April 8th to April 10th, “Arctic: Territory of Dialogue” 5th International Arctic Forum was held in Saint Petersburg. This forum is a key platform for discussing the pressing issues of social-and-economic development of the Arctic territories, elaboration of tiered many-sided mechanisms of mutual unlocking and efficient development of the great resource potential of the Arctic region.

On April 2 of 2019, All-Russian Student Olympiad on Automatic Control Theory took place at Ivanovo State Power University. 56 students representing 8 Russian higher education institutions took part in the Olympiad.

On April 7th, on stage of Chelyabinsk State Institute of Culture and Arts the final of the 16th Regional Festival of Co-creativity “You Are Not Alone!” was held. 

The members of the SUSU Headquarters of Student Labour Unions together with children from social rehabilitation centres and children’s homes prepared performances under different categories: Puppet Show; Theatrical Art; Applied Arts Creativity; and Dance Theatre. 

April 12 is a special day for Russia as the country commemorates Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight. For over 50 years, we have felt pride for the triumph of the Soviet space program in putting the first man into space. On April 12, many Russian cities organise a variety of exhibitions, conferences, seminars, and film screenings dedicated to space.

For the second year in a row, Team of the Student Hockey League is going to play in matches with clubs of the Junior Hockey League (MHL). Last year, the team played against such teams as Russkie Vityazi, Krylja Sovetov and Kapitan.

This year, the team will hold a training camp and play with teams Irbis, Sputnik and Reaktor, which are playing within the Eastern Conference of the MHL Championship.
The team of SHL included five players of the SUSU Polytechnic team: Danil Muhamedzyanov, Lev Ladnov, Dmitry Udalov, Maksim Antoshkin and Aleksandr Berezkin.

Following the SUSU strategy of developing as a “SMART university uniting Europe and Asia” and meeting the demands of the Russian Federation on boosting the economic growth and technological development, improving national security, and on the breakthrough fields of scientific research, the university is focusing on developing big interdisciplinary projects in the fields of digital industry and artificial intelligence.

As part of project-based learning, the staff of the Department of Automation Engineering and Master’s students of the 15.04.05 Design and Engineering Support of Machinery Production major are working on the energy efficiency and environmental friendliness of the process of chrome plating of cylindrical parts using the development of a new technology of a closed plating cycle.

Day of Arab Culture was held at South Ural State University. Representatives of ten countries introduced the audience to the history and traditions of the Arab world and gave colourful performances.

Day of Arab Culture is one of the unique events at SUSU which aims to strengthen international collaboration among the representatives of different countries. Rector Aleksandr Shestakov told us that next year the university will be able to accept even more international students.

I am happy to congratulate you on the fact that South Ural State University has been listed in the THE Impact Ranking 2019, in which the current standing of our university is 301+.

For the first time, Times Higher Education International Ranking Agency published results of the new ranking called THE Impact Ranking 2019, in which SUSU took a rightful place.

This is not the first time that students of SUSU achieve high results at Kontur All-Russian Festival and Contest. This year, the team of Deep Vision Dance Theatre once again took prize-winning places and allowed the jury and spectators to admire their skills.

Researchers from South Ural State University have patented a new method of obtaining carbon materials based on a mesh structure with a high nitrogen content. This is of interest for application in electrochemistry for the manufacture of innovative filters and sorbents for cleaning liquids and gasses.

On April 5, a meeting featuring the Rector Aleksandr Shestakov, Vice-Rector for Research, Aleksandr Diakonov, Head of the Research and Innovation Services, Anton Korzhov, Director of the Business Unit at Emerson LLC (Moscow), Aleksandr Moyev, and Director of Ekohimprobor-Servis (Dubna), Yuriy Novikov, took place at South Ural State University. In the result of this meeting, a roadmap in the sphere of joint implementation of an ecological project entitled “Clean Air” has been elaborated.

On April 9th, the citywide festival of student art, Student Spring of Chelyabinsk 2019, will begin. The festival is held as part of the Russian Student Spring Program for Supporting and Developing Student Art and is the city round of the Russian Student Spring All-Russian Festival.

The festival was founded by the Chelyabinsk Regional Social Organisation of the Russian Social Organisation Russian Union of Youth, and the Department for Youth Affairs of the Chelyabinsk City Administration.

The Nationwide Dictation Quiz is an annual campaign for all those willing to test their knowledge of Russian, regardless of their age, nationality or level of education. Pushkin Institute Research, Education and Coordination Centre jointly with the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Regional Studies is training international students to be taking the Nationwide Dictation Quiz. The classes include solving test tasks, as well as writing different training texts to dictation.

A meeting with representatives of the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa took place at South Ural State University. The delegation included the Minister Plenipotentiary of the South African Embassy in the Russian Federation, Henry William Short, and Secretary of the Embassy’s Political Division, Bender Gunter.