Ural Federal University

The Ural Federal University, named after the first President of Russia, Boris N. Yeltsin, is a public research university in Yekaterinburg, the largest city of the Ural region, and one of ten Russian federal universities.以俄罗斯首任总统鲍里斯·叶利钦命名的乌拉尔联邦大学，是俄罗斯乌拉尔地区最大城市叶卡捷琳堡的一所公立研究型大学，也是俄罗斯十所联邦大学之一。

Its full Russian name is Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина, it is often shortened to UrFU, and it was created by merging the Ural State Technical University and the Ural State University.其俄语全名为 Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина，常简称 UrFU，由乌拉尔国立技术大学与乌拉尔国立大学合并而成。

The university offers programmes across four broad areas of knowledge and 108 academic majors, and it holds the right to award its own academic degrees, placing it in the 504th position of the QS World University Rankings 2027.该校在四个大学科门类、108 个专业方向上开设课程，并拥有自主授予学位的权利，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 504 位。

History

• The Ural University was established in the town of Ekaterinburg in 1920 by a decree of Vladimir Lenin, the head of the Soviet revolutionary government, although the revolution and civil war left it short of resources.乌拉尔大学由苏维埃革命政府首脑弗拉基米尔·列宁于 1920 年颁布法令，在叶卡捷琳堡设立，只是革命与内战使其一度资源匮乏。

• As it struggled with those shortages, the institution eventually divided into two, a smaller Ural State University for the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a larger Ural Polytechnic Institute focused on training engineers.在应对资源短缺的过程中，该校最终一分为二：规模较小的乌拉尔国立大学负责自然科学、社会科学与人文，规模较大的乌拉尔工学院则专注工程师培养。

• The Ural Polytechnic Institute trained specialists in metallurgy, machine-building, civil engineering and power engineering, the industrial disciplines on which the region's economy depended.乌拉尔工学院培养冶金、机械制造、土木工程与动力工程等专业人才，这些正是该地区经济所依赖的工业学科。

• It also developed newer fields of knowledge for its time, including nuclear energetics, organic chemistry and synthesis, and telecommunications.它还开拓了当时较新的知识领域，包括核能、有机化学与合成，以及电信。

• Despite the partition, the two institutions remained closely connected to each other throughout the Soviet period, sharing staff, students and research traditions.尽管彼此分立，这两所院校在整个苏联时期仍保持密切联系，共享师资、学生与研究传统。

• The first international students arrived at the Ural University in the 1940s, beginning a tradition of foreign enrolment that would widen over the following decades.首批国际学生于 1940 年代进入乌拉尔大学，开启了一项后来数十年间不断扩大的招收外国学生的传统。

• Over almost a century of history the institution has produced more than 2,500 specialists from Europe, Asia and Africa who studied in Ekaterinburg.在近一个世纪的历程中，该校培养了 2,500 余名来自欧洲、亚洲与非洲、于叶卡捷琳堡求学的专门人才。

• Boris Yeltsin, who graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering in 1955 and became the first President of the Russian Federation in 1991, gave the university the name it adopted from 2008 onward.鲍里斯·叶利钦 1955 年毕业于土木工程系，并于 1991 年成为俄罗斯联邦首任总统，正是他使这所大学自 2008 年起采用以其命名的校名。

• In 2009, by order of President Dmitry Medvedev, work began to form the Ural Federal University on the basis of the Ural State Technical University, and the process brought the Ural State University in as well.2009 年，依据总统德米特里·梅德韦杰夫的命令，以乌拉尔国立技术大学为基础组建乌拉尔联邦大学的工作启动，乌拉尔国立大学也随之并入。

• The merger of the two institutions into Ural Federal University began in 2009 and was completed by the spring of 2011, uniting the engineering and classical-university traditions in one body.两校合并为乌拉尔联邦大学的过程始于 2009 年，至 2011 年春完成，把工科传统与古典大学传统融于一体。

• The university marked the centenary of its 1920 founding in 2020, a date that ties the modern institution directly to Lenin's original decree.该校于 2020 年迎来 1920 年建校的百年，这一时间点把现代机构直接追溯到列宁当年那道法令。

• UrFU participates in the federal Priority 2030 programme, under which it is expected to act as a scientific, educational and innovative centre of international standing.该校参与联邦层面的「Priority 2030」计划，依此被期望成为具有国际水准的科学、教育与创新中心。

• In 2012 the university established its Alumni Association, and within a year it had opened overseas and domestic offices, including one in Mongolia and offices in Moscow and Kamensk-Uralsky.该校于 2012 年设立校友会，一年之内便在境内外设立办事处，包括蒙古一处以及莫斯科与卡缅斯克-乌拉尔斯基等地。

