The article reveals the content of the project «Ural urbanplanning school», created within the framework of the Priority Projects «Education» and «Comfortable urban environment» of the Government of the Russian Federation. The initiators of the project are the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts together with the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure of the Sverdlovsk Region. The changed conditions dictate new requirements for urban development and the creation of a comfortable living environment. The changed conditions put new tasks before the corps of the senior architects of the region. First, a consensus has been reached between the authorities and the educational community, that the key to solving the problem is professional development and professional retraining of the corps of the senior architects of the region. The result of the achieved consensus is the project «Ural urban-planning school».

Структура подготовки кадров в России далека от идеальной. Известные на сегодня административные меры регулирования подготовки квалифицированных кадров утратили свою эффективность, а новые механизмы регулирования еще не созданы.