20 Billion Rubles: Russian Government Supports Construction of New Campus

10:45, July 14, 2022

In addition to dormitories, two institutes and a lyceum will be built there

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order to allocate 20 billion rubles from the federal budget for the design and construction of a new campus of Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg. The document was published on July 11 on the official website of the Legal Information.

Last year, UrFU was one of eight winners of a federal competition to create a world-class campus.

"The Government's support gives us encouragement to create a world-class educational campus in Ekaterinburg. The latest infrastructure will allow the university to maximize its educational, scientific and innovative potential. Students, postgraduates, and talented high school students of the university's Specialized Education and Research Center will have access to modern classrooms and laboratories, which will certainly have an impact on progress in the technological sphere. all these efforts will benefit both the region and the country as a whole," said Victor Koksharov, Rector of UrFU.

Earlier Evgeny Kuyvashev, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region and a member of the Supervisory Board of UrFU, noted that the business community allocated 9 billion rubles in addition to the state investments.

"Large-scale projects such as the construction of a university campus are always a definite point of growth for science, business, and the economy as a whole. Today there is a great demand for domestic developments and solutions capable of replacing foreign analogues. The Ural has all the opportunities to successfully solve these tasks. The IT sphere and technology sector are developing dynamically here, and there is a production base. The key issue of the near future is highly qualified staff. The construction of a world-class campus will improve the quality of training and create conditions for the further development of the scientific and educational cluster," said Vladimir Yakushev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District.

By 2026 in the Novokoltsovsky District of Ekaterinburg, where the dormitories of the Village of International University Sports Federation will already be opened, the buildings of the Engineering School of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Control Systems and the Graduate School of Economics and Management, as well as the building of the Specialized Education and Research Center, are to be built.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office
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