Reporting and Election Conference 2018

Regular conference dedicated to the reports and elections of the Ural Polytechnic Institute (UPI), Ural State University (USU) and Ural Federal University (UrFU) Alumni Association took place on January 26, 2018.

You can send your proposals on the work of the Association and the draft work plan for years 2018-2020 to the management of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association: alumni@urfu.ru. 

The agenda of the conference:

Summing up the results of the contest for the biggest contribution to the promotion of the university “Recognition 2017”.

1. Report of the Board of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association
2. Report of the Audit Commission of the Alumni Association
3. Discussion of the amendment proposals to the Statute of the Alumni Association
4. Elections of the co-chairpersons of the Alumni Association
5. Elections of the Executive Director of the Alumni Association
6. Elections of the Board of the Alumni Association
7. Elections of the Audit Commission of the Alumni Association
8. Discussion of the plans of the Alumni Association for years 2018-2020 

The outcomes of the conference:

1. To approve the changes in the Statute:

1.1 Point “4.21 One alumnus, member of the Association from each of the departments, institutes or faculties that existed before the unification of the two universities, is elected to the Board. The positions include chairpersons, two co-chairpersons and Executive Director of the Association” is to be replaced with “One alumnus, member of the Association from each of the department, institute or faculty that existed before the unification of the two universities, is elected to the Board. The positions include chairpersons, two co-chairpersons and Executive Director of the Association. Every co-chairperson can on their own initiative nominate alumni of UPI, USU and UrFU to the board of the Association, with a maximum of 5 people from each co-chairperson”. 

1.2 Point “5.1 Registration and yearly membership fees, charitable and earmarked contributions are paid to the UrFU and Alumni Projects Support Fund (hereinafter referred to as "Fund") under the agreement of cooperation between the Association and the Fund” is to be replaced with “The Alumni Association is funded through charitable donations and grants. Membership fees are voluntary and contributions are paid to the UrFU and Alumni Projects Support Fund (hereinafter referred to as "Fund") under the agreement of cooperation between the Association and the Fund”.

2. To elect as co-chairpersons of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association:

Anatoliy I. Matern. Born 1951. Graduated from the Chemical Engineering faculty of UPI in 1973. Member and Commander of the Student Construction Brigade “Horizon”. 1973 to 1975 – serving as a tank platoon commander in the army. Has been working in UPI since 1975. 1988 to 2007 – Dean of the Chemical Engineering faculty in UPI. December 2007 to June 2010 – Rector of UPI; July 2010 to 2015 – First Vice-Rector of UrFU. Currently Director of the Innovative Center for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies. Member of the Joint Council of Chemical Sciences of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the editorial board of “Surveillance and Monitoring” journal. Presidium member of the Union of Chemical Industry Companies in Sverdlovsk region. Professor, Ph.D. in Chemistry. Honorary worker of higher education. 

Dmitry V. Bugrov. Born in 1962 in the family of graduates of Ural State University. Graduated from the faculty of History of USU in 1984. 1980 to 1984 – member of the USU Crimean archeological expedition. 1994 to 2007 – the Dean of the Faculty of History; April 2007 to May 2011 – Rector of USU. Since 2011 – the First Vice-Rector of UrFU. Member of the Joint Council of Humanities of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the fourth convocation of the Ekaterinburg Сity Duma (2005-2009). Since 2009 – President of the Ural Association of Tourism; member of the Panel of the Ministry of International and External Economic Relations of the Sverdlovsk region; member of the Tourism Development Council of the Sverdlovsk region.

3. To elect as the executive director of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association:

Alexander V. Ponomarev. Born 1957. Graduated from the Chemical Engineering Faculty of UPI. 1983 - becomes Candidate of chemical sciences; 1983-1985 – Deputy Chairman of the UPI Student Union for organizational activities; 1996-2010 – Vice-rector for non-curricular student activities at UPI; 2009 – receives doctoral degree in Pedagogy; 2008-present time – head of the Academic Department of Youth Management in UrFU; 2010-2011 – Vice-rector for youth and social policy of UrFU; 2012-present time – Executive Director of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association. 2014-present time – Deputy First Vice-rector of UrFU. Honorary worker of higher vocational education of the Russian Federation; 2004 – honorary worker of youth policy of the Russian Federation; 2005 – Laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Education; 2008 – honorary worker of higher education of the Russian Federation; honorary worker of education of the Republic of Mongolia; was awarded a Diploma of Honor by the Kyrgyz Republic and a medal “Friendship” by the Republic of Mongolia.

4. To approve the Board of the UPI, USU and UrFU Alumni Association consisting of:

Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics:

From the Department of Physics: Marina N. Vshivtseva – graduated from the Faculty of Physics in 1984. Executive Vice-president of the regional employers council “The Sverdlovsk Regional Council of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs”.

From the Department of Chemistry: Irina V. Kochergina – graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry in 1971. Director of the Ekaterinburg “Study Abroad” center. 

Ural Institute of Humanities:

From the Department of History: Alexander V. Vasilevsky – graduated from the Faculty of History in 1993. Deputy Head of the Regional Office of the Strategic Initiatives Agency for new projects promotion.

