Research results

Research results of USU

The research activity of Ulyanovsk State University is carried out by teams of all faculties and institutes and is an inextricable part of a single educational-scientific-production process.
Scientific and educational potential. Personnel training

Ulyanovsk State University employs 129 doctors of sciences,  111 are full-time, and 493 are candidates of science, 377 are full-time. The team conducts research work in the framework of 23 branches of science corresponding to the profile of specialist training and the development of the university staff.

During the reporting period, university scientists published about 2,000 scientific papers, including papers in scientific journals indexed in recognized citation systems: Web of Science — 127, Scopus - 149 (Indexed on 12/31/2018.), In journals, in publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, - 240, Russian Science Citation Index — 1383; 57 monographs were published. Thirty two patents and 26 certificates of registration of computer programs were obtained.  USU hosted conferences, seminars, congresses, and scientific schools with the total number of 21, including 3 international, 12 all-Russian and 6 regional scientific events.

In 2017, 4 doctoral and 12 master's theses were defended by employees, graduate students and applicants of USU.
Resource provision

Fundamental and applied research, experimental design and technological work at the university are carried out as part of the state assignment for research of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, scientific programs of various ministries and departments, as well as grants and funds from enterprises in the real economy.

In 2018, USU conducted work in the framework of:
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 218 “On measures of state support for the development of cooperation of Russian higher educational institutions and organizations implementing complex projects for the creation of high-tech production” in conjunction with IRM JSC (headed by V.V. Svetukhin);
    Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 220 “Grant of the Government of the Russian Federation for state support of scientific research conducted under the guidance of leading scientists in Russian educational institutions of higher professional education” (headed by A. Fotyadi);
    Federal target program “Research and development in priority areas for the development of the scientific and technological complex of Russia for 2014-2020” (1 priority area, led by Svetukhin V.V.);
    grants from the Russian Science Foundation (3 projects, led by A. Sysolyatin, A. A. Abramov, A. Fotyadi);
    Presidential grants for state support of young Russian scientists (3 projects, led by Efremova EV, Salakhova VB, Abakumova TV);
    The state task of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia for research: 19 works;

In 2018, 315.9 million rubles were attracted to conduct research in USU. By order of enterprises and organizations of the real sector of the economy, 20 research and development works were carried out in the amount of 173.4 million rubles.