Even Statues are ready for the Graduation Ceremony

11:41, June 26, 2015

This year UrFU students decorated a statue of Yakov Sverdlov and a bust of Maxim Gorky for the first time

The graduation ceremony will take place this Saturday, June 27. 5500 graduates will receive their diplomas at UrFU Square. On the eve of the ceremony, the monuments of Yakov Sverdlov and Sergei Kirov have been dressed in academic gowns and caps.

To dress the statue of Kirov is an long tradition of Ural Federal University. This year UrFU students decorated a statue of Yakov Sverdlov and a bust of Maxim Gorky for the first time.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.