February 10th is Alexander Pushkin's Memorial Day. Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837) was a great poet and writer, founder of the modern Russian literary language. He was fatally wounded in a notorious duel with Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès. The majority of our huge country’s citizens know this story, but not all international students know everything about the life and work of Alexander Pushkin.
A team of SUSU scientists, jointly with experts from the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and immunologists from China (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), have presented a new understanding of the role of the JAK-STAT intracellular signalling system, which regulates such processes as the growth, development, division and destruction of cells in body, in case of stress disorders. Researchers have proposed to expand the range of means treating the signalling system and disorders caused by stress.
Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexey Texler chaired the Council meeting. In the course of the meeting, the head of our region, leaders and scientists of universities summed up the results of the Year of Science and discussed the priority directions of development of our region’s scientific potential. The governor congratulated the representatives of the scientific community on their professional holiday and reported that the interest in research activity is growing across our whole country. The integration of science and production remains a priority.
Over the past year, SUSU had a series of victories in major federal competitions and projects thanks to the high-quality work on the applications by the university teams, the attraction of leading scientists, as well as the development of facilities and resources of five new laboratories through the implementation of the Priority 2030 development program.
An opinion on the need to expand the list of property suits in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, provided by Tikhon Podshivalov, Head of the Department of Civil Law and Civil Legal Procedures, Deputy Director for Research of the SUSU Institute of Law, Candidate of Sciences (Legal Science), Associate Professor, has been published in the recent issue of Advokatskaya Gazeta (Lawyer’s Newspaper), the official printed platform of the Russian Federal Bar Association.
ChTZ-URALTRAK (Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant) is part of the Russian defence industry complex, and it mainly produces dual-purpose diesel engines with the capacity of up to 1500 hp. The plant is currently solving an important problem on increasing the capacity of a series-production engine, while not making it heavier or leading to losses in its service life. Forcing of the engine inevitably entails increased loads on the main parts, components and units.
Earth depths of the South Ural region hide not only mineral resources, but also layers of ancient history left by the people who lived in this territory thousands of years ago. Which new mysteries have the archaeology researchers from South Ural State University have managed to unravel? And what do they keep working on?
We have discussed these topics with Director of the SUSU Eurasian Studies Research and Education Centre, Doctor of Sciences (History) Aleksandr Tairov.
On January 30th, the team of South Ural State University will go to Tyumen to take part in the Friendship 60th Annual Sports Competition of Teachers, Researchers and Employees of Higher Educational Institutions of the Urals and Siberia.
On the eve of the athletes’ departure, the SUSU Rector Alexander Wagner addressed the team with parting words and wished them victory in the competition:
80 years ago, on January 27, 1944, one of the most tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War ended: as a result of the actions of Soviet troops, the siege of Leningrad, which had lasted almost 900 days, was completely lifted.
Sociocultural Adaptation Centre has organized traditional tubing rides for international students of South Ural State University. This type of winter pastime is everyone's favourite and is very popular.
The traditional match in memory of Vladimir Lyapkalo took place at the SUSU hockey rink for the tenth time. Veterans of Polytechnic team and students of the coach went to the ice.
The head coach of the SUSU Polytechnic hockey team Artyom Pletnev said that organizing a match every year is not difficult: all the participants treated Vladimir Lyapkalo well, and they respond on occasion at the first call.
On January 21st, International Postgraduate Day is celebrated all over the world. It was on this day in 1925 that documents regulating the system of training university researchers were signed. This holiday is celebrated by graduate students, scientific supervisors, and specialists working in research institutes of any field of study. Natalia Shaburova, Head of the Centre for Doctoral Studies at South Ural State University, spoke about the specifics and importance of the centre's work at our university.
On January 21st, future applicants and their parents were able to get to know the schools and institutes of our university better, and also learned about the new admission rules for 2024.
The famous Yurait federal publishing house has recently published a Digital Forensics textbook, the authors of which were scientists from the Institute of Law of South Ural State University.
This is already the second edition, revised and expanded (the first one was published in 2022). The textbook is certified by the Academic Methodological Association of Higher Education and can be used in any Russian university that trains specialists in this field.
International students of South Ural State University from Sri Lanka and Ethiopia took part in the traditional Russian Orthodox ceremony of Epiphany dip, which is held on January 19th.
Today, on January 17th, Kid Inventors' Day is celebrated around the world. This holiday is for young scientists, who despite their young age invent many interesting and useful devices to make our world a better place.
There are more and more young discoverers and kid scientists nowadays. This happens, among other things, thanks to the support from the government authorities and various educational institutions.
Temperature meter, detector, sensor − all these are the names of the device that has been developed by employees of the SUSU Research Institute for Non-conventional Materials and Resource-Saving Technologies. The device measures temperature many times more accurately than similar devices currently available in the world.
The Chelyabinsk Region will soon celebrate its 90th anniversary. On the eve of the anniversary, students of South Ural State University, together with the State Philharmonic and workers of culture of the South Ural region, have made a video showing the uniqueness of our region.
The director of the video was SUSU graduate Matvey Sholokhov, the director of photography – SUSU TV staff member Daniil Rukavitsyn, and the producer – SUSU student Valeriia Bondar.
On January 18th, a presentation of the book Chelyabinsk Cinemas of the 20th Century took place at the Chelyabinsk Public Assembly House. The co-authors of the book were Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign History of the SUSU Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities Evgeniy Volkov and Associate Professor of the same department Maksim Sapronov. Other authors were local historians Dmitriy Grafov, Iuriy Latyshev, and Mikhail Khabirov.
Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin announced the results of the competitive selection of the Advanced Engineering Schools federal project. In 2022, 30 universities had become winners of the project; in the second wave of selection in 2023, 57 applicants from 40 regions were heard, as a result, 20 winning universities were selected. South Ural State University entered the second group with funding of 230.4 million roubles in 2024.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia has published a ranking on media activity among Russian universities as of December 2023. South Ural State University has improved its standing by 10 positions and has taken the 11th place in the overall ranking.
The Internet is filled with reports of artificial eggs being sold in stores. They may look real, but can lose their shape, the yolk can turn blue when boiling, and the shell, made of plaster and paraffin, turns out to be flammable.
Most of these reports copy each other and refer to the story of a Chinese man who allegedly worked at an artificial egg factory. Is it a fake or not?
Within the frameworks of the regional week, Chairman of the State Duma's Committee for Industry and Trade, First Vice-President of the Russian Engineering Union (SoyuzMash) Vladimir Gutenev has held a series of meetings with young people of Samara.
In the course of this dialogue, young people raised various issues: from choosing a profession and staff shortage to providing help to the front and the geopolitical situation. Among the key discussion topics at each meeting were the upcoming presidential elections.
SUSU and the DST-URAL Tractor Plant have joined forces to create a remote-control loading machine. Compared to analogues, the Russian machine wins in price on the special-purpose machinery market. This machine has already been tested for clearing snowdrifts in January 2024.
