Ural Federal University
| Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина | |
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| Latin: Universitas Uralensis | |
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Former names
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Ural State Technical University |
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| Motto |
Russian: Думай, делай, достигай! Latin: Cogitare, agere, consequi! |
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Motto in English
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Think, act, achieve! |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1920 (established), 2011 (integrated) |
| Endowment | RUB 57.2 million (~USD 871 thousand) (April 2016) |
| President | Stanislav Naboychenko (until 2013) |
| Rector | Victor Koksharov |
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Academic staff
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5157 (April 2016) |
| Students | 33220 (April 2016) |
| Location |
 Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia56°50′38″N 60°39′14″E / 56.8440°N 60.6539°ECoordinates: 56°50′38″N 60°39′14″E / 56.8440°N 60.6539°E |
| Campus | urban |
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| Affiliations | University of the Arctic, Association of Sino-Russian Technical Universities, Russian Council on International Affairs, The Euroasian Universities Association, Association of technical universities of Russia and China, International Association of Architecture and Construction Higher Educational Institutions, Association of Russian leading Universities, Erasmus Plus, BRICS Network University, SCO Network University, CIS University |
| Website | http://urfu.ru |
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The Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin (Russian: Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина, Uralʹskiĭ federalʹnyĭ universitet imeni pervogo Prezidenta Rossii B.N. Yelʹtsina, often shortened to UrFU, УрФУ) (formed by a merger of the Ural State Technical University and Ural State University) is one of the leading educational institutions in the Ural region. Ural Federal University acts as a research and innovation center of the Ural region and has close cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences. Training of students is carried out in four main areas of knowledge and 108 academic majors. The links between the university and intermediate educational institutions are actively developed. The University also performs consistent work on establishing strategic partnership with employers for the sake of development of the regional economy: employers are involved in the educational environment as direct participants, large-scale enployers-sponsored and corporate education is carried out based on the client-centered approach, joint business projects in economic and social areas are realized.
The Ural University is the oldest university in the Ural region. It was established in the town of Ekaterinburg in 1920 by the decree of the head of Soviet revolutionary government Vladimir Lenin. However, the newly-born university underwent a number of changes due to the lack of resources in such circumstances as revolution and civil war. Finally, the university split into two: Ural State University (USU), a smaller university responsible for education in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and Ural Polytechnic Institute (USTU-UPI), a larger one which was focused on training engineers in areas such as metallurgy, machine-building, civil engineering and energetics. At the same time, UPI was developing several new (for the time) areas of knowledge like nuclear energetics, organic chemistry and synthesis, and telecommunications.
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