyceum No. 130 (Lyceum USTU-UPI)

Specialized Educational and Scientific Center of Ural Federal University (Ural Federal University)

A specialized educational and scientific center was established as part of A.M. Gorky Ural State University in 1990 .

Famous scientists in Russia and in the world stood at the origins of the SSC of Ural State University: Academician N. N. Krasovsky , Academician S. V. Vonsovsky , Professor P. E. Suetin, Professor R. A. Pikhoya, Professor Z. I. Uritsky, Professor A G. Gein.

SUNC of Ural State University became the fourth federal center for the education of gifted high school students in the country (after the Moscow , Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg Academic Gymnasium ).

11 professors, doctors of sciences, 30 associate professors, candidates of sciences, 14 Soros teachers teach in the SSC of Ural Federal University .

Branches and Representations

• Nizhny Tagil Institute of Technology
• Polytechnic Institute in Kamensk-Uralsky

Also, Ural Federal University has branches in the following cities: Alapaevsk , Verkhnyaya Salda , Irbit , Krasnoturinsk , Krasnouralsk , Nevyansk , Novouralsk , Noyabrsk , Pervouralsk , Serov , Sredneuralsk , Chusovoy .

Offices are located in the cities of Artiomovskiy , Asbestos , Bogdanovic , Pyshma , Verkhoturye , Ivdel , Karakol , Kachkanar , Kirovgrad , Kostanay , Krasnoufimsk , Kushva , Forest , Lysva , Mednogorsk , Novokuznetsk , Ozersk , Polevskoy , Revda , Sukhoi Log , Sukhum , Sysert .

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Abolished Units

The research team of UrFU is represented by scientists (670 bids at the end of 2015) ^[14] , faculty and graduate students. Scientific activity brought the university in 2015 582.5 million rubles. ^[14] . For 2015, it was planned to recruit 225 doctoral students on a contract basis, but failed to recruit a single one ^[14] .

Highly qualified teams of scientists work in UrFU, among them more than 650 doctors of sciences and about 2100 candidates of science, 30 members of state academies. The research work is carried out, in addition to the departments, at two research institutes: the Institute of Physics and Applied Mathematics and the Institute of Russian Culture. The university includes an astronomical observatory , a botanical garden, a biostation, several dozens of industry and university-academic laboratories, as well as two zonal libraries with a total library stock of about 3,200,000 items.

Fundamental and applied research is conducted in the most important areas of science and technology. UrFU is a participant in five Federal Target Programs (FTP), in particular, “Development of the Nanoindustry Infrastructure of the Russian Federation for 2008–2012”, “Research and Development in Priority Directions for the Development of the Russian Science and Technology Complex for 2007-2012,” “Scientific and Scientific pedagogical staff of innovative Russia ”on 2009—2013. etc. Scientific research is carried out at the expense of the state budget allocated for basic and prospecting research in the most important areas of science and technology, state and departmental scientific and technical programs, grant competitions, at the expense of industry ministries, departments, associations, as well as enterprises and organizations - on a contractual basis .

Основные направления научных исследований, результаты которых получили широкое признание:

• Physics and astronomy: condensed matter physics ; physics of magnetic materials ; optics and laser physics ; radiophysics , electronics , acoustics ; quantum solid theory ; activated crystal spectroscopy ; fundamental studies of the properties of substances and materials in extreme conditions; physics of low-temperature and non-ideal plasma and its application in energy and environmentally friendly technologies; theoretical and experimental thermophysics, physical gas kinetics and surface physics; physicochemical mechanics of heterogeneous and multiphase media; stellar astronomy.
• Energy: development of the scientific foundations of energy policy and mechanisms for its implementation in a market economy; fundamental problems of creating safe and environmentally friendly energy (including nuclear and thermonuclear energy), non-traditional processes of energy conversion; fundamental problems of energy conservation and efficient use of fuel.
• Metallurgy: development of resource-saving and environmentally friendly processes for the integrated processing of ore raw materials and its wastes; creation of new metallic materials with desired properties.
• Communication: integrated information and telecommunication networks and systems; mathematical theory of pattern recognition.
• Mathematics and mechanics: control theory and differential games; theory of algebraic systems and its applications to computer science; theory of functions and operators; fundamental problems of building automatic design systems, mathematical methods for studying non-linear control systems and processes; mathematical modeling in medicine.
• Chemistry and materials science: theory of chemical bonding; kinetics and mechanisms of chemical reactions; solid state chemistry; chemistry of radioactive elements; physical chemistry of polymers; development of methods for the directed synthesis of complex organic molecules in order to obtain physiologically active substances with selective action; development of the fundamental principles of catalysis and the creation of highly efficient and selective heterogeneous, homogeneous and enzymatic catalysts and catalytic systems; creation of chemical current sources; creation of structural ceramics and silicate materials with sufficient ductility, including those based on oxides, nitrides, carbides, oxycarbonitrides.
• Biology: population and evolutionary ecology; animal ecology; environmental forecasting and expertise; plant physiology and the study of photosynthesis; industrial botany; ornithology.
• Philosophy and Sociology: History of Philosophy; philosophical anthropology; theory of knowledge; aesthetics; social philosophy; sociology of personality.
• History and Ethnography: Source Studies , Archeology and the Social History of Byzantium (See. Ural School of Byzantine Studies ); Ural and Siberian archeology and ethnography; Siberian and Ural archeography; social history of the Urals and Siberia; theory and history of international relations.
• Philology: onomastics, dialect lexicology and lexicography; lexical semantics; linguoculturology and stylistics; folklore; literature of the Urals and Siberia; Russian classical and modern literature; literary style; theory and history of journalism.
• Economics: regional economy; competition and institutional aspects of economic growth; foreign investment and international technology transfer; corporate governance; economic history and the history of economic thought; mathematical methods of economics .

