First among the best

In the Year of Teachers and Mentors in Russia, three USUE teachers were awarded the badge “Honorary Mentor” of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Acting head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Maxim Kocheryan, a teacher of the USUE College Margarita Izmailova, and head of the Department of Business Informatics Dmitry Nazarov are three contrasting teachers, different in their life experience and field of scientific interests. But there is something that unites them. All of them gave more than ten years to Ural State University of Economics, and all three turned to be not just teachers for their students, but those who inspire new achievements in training, research and sports with their kind words, wise advice and their personal example. 

Maxim Kocheryan is a USUE graduate, Candidate for Master of Sports in boxing, started working for the university almost 15 years ago. During this time, the number of cultivated sports at the university has increased from 8 to 23, volleyball and basketball university teams have won the right to play at the national level, in 3 sports the university teams are the best in the Sverdlovsk region, in 8 sports they are winners of regional competitions. Now USUE is one of the student and children's sports centers in the region.

“Many our graduates have found themselves at the nexus of sports, economics and management,” Maxim Kocheryan says.  “Some have their own sports schools, some open sports camps and clubs. Some continue to cooperate with USUE acting as coaches. We are glad to see them again within the walls of the university already as mentors.”

A teacher of mathematics Margarita Izmailova has been working in the field of education for several decades, including 15 years at USUE College. In 00s, the USUE structural unit, which now enrolls over 600 students annually, was just coming into being. Like many colleagues, Margarita Konstantinovna was botyh a teacher and a curator for her students.

“We had a very close relationship with students. We talked a lot with them, we knew what they do besides studying, we maintained relations with their parents, we often acted as intermediaries between the student's family and the university administration,” she says. “The vast majority of our guys then successfully entered the university, earned a degree and profession. And one of my students, Maria Melnikova, became a teacher herself and today works with us, which I am very proud of.”

The head of the USUE Department of Business Informatics, Dmitry Nazarov, over 20 years ago was one of originators of IT education at USUE . Arriving in Yekaterinburg from another city, he received carte blanche from the leadership of the university to create a new and then still exotic area of training at the university, which has now been transformed into the Institute of Digital Management Technologies and Information Security.

“In the first year, I traveled through the entire Urals, did not get out of schools. We held master classes, attracted applicants, invited new teachers and professional practitioners,” Dmitry Nazarov recalls. “ I remember how surprised these first meetings were for the heads of organizations when they learned that USUE  would train not only economists and managers. The first study group consisted, I think, of 21 students. In twenty years, the number of our students has grown to several hundreds.”о

Three teachers of USUE were awarded the badge "Honorary Mentor"

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