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10:36, May 26, 2014

The Rector of the University became an honorary doctor of Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences

In the end of the constituent assembly of Kazakhstan Alumni Association UrFU Rector Viktor Koksharov was awarded with a diploma of the honorary doctor of Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences.

The event took place yesterday in Astana. After the signing of a memorandum of cooperation between Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences ad Ural Federal University. The document was signed by President of Kazakhstan National Academy of Natural Sciences, who graduated from UPI Mechanical Faculty in 1970, Nurtai Abykayev and UrFU Rector Viktor Koksharov.

According to the memorandum, the parties intend to develop cooperation in the key scientific directions, such as Energetics, Pharmaceuticals and Mineral Resources Processing.

We would like to remind that Kazakhstan Alumni Association of UPI, USU and UrFU was established in Astana on May 20.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.