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 head of PSU participated in the Strategic Session of the National Center for Historical Memory.

Aleksandr Pavlovich Gorbunov, Rector of Pyatigorsk State University and Chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities of the North Caucasus Federal District, participated in and spoke at a meeting of the Council of Rectors of Universities of the North Caucasus Federal District, which was held as part of the Strategic Session organized by the National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation.

The discussion focused on the best practices of the district's universities in preserving historical memory, implementing projects to expose the crimes of genocide against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, and perpetuating the memory of its victims.

The meeting participants exchanged experiences and discussed the further development of joint efforts to preserve historical memory and promote patriotic education among youth.

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