University of Tyumen

The University of Tyumen, also known as Tyumen State University, is a public research university in Tyumen, the administrative centre of Tyumen Oblast in western Siberia and the oldest higher-education institution in the region, founded in 1930.秋明国立大学（University of Tyumen，俄文 Тюменский государственный университет）位于西伯利亚西部秋明州首府秋明市，1930 年创办，是该州历史最悠久的高等学府。

It teaches through 15 institutes and schools, enrols more than 20,000 students, including over 2,000 from other countries, and employs about 1,500 academic staff across 175 fields of study.该校设有 15 个学院与研究所，在读学生超过 20000 人，其中国际学生逾 2000 人，约 1500 名教研人员承担 175 个专业方向的教学。

The university sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, is placed 2,144th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027, and did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education or 2026 Shanghai ARWU tables.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 2144 位，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

History

• Tyumen's first higher-education institution opened in 1930 as the Tyumen Agro-Pedagogical Institute, created because the campaign for universal primary schooling had left the region desperately short of trained teachers.1930 年，秋明州第一所高等院校以秋明农业师范学院之名开办，其直接动因是普及初等教育的运动使当地严重缺乏受过训练的教师。
• Its original brief was practical rather than scholarly, teaching agriculture, chemistry, biology and physics so that graduates could staff village schools and state farms in a province that still had no university.该校最初的办学定位偏重实务而非学术，教授农业、化学、生物学与物理学，使毕业生能够充实这个尚无大学的省份的乡村学校与国营农场。
• In 1934 the institute was renamed the Tyumen State Pedagogical Institute, a title it held for four decades and which fixed its identity as the region's teacher-training centre.1934 年，该校更名为秋明国立师范学院，这一校名沿用四十年，也确立了它作为本地区师资培养中心的身份。
• An experimental plot was established in 1935, the first sign of organised research, and staff began collecting local plants and soils for teaching and for agricultural trials.1935 年该校建立实验园地，这是有组织科研的最初迹象，教师开始采集当地植物与土壤用于教学和农业试验。
• Between 1936 and 1940 the institute sent expeditions to the northern Altai and began a long programme of research into the languages and folklore of the indigenous peoples of the north, alongside regional teaching courses for local adults.1936 至 1940 年间，该校派队考察阿尔泰北部，并启动了对北方原住民族语言与民俗的长期研究，同时为当地成年人开设区域教学课程。
• The Second World War broke the institute's routine in July 1941, when more than a hundred students, professors and staff left for the front, yet teaching and examinations continued with the colleagues who remained.1941 年 7 月，第二次世界大战打乱了学校的日常，百余名师生员工奔赴前线，但教学与考试仍在留下的同事手中继续。
• In February 1942 the institute held an academic conference at which 20 papers were presented in mathematics, chemistry, geography, psychology, literature, the Russian language and the struggle against fascism.1942 年 2 月，该校举办学术会议，宣读论文 20 篇，涵盖数学、化学、地理学、心理学、文学、俄语以及反法西斯斗争等主题。
• The discovery of the Samotlor oil field in 1965 turned West Siberia into the centre of the Soviet oil industry and brought a flood of geologists, builders and planners to Tyumen, changing the city around the institute.1965 年萨莫特洛尔油田的发现使西伯利亚西部成为苏联石油工业的中心，大批地质工作者、建设者与规划人员涌入秋明，也改变了学校所在的城市。
• In response the institute's departments turned to prospecting, drilling and extraction in the marshy taiga, and it began training geologists, chemists and engineers alongside schoolteachers.作为回应，该校各系转向沼泽针叶林地带的勘探、钻井与开采问题，并在培养教师之外开始培养地质、化学与工程人才。
• On 1 January 1973 the USSR Council of Ministers converted the Pedagogical Institute into Tyumen State University, recognising that a teacher-training college could no longer serve an oil province of that size.1973 年 1 月 1 日，苏联部长会议决定将师范学院升格为秋明国立大学，理由是单一的师资培训学院已无法服务如此规模的石油省份。
• The first rector of the new university was Igor Aleksandrov, a doctor of physics and mathematics, who set the institution on a research path rather than a purely pedagogical one.新大学的首任校长是物理数学博士伊戈尔·亚历山德罗夫，他把学校引向研究型道路，而非单纯的师范教育。
