Ural State University

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A. M. Gorky Ural State University
Уральский государственный университет им. А. М. Горького


Established:	19 October 1920
Type:	University/Liberal Arts
President:	Vladimir Yevgenyevitch Tretyakov
Rector:	Bugrov Dmitriy Vitalyevitch
Students:	8,000+ Full Time 10,000+ part-time and distance-education students
Location:	Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
Campus:	Urban
Website:	www.usu.ru

Ural State University (Russian: Уральский государственный университет, often abbreviated USU, УрГУ) is located in the city Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. It was founded on 19 October 1920 as an exclusive educational establishment made of several institutes (educational and scientific divisions) which later became independent universities and schools.

In 1936 the university was named after one of its founders: Russian author Maxim Gorky. Nowadays it is the oldest university in the Middle Urals and one of the most prestigious universities in Russia, preparing research, educational and managerial elite on the basis of the integration of academic process and scientific research. It offers education in dozens of scientific and educational fields including 53 post-graduate programs. Current rector is Bugrov Dmitriy Vitalyevitch (to the 2007 year). Present president of the university, Vladimir Tretyakov, professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science.

The university has 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. The university has 18 academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The university also has a Lyceum, 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 1,200,000+ volumes, a publishing house, several museums, a special chair of Russian as foreign language, a laboratory for e-learning of foreign languages, and offers refresher courses and Institutes for further education and training.

Every year the Ural State University hosts the Demidov Lecturing - lectures given by the Demidov Prize winners.

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3 See also
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The most prominent scientific schools created in Ural State University:

Ural scientific school in electrochemistry founded by Professor S. V. Karpachiov
Ural scientific school in ferromagnetism founded by Academician Sergei Vonsovsky
Ural scientific school in population ecology founded by Academician Stanislav Shwarts
Ural scientific school in sociology founded by Professor L. N. Kogan
Ural scientific school in Byzantine studies founded by Professor M. Syuzyumov
Ural scientific school in algebra 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 Russian Academy of Sciences
Ural scientific school in toponymy founded by Professor Aleksandr Matveyev
Ural scientific scholl in photosynthesis founded by Academician A. T. Mokronosov