The Ural State University (russian: Урáльский госудáрственный университéт и́мени А.М. Гóрького, , often shortened to USU, УрГУ) is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universit ...

located in the city of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...

Russian Federation Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. Founded in 1920, it was an exclusive educational establishment made of several

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s (educational and scientific divisions) which later became independent

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and schools. Established in 1936 the university was named after one of its founders, Russian author

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

. It is the second oldest University in the

Middle Urals The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

(the oldest being

Urals State University of Mines Ural State Mining University (russian: Уральский государственный горный университет) is situated in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. It was founded in 1914. In 1917 Nicholas II signed an order titled "On ...

) and one of the most prestigious

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; preparing research, educational and managerial elite on the basis of the integration of academic process and scientific research. It offers education in dozens of scientific and educational fields including 53 graduate programs. In 2007 Dmitriy Bugrov was elected new rector, while the

incumbent The incumbent is the current holder of an official, office or position, usually in relation to an election. In an election for president, the incumbent is the person holding or acting in the office of president before the election, whether seek ...

Vladimir Tretyakov took the office of the President, representing the university in international affairs. The USU is organized into 95 chairs and 14 departments. These are Biology, Journalism, Culturology & Arts, History, Mathematics and Mechanics, Politology and Sociology, Psychology, Physics, Philology, Philosophy, Public relations, Chemistry, Foreign affairs, and Economics. Among the university's faculty there are 18

academician An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy. In many countries, it is an honorific title used to denote a full member of an academy that has a strong influence on national scientific life. In syst ...

s of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. The university also has a

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, the Leonardo Italian College, an Institute of Physics and Applied Mathematics, an Interregional Institute of Social Sciences, the Russian-American Institute of Economy and Business, the Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, a distance education center, the Russian Culture Institute, an observatory, a botanical garden, a scientific library with over 1,200,000 volumes, a publishing house, several museums, a special chair of Russian as foreign language, a laboratory for

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of foreign languages, and offers refresher courses and Institutes for Further Education and Training. Every year the Ural State University hosts the Demidov Lectures - a series of lectures given by the

Demidov Prize The Demidov Prize (russian: Демидовская премия) is a national scientific prize in Russia awarded annually to the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Originally awarded from 1832 to 1866 in the Russian Empire, it was reviv ...

winners. Since 2010, the university has been The Ural Federal university after Boris Yeltsin. It was caused by the Russian Federation's President's decree #1172 from 21 October 2010. The university is now joint with The

Ural State Technical University Ural State Technical University (USTU) is a public technical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. It is the biggest technical institution of higher education in Russia, with close ties to local industry in the Urals. ...

Scientific Schools

The most prominent scientific schools created in Ural State University: * Ural scientific school in

electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

founded by Professor S. V. Karpachiov * Ural scientific school in

ferromagnetism Ferromagnetism is a property of certain materials (such as iron) which results in a large observed magnetic permeability, and in many cases a large magnetic coercivity allowing the material to form a permanent magnet. Ferromagnetic materials ...

founded by Academician

Sergei Vonsovsky Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky (also spelled as Vonsovskii or Vonsovskiy, Russian: Сергей Васильевич Вонсовский; September 2, 1910 – August 11, 1998) was a Soviet physicist. Hero of Socialist Labour (1969). Biography Serge ...

* Ural scientific school in

population ecology Population ecology is a sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations and how these populations interact with the environment, such as birth and death rates, and by immigration and emigration. The discipline is importa ...

founded by Academician Stanislav Shwarts * Ural scientific school in

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

founded by Professor L. N. Kogan * Ural scientific school in

Byzantine studies Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. T ...

founded by Professor M. Syuzyumov * Ural scientific school in

algebra Algebra () is one of the broad areas of mathematics. Roughly speaking, algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols in formulas; it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics. Elementary a ...

founded by Professor P. G. Kontorovich * Ural scientific school in the generalized functions theory and the ill-posed problems theory founded by Professor V. K. Ivanov * Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of

differential game In game theory, differential games are a group of problems related to the modeling and analysis of conflict in the context of a dynamical system. More specifically, a state variable or variables evolve over time according to a differential equatio ...

s founded by Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky, winner of the

Lomonosov Gold Medal The Lomonosov Gold Medal (russian: Большая золотая медаль имени М. В. Ломоносова ''Bol'shaya zolotaya medal' imeni M. V. Lomonosova''), named after Russian scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov, is awarde ...

of the

* Ural scientific school in

toponymy Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponym is the general term for a proper name of ...

founded by Professor Aleksandr Matveyev * Ural scientific school in

photosynthesis Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. Some of this chemical energy is stored i ...

founded by Academician A. T. Mokronosov

Rankings

USU was ranked 25th among Russian Ministry of Education's top universities in 2004 official university ranking of the Russian Ministry for Education, of the Russian Ministry for Education, 2004 According to the Webometrics Ranking's which is based on the volume of the web presence and the amount of web publications, USU is ranked 7th in Russia's top 100 Webometrics'http://www.webometrics.info/top100_europe.asp?country=ru list of universities in Russia.

Notable alumni

* Alexander Bashlachev - famous poet, rock musician, songwriter * Vitaly Bugrov - Soviet literary critic, historian of science fiction *

Gennady Burbulis Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis (russian: Генна́дий Эдуа́рдович Бу́рбулис; 4 August 1945 – 19 June 2022) was a Russian politician. A close associate of Boris Yeltsin, he held several high positions in the first Russi ...

