A week of festivities, gluttony, and all things pancakes – welcome to Russian Maslenitsa. Otherwise known as Pancake Week, Maslenitsa is a time when Russians make lots of blini or pancakes and burn effigies that represent winter. This year Maslenitsa takes place all across Russia on March 4-10.
Why Maslenitsa?
School of the Press Service of Chelyabinsk Regional Student Squad was held February 22nd through 24th in Malachite Congress Hotel.
Representatives of squads gathered together in order to learn about specificities of a press secretary’s work as well as about the right way to interact in a team, and to exchange their experience.
Squad recruits enhanced their skills in writing press releases and skills in the SMM sphere; they also discussed fundamentals of creating a squad’s brand and learned about video editing.
What social-and-political and cultural phenomena accompany migration? What are specificities of individual and group migratory behaviour? How does migration changes contemporary world and biographies of certain people?
The submission of applications for the 2019 contests in academic projects and mobility under Erasmus+ program is closed.
Erasmus+ program comprises:
Students, postgraduates and young academics of SUSU are invited to take part in the 16th All-Russian contest of youth projects in the sphere of education called “My Country – My Russia”. This event is targeted at social and economic development of Russian territories.
The Contest has been held since 2003 in order to attract young people to development and implementation of projects intended for improvement of governing system in regions, cities and settlements of Russia as well as for development of real sector of the economy and of social and educational spheres.
On February 28, a concert performed by military orchestra of the affiliated branch of the Air Force Military Education and Scientific Centre of Air Force “Air Force Academy named after Professor N.E. Zhukovsky and Yu.A. Gagarin” conducted by Yury Minin was held at South Ural State University.
South Ural State University has a Brand Studio – a store of brand items with the university’s logo. SUSU international students got familiar with activity of the Studio and competed for prizes.
South Ural State University has more than 2000 international students from 52 countries around the world. It is often that after their graduation that international students buy souvenirs before returning to their home countries.
March 4 through April 20, Servicing School is to be held at South Ural State University. Participants of the Service Lectorium will be able to enhance their skills of working in the sphere of service and hospitality.
Students will attend lectures regarding places of employment and on types of professions. Also, they will have practical lessons on bartending, table setting, etc. Upon completion of the School, all attendees will be awarded certificates on successful completion of training.
This July a big-scale intensive educational course for the leaders in the changes in the field of higher education will be held at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). It is going to be a tough competition to join the Ostrov 10-22 intensive educational course, as regional universities from across our whole country will be participating.
South Ural State University is holding a Russia through the Eyes of Students photo contest. This contest is being organised by the Extracurricular Activities Department and SUSU Photo School for the fifth time already.
This contest aims at promoting patriotic education, involving students into creative activities, and developing their interest in Russia. Both professional photographers and beginners aged under 30 are among the participants.
Local’s guide on what to see and do
Dear Students!
There are tons of fun things you can do in Chelyabinsk. Below, we’ve picked some exciting events the city has to offer this weekend. It’s time to get some tickets and make those freedom evenings count! Don’t forget to leave your comment about the events on Vk and Facebook.
March 1, 17:00
Pushkin Cinema
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
film
5th-year students of the SUSU Institute of Law took part in a meeting with representatives of the Main Investigation Department of the HO MIA of Russia for the Chelyabinsk region, held within cooperation with employers regarding recruitment of graduates studying in the specialty of Law Enforcement Activities.
Many graduates of Soviet schools dreamed to do three important things: create a perpetual-motion engine, a teleporter, and a time machine. The then tenth grader Leonid Vakhrameev, like the majority of his peers, grew up on the science fiction novels of the Strugatsky brothers. Today, the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Intersvyaz is launching a time machine and sending readers to the time when he was an upperclassman choosing his future profession. What to become: a doctor, like his mother? Or an engineer, like his father?
Annually, in the course of the winter holidays, St Petersburg State University organizes the Winter Psychological School, a unique project with a rich scientific programme, which takes place in the middle of winter on the shores of the snow-covered Gulf of Finland. Participation in the School allows assessing the volume of the psychological community, enrich oneself with new knowledge, meet colleagues from the other universities and exchange contacts for further cooperation.
Within preparation to the 2nd Festival of Electronic Learning called “Interactive Universe”, SUSU’s Institute of Open and Distance Education acted as an organizer of a master class for academics of the university entitled “Blue Ocean in Distance Learning”.
Last weekend, on February 23-24, the quarter-final games of the Student Hockey League took place in the Traktor Ice Arena. Two teams met on the ice, Polytechnik Ice Hockey Team and Urozhay Ice Hockey Team (Novosibirsk).
It is worth noting that the players have met on the ice multiple times and every time Polytechnik turned to be stronger, and the playoff games were no exception. Despite the active struggle of both teams in the course of two games, Polytechnik won the victory. The meetings ended with the score 3: 0 and 8: 3 in favour of the South Ural team.
South Ural State University is a rapidly developing university complying with contemporary tendencies and requirements of the labor market. SUSU’s School of Economics and Management performs training of students in the sphere of economics and management, whose professions are in-demand in the largest companies in Russia and around the world.
The Faculty of Journalism is a structural division of the SUSU Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. Today it forms the university’s communications and informational space during the multimedia integration of university news.
South Ural State University is becoming a SMART university, which unites Europe and Asia. Being one of the leading Russian universities, it shows strong standing in national and international rankings, and is part of the international education elite. Our university’s graduates are in demand in the Russian and global labour markets.
A regional school for the teams of student unions of conductors was held February 8th through February 10th at the Malachite Congress Hotel. Commanders, commissars, and masters participated in training to improve their psychological and leadership qualities.
The 9th International Natural Sciences Tournament (INST), a team competition between students from higher education institutions all around the world in solving preliminarily published scientific problems in the sphere of physics, chemistry and biology, took place in Tallinn. SUSU students took part in the tournament.
On-site tournament stage featured 15 teams representing such countries as Singapore, Indonesia, South Africa, Russia, etc.
DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service has announced three contests on scholarship programmes.
The mission of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is to unite people and science. This organisation, founded in 1925, is currently the leader in the field of international exchange of students and researchers.
I congratulate you on Defender of the Fatherland Day with all my heart!
Traditionally, on February 23, we celebrate one of the most important national holidays of our calendar. Annually this day we bring call to memory of our Fatherland defenders who have heroically defended the honour and dignity of our homeland.
This is a holiday of patriots, people who contribute to our country’s strength by their labour, behavior, activities, and decisions. This is a holiday of the true men.
Within a pilot educational project, the academics and students of the Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies are preparing to open a stationary exhibition devoted to the Victory Day marking the winning in the Great Patriotic War. It was SUSU Museum that initiated the interdisciplinary project on the Ural Region in the Military-Publicistic Discourse of the Great Patriotic War Period.
On February 16, a ceremony of awarding the Anatoly Sobchak Scholarship was held at MSAL. Among those who have been awarded was a student of South Ural State University.
The ceremony featured the President of Anatoly Sobchak Foundation, Federation Council member of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Liudmila Narusova, and Vice-Rector for Research at Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Vladimir Sinyukov.
