May 18 and 19, 2018 in the dissertation council D 212.287.02 (technical sciences) at Ural State University of Economics, two doctoral dissertations (Veronika Trikhina "Integrated method of developing specialized products for the correction of nutrition of people working in harmful conditions" and Olga Musina " Scientific and applied aspects of the targeted combination of raw materials in the production of polycomponent dairy products") and one candidate's thesis Alisa Romanova ("Using physical methods to increase the shelf life of chilled fish") were defended.