UrFU Celebrates 100th Anniversary on October 19

Ural Federal University is proud to carry the torch of the two former higher educational institutions in the Ural region — Ural State University and Ural Polytechnic Institute.

Officially, we trace our roots from the Ural State University which was founded in Ekaterinburg in 1920 by the decree of Vladimir Lenin, the head of the Soviet Government.

Today, Ural Federal University is one of the Russian leading universities. Located in Ekaterinburg — the capital of 2023 FISU World University Games — UrFU takes pride in establishing a truly multinational environment, allocating and educating 4300 foreign students from 101 countries. Ural Federal has initiated the creation of Ural Interregional Research and Education Center (UIREC), aimed at successful completion of National Project 'Science' tasks. In 2020, due to pandemic, all mass events are suspended, or tranferred into online for the safety of the faculty and students.

The central event of the 100th anniversary of the Ural Federal University will be a multimedia ceremony in the Yekaterinburg-Expo Congress Hall. Representatives of the university and the general partner of the holiday, SKB Kontur Company, made a presentation of corporate identity and anniversary events.

“Thanks to our students and partners, the attributes of the 100th anniversary will be sent to different parts of the world. Our anniversary identity is about the inextricable connection of the past with the future, about the importance of the individual path in scientific discoveries and training. The university is similar to the Space: stellar, bright, attractive for inquiring minds,” said the rector of UrFU Victor Koksharov.

Frames of the Past

1/9 1919. First Rector Pinkevich and M. Gorky. Famous drama writer Maksim Gorky took active part in establishing the university.
2/9 1920. Organizing commitee.
3/9 1930s. A reconstructed academic building. Now Ural State Economics University
4/9 1950s. Academician Physisist Dr. Prof. Vonsovskii during the lecture. One of the streets of Yekaterinburg bears his name. Try to find it!
5/9 Circa 1970s. Computing center.
6/9 Circa 1973. Laboratory of permanent magents.
7/9 1983. Mongolian alumni.
8/9 1987. Social sciences Dr. Prof. Leo Kogan meets his students.
9/9 2010s. Academic Building 1 at 51 Lenina st.

For over 30 years we have been establlishing broad partnerships with foreign institutions, global organizations to promote Russian education all over the World. The University actively participates in international network projects: Erasmus+, BRICS Network University, CIS Network University, Shanghai Cooperation Organization University, University of the Arctic (UArctic), Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities.

Today, we have become the new member of the global education community, enjoying partnerships with more than 450 academic institutions.

Congratulations from the First Lady Naina Yeltsina

Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina graduated the Ural Politechnic Institute in 1955. The future M-me First Lady met Boris Yeltsin in the university, and soon they married to lead a colorful and very rich life. Today, Naina Yeltsina governs the Boris Yeltsin Fund that supports youth, education, and social activities. Every year she takes part in awarding the best students of UrFU with memorable accolades - and personal stipends. And equally, every year we are proud to carry the name of President Boris Yeltsin.

Boris Yeltsin was a bright political figure of the "perestroika" era, mayor of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) and governor of Moscow, and the first popularly elected leader in the modern history of Russia, who guided the new country through a perilous decade of political and economic retrenching and turmoil until his sudden resignation at the turn of millennia. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the Russian Federation, who brought liberal reforms into the country after the collapse of the Soviet Union.