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.

The FANK Science Film Days have kicked off at PSU.

They'll run until November 14. This project is meant to introduce students to modern films about science and maybe even inspire them to do their own research.

The opening film of the festival is Anastasia Zverkova's documentary Music of the Stars, which attempts to draw the attention of a wide audience to the starry sky and show that it is not a lifeless space, but a unique and dynamic world.

The film's main characters, astrophysicists Alexander Moskvitin and Alexei Medvedev, attended the screening and afterwards shared their impressions of working on the project with the audience, as well as talking about modern methods of space exploration and the combination of science and creativity.

The screenings were organized by the FANK Festival of Contemporary Scientific Cinema with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation as part of the Decade of Science and Technology.

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