Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)
Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)

The date of foundation of Pyatigorsk State University is considered to be June 27, 1939, when the Pedagogical School officially became a higher educational institution. Since then, the university has undergone various changes and transformations - an increase in the number of years of study, several renamings - and officially became known as Pyatigorsk State University in 2016. Since 2005, the head of the university is Professor Gorbunov Alexander Pavlovich. By 2009, 10 faculties were formed at the university. Further, on their basis, institutes and higher schools were created, having one of the faculties in their composition. In addition, PSU is actively developing the system of pre-university, postgraduate and additional education. It has a branch in Novorossiysk. Currently, the university has 34 departments. Now Pyatigorsk State University has more than 5,500 students and 3,000 students from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. All the peoples of the Caucasus are also represented in PSU.

Today the All-Russian Youth Forum “Our Common Home - Russia” dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War started its work.

Rector of PSU, Professor A.P. Gorbunov, and Head of the NRC Center at the Coordination Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation I.D. Ibragimov addressed the participants with welcoming words.

A.A. Tolmachev, Director of the Department of Information Policy and Integrated Security of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, spoke at the opening of the Forum in the online format.

More than 175 sites across the country are participating in the event in the online format.

During the three days of the Forum, more than 2,000 people will take part in the offline format: interactive discussions, round tables, and, of course, a grand concert!

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