Ural Federal University


The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin is one of the leading educational institutions in the Ural region of Russia. Ural Federal University acts as a research and innovation center of the Ural region and cooperates with the Russian Academy of Sciences. UrFU offers educational programs in four main areas of knowledge and 108 academic majors. There are actively developed links between the university and intermediate educational institutions. UrFU also consistently works on establishing strategic partnerships with employers for the sake of development of the regional economy: employers are involved in the educational environment as direct participants, enployers-sponsored and corporate education is carried out based on the client-centered approach, joint business projects are realized in economic and social areas.

History

The Ural University was established in the town of Ekaterinburg in 1920 by the decree of the head of Soviet revolutionary government Vladimir Lenin. However, the newly-born university underwent a number of changes due to the lack of resources in such circumstances as revolution and civil war. Finally, the university split into two: Ural State University, a smaller university responsible for education in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and Ural Polytechnic Institute, a larger one which was focused on training engineers in areas such as metallurgy, machine-building, civil engineering and power engineering. At the same time, UPI was developing several new areas of knowledge like nuclear energetics, organic chemistry and synthesis, and telecommunications.
Despite such partition, both universities were connected closely with each other, as well as with their partners from the region’s industrial economy. Due to this fact, Ekaterinburg became one of the largest university cities of Russia. Since 2008, when a massive reorganization of Russian university system was launched, a number of universities in different cities of the country, which already had close relations, have received special federal status and additional funding. Federal universities were established in Rostov-na-Donu, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Archangelsk, Yakutsk, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and Ekaterinburg. These federal universities are the leaders of the Russian educational system. The merger process of USTU-UPI and USU to create Ural Federal University began in 2009 and was fully completed by the spring of 2011.
During almost 100 years of its history, the Ural University has produced more than 360,000 graduates, many of whom achieved significant success in research, culture, and politics. One of the most famous graduates of the university is the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, whose name the university bears nowadays.

Supervisory Board

In accordance with the Federal Law of 03.11.2006 № 174-FZ "About autonomous institutions", a supervisory board was created in UrFU. As of March 2019, it consists of:

Institutes and departments

Ural Federal University consists of the following Institutes and Departments:

Facts and Figures

Ural Federal University is one of Russia's biggest research and educational centers. The number of full-time students studying at UrFU exceeds 35,000. They come from 75 countries of the world, and are taught by more than 4,200 faculty members. 424 educational programs are provided by 13 institutes and include courses in natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, economics and management. More than 360,000 people have graduated from Ural Federal University over the years. Since 2008, the university has been bearing the name of Boris Yeltsin – graduate of 1955, who was elected first President of independent Russia in 1991.
During an academic year, the university is attended by more than 20 international delegations. Among them – ambassadors of the US, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, The Republic of South Africa, Mongolia and others.
The first international students arrived at Ural University in the 1940s. During almost 100 years of the university’s history, it has produced more than 2,500 specialists from Europe, Asia and Africa. As of March 2019, about 3,100 international students are studying at UrFU.
The sports facilities of UrFU allow more than 30 teams to train and compete. University is host to several popular festivals, among which are one of the oldest student festivals of Russia, “Vesna UPI”, which goes back to 1956, and the Vienna Music Film Festival.

International Partnership

One more important direction of activity is integration of Ural Federal University into the international research and educational environment. The university participates in network educational projects. UrFU is a key partner in the Ural region for foreign universities, international organizations, foreign companies and corporations. The number of foreign students, postgraduates, researches and lecturers is constantly growing. Within framework agreements, UrFU works with the market leaders in Russia and other countries. samples analysis

Research

Key areas of scientific research at UrFU:
UrFU Alumni Association was established in October 2012. In 2012-2013, the University established offices of the Alumni association in Mongolia and Russian cities of Moscow, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky and Noyabrsk; it allows the graduates living and working in these countries and cities to maintain contact with the university. It also plans to establish offices in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Israel and Germany.

Rankings

Ural Federal University currently holds the following positions in national and global rankings:
The short film, which features Ural Federal University graduates giving advice to the current UrFU students, won the ‘Most Creative Corporate Institution Video’ QS-Apple Creative Award and received the title of QS-Apple Creative Idol. The contest was held on November 17, 2011, at the 7th QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education Conference and Exhibition, in Manila, and was organized by Quacquarelli Symonds.