Siberian Federal University

Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk) announces free courses of Russian as a Foreign Language for international students as part of the opening of the Сибирь.ру educational centre. From October to December, lecturers of the School of Philology and Language Communication of Siberian Federal University will deliver the online courses.

An international research team (Russia, the USA, Italy, and Canada), which includes SibFU scientist Gennady Shvedov (assistant professor at the Department of Geology of Deposits and Exploration Methods), has discovered a new mineral, fleetite, and studied its properties.

SibFU researchers have reconstructed the impact of industrial emissions in the north of Siberia on Siberian forests, a significant part of which is associated with the activities of large industrial facilities in Eurasia and North America, located thousands of kilometers away.

An international research team, supervised by Konstantin Krutovskii, professor of the University of Göttingen and SibFU, has conducted an experimental study of the genome and transcriptome of Sequoia, one of the oldest trees on our planet, and its ability to adapt to the climatic conditions of modern Western Europe.

Researchers from Siberian Federal University have tested a universal tree growth model that will help manage forests effectively. According to the authors, experimental verification showed the high accuracy of the model in predicting changes of the forests of the Northern Hemisphere.

Researchers from Siberian Federal University and the Institute of Physics of the Krasnoyarsk Research Centre, SB RAS, have proposed the concept of an easily controllable optical device based on hybrid Tamm modes.

IT experts from Siberian Federal University have developed a neural-network-based PI controller. According to the developers, the controller can be utilized in electric vehicles to reduce energy costs, improve performance, and extend the mechanical components life.

Scientists are confident that their research will help not only fill in the gaps in the description of the aphid fauna of the Siberian region but also understand how they develop relationships with trees. This might be the key to finding a way to protect urban green spaces from such pests.

Researchers of Siberian Federal University have conducted excavations in the area of Udachny settlement and discovered a unique site of ancient hunters and fishermen who lived on the banks of the Yenisei 6–8 thousand years ago.

Krasnoyarsk art historians have analysed the ways in which contemporary Chinese artists popularized national fine art and made it accessible to the world public in the postmodern era.