II Forum of Rectors of Russia and Kyrgyzstan to Be Held at Ural Federal University in 2021

16:17, February 12, 2021

Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan initiated a meeting with Sverdlovsk regional authorities and Rector Koksharov

Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan Nurlan Umarov, Consul General of Kyrgyzstan in Yekaterinburg from Kyrgyz side, and Sverdlovsk Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Vasilii Kozlov, and UrFU Rector Victor Koksharov alongside with representative of Russian Union of Rectors from Russian side discussed future goals and the agenda of the II Forum of Rectors of Russia and Kyrgyzstan. The parties reassured intention to hold the forum offline and in Yekaterinburg, namely at Ural Federal University as a main forum ground. 

"Greetings, dear colleagues! Yekaterinburg is a very interesting city for Kyrgyzstan-Russia relations. This forum will solidify our intention to explore Russia's regions. UrFU is certainly a very strong university, one of the strongest in the region and in Russia. Let us to find the positions on which we can start the talks, we are sure there is going to be plenty of good points," stated Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Kyrgyzstan Nurlan Umarov.

Rector Koksharov presented UrFU and Yekaterinburg as a main platform for the Russian-Kyrgyz forum, suggested that intergovernmental cooperation between the two countries will be valuable drivers for the agenda of the forum. Since September 2020, Ural Federal University has produced applicable scenarios for the forum, yet because of COVID-19 pandemic the event had to be rescheduled for 2021.

Sverdlovsk Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Vasilii Kozlov stated that the Sverdlovsk Region expects high scientific outcome from relations established at the forum and is ready to host the forum at the highest level, according to the status chosen by the sides. Vice Rector for Science and International Relations at Bishkek State University Gulnara Murzakhmetova, alumna of Ural State University (now UrFU), expressed significant hope in establishment of UrFU Kyrgyz Alumni Association to facilitate horizontal and network connections between the leaders in business and science of the two countries.