• Today the alumni association is represented in Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, China, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, reflecting a widening international footprint.如今校友会已在越南、乌兹别克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、哈萨克斯坦、中国、亚美尼亚与吉尔吉斯斯坦设立代表，反映出不断扩大的国际足迹。

• International students now come from more than 100 countries, and in 2024 the university hosted more than 4,400 of them.国际学生如今来自 100 多个国家，2024 年该校接收的国际学生超过 4,400 人。

• During the last decade the university received more than twenty international delegations, among them the ambassadors of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, South Africa and Mongolia.在过去十年里，该校接待了二十多个国际代表团，其中包括美国、法国、英国、瑞典、南非与蒙古的大使。

• A 2006 federal law on autonomous institutions led to the creation of a supervisory board, which by March 2019 was chaired by Dmitry Pumpyansky of the Sverdlovsk industrialists' union.2006 年关于自治机构的一部联邦法律促成了监事会的设立，截至 2019 年 3 月，监事会由斯维尔德洛夫斯克工业家联盟的德米特里·蓬皮扬斯基担任主席。

• Among the members of that supervisory board were Marina Borovskaya, a deputy minister of science and higher education, and Evgeny Kuyvashev, governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast.该监事会成员中包括科学与高等教育部副部长玛丽娜·博罗夫斯卡娅，以及斯维尔德洛夫斯克州州长叶夫根尼·库伊瓦舍夫。

• The university collaborates with the Russian Academy of Sciences and serves as a research and innovation centre for the entire Ural region of Russia.该校与俄罗斯科学院合作，并作为整个乌拉尔地区的研究与创新中心。

• In 2022, after the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war, the university paused its collaboration within the University of the Arctic, an international circumpolar network of more than 200 institutions.2022 年俄乌战争爆发后，该校暂停了在「北极大学」这一涵盖 200 多所机构的国际环北极网络中的合作。

• The university is now led by rector Ilya Obabkov, who became acting rector on 30 May 2025 and was confirmed as rector from 16 February 2026, with Victor Koksharov serving as president.该校现由校长伊利亚·奥巴布科夫领导，他于 2025 年 5 月 30 日出任代理校长，并自 2026 年 2 月 16 日起正式任校长，维克多·科克沙罗夫则担任校务委员会主席（President）。

• The Ural State University, the classical half of the present institution, was founded as the Sverdlovsk State University in 1931 and renamed the Ural State University in 1945.作为当今机构古典一翼的乌拉尔国立大学，1931 年以斯维尔德洛夫斯克国立大学之名创办，并于 1945 年更名为乌拉尔国立大学。

Academics

• UrFU organises its teaching and research through thirteen institutes, covering engineering, the natural sciences, the humanities, economics and management.乌拉尔联邦大学通过十三个学院组织教学与科研，涵盖工程、自然科学、人文、经济与管理。

• The institutes include the Engineering School of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Control Systems and the Graduate School of Economics and Management.这些学院包括信息技术、电信与控制系统工程学院，以及经济与管理研究生院。

• Further institutes cover Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Fundamental Education, New Materials and Technologies, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics.其他学院涵盖化学工程、土木工程与建筑、基础教育、新材料与技术，以及自然科学与数学。

• The remaining institutes are Open Educational Technologies, Physical Education, Sports and Youth Policy, Physics and Technology, the Ural Institute of Humanities and the Ural Power Engineering Institute, alongside the Ural Advanced Engineering School.其余学院包括开放教育技术学院、体育与青年政策学院、物理技术学院、乌拉尔人文学院与乌拉尔动力工程学院，以及乌拉尔高级工程学院。

• The university offers educational programmes in four areas of knowledge and 108 academic majors, with 358 educational programmes provided across its thirteen institutes.该校在四个大学科门类和 108 个专业方向开设课程，其十三个学院共提供 358 个培养项目。

• Full-time enrolment exceeded 45,000 students in 2024, making UrFU the largest federal university in Russia by student numbers.2024 年全日制在校生超过 45,000 人，使该校在学生规模上成为俄罗斯最大的联邦大学。

• Teaching is delivered by more than 4,400 faculty members, and foreign students drawn from more than 100 countries study under them.教学由 4,400 余名教师承担，来自 100 多个国家的外国学生在他们指导下学习。

• OpenAlex records 49,585 scholarly works attributed to UrFU carrying 714,175 citations, an output spread across physics, metallurgy, chemistry and the social sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校文献 49,585 篇、被引 714,175 次，其产出分布于物理、冶金、化学与社会科学等领域。

