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.

May 24 is the Day of Slavic Writing. For the 39th year in a row, the annual scientific and practical conference "Kirillo-Mefodiev Readings" is held at Pyatigorsk State University in honor of this holiday in IPRIM.

Irina Fedotova, Director of IPRIM, opened the event with a welcoming speech, and also awarded a number of PSU students with diplomas for active research work.

For reference: Cyril and Methodius are saints, equal-to-the-apostles, Slavic enlighteners, creators of the Slavic alphabet, preachers of Christianity, the first translators of liturgical books from Greek to Slavic.

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