Ural State University of Railway Transport
Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения | |
Other name | USURT |
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| Motto | With us to success! |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1956 |
| Rector | Alexandr G. Galkin |
Academic staff | over 900 |
| Students | over 18,000 |
| Location | , , Russia |
| Colours | Blue and Green |
| Website | www |
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.