• The university's research strengths include condensed matter physics, optics and laser physics, radio physics, electronics and the spectroscopy of activated crystals.该校的研究强项包括凝聚态物理、光学与激光物理、无线电物理、电子学以及激活晶体光谱学。

• In power engineering it works on safe and clean energy, including nuclear and fusion energy, and on energy conservation and fuel efficiency.在动力工程方面，它研究安全清洁能源（含核能与聚变能），以及节能与燃料效率问题。

• Its metallurgy research develops resource-saving and environmentally friendly processing of ores and the creation of new metallic materials with designed properties.其冶金研究致力于矿产的节约资源型与环境友好型加工，以及按设计性能制造新型金属材料。

• In mathematics and mechanics the university works on control theory and differential games, algebraic systems and mathematical modelling in medicine.在数学与力学方面，该校研究控制论与微分对策、代数系统以及医学中的数学建模。

• Its chemistry and materials research spans chemical bonding, solid-state chemistry, polymers, catalysis and structural ceramics based on oxides, nitrides and carbides.其化学与材料研究涵盖化学键、固态化学、聚合物、催化，以及基于氧化物、氮化物与碳化物的结构陶瓷。

• The university also maintains a Specialized Education and Research Centre, known as Lyceum No. 130, for school pupils preparing for higher technical study.该校还设有一处专门的教学与研究中心，即第 130 中学（Lyceum No. 130），为准备接受高等技术教育的中学生提供培养。

• Branches extend its teaching to the region, with a Nizhny Tagil Technological Institute that has trained more than 14,500 engineers and a Polytechnical Institute in Kamensk-Uralsky.其分校把教学延伸到本地区：下塔吉尔技术学院已培养 14,500 余名工程师，卡缅斯克-乌拉尔斯基还设有一所工学院。

• Because the university holds the right to award its own academic degrees, it can run doctoral and higher-doctorate procedures without relying on an external awarding body.由于该校拥有自主授予学位的权利，它无须依赖外部授予机构即可开展博士及更高级别的学位程序。

• Its Institute of Physics and Technology and Ural Power Engineering Institute carry the university's long-standing strengths in condensed matter physics and in energy research.其物理技术学院与乌拉尔动力工程学院，承载着该校在凝聚态物理与能源研究方面的长期强项。

Campus

• The main campus is sited in Yekaterinburg, the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast on the eastern side of the Ural mountains, at coordinates 56.85733 degrees north and 60.61529 degrees east.主校区位于叶卡捷琳堡——乌拉尔山脉东侧斯维尔德洛夫斯克州的行政中心，坐标为北纬 56.85733 度、东经 60.61529 度。

• The university occupies 15 educational buildings on its Yekaterinburg site, together with 18 dormitories, 20 sports facilities and 438 multimedia classrooms.该校在叶卡捷琳堡校址设有 15 栋教学楼，另有 18 栋宿舍、20 处体育设施与 438 间多媒体教室。

• The city stands on the boundary between Europe and Asia, a location the university presents as fitting for an institution serving the whole Ural region.叶卡捷琳堡地处欧亚分界线上，该校把这一位置视为服务整个乌拉尔地区的一所大学所应有的区位。

• Its Nizhny Tagil Technological Institute is a multidisciplinary higher-education establishment in that industrial city, teaching mechanics, metallurgy and automation.其下塔吉尔技术学院设于这座工业城市，是一所多学科高等院校，教授机械、冶金与自动化。

• The Polytechnical Institute in Kamensk-Uralsky offers bachelor's programmes in radio engineering, electric power and metallurgy.卡缅斯克-乌拉尔斯基的工学院开设无线电技术、电力与冶金方向的本科课程。

• With campuses and branches across the region, UrFU reaches students beyond Yekaterinburg, from the mining towns of the Middle Urals to the industrial centres of the south.凭借遍布本地区的校区与分校，该校的服务对象超出叶卡捷琳堡，从中乌拉尔的矿业城镇一直延伸到南部的工业中心。

• The university's physical presence includes the historic buildings inherited from the Ural Polytechnic Institute and the Ural State University, adapted for modern teaching and research.该大学的实体存在包括承自乌拉尔工学院与乌拉尔国立大学的历史建筑，这些建筑被改造以适应现代教学与科研。

• A dedicated lyceum, Lyceum No. 130, sits within the university's structure to prepare school pupils for admission to its technical institutes.作为大学体制的一部分，第 130 中学专门为中学生升入其技术学院做准备。

