Ural State University of Railway Transport

The Ural State University of Railway Transport
Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения
Other name
USURT
Motto
With us to success!
TypePublic
Established1956 (1956)
RectorAlexandr G. Galkin
Academic staff
over 900
Studentsover 18,000
Location, ,
Russia
Colours   Blue and Green
Websitewww.usurt.ru/en

Ural State University of Railway Transport (USURT) or Уральский государственный университет путей сообщения (УрГУПС) 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.