From the Department of Philology: Alexey V. Glazyrin – graduated from the Faculty of Philology in 1994. Director General of the “Newton” group. 

From the Department of Political Science and Sociology: Marina P. Gnativ – graduated from the Department of Sociology in 1999/2001. Head of the Traffic Center for Professional Staff Selection at Sverdlovsk Railway, branch of «RZD» JSC. 

From the Department of Arts and Sociocultural Technologies: Aslan M. Kagiev – graduated from the Department in 2014. Deputy First Vice-Rector of Students’ Capacity Development of UrFU, President of the Students Union of UrFU.

From the Department of Cultural Studies: Alisa Y. Prudnikova – graduated from the Faculty of Art and Cultural Studies of Ural State University in 2003. Head of the Ural branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art.

From the Department of International Relations: Farit R. Gimaditdinov – graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of Ural State University in 2004. Head of Foreign Economic Activities Office at “Medtechnica” company.

Institute of New Materials and Technologies

From the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Alexander B. Kotelnikov – graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of UPI in 1980. Manager of “Mashprom” research company.

From the Department of Metallurgy and Metal Science: Igor V. Kudryavtsev – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Metallurgy in 1986. Executive Vice-president of the regional employers council “The Sverdlovsk Regional Council of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs”.

From the Department of Constructional Materials Science: Tatiana Y. Frolova, graduated from the Faculty of Constructional Materials Science in 1998. Executive Director of “UralBeton” LLC. 

Institute of Chemical Engineering: Alexey Y. Karavaev – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Chemical Engineering in 1991. Director of the “Gulliver” furniture mall. 

Institute of Physics and Technology: Mikhail V. Zhukovsky – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Physics and Technology in 1978. Head of the Industrial Ecology institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Institute of Radioelectronics and Information Technology: Mark V. Markov – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Radio Technology in 2004. Head of the “Smart City” project in “Gas Service” LLC.

Graduate School of Economics and Management: Anton A. Dzhugan – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Economics and Management in 2003. Deputy Head of the Ural branch of “Moscow Exchange” PJSC.

Ural Power Engineering Institute: Pavel A. Martyanov – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Thermal Power Engineering in 1996. Head of Bogdanovich district.

Institute of Civil Engineering: Alexey V. Birulin – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Civil Engineering in 2001. Manager of “PIK Group” division in Ekaterinburg.

Institute of Fundamental Education: Alexander S. Levedev – graduated from the Institute of Fundamental Education in 2012. Lead software engineer at 1C systems Development Office in “UMMC Holding”. PhD student of UrFU.

Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship: Sergey V. Kulpin – graduated from the Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship in 2010. Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Administration and Entrepreneurship for project work.

Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Youth Policy: Anastasia Y. Lebedeva – graduated from the Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Youth Policy in 2008. Deputy Head of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism Development Office of Ekaterinburg City Administration. 

From the Kazakh Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Nurtay A. Abykaev – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1972. President of Kazakh National Academy of Natural Sciences. 

From the Mongolian Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Mukhbayar Gombosurengiyn – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Civil Engineering in 1989. 

From the Kyrgyz Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU:

Sagynbek U. Abdrakhmanov – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Engineering and Economics in 1990. President of Chokmorov Public Foundation.

Gulbara B. Sydykova – graduated from the USU Faculty of Philology in 1985. Professor of Kyrgyz State University named after Jusup Balasagyn.

From the Chinese Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Tszin Tszyan – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Engineering and Economics in 1990. Lead specialist in Russian Economics Research of the Institute of Russia, Western Europe and Central Asia of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

From the Armenian Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Alexan A. Azaryan – graduated from the UrFU Institute of Radioelectronics and IT in 2014. PhD student of the UrFU Graduate School of Economics and Management. 

From the Tadjik Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Akmal Tuliev – graduated from the UrFU Ural Power Engineering Institute in 2015.

From the Moscow Office of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU:

Andrey L. Vetluzhskih – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1978. Head of the Sverdlovsk oblast Federation of Trade Unions. Member of the seventh convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Ya. Shkolnik – graduated from the USU Faculty of Journalism. Director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.

From the Nevyansk office of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Evgeny T. Kayumov – graduated from the UPI Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1982. Manager of Gornozavodskoy administrative district of the Sverdlovsk region.

From the Noyabrsk office of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU: Ildus Kh. Rezyapov – graduated from the USU faculty of Political Science and Sociology in 1999. Adviser to the Head of administration of Noyabrsk.

5. To include the Heads of Nizhniy Tagil And Kamensk-Uralsky offices of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU to the Board after their elections. 

6. To include the alumni nominated by the co-chairpersons of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU to the Board of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU.

7. To approve the audit commission of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU consisting of:

Evgeny V. Morozov, graduated from the UPI Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 1998, Director General of the “AIRcom” Engineering Company.

Oleg V. Obukhov, graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Management in 1999; head of the Department of Economics and Production Quality Management, UrFU Graduate School of Economics and Management.

Tatiana A. Nikitenko, graduated from the Faculty of Civil Metallurgy in 1997, Deputy Head of Social Work Department of UrFU.

8. To approve the work plan of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU for the years 2018-2020.

9. To approve the Co-chairman A. Matern’s report on the work of the Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU in 2016-2017.