Ural State University
Ural State University is situated in
Yekaterinburg,
Russian Federation. It was founded in 1920 as an exclusive educational establishment constituted of several institutes witch later became independent universities and schools.
In 1936 the university was named after one of its founders - russian author
Maxim Gorky.
Nowadays it is the oldest university in the Middle Urals and one of the most prestigious universities in Russia, 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 filds icluding 53 postgaduate programms.
Encyclopedia
Ural State University is situated in
Yekaterinburg,
Russian Federation. It was founded in 1920 as an exclusive educational establishment constituted of several institutes witch later became independent universities and schools.
In 1936 the university was named after one of its founders - russian author
Maxim Gorky.
Nowadays it is the oldest university in the Middle Urals and one of the most prestigious universities in Russia, 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 filds icluding 53 postgaduate programms.
Current rector, E. Tretyakov, professor, corresponding member of the
Russian Academy of Science.
The university has 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. The university has 18 acadmicians of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.
The university also has a , the Leonardo Italian College, an institute of physics and applied mathematics, an Interregional Institute of Social Sciences, theRussian-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 1,200,000+ volumes, a publishing house, several museums, a special chair of russian as foreign language, a laboratory for e-learning of foreign languages, and offers refresher courses and Institutes for further education and training.
Every year the Ural State University hosts the Demidov Lecturing - lectures given by the Demidov Prize winners.
Overview
The most prominent scientific schools created in the Ural Stat University:
- Ural scientific school in electrochemistry founded by prof. S. V. Karpachiov
- Ural scientific school in ferromagnetism founded by academician S. V. Vonsovsky
- Ural scientific school in population ecology founded by academician S. S. Shwarts
- Ural scientific school in sociology founded by prof. L. N. Kogan
- Ural scientific school in bizantine studies founded by prof. M. Syuzyumov
- Ural scientific school in algebra founded by prof. P. G. Kontorovich
- Ural scientific school in the generalized functions theory founded by prof.
- Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games founded by academician N. N. Krasovsky, winner of the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Ural scientific school in toponymy founded by prof. A. K. Matveyev
- Ural scientific scholl in photosynthesis founded by academician
Alumni
- Yury Osipov - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the russian government
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