Sibirskiĭ federalʹnyĭ universitet

Siberian Federal University (Russian: Сибирский федеральный университет, Sibirskiĭ federalʹnyĭ universitet, often shortened to SibFU, СФУ) is a multidisciplinary university located in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, that combines fundamental and applied research and teaching. The Siberian Federal University was ranked # 1,589 in the world in 2023 by US News & World Report. The university was established in 2006 by merging four universities of Krasnoyarsk city that had been training professionals in the most competitive sectors of economy in Siberia and the Far East Russia: Krasnoyarsk State University, Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Architecture and Construction and Krasnoyarsk State University of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold. SibFU is a higher educational institution and consists of 19 institutes with more than 3,000 faculty staff teaching 41,000 students. The universities' fundamental and applied research is closely connected with Institutions of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences; many scientists from these institutions are professors and lecturers in the SibFU. It has its own university press, which includes the Scientific Journal of the Siberian Federal University. The chairman of the university's board of trustees is Dmitry A. Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council and the former President and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. SibFU participates in the international collaboration and integration into international research and education space.