• The university maintains student housing on a scale suited to its enrolment, with 18 dormitories supporting a full-time student body of more than 45,000.该校维持着与其招生规模相称的学生住宿体系，18 栋宿舍支持着超过 45,000 人的全日制学生群体。

• The Yekaterinburg campus also holds the university's central administrative buildings, its main library and the principal lecture complexes inherited from the two merged institutions.叶卡捷琳堡校区还设有该校的中央行政楼、主图书馆，以及由两所合并院校承继而来的主要讲堂建筑群。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Ural Federal University is placed 504th in the world, the position it cites in its current institutional profile.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，乌拉尔联邦大学位列世界第 504 位，这是其当前机构简介所引用的名次。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 801-1000 band, and the 2026 Shanghai Ranking (ARWU) places it in the 701-800 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校置于 801-1000 区间，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名则把它置于 701-800 区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings UrFU stands 550th in the world, its highest position among the four main global tables in that cycle.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 550 位，是该周期四大全球主榜中其最高的名次。

• Earlier cycles recorded positions such as 516th in the QS ranking of 2024, 959th in the U.S. News ranking of 2023 and the 1001-1200 band in the Times Higher Education ranking of 2024.更早的周期记录了若干名次，如 2024 年 QS 排名第 516 位、2023 年 US News 排名第 959 位，以及 2024 年泰晤士高等教育排名 1001-1200 区间。

• In regional rankings the university stood 32nd in the 2022 QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia ranking and 84th among BRICS universities in the 2021 QS BRICS ranking.在地区排名中，该校于 2022 年 QS 新兴欧洲与中亚排名中位列第 32，并于 2021 年 QS 金砖国家排名中位列第 84。

• Within Russia it placed 6th among Russian universities in the 2024 Webometrics ranking and 14th in the 2022 ranking by the Interfax agency.在俄罗斯国内，该校于 2024 年 Webometrics 排名中位列俄罗斯高校第 6，并于 2022 年 Interfax 机构排名中位列第 14。

• OpenAlex records 49,585 works and 714,175 citations for the university, a ratio of roughly fourteen citations for every recorded paper.OpenAlex 记录该校文献 49,585 篇、被引 714,175 次，约合每篇论文被引十四次。

• A short film made by the university, titled Dedicated to Young People, won the QS-Apple Creative Award at the 2011 QS Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education conference in Manila.该校制作的一部名为 Dedicated to Young People 的短片，在 2011 年于马尼拉举行的 QS 亚太教育领袖会议上获得 QS-Apple 创意奖。

• Its standing rests on the merger of two strong regional institutions, the engineering-oriented Ural Polytechnic Institute and the classical Ural State University.其地位建立在两所实力雄厚的地区院校的合并之上，即工科取向的乌拉尔工学院与古典传统的乌拉尔国立大学。

• The university's status as the largest federal university in Russia and a participant in Priority 2030 is central to how it presents its national position.该校作为俄罗斯规模最大的联邦大学以及「Priority 2030」计划的参与者，是其向外界说明自身全国地位的核心。

• UrFU is regularly listed among the top ten universities in Russia, a position that its leadership links to its participation in the federal Priority 2030 programme.该校常被列入俄罗斯前十名大学，其领导层把这一地位与其参与联邦「Priority 2030」计划相联系。

Student life

• The university's English-language tagline is Think. Act. Achieve, a slogan used across its international communications.该校的英文标语是 Think. Act. Achieve，这一口号用于其各类国际传播。

• Student life draws on the merger of the classical university and the polytechnic, with humanities students and engineering students sharing one campus community.学生生活受益于古典大学与工学院的合并，人文专业学生与工程专业学生共享同一个校园社群。

• More than 12,000 students take part in project-based learning, an approach the university presents as a central feature of its teaching.超过 12,000 名学生参与项目式学习，该校把这一方式视为其教学的鲜明特征。

• The university runs student exchange programmes with more than 150 universities from 40 countries and holds more than 400 collaboration agreements with international partners.该校与来自 40 个国家的 150 多所大学开展学生交换，并与国际伙伴签有 400 多项合作协议。

• It participates in network educational projects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the European Union, UNESCO and BRICS.它参与上海合作组织、欧盟、联合国教科文组织与金砖国家的网络化教育项目。

• UrFU is a member of the University of the Arctic, an international cooperative network of more than 200 universities and colleges in the circumpolar north.乌拉尔联邦大学是「北极大学」成员，该网络由环北极地区 200 多所大学与学院组成。

