Facts and Figures

•  UrFU is a leader among the federal universities and the universities participating in the “5-100-2020” program in terms of the number of publications in the scientific journals indexed by WEB OF SCIENCE.
• UrFU has a global research output;
• UrFU signed a cooperation agreement with Elsevier.
• UrFU has held a public lecture with a Nobel Prize Winner
• In the last four years the publications in journals indexed in international research databases has grown more than 2.5 times.
• Since 2014, more than 25% of UrFU publications are co-authored by foreign researchers.
• UrFU Research team annually performs more than 150 Russian and international contracts and grants.
• Every year UrFU awards 20 grants for foreign postdocs.
• About 40% of the full-time students are involved in scientific activities.
• In 2013, UrFU Professor Victor Grokhovsky has been included in the list of 10 people, who had changed the World, according to Nature journal.
• 29 research laboratories including 12 laboratories headed by the leading foreign researchers have already been established at UrFU.
• One of the 12 International laboratories is headed by Dr. Jean Jouzel, Nobel prize co-winner (Climate and Environmental Physics Laboratory).
• Mikhail Katsnelson (the Laureate of the 2013 Spinoza Prize) is one of the leading scientists participating in the research carried out at UrFU Key Center of Excellence “Center for First-principles Modelling of Advanced Materials”.
• The famous French researcher Marie-Pierre Rey is a head of Primary sources research International laboratory.
• Professor Rolf Zinkernagel (1996 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine together with Peter C. Doherty) is the Co-Head of the Key Center of Excellence “Experimental immunophysiology and immunochemistry”.
• UrFU is one of the top ranked scientific centers in Russia that strives to develop a broad scope of research subjects in natural, technical and social sciences, the humanities and economics.
• UrFU’s state-of-the-art research infrastructure allows our scientists to carry out innovative and multidisciplinary research that attracts the interest of renowned international scientific community

UrFU & Industry 

• Joint high-tech developments by UrFU scientists and representatives of the industry receive federal subsidies.
• The projects with “I-Teco” and NPO Automatica companies are the bright examples of the successful cooperation of UrFU and Russian enterprises.
• The Operation Center for Objects of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure ordered the system of radiological sensing of the atmosphere for the cosmodrome “Vostochny”.
• UrFU has the agreement with the company “FANUC” (the world’s leading manufacturer of equipment for industrial automation) in terms of joint training of specialists for high-tech industries, development and deployment of robotic “FANUC” equipment at industrial enterprises.