• Between 1973 and 1987 the university expanded its faculties steadily, adding economics, law, philology, journalism and the natural sciences to the original pedagogical core.1973 至 1987 年间，该校稳步扩充院系，在原有师范核心之外增设经济学、法学、语文学、新闻学与自然科学。
• Cooperation with Chinese universities began around 1990, when the university opened contacts with institutions such as Fuzhou University and the China University of Petroleum, a link that later produced student exchanges and joint research.该校与中国的合作始于 1990 年前后，先后与福州大学、中国石油大学等院校建立联系，这些关系后来发展为学生交换与联合研究。
• In 2010 the university reorganised its faculties into institutes, replacing the old department-based structure with larger units intended to combine teaching, research and contract work for industry.2010 年，该校把各系整合为学院与研究所，以规模更大的单元取代旧的教研室结构，意在把教学、科研与面向产业的合同研究结合起来。
• That reform produced the present set of 15 institutes, among them Finance and Economics, State and Law, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Physics and Technology, Earth Sciences, Biology, Philology and Journalism, and History and Political Sciences.这次改革形成了如今的 15 个学院与研究所，其中包括财政经济、国家与法律、数学与计算机科学、物理与技术、地球科学、生物学、语文学与新闻学、历史与政治学等。
• In 2015 the university was selected for Project 5-100, the Russian programme that channelled extra funding to universities expected to compete in global rankings.2015 年，该校入选俄罗斯「5-100 计划」，该计划向被寄望参与全球排名竞争的大学提供额外经费。
• By 2016 the university reported 84 cooperation agreements with foreign universities and organisations, seven of them with institutions placed in the top 200 of the THE, QS or ARWU rankings.到 2016 年，该校已与国外高校和机构签署 84 项合作协议，其中 7 项的合作方位列泰晤士高等教育、QS 或软科排名的前 200 名。
• In 2017 the university adopted the English brand University of Tyumen and a new visual identity, while its Russian legal name remained Tyumen State University.2017 年，该校启用英文品牌「University of Tyumen」并更换视觉标识，其俄文法定校名仍为秋明国立大学。
• The same reform introduced individual educational trajectories, allowing students to build part of their curriculum from elective modules instead of following a single fixed timetable.同一轮改革引入了「个性化培养路径」，允许学生以选修模块构建部分课程，而不必遵循单一固定课表。
• A Chinese Centre opened in 2018 to support language teaching and academic exchange with Chinese partners, reflecting the university's growing focus on the Asia-Pacific region.2018 年该校设立中国中心，用于支持汉语教学与对华学术交流，反映出它对亚太地区日益增加的重视。
• Rector Valery Falkov, who had led the university since 2013, was appointed Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia in January 2020, leaving the institution under interim leadership.自 2013 年起担任校长的瓦列里·法尔科夫于 2020 年 1 月出任俄罗斯科学与高等教育部部长，学校随之进入临时领导阶段。
• Ivan Romanchuk became acting rector in April 2020 and later rector, continuing the internationalisation and project-based research agenda set during the 5-100 years.伊万·罗曼丘克于 2020 年 4 月出任代理校长，后正式担任校长，延续「5-100 计划」时期确立的国际化与项目制研究路线。
• Cooperation with the University of the Arctic, a network of more than 200 circumpolar institutions, was paused after the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, ending a decade of Arctic student mobility.2022 年乌克兰战争爆发后，该校与「北极大学」这一拥有 200 多个环极机构的网络的合作暂停，长达十年的北极学生流动随之中断。
• By 2023 the university enrolled 2,154 international students from more than 40 countries, and its official figures for the mid-2020s put total enrolment above 20,000 with about 1,500 academic staff.到 2023 年，该校招收来自 40 多个国家的 2154 名国际学生，其 2020 年代中期的官方数据称在校生超过 20000 人，教研人员约 1500 人。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into 15 institutes and schools, including Finance and Economics, State and Law, Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Technology, Earth Sciences and Biology.教学按 15 个学院与研究所组织，包括财政经济、国家与法律、数学与计算机科学、化学、物理与技术、地球科学与生物学等。
