Ural State Conservatory named after M.P. Mussorgsky

• Location: Yekaterinburg, Russia;
• Age of students: from 17 years;
• Type: full-time;
• Language of instruction: Russian.

The Ural Conservatory has been operating since 1934, becoming the first musical university in the USSR east of the Volga region. To date, it is a creative and scientific-methodical center that carries out large-scale concert activities and training of high-class musicians, including teachers of all levels, researchers and methodologists, which are successfully implemented in various fields of musical culture.

To date, the UGK conducts training at 16 departments in bachelor's, specialist's, master's, postgraduate and full-time assistantship-internship programs.

• Faculty of Instrumental Performance;
• Faculty of Vocal and Choral Art, Musicology, Composition and Musical Sound Engineering.

On the basis of the UGK, systematic research activities are carried out, on the basis of which monographs, collections of articles and their own scientific journals "Scientific Bulletin of the Ural Conservatory" and "Word about Music" are published. The Conservatory is a co-founder of the Joint Dissertation Council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations.

Every year, students of the Conservatory take part in the musicological competition of works by students of historical, theoretical and performing departments "Ural Youth Forum".

90% of the teaching staff of the UGK have the academic titles of professors and associate professors, academic degrees of doctors and candidates of sciences, honorary titles of people's and honored artists, honored artists and honored workers of culture of the Russian Federation.

The Conservatory provides students with a dormitory. In the educational building of the UGK there is a canteen.

The following creative teams operate in the UGK: 

• Student Symphony Orchestra;
• Orchestra of Folk Instruments;
• Brass band;
• Student Choir. 

In recent years, creative teams have given concerts both at the Conservatory itself and at various venues in the Sverdlovsk Region and the Ural Federal District. The UGC Symphony Orchestra has repeatedly performed in Germany.

Every year, within the walls of the Conservatory, the Opera Studio shows performances that have already been awarded Russian prizes three times, which until now has not been found in the practice of other conservatories in the country. In addition, the productions of the UGK Opera Studio have repeatedly been awarded the Prize of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region.

Every year, major festivals, competitions, scientific conferences and master classes of well-known teachers are held on the basis of the UGK. More than 100 teachers and students of the Conservatory every year become laureates and diploma winners of all-Russian and international competitions.

The Conservatory publishes the creative fruits of its activity in textbooks, produces sheet music and discs.

• 2 educational buildings;
• Large and small concert halls;
• Opera Studio;
• Professional recording studio;
• Library;
• Reading room with Internet access;
• UGC History Museum;
• Sports and gyms;
• Sports court;
• Dining room;
• Student Polyclinic;
• Hostel.

The academic year in the UGK begins on September 1.

Paid educational services:

• Retraining and advanced training;
• Additional general development programs for children and adults (preparatory courses).

List of documents to be submitted upon admission:

• application;
• identity and citizenship document;
• document on education;
• SNILS (if any);
• a document on disability or disability (if any);
• a document granting a special right to admission;
• a document on individual achievements;
• a document on education issued by an organization that prepares students for military or other public service;
• 2 photos.

Timing of the admission campaign:

• the beginning of the reception of documents — June 20;
• completion of the reception of documents from applicants based on the results of internal entrance tests - July 10;
• completion of the reception of documents from applicants without passing the entrance tests - July 20;
• the beginning of internal entrance tests - July 11;
• the completion of internal entrance tests is July 25.

Graduates of the UGK are well-known musicians, singers, artists of the symphony orchestra and choir, composers, performers on folk and wind instruments, musicologists, often occupying leadership positions. Among the graduates of the Conservatory, we can single out the People's Artist of Russia V.I. Kazenin, who since 1990 headed the Union of Composers of Russia, and in 2012 became an honorary professor of the UGK.

The departments and the educational department of the Conservatory promote the employment of students and graduates:

• interaction with employers, bodies of the state employment service and creation of a bank of vacancies in the field of musical culture and education;
• conducting practices on the basis of third-party organizations;
• information about vacancies, organization of meetings with representatives of employers and individual consultations on employment issues.

Training programs are designed for applicants with secondary general, secondary vocational or higher education.

Admission to the university is carried out on the basis of the results of the Unified State Exam or on the basis of the results of internal entrance tests. Minimum passing scores for internal entrance tests:

• Creative orientation — 60;
• Professional orientation — 60;
• Interview — 60.

Minimum passing scores based on the results of the Unified State Exam:

• Russian language — 40 ("Musicology" according to the specialty program — 45);
• Literature — 40.

• state academic scholarship;
• state social scholarship;
• state scholarships for graduate students and assistant trainees;
• scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation and scholarships of the Government of the Russian Federation;
• scholarships;
• scholarships for students, assigned by legal entities or individuals, including those who sent them to study;
• scholarships to students of preparatory departments.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision