GeoUrbo student science club commended during meeting of winners of Student of the Year in Tatarstan 2025
The club’s work, recognized with a laureate diploma in the Student Research Organization of the Year category, was presented to First Vice-Rector for Research Dmitry Tayursky, Vice-Rector for Youth Policy and Moral Education Arif Mezhvedilov, and other participants of the event, which was held as part of the republican science festival Territory of Knowledge, by...
Institute toured by Delta Oil Service delegation
A delegation from the oilfield service company Delta Oil Service, led by General Director Rifkat Nasretdinov, visited on February 11. In the morning, a meeting was held with representatives of the university leadership. Participants included: Danis Nurgaliev, Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences; Mikhail Varfolomeev, Director of the KFU Low-Tonnage Chemical Technology Park and Chair of the Department...
Kazan Federal University scientists established patterns of distribution of rare and rare-earth elements in ancient rocks
Scientists from the Department of Paleontology and Stratigraphy have identified patterns in the distribution of rare and rare-earth elements in the Visean terrigenous and coal-bearing deposits of the Melekess Depression (Kama Coal Basin, Volga-Ural subregion). The obtained results are presented in an article published in the Vestnik of the North-East Scientific Center of the Far-Eastern Branch of...
Institute representatives awarded during Territory of Knowledge festival
The event was held on February 10. Third-year student Yaroslav Burylin was recognized for his active participation in student scientific societies and his contribution to the development of the student club movement. He is a member of the Geobarsy (Geological Snow Leopards) Student Scientific Club. The student is a winner and runner-up in various competitions and Olympiads. Notably,...
2026 Russia-China Conference of Outstanding Scientists features Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev
The event took place in Sanya, Hainan Province, from January 30 till February 1. The event was organized by the Russia-China Institute for Fundamental Research, established in September of last year by Moscow State University and Peking University in accordance with a decision by the leaders of both countries. The conference brought together leading scientists and experts...
Omani oil company OQ looking to establish cooperation with KFU
Representatives of OQ (headquartered in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) arrived for a working visit on 4th February. During the meeting, attended by Vice-Rector for International Affairs Timirkhan Alishev, KFU scientists presented their promising technological developments. The discussion was also joined by Svetlana Selivanovskaya, Director of the Institute of Enviornmental Sciences and Biotechnology; Mikhail Varfolomeev, Director of the KFU Low-Tonnage...
26th Zilant Open Environmental Forum held at KFU
This year's theme was Flora of the Republic of Tatarstan and its Protection. The event united approximately 250 students in grades 8 to 11 from 39 schools in Kazan and 12 municipal districts of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the Republic of Mari El. Among the invited jury and guests were representatives of the...
Rector Lenar Safin meets with leadership of NOVATEK
The delegation included Vadim Yakovlev, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, and Vladimir Kudrin, Director for Geology, as well as representatives from LLC NOVATEK STC (Scientific and Technical Center), led by General Director Vladimir Soloviev. As part of the visit, a meeting was held with the Rector. In addition to the university’s experts, the meeting was attended by...
Polar explorer Fyodor Shipulin: “When you’re in Antarctica, you really want to go where it’s summer and there is green grass”
Kazan Federal University hosted a meeting with Fyodor Shipulin, an anesthesiologist and mountaineer who participated in the 69th Russian Antarctic Expedition. Students and schoolchildren of various ages, from first graders to eleventh graders, gathered at KFU's UNICS sports complex to hear the fascinating story of how a doctor became a polar explorer and what challenges he...