| Ural State Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture | |
| Native Name: | Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture |
| Established: | 1972 |
| Type: | Liberal Arts |
| Rector: | Prof. Sergey Postnikov |
| Students: | 2,300 |
| City: | Yekaterinburg |
| Country: | Russia |
| Campus: | Urban |
Urals Academy of Architecture (Ural State Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture; Russian: Уральская государственная архитектурно-художественная академия, often abbreviated USAAA or in Russian УрГАХА) is situated in Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation.[1] It was founded in 1947 as a department of architecture at the Ural State Technical University. Later, in 1967, it was reorganized and became a branch of the Moscow Institute of Architecture which later became an independent school of architecture originally named Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture.
It is one of the most prestigious schools of design and architecture in Russia. The Academy has twenty chairs, six departments and two institutes (Institute of Visual Arts and Institute of Urbanism). Since 1992 the Academy publishes a science journal Archiecton: izvestiya vuzov ("Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education").[2]
The Academy is known for the role it played in forming the rock subculture (subculture of resistance, in fact) in the USSR. The Sverdlovsk Rock Club founded at the Academy in 1986 was a birthplace for a considerable number of famous Russian rock bands such as Urfin Dzhyus, Chaif, Nautilus Pompilius, Nastya, Trek, Agatha Christie.[3]
Alyona Azyornaya – Russian Naive Art artist
Sergej Gladkix – Soviet and Russian architect and artist
Sergej Denisov – Moscow architect, International Academy of Modern Arts vice-president
Aleksandr Dolgov – Soviet and Russian scientist-architect
Oleg Elovoj – Russian artist and the organizer of non-traditional jewelry competition
Ildar Ziganshin – Soviet and Russian designer and photographer
Elena Ignatova – Russian poetress, singer and song writer
Aleksej Karaev – Russian cartoonist
Olga Karapetyan – Russian architect
Yurij Kataev – Soviet and Russian photographer
Aleksandr Korotich – Soviet and Russian artist and designer of The Channel One
Sergej Makarov – Soviet and Russian architect
Oleg Mikheev – Russian and British photographer
Vladimir Pirozhkov – Russian designer, who was designed the Sochi Olympic Games torch
Yurij Rysin – Soviet and Russian architect
Larisa Selyanina – Russian fashion designer and a founder her own fashion brend
Aleksandr Starikov – Russian architect, the rector of USAAA in 1999-2011
Kharitidi Aleksej – Russian artist-cartoonist
Vladimir Khotinenko – Soviet and Russian actor, film director and designer
Oksana Cherkasova – Soviet and Russian director of animation films and animator
Salavat Shabiev – Soviet and Russian scientist, the doctor of architecture
Georgij Shishkin – Soviet and Russian artist, designer, the author of some Russian and Monaco postage stamps
Olga Yakubova – Soviet and Russian artist, designer, the author of KAMAZ auto company and sport team style