Sverdlovsk Oblast

Ural State University of Railway Transport

University · Sverdlovsk Oblast

UniversityFounded 1956
Ural State University of Railway Transport campus
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Ural State University of Railway Transport, in abbreviated form USURT (Russian: Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения) is a public university situated in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It was founded in 1956. USURT is a multidisciplinary technical university mainly focused on training of railway transport specialists of the Urals Federal District. USURT is a vertically integrated educational complex located in the territory of five constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Yekaterinburg, Perm, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen. The university complex includes the head university in Yekaterinburg, a railway transport college, a medical college, institutes in Chelyabinsk, Perm, and Kurgan, branches in Nizhny Tagil and Tyumen, a representative office in Kartaly.

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Key facts

Type
University
Founded
1956
Students
18,000