Ural Federal University provides training of highly qualified scientific personnel in the framework of postgraduate education through internships, full-time and part-time postgraduate studies, post-graduate studies and doctoral studies in more than 100 specialties of the Higher Attestation Commission. There are 30 dissertation councils at the Ural Federal University on physical, mathematical, chemical, technical, economic, political, sociological, philosophical, psychological, philological, historical sciences, cultural studies and art criticism. In August 2017, a decision of the Government of the Russian Federation was published, which allowed starting September 1, 2017, the Ural Federal University to independently award academic degrees ^[15] .

The Ural Federal University played a significant role in creating the only private technical university in Russia - the UMMC Technical University . In the summer of 2013, at the Innoprom-2013 exhibition, an agreement was concluded between the UMMC and the Ural Federal University on the creation of a special department "Metallurgy" for the new university ^[16] . In addition, the Ural Federal University allocated 176 million rubles ^[17] to create this university, opened in September of the same year. On September 2, 2014, a Research Center was opened at the Technical University of the UMMC ^[18] . The close relationship between the two universities is expressed in the fact that the center’s functioning is supported by the Department of UrFU “Metallurgy” created in 2013 (it is headed by the Director of the Institute of Materials Science and Metallurgy of UrFU, Doctor of Technical Sciences V. A. Maltsev) and the Joint Stock Company “Uralelectromed” ^{[ 18]} . UrFU purchased special scientific equipment, having spent 171 million rubles on it, and UMMC allocated 200 million rubles. for the construction and equipment of a 4-storey building ^[19] .

Currently, in many ratings of Ural Federal University ( USTU-UPI ) and USU them. Gorky is still counted as separate universities. An exception is, in particular, the QS World University Rankings. In 2011, the Ural Federal University ranks 451–500 in the QS ranking, that is, it is included in the Top-500 (in total, the positions of 712 universities in the world are taken into account). The same group includes, for example, Shanghai University , the University of Salamanca , the University of Vermont , Belarusian State University , etc. Among all Russian universities, Ural Federal University was the sixth, only Moscow State University , St. Petersburg State University , MSTU , MGIMO and NSU are ahead ^[20] . In 2012, Ural Federal University retained 451–500 places, bypassing, for example, universities such as RUDN University (537 places), Higher School of Economics (542 places), Tomsk State University (580 places), Kazan Federal University (663 places). Moreover, in the QS rating, UrFU is the leader in the rating among all Russian federal universities ^{[21] [22]} . In 2013, in the QS ranking, Ural Federal University was in the 501-550 group, although it remained the leader among Russian federal universities and the second non-capital university in the top ten ^[23] .

The Republican Research and Advisory Center for Expertise (FGU NII RINKCE) included UrFU in the top five Russian universities that most effectively develop their innovative activities. According to the relevant key indicators, UrFU took the fourth place after Moscow State University , TSU and MSTU . According to the SRI RINKCE, in 2010 Ural Federal University produced works and services worth 14.6 million rubles and products - 17.7 million rubles. At MSU, the same indicators amounted to 1.04 million and 5 billion, respectively, at TSU - 1.08 billion and 214 million rubles, at MSTU - 1.8 billion and 1.7 million rubles. At the same time, in terms of the number of ongoing projects (101 and 134, respectively), Ural Federal University approached TSU and outperformed MSU and MSTU (96 and 3, respectively). At the same time, Ural Federal University received 34.3 million rubles from the state budget in 2010 for the development of innovative infrastructure, while Moscow and Tomsk universities received 42.9 million rubles each ^[24] .

