Уральский государственный университет им. А. М. Горького | |
| Motto | Hominem ūnīus librī timeō |
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Motto in English | Beware the man of one book (Thomas Aquinas) |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 19 October 1920 |
| Founder | Maxim Gorky |
| President | vacant |
| Rector | Dmitriy Bugrov |
Academic staff | 500 |
| Students | 8,000+ Full Time 10,000+ part-time and distance-education students |
| Address | 51, Lenina str., 620083, Yekaterinburg, Russia ,,,56°50′25″N60°37′00″E / 56.8404°N 60.6168°E /56.8404; 60.6168 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.usu.ru |
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TheUral State University (Russian:Урáльский госудáрственный университéт и́мени А.М. Гóрького,Urál'skiy gosudárstvennyy universitét ímeni A. M. Gór'kogo, often shortened toUSU,УрГУ) is apublic university located in the city ofYekaterinburg,Sverdlovsk Oblast,Russian Federation. Founded in 1920, it was an exclusive educational establishment made of severalinstitutes (educational and scientific divisions) which later became independentuniversities and schools.
Established in 1936 the university was named after one of its founders, Russian authorMaxim Gorky. It is the second oldest University in theMiddle Urals (the oldest beingUrals State University of Mines). It offers education in dozens of scientific and educational fields including 53 graduate programs. In 2007Dmitriy Bugrov was elected new rector,[1] while theincumbentVladimir Tretyakov took the office of the President, representing the university in international affairs.
The USU is organized into 95 chairs and 14 departments. These are Biology, Journalism, Culturology & Arts, History, Mathematics and Mechanics, Politology and Sociology, Psychology, Physics, Philology, Philosophy, Public relations, Chemistry, Foreign affairs, and Economics. Among the university's faculty there are 18academicians of theRussian Academy of Sciences.
The university also has alyceum,[2] the Leonardo Italian College, an Institute of Physics and Applied Mathematics, an Interregional Institute of Social Sciences, the Russian-American Institute of Economy and Business, the Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, a distance education center, the Russian Culture Institute, an observatory, a botanical garden, a scientific library with over 1,200,000 volumes, a publishing house, several museums, a special chair of Russian as foreign language, a laboratory fore-learning of foreign languages, and offers refresher courses and Institutes for Further Education and Training.
Every year the Ural State University hosts the Demidov Lectures - a series of lectures given by theDemidov Prize winners.
In 2011 the university has been joint to theUral Federal university after Boris Yeltsin. It was caused by the Russian Federation's Minister of Education order No.155 on February 2nd, 2011.
The most prominent scientific schools created in Ural State University:
USU was ranked 25th among Russian Ministry of Education's top universities in 2004 official university ranking of the Russian Ministry for Education,[5] According to theWebometrics Ranking's which is based on the volume of the web presence and the amount of web publications, USU is ranked 7th in Russia's top 100 Webometrics'[6] list of universities in Russia.
The location and the set of the symbols on the emblem of the Ural State University were officially approved on 24 April 2008.
The emblem centre represents the cross ofSaint Catherine of Alexandria, the patroness of Yekaterinburg. This is the concave-spiked four-part cross. Spikes, which form the cross, refer to one more symbol – the staff of Egyptian priests, keepers of sacred knowledge. This staff is also called the staff ofAnthony the Great, which symbolizes search and attainment of truth. A solar symbol – a cogwheel, put on the cross, symbolizes the sun and the light of knowledge. At the same time the wheel and the cross are St. Catherine's attribute, who, according to the legend, was condemned to bebroken on the wheel.
The three books symbolize the unity of thenatural sciences, theformal sciences and thehumanities and refer to the motto of the emblem: “Beware the man of one book”. (Thomas Aquinas)
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