The function was held by the acting Yekaterinburg mayor, the chairman of the Yekaterinburg City Duma Viktor Testov, first deputy head of the Yekaterinburg City Administration Alexei Kozhemyako, and a member of the Federation Council from the Sverdlovsk region Arkady Chernetsky.

The registration for the all-Russia contest "VOLUNTEER OF RUSSIA – 2018” has started. The best projects will receive grants of up to 1 million rubles for development.

May 16, 2018, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Free Economic Society of Russia, the members of the VEO Presidium unanimously decided to include Yakov Petrovich Silin, USUE rector, a member of the VEO Presidium, the President of the Ural Branch of the VEO of Russia, to the Editorial Board of the scientific publication "Scientific Works of the Free Economic Society of Russia".

May 31, at an extraordinary meeting of the Academic Council, Lyudmila Shaibakova , Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Competition Law and Antimonopoly Regulation, received the award for her many years of impeccable work, a significant contribution to the development of the University, and in connection with the 60th anniversary.

300 pages of the book "Arkady Chernetsky: Majority of Power" present a story about the work of Arkady Chernetsky at the Yekaterinburg Administration and at the largest enterprises Yekaterinburg - Uraltransmash and Uralkhimmash. The managerial experience of the current member of the Federation Council, ex-head of Yekaterinburg, is almost 19 years, hence the name of the book.