The Ural State University (, , often shortened to USU, УрГУ) is a

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located in the city of

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...

Sverdlovsk Oblast Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...

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. 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 (; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (; ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an aut ...

. It is the second oldest University in the Middle Urals (the oldest being Urals State University of Mines). It offers education in dozens of scientific and educational fields including 53 graduate programs. In 2007 Dmitriy Bugrov was elected new rector, while the

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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 academicians of the

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. 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 winners. In 2011 the university has been joint to the Ural Federal university after Boris Yeltsin. It was caused by the Russian Federation's Minister of Education order No.155 on February 2nd, 2011.

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 Electric potential, electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change. These reactions involve Electron, electrons moving via an electronic ...

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

ferromagnetism Ferromagnetism is a property of certain materials (such as iron) that results in a significant, observable magnetic permeability, and in many cases, a significant magnetic coercivity, allowing the material to form a permanent magnet. Ferromagne ...

founded by Academician Sergei Vonsovsky * 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 (biophysical), environment, such as birth rate, birth and death rates, and by immigration an ...

founded by Academician Stanislav Shwarts * Ural scientific school in

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

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. ...

founded by Professor M. Syuzyumov * Ural scientific school in

algebra Algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of expressions within those systems. It is a generalization of arithmetic that introduces variables and algebraic ope ...

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 games founded by Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky, winner of the Lomonosov Gold Medal 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 na ...

founded by Professor Aleksandr Matveyev * Ural scientific school in

photosynthesis Photosynthesis ( ) is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabo ...

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, 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 - 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 - 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 List of natural phenomena, natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental p ...

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* Faina Mihajlovna Kirillova - mathematician and control theorist * Viktor Koksharov - head of the government of

* Ilya Kormiltsev - 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 - author of children's books * Galina Kurlyandskaya (born 1961), Russian physicist * Anastasia Lapsui (b. 1944) - Nenets film director, screenwriter, radio journalist * Vladimir Motyl - film director * Anatoly V. Oleynik - chemist and professor * Yury Osipov - President of the

, member of the Russian government * Boris Plotnikov - Actor, People's Artist of Russia * Presnyakov brothers - playwrights * Yevgeny Roizman - Russian politician. He served as

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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 - 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, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess a ...

, 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 (; ; ; ; – 17 January 356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony, such as , by various epithets: , , , , , and . For his importance among t ...

, 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 three books symbolize the unity of the

natural science Natural science or empirical 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 ...

s, the

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and the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

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

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas ( ; ; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Catholic priest, priest, the foremost Scholasticism, Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the W ...

)

Gallery

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References

External links

The official site of the Ural State UniversityProceedings of the Ural State University - free on-line version
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