• With 20 sports facilities and a focus on youth policy, the university organises a wide programme of athletics for its large student body.凭借 20 处体育设施与对青年政策的重视，该校为其庞大的学生群体组织了丰富的体育活动。

• Because it has no formally adopted institutional motto, the university uses its tagline Think. Act. Achieve in official communications.由于该校没有正式确立的校训，它在官方传播中采用标语 Think. Act. Achieve。

• Alumni offices in countries from Mongolia to Vietnam let graduates maintain ties with the university across the former Soviet space and beyond.从蒙古到越南等国设立的校友办事处，使毕业生在前苏联地区及其他地方都能与母校保持联系。

• Graduates maintain alumni branches in seven countries, from Armenia and China to Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan, alongside offices in the Russian cities of Moscow, Nizhny Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsky and Noyabrsk.毕业生在亚美尼亚、中国到越南、吉尔吉斯斯坦等七个国家设有校友分会，并在莫斯科、下塔吉尔、卡缅斯克-乌拉尔斯基与诺亚布尔斯克等俄罗斯城市设有办事处。

Notable people

• Boris Yeltsin, a 1955 civil-engineering graduate and the first President of the Russian Federation from 1991, is the university's most prominent alumnus and its namesake.1955 年土木工程专业毕业生、自 1991 年起任俄罗斯联邦首任总统的鲍里斯·叶利钦，是该校最著名的校友，也是其校名的由来。

• Nikolai Ryzhkov, a graduate who served as Soviet Prime Minister and later as a Russian senator, is among the leading political figures produced by the institution.毕业生尼古拉·雷日科夫曾任苏联部长会议主席，后任俄罗斯参议员，是该校培养的重要政治人物之一。

• Nurtai Abykayev, a senior politician of Kazakhstan, and Gennady Burbulis, a Russian politician and scholar, are alumni of the university.哈萨克斯坦资深政治家努尔泰·阿贝卡耶夫与俄罗斯政治家兼学者根纳季·布尔布利斯，都是该校校友。

• Arkady Chernetsky, an alumnus, served as a Russian senator and as Mayor of Ekaterinburg, the city in which the university is based.校友阿尔卡季·切尔涅茨基曾任俄罗斯参议员以及该大学所在城市叶卡捷琳堡的市长。

• Nikolay Krasovsky, the Soviet and Russian scientist in mathematics and mechanics, was a graduate whose name is associated with control theory.苏联与俄罗斯数学、力学科学家尼古拉·克拉索夫斯基是该校毕业生，其名字与控制论相关联。

• Yuri Gurevich, a computer scientist known for foundational work in logic and computing, and Michael Zinigrad, an Israeli scientist, are recorded among its alumni.以逻辑与计算基础研究著称的计算机科学家尤里·古列维奇，以及以色列科学家迈克尔·齐尼格拉德，均被列为该校校友。

• Vladislav Krapivin, the writer, poet and publisher, and Gleb Panfilov, the film director, carried the university's name into Russian literature and cinema.作家、诗人兼出版人弗拉季斯拉夫·克拉皮温，以及电影导演格列布·潘菲洛夫，把这所大学的名字带入了俄罗斯文学与电影。

• Pavel Datsyuk, the ice hockey player, and Kostya Tszyu, the former professional boxer, are sporting alumni of the university.冰球运动员帕维尔·达丘克与前职业拳击手康斯坦丁·茨尤，都是该校的体育界校友。

• David Belyavskiy, the Russian gymnast and Olympic champion, and Anton Shipulin, the biathlete and statesperson, also studied at the university.俄罗斯体操运动员、奥运冠军达维德·别利亚夫斯基，以及冬季两项运动员兼社会活动家安东·希普林，也曾在该校就读。

• Battogtokh Choijil Suren, who served as Minister of Energy of Mongolia, is an alumnus whose career reflects the university's Mongolian student tradition.曾任蒙古能源部长的巴特托格托赫·乔伊尔·苏伦是该校校友，其职业经历体现了该校的蒙古学生传统。

• Dmitry Pumpyansky, president of the Sverdlovsk industrialists' union and chairman of the university's supervisory board, links UrFU to the region's industrial leadership.斯维尔德洛夫斯克工业家联盟主席、该校监事会主席德米特里·蓬皮扬斯基，把该校与本地区的工业领导层联结起来。

• Ilya Obabkov, the university's rector from 2026, and Victor Koksharov, its president, are the figures currently responsible for its governance.2026 年起任该校校长的伊利亚·奥巴布科夫与其校务委员会主席维克多·科克沙罗夫，是当前负责学校治理的两位人物。