In 2014, the Expert RA agency assigned a rating class “B” to a higher educational institution, which means a “ very high ” level of training for graduates; Moscow State University became the only university in the CIS to receive class “A” (“ exceptionally high level ”) in this rating ^[25] .

In 2015, the university lost its position in the QS World University Ranking. UrFU shares the line with 601-650 place with other universities, while a year earlier it was at 551 positions. In addition to the QS rating, there is a Shanghai rating, in which the Ural Federal University takes 901 places. In the ranking of universities of the BRICS countries, the educational institution is located on the 77th line, and in the ranking of higher education institutions of Russia is on the 13th line .

In 2016, the Ural Federal University published documents from which it follows that the university has units whose heads are appointed only by agreement with the FSB ^[26] . According to media reports, many current and former FSB officers and their relatives held positions in the Ural Federal University administration as of 2016: Vice-Rector for General Issues V. Kozlov, Advisor to the Rector V. Ilyinykh, Deputy Vice-Rector K. Polovnev ^[26] .

As of 2017, the university conducted “security” video surveillance in 100 of the 500 available audiences ^[27] . This practice exists (according to data reported by the university’s press secretary in May 2017) for about three years ^[27] . Since 2017, the broadcasting of lecture notes from these cameras has begun ^[27] .

• 01/07/1967 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
• 02/10/1981 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor by Decree of the Presidium of the Great People’s Hural of the Mongolian People’s Republic.
• November 17, 2011 - a gold medal in the nomination "The Most Creative Corporate Video", and became the absolute winner of the competition, receiving the title of "QS-Apple Creative Idol" for the film about university graduates "Dedicated to the young ..." , ^[28] .

As of March 2016, the rector’s office of the Ural Federal University included: 1 rector, 2 first vice-rectors, 3 deputy first vice-rectors, 7 vice-rectors and 10 deputy vice-rectors ^[29] . Such strange positions as deputy vice-rectors (in fact, deputy deputy rectors) arose as a result of the merger of the two universities, when the former vice-rectors had to create new managerial positions. For example, the vice-rector of Ural State University for scientific work A.O. Ivanov ^[30] became the vice-rector for science at Ural Federal University ^[29] . At the end of 2015, out of 9187 employee bids in the Ural Federal University, 1292 bids were related to administrative and managerial personnel ^[14] . Thus, the administrative apparatus was about 14% of the university employees. There were almost half of scientists at the university - 670 rates at the end of 2015 ^[14] .

At the beginning of 2015, a salary was set for a teacher with a degree of about 14.5 thousand rubles ^[31] . At the same time, the real salaries of professors with all the allowances almost did not differ from low salaries. In September 2015, the university pays only 12 thousand rubles per month for half the rate of a professor with a doctorate in sciences ^[32] . In September 2015, it was decided to reduce these salaries by transferring part of the teachers to one-eighth of the rate (a professor receives about 3 thousand rubles at this load), for which teachers were asked to change their employment contracts ^[32] . At the same time, the university applied the methodology for calculating the load, where 159 hours of teaching load per year at a professor is one eighth of the teaching load per rate (900 hours per year) ^[32] . The young associate professor, candidate of sciences A. V. Ladygin earned 232.5 thousand rubles from the Ural Federal University for 2015, that is, on average less than 20 thousand rubles. per month ^[33] . The rector of UrFU in 2014 earned 11.845 million rubles ^[34] . In 2015, the rector’s income exceeded 12.8 million rubles ^[35] .

In 2015, an associate professor of UrFU was convicted of taking bribes from 2012 to 2013 for a total amount of 50 thousand rubles, which she took for taking offsets without checking knowledge, to 3.5 years in a penal colony with a fine ^[36] . According to the court ruling, one of the vice-rectors for educational work of the Ural Federal University filed a complaint with her to law enforcement bodies ^[37] . In the appeal, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court commuted the sentence to a fine and re-qualified her actions on fraud ^[38] .

In October 2017, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Olga Vasilyeva, stated that the Ural Federal University did not comply with ministerial ideas about efficiency ^[39] .

• Institutions
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  Building Institute

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  graduate School
  Economics and management
  (building on Mira street )

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  Ural Energy Institute

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  Institute of Radio Electronics and
  Information Technologies - RTF

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  Institute of Physics and Technology

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  Institute of Natural Sciences

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  Institute of Chemical Technology and Institute of Materials Science and Metallurgy

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  Ural Humanitarian Institute

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