• The remaining units are Philology and Journalism, History and Political Sciences, Psychology and Pedagogy, Physical Education, Distance Education, Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), the Regional Institute of International Cooperation and the School of Advanced Studies.其余单元为语文学与新闻学、历史与政治学、心理学与教育学、体育、远程教育、环境与农业生物学研究所（X-BIO）、地区国际合作研究所以及高等研究院。
• The university offers 175 fields of study at bachelor, specialist, master and doctoral levels, in full-time, part-time and distance formats.该校在本科、专家学位、硕士与博士层次开设 175 个专业方向，并提供全日制、非全日制与远程三种学习形式。
• Official figures for the mid-2020s give more than 20,000 students, over 2,000 of them international, and about 1,500 academic staff, a student-to-teacher ratio of roughly thirteen to one.该校 2020 年代中期的官方数据为在校生逾 20000 人，其中留学生超过 2000 人，教研人员约 1500 人，师生比约为十三比一。
• The School of Advanced Studies, known as SAS, teaches master's and doctoral programmes in English and recruits both Russian and foreign students for research-based degrees.高等研究院（SAS）以英语开设硕士与博士项目，同时招收俄罗斯与外国学生攻读研究型学位。
• Undergraduate admission rests mainly on the Unified State Examination, with additional places reserved for winners of school olympiads and for applicants with special talents in sport and the arts.本科招生主要依据国家统一考试，另为中学奥林匹克竞赛优胜者以及在体育、艺术方面有特长的申请者保留名额。
• The Polytechnic School runs the country's only master's programme in conceptual engineering of oil and gas deposits, developed with the company Gazprom Neft.该校理工学院与俄罗斯天然气工业石油公司合作，开设全国唯一的油气藏概念工程硕士项目。
• A basic department for the measurement of oil and gas flow, run with industry, gives students laboratory access to metering equipment used on export pipelines.该校与产业界共建的油气流量计量基础教研室，使学生能够在实验室接触出口管道所用的计量设备。
• X-BIO, the Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology, works on biodiversity, soil science, plant protection and the ecology of the West Siberian plain and its rivers.环境与农业生物学研究所（X-BIO）研究生物多样性、土壤学、植物保护以及西西伯利亚平原及其河流的生态。
• The Institute of Earth Sciences covers geology, geophysics, geography and geoecology, fields shaped by the province's oil and gas industry and by the study of permafrost and northern environments.地球科学研究所涵盖地质学、地球物理学、地理学与地质生态学，这些学科既受本州油气产业塑造，也关涉多年冻土与北方环境研究。
• The Institute of State and Law and the Institute of Finance and Economics supply the region's administration, courts, banks and tax service with graduates, and run continuing education for public servants.国家与法律研究所及财政经济研究所为本州行政机关、法院、银行与税务系统输送毕业生，并为公务员提供继续教育。
• The Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy continues the teacher-training mission of 1930, preparing school psychologists, speech therapists and subject teachers for Tyumen Oblast and the northern districts.心理学与教育学研究所延续 1930 年以来的师资培养使命，为秋明州及北部各区培养学校心理学家、言语治疗师与学科教师。
• The Regional Institute of International Cooperation trains interpreters, regional specialists and managers for cross-border work, and supports the university's agreements with foreign partners.地区国际合作研究所培养翻译、区域研究人才与涉外管理人才，并支撑该校与外国伙伴的合作协议。
• International activity is built on cooperation agreements with foreign universities, and the university holds four summer schools, among them STEP on Russian energy and a programme on the history and culture of western Siberia.该校的国际活动以与外国高校的合作协议为基础，设有四个暑期学校，其中包括聚焦俄罗斯能源的 STEP 项目以及关注西伯利亚西部历史与文化的项目。
• One summer school, Energy Policy in Eurasia, is organised jointly with the European University at St Petersburg, while another, Explore your own Siberia, brings foreign students to field sites in the region.其中「欧亚能源政策」暑期学校与圣彼得堡欧洲大学合办，另一个「探索你自己的西伯利亚」项目则带外国学生进入本地区的野外站点。
• An International Centre of Inclusive Education, created with support from the Tempus programme, produced the SEEALL electronic textbook that teaches blind users to read and write Braille.该校在国际 Tempus 计划支持下设立包容性教育国际中心，研制出 SEEALL 电子教材，帮助盲人学习者掌握盲文读写。
• The university is one of the employers of Russia's Global Education Program, which sends Russian specialists abroad for master's degrees in priority fields and requires them to return to work.该校是俄罗斯「全球教育计划」的接收单位之一，该计划资助俄罗斯专业人员赴海外攻读优先领域硕士学位，并要求他们学成回国服务。

