Construction of a Brand New UrFU Dormitory Started, Set to Be Finished by Late 2022

16:06, February 3, 2021

Out of 332 living blocks, 17 of them are designed for people with limited mobility

The construction of a new dormitory of the Ural Federal University has started yesterday. The builders have already started laying in the foundation: a site has been prepared, a foundation pit has been dug, the first piles have been driven in.

The project is being implemented by LSR Group. The construction of the building, where 1,328 students will live in comfortable conditions, will be completed by the end of 2022. It will first house volunteers of the FISU 2023 World Summer University Games.

For students of the new dormitory, accommodation is provided in block-type apartments, consisting of two rooms, an entrance hall, a kitchen-niche and a separate bathroom. Out of 332 living blocks, 17 of them are designed for people with limited mobility. Each kitchen will have a set with a hob and a refrigerator, in the rooms - beds with comfortable tables and wardrobes, in the hallway - a hanger with a shelf for hats, a stand for shoes. Furniture and TV sets will appear in the halls of the hostel. There are also utility rooms: laundry, ironing and drying rooms. Each laundry room has two front-loading washing machines. Four high-speed freight elevators will run between the floors of the new dormitory.

“The new building will accomodate more than a 1000 students and improve the infrastructure of the university, which over the past ten years has been supplemented with two dormitories, a swimming pool, a modern chemical pharmaceutical center, the country's only exemplary lean manufacturing factory and other significant facilities,” said UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov.

In 2013, in Yekaterinburg, LSR Group completed a new student building for UrFU No. 5 for 1000 people, and in 2017 - No. 8, which can accommodate 1230 students. Also, a new campus of student housing built for Universiade will be transferred to the university after the university games by late 2023.