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.

This morning, dozens of students, teachers and employees of Pyatigorsk State University took part in the Victory Parade in Pyatigorsk. The column of our university was headed by the rector of PSU, Professor Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov.

Participants of the solemn event took to the streets of the city with posters of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, joining the annual all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment".

A minute of silence and laying flowers honored the fallen Heroes of the Great Patriotic War at a city-wide rally near the Eternal Fire.

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