One of the University’s development priorities is to support research activity of students. The Scientific Society of Young Scientists and Students (SSYSS) unites more than two thousand students of the University. The major work is carried out in students’ scientific societies at the departments of the University. Students are presidential scholarship holders as young scientists and postgraduate students who conduct advanced research and development in priority areas of Russian economy’s modernization, as well as grant holders of the Innovation Promotion Fund (UMNIK programme).