Campus

• The university has no walled single site. Its buildings are spread through the centre of Tyumen, around 57.16 degrees north and 65.53 degrees east, within walking distance of the Tura River embankment.该校没有围墙围合的单一校园，各教学楼散布于秋明市中心，地处北纬 57.16 度、东经 65.53 度附近，步行可达图拉河畔。
• The Institute of Finance and Economics occupies 16 Lenina Street, one of the main avenues of the city, while the X-BIO institute works from 25 Lenina Street.财政经济研究所位于城市主干道列宁街 16 号，环境与农业生物学研究所则设于列宁街 25 号。
• The Library and Museum Complex at 18 Semakova Street combines the main library, exhibition rooms and university museums in a single building near the historic centre.位于谢马科夫街 18 号的图书馆与博物馆综合体把主图书馆、展厅与校属博物馆集中在一座建筑内，靠近历史城区。
• Four dormitories house non-resident and international students, and the university describes its accommodation as part of a residential campus with classrooms, laboratories and research centres nearby.该校有四座学生宿舍，供外地与国际学生居住，校方把住宿区与邻近的教室、实验室和研究中心一并视为寄宿型校园的组成部分。
• Research space is distributed among the institutes rather than concentrated in one science park, with laboratories for chemistry, physics, biology, geology and engineering fitted into the older buildings.科研空间分散于各研究所而非集中于单一科学园，化学、物理、生物学、地质学与工程实验室被安置在较早建成的楼宇中。
• Tyumen itself was founded in 1586 as the first Russian town beyond the Urals, and its position on the Tura made it a trading post before it became the service capital of the oil industry.秋明城建于 1586 年，是乌拉尔山以东第一座俄罗斯城镇，凭借图拉河的水运先成为贸易据点，后来又成为石油工业的后勤之都。
• The city is served by the Trans-Siberian Railway and by Roshchino international airport, and the university's central buildings are close to the main railway station and the bus network.该市有西伯利亚大铁路与罗希诺国际机场，该校的中心教学楼距火车总站与公交网络都不远。
• Because the campus is embedded in the city, students move between lectures through ordinary streets, using the shops, cafes and libraries of Tyumen's centre rather than a self-contained university quarter.由于校园嵌入城市肌理，学生在普通街区间往返上课，使用的是秋明市中心的商店、咖啡馆与图书馆，而非自成一体的大学生活区。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university is listed in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final segment in which 102 institutions are tied rather than individually placed.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，该校列入 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端不设上限的并列段，共有 102 所院校并列其中。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 places it 2,144th in the world, a position that reflects its research output and its regional rather than global reputation.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名将该校列于世界第 2144 位，这一位置反映其科研产出以及偏重区域而非全球的声誉。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 or the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities main table, and no older result is substituted for those years.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，正文不以旧年份成绩替代。
• Its best recorded QS result was the 801-1000 band in 2022, the same year it was placed 1,201st by Times Higher Education, 2,383rd by Webometrics and 2,496th by URAP.该校有记录的最好 QS 成绩是 2022 年的 801-1000 区间，同年泰晤士高等教育将其列于第 1201 位，Webometrics 列第 2383 位，URAP 列第 2496 位。
• The gap between the 2022 QS band and the 2027 placement reflects both methodological changes in the ranking and the exclusion of Russian institutions from some international data exchanges after 2022.2022 年 QS 区间与 2027 年位次之间的落差，既源于排名方法的变化，也与 2022 年后俄罗斯高校被排除在部分国际数据交换之外有关。
• Participation in Project 5-100 from 2015 raised the university's international profile, and the programme's targets pushed it to publish in indexed journals and to recruit foreign students.2015 年起参与「5-100 计划」提升了该校的国际能见度，该计划的目标也推动它在索引期刊发表论文并招收外国学生。
• Its recognised research strengths lie in oil and gas engineering, the geology of West Siberia, environmental and agricultural biology, Arctic ecology and the social sciences of northern regions.该校公认的研究强项在于油气工程、西西伯利亚地质、环境与农业生物学、北极生态以及北方地区的社会科学。
• No Nobel laureate, Fields Medalist or Turing Award winner has been affiliated with the university. Its highest individual honour is an Olympic gold medal won by the biathlete Galina Kukleva in 1998.该校尚无诺贝尔奖、菲尔兹奖或图灵奖得主，其最高的个人荣誉是冬季两项运动员加林娜·库克列娃在 1998 年获得的奥运金牌。
• Within Russia the university is treated as the leading classical university of the Tyumen region, and its graduates dominate the regional administration, the courts and the oil-service companies of the north.在俄罗斯国内，该校被视为秋明地区领军的古典大学，其毕业生主导着本州行政机关、法院以及北部的油田服务企业。