- State and public figure, the State Secretary of the RSFSR * Chernikov, Sergei - mathematician, Academician * Erna Daugaviete (1906 – 1991), chemist * Alexei Ivanov - writer *

Sholban Kara-ool Sholban Valeryevich Kara-ool ( tyv, Шолбан Валерий оглу Кара-оол, russian: Шолба́н Вале́рьевич Кара-о́ол; born 18 July 1966) is a Russian politician of Tuvan ethnic origins. He was the Head of t ...

- statesman, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tuva * Mikhail Katsnelson - Dutch professor of

theoretical physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experim ...

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century D ...

Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova (29 September 1931) is a Belarusian scientist in the field of mathematical theory of optimal control. She was the winner of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize (1986) "for the development and implementation of multi-pur ...

- mathematician and

control theorist Control may refer to: Basic meanings Economics and business * Control (management), an element of management * Control, an element of management accounting * Comptroller (or controller), a senior financial officer in an organization * Controlling ...

* Viktor Koksharov - head of the government of

Ilya Kormiltsev Ilya Valeryevich Kormiltsev (russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Корми́льцев, b. September 26, 1959, Sverdlovsk, USSR - d. February 4, 2007, London, UK) was a Russian poet, translator, and publisher. Kormiltsev is most famous f ...

- poet, interpreter, rock musician * Nadezhda Kozhushanaya - writer, screenwriter, author of the screenplay for the film "The Mirror for a Hero" (1987) and "Foot" (1991) *

Vladislav Krapivin Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin (russian: Владислав Петрович Крапивин; 14 October 1938 – 1 September 2020) was a Russian children's books writer. Biography Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on ...

- author of children's books *

Galina Kurlyandskaya Galina Vladimirovna Kurlyandskaya (russian: Галина Владимировна Курляндская; born 1961) is a Russian physicist, known for her works on giant magnetoimpedance. Biography Galina Kurlyandskaya was born in Kirovgrad ...

(born 1961), Russian physicist *

Anastasia Lapsui Anastasia Lapsui (born 1944) is a Soviet-born Nenets film director, screenwriter, and radio journalist who has lived in Finland since 1993. Lapsui, together with Markku Lehmuskallio, directed " Seven Songs from the Tundra," the first narrative ...

(b. 1944) - Nenets film director, screenwriter, radio journalist *

Vladimir Motyl Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl (russian: Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Моты́ль; 26 June 1927 – 21 February 2010) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Belarusian film director and screenwriter. Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepiel, Bel ...

- film director * Anatoly V. Oleynik - chemist and professor *

Yury Osipov Yury Sergeyevich Osipov (russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич О́сипов; born 7 July 1936) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1987 and was a president of its succ ...

- President of the

, member of the Russian government *

Boris Plotnikov Boris Grigoryevich Plotnikov (russian: Борис Григорьевич Плотников; 2 April 1949 – 2 December 2020)

- Actor, People's Artist of Russia *

Presnyakov brothers The Presnyakov Brothers, Oleg and Vladmimir, are writers, playwrights, screenwriters, directors, theatre producers, and actor. The sons of an Iranian mother and a Russian father, Oleg was born in 1969 and Vladimir in 1974. Both brothers graduat ...

- playwrights *

Yevgeny Roizman Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman (Russian: Евге́ний Вади́мович Ро́йзман; born 14 September 1962) is a Russian opposition politician who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018. He campaigned against corrupt po ...

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

politician. He served as

Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well a ...

from 2013 to 2018 * Ryzhy, Boris - poet * Sergei Shmatko - statesman, Minister of Energy (May 12, 2008) * Konstantin Syomin - journalist, TV presenter * Vladimir Tretyakov - former rector, present-day president of the USU *

Gennady Zdanovich Gennadii Borisovich Zdanovich (Russian: Геннадий Борисович Зданович; 4 October 1938 – 19 November 2020) was a Russian archaeologist based at the historical site of Arkaim, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Zdanovich led the excavat ...

- archeologists, the creator of the archaeological school

Emblem

The location and the set of the symbols on the emblem of the Ural State University were officially approved on 24 April 2008. The emblem centre represents the cross of

Saint Catherine of Alexandria Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine); grc-gre, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ; ar, سانت كاترين; la, Catharina Alexandrina). is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, wh ...

, the patroness of Yekaterinburg. This is the concave-spiked four-part cross. Spikes, which form the cross, refer to one more symbol – the staff of Egyptian priests, keepers of sacred knowledge. This staff is also called the staff of

Anthony the Great Anthony the Great ( grc-gre, Ἀντώνιος ''Antṓnios''; ar, القديس أنطونيوس الكبير; la, Antonius; ; c. 12 January 251 – 17 January 356), was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is d ...

, which symbolizes search and attainment of truth. A solar symbol – a cogwheel, put on the cross, symbolizes the sun and the light of knowledge. At the same time the wheel and the cross are St. Catherine's attribute, who, according to the legend, was condemned to be

broken on the wheel The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Wheel of Catherine or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breakin ...

. The three books symbolize the unity of the

natural science Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

s, the

formal sciences Formal science is a branch of science studying disciplines concerned with abstract structures described by formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, gam ...

and the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

and refer to the motto of the emblem: “Beware the man of one book”. (

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

)

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