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.

A PSU student has become an ambassador for the federal program "Student Tourism."

On International Family Day, the "Student Tourism" project announced the names of new ambassadors, mentors, and media ambassadors for the federal program for youth and student tourism.

Arina Kuzmenko, a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and International Tourism at PSU, has been selected as one of the ambassadors after successfully passing a competitive selection process. Arina is a member of the student travel club "Mineralka," which aims to develop youth, environmental, cultural, educational, and domestic tourism.

The "Student Tourism" program, implemented by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation since 2021, brings together young people passionate about travel and opens opportunities for educational and cultural trips within Russia and abroad.

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