The first meeting of Ural Federal University’s Supervisory Board is currently taking place in Yekaterinburg. The proceedings have been approved of by Russia’s Education Minister Andrei Fursenko.

The university’s Supervisory Board comprises eleven members: Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin, the Soviet of the Federation’s Member Eduard Rossel, CEO Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company Andrei Kozitsin, CEO Pipe Metallurgical Company Dmitriy Pumpyanskiy, First Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Alexander Beletskiy, Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation State Duma Valeriy Yazev, CEO Russia’s First President Boris Yeltsin Fund Tatiana Yumasheva, Chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Ural branch Valeriy Charushin, and head of Rosimuschestvo’s regional division Vladimir Ostrovskiy.

The Supervisory Board will probably be chaired by Alexander Misharin.