Student life

• The university has no formal Latin motto, and its public identity is built instead on the claim to be the first and oldest university of Tyumen Oblast.该校没有正式的拉丁文校训，其公共形象主要建立在「秋明州第一所也是最古老大学」这一说法之上。
• Four dormitories provide rooms for students from other cities and from abroad, and the university runs an orientation programme and a student loyalty scheme for discounts in local businesses.四座宿舍为外地与外国学生提供床位，校方还设有新生入学导引项目以及面向学生的本地商户折扣计划。
• Student clubs and societies are administered through a student life office, covering sport, volunteering, journalism, debating and national-cultural associations for the international student body.学生社团由学生事务部门统一管理，涵盖体育、志愿服务、新闻、辩论以及面向国际学生的民族文化协会。
• The Institute of Physical Education trains coaches and PE teachers and manages the university's sports facilities, which are used by student teams in volleyball, basketball, skiing and track athletics.体育研究所培养教练与体育教师，并管理校属体育设施，学生排球队、篮球队、滑雪队与田径队都在此训练。
• Tyumen, with about 850,000 residents, gives students a compact cultural scene of drama theatre, philharmonic hall, local-history museum and the riverside embankment opened as a public promenade.秋明约有 85 万居民，为学生提供紧凑的文化生活，包括话剧院、爱乐厅、地方志博物馆以及作为公共滨水步道开放的城市河岸。
• The international summer schools bring foreign students into campus life for two to four weeks, and local students act as buddies and guides during their stay.国际暑期学校让外国学生在校园生活两至四周，当地学生在其停留期间担任伙伴与向导。
• Because the institutes sit in different parts of the centre, student life is dispersed across the city rather than concentrated on a quadrangle, and each institute develops its own societies and events.由于各研究所分布在不同街区，学生生活分散于全城而非集中于某一方院，每个研究所也因此发展出自己的社团与活动。
• The university's inclusive education centre supports students with disabilities, and the SEEALL device it developed is used in Braille teaching beyond Tyumen, giving the student body an unusual assistive-technology project.该校的包容性教育中心为残障学生提供支持，其研制的 SEEALL 设备在秋明以外也用于盲文教学，使该校拥有一个不同寻常的辅助技术项目。

Notable people

• Igor Aleksandrov, a doctor of physics and mathematics, was the first rector of Tyumen State University after its creation in 1973 and shaped its shift from a pedagogical institute to a research university.物理数学博士伊戈尔·亚历山德罗夫是 1973 年秋明国立大学成立后的首任校长，他推动了学校从师范学院向研究型大学的转变。
• Valery Falkov was rector from 2013 to 2020 and then became Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation in January 2020.瓦列里·法尔科夫自 2013 年至 2020 年任校长，随后于 2020 年 1 月出任俄罗斯联邦科学与高等教育部部长。
• Vladimir Yakushev, a graduate of the university, was governor of Tyumen Oblast from 2005 to 2018 and then Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of Russia.该校毕业生弗拉基米尔·雅库舍夫于 2005 年至 2018 年任秋明州州长，后出任俄罗斯建设、住房与公用事业部副部长级的部长职务。
• Aleksandr Moor, another alumnus, served as governor of Tyumen Oblast from 2018, having earlier been mayor of Tyumen and head of the regional construction sector.另一位校友亚历山大·莫尔自 2018 年起任秋明州州长，此前曾任秋明市市长并主管州建筑行业。
• Dmitry Artyukhov, who studied at the university, has been governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug since 2018, one of the main gas-producing regions of Russia.曾在该校就读的德米特里·阿尔秋霍夫自 2018 年起担任亚马尔-涅涅茨自治区州长，该自治区是俄罗斯主要的天然气产区之一。
• Galina Kukleva, a biathlete who trained at the university, won the 7.5 kilometre sprint at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and three world championship titles.在该校训练的冬季两项运动员加林娜·库克列娃在 1998 年长野冬奥会夺得 7.5 公里短距离金牌，并三获世界冠军。
• Sergey Savin, a volleyball player, represented Russia and played for Lokomotiv Novosibirsk after beginning his career in Tyumen, and is counted among the university's sporting alumni.排球运动员谢尔盖·萨文从秋明起步，后来代表俄罗斯出战并效力于新西伯利亚火车头俱乐部，被列为该校体育校友。
• Sam Strizhak, a graduate, became lead game designer of Tanki Online, a browser tank game developed in Russia and played by millions of users worldwide.该校毕业生萨姆·斯特里扎克后来担任《坦克世界闪击战》前身《Tanki Online》的首席游戏设计师，这款俄罗斯开发的网页坦克游戏拥有全球数百万玩家。
• Ivan Romanchuk, rector since the 2020 leadership change, previously worked in regional government and in the university's project office for the 5-100 programme.伊万·罗曼丘克自 2020 年领导层更替后担任校长，此前曾在州政府以及该校「5-100 计划」项目办公室任职。
• Vladimir Cheboksarov, a former wrestler and graduate, is remembered in the alumni list alongside the poets, journalists and historians whom the university trained in its pedagogical decades.前摔跤运动员、该校毕业生弗拉基米尔·切博克萨罗夫与该校师范年代培养的诗人、记者和历史学家一同被列入校友名录。