Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University is a major water transport university and the only university in the South of Russia that trains marine specialists for shipping companies, shipbuilding and ship repair yards, water transport enterprises, ports, and transport terminals.
Starting from 2013, the university is annually awarded the Leader of Industry title by the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport.
2 branches:
www.aumsu.ru
VK – @aumsu
Youtube – @gmunvrsk
Ranking of universities for engineering and technology in the Krasnodar Territory – 3 out of 10
Ranking of transport universities in the Krasnodar Territory – 1 out of 5
Estimated tuition fee per year
240,000 RUB
Fields of study
College (c), Bachelor's program (b), Master's program (m), Specialist's program (s)
- Navigation (c, s)
- Operation of Ship Power Plants (c, s)
- Operation of Shipboard Electrical Equipment and Automation Equipment (s)
- Land Transport Technology (s)
- Technical Operation of Transport Radio Equipment (s)
- Customs Affairs (s)
- Mechatronics and Robotics (c, b)
- Information Systems and Programming (c)
- Environmental Security of Natural Habitats (c)
- Information Systems and Technologies (b, m)
- Information Security (b)
- Technosphere Safety (b, m)
- Logistics and Transport Management (c)
- Technical Operation of Lifting and Transport, Construction, Road Facilities and Equipment (c)
- Technology of Transport Processes (b, m)
- Operation of Transport and Technological Machines and Complexes (b, m)
- Water Transport Management and Hydrographic Support of Navigation (b, m)
- Shipbuilding, Ocean Engineering, System Engineering of Maritime Infrastructure Facilities (b)
- Nursing (c)
- Economics and Accounting (c)
- Business Operations in Logistics (c)
- Engineering and Economic Support of Technologies and Business Processes of Maritime Transport (b)
- Economics (b, m)
- State and Municipal Management (b)
- Law (c, b, m)
- Law and Social Security Management (c)
- National Security Law (s)
Scientific schools
- Ensuring navigation security and effective ship control in different operation conditions
- Functional reliability of main and auxiliary components of ship power plants
- Improvement of technical operation and effectiveness of ship power plants
- Operation of port systems and transport systems, comprehensive theory of water transport
- Ensuring environmental security
- in the water transport industry
- Legal regulation and regulatory maintenance of maritime transport operations
- Current issues of economic theory and practice under globalization (transport aspect)
- Pedagogical and methodological aspects of training maritime transport specialists
Scientific laboratories
- Research laboratory “3D Modeling of Automated Marine Systems”
- Research laboratory “Control Systems for Automated Marine Systems”
About the university
Virtual tour
Doors Open Day
Admission Office for International Students
+7 8617 76-78-10, +7 8617 71-63-03
pcom@aumsu.ru
International cooperation
Kovalevaos81@gmail.com
Bachelor’s and Master’s program
Water Transport Management and Hydrographic Support of Navigation
- The program focuses on training personnel for transport enterprises and transport departments of industrial and trading enterprises
- Graduates are ready to complete the following tasks: cargo and passenger delivery management using different means of transport and ensuring their effective interaction (multimodal transportation) as well as transport enterprise administration
- Intensive language training aims to develop good communication skills and readiness to work independently with international partners
Graduates are employed by sea and river ports, logistics centers, navigation companies, survey companies, and government agencies.
Infrastructure
- Four educational buildings, the Yug (South) educational and laboratory building, three dormitories
- More than 500 laboratories and classrooms, an electronic reading room, a library with a book collection containing around 400,000 items
- State-of-the art system of ship equipment
- simulators, including a ship control and manoeuvring simulator as well as communications and electronic cartography simulators
- University history museum
- Navigation school
- Military training center
- Legal clinic
Technology park
The technology park provides professional practical training for AUMSU cadets, laboratory work as well as engineering training for seafaring personnel and workers of the fleet’s coastal infrastructure.
- Three-story building that will hold more than 500 cadets
- Laboratory, training, information and telecommunications equipment on a total area of 4,700 m2
- 12 new laboratories: alternative and renewable energy sources, hydraulic and pneumatic control systems, mechatronics, electrical installation and automated electric drives, pumping and compressor equipment, ship refrigeration plants, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, Industry 4.0, and others
- Ship modeling and prototyping (3D printing) classroom, laboratories of theoretical and applied physics and chemistry equipped for future navigators and ship engineers
To make the university a second home for international students, the university’s International Office conducts a tour around Novorossiysk for them. Students get acquainted with the city, its traditions, legendary history, and the most important sights, including the Small Land Memorial, Square of Heroes, the Vzryv (Explosion) monument, and the Mikhail Kutuzov cruiser, a flagship of the Soviet fleet.
Student life
- 2 scientific communities, the Club of Young Researchers
- 20 sports clubs
- The KVN Club (the Club of the Funny and Inventive)
- The Media Club comprising the Compass thematic video channel
- The Day and Night psychological game club
- The Loco Fermissimo history and politics club
- The Paradox photography club
- Cybersport tournaments
- The Last Showtime movie club
- Literary creative salon
- Anime Club
- The Youth Theater project
- 10 on-stage performance groups: the Terra vocal ensemble, the vocal ensemble, the jazz band, the vocal and instrumental ensemble, the Academia stage dance ensemble, the Energy stage dance ensemble, the sport dance ensemble, the cameo theater, the puppet variety show
- Club of intellectual and logical games:
- the University QUIZ tournament and the What? Where? When? tournament
- The #WEARETOGETHER volunteer center, the Transport Volunteers voluntary association
- The House of Good Deeds social club, the Donorship project
Job fair
For more than five years, Admiral Ushakov Maritime State University has been hosting the largest job fair in the south of Russia.
It brings together the world’s top navigation companies, transport and logistics enterprises, and shipbuilding and ship repair yards.
Regular participants of the fair are the world's top five navigation and crewing companies. Among them are Baltic Group International Novorossiysk LTD, BSM Crew Service Center Novorossiysk, and others. Current heads of many companies used to be AUMSU cadets.
Students communicate with employers’ representatives, have mini interviews, fill in application forms, and establish important contacts.
Events
- Knowledge Day, Doors Open Day, Cadet Initiation Day, Autumn Assembly, Mister and Miss University, Tatiana Day
- Students go on free tours, attend cultural events in the city as well as visit theaters, museums, philharmonics, and movie theaters as part of the Pushkin Card federal program
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