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.

PSU Rector Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov spoke at the 2nd Russian-Armenian Scientific and Educational Forum.

The 2nd Russian-Armenian Scientific and Educational Forum is taking place in Moscow from November 12–14, bringing together representatives of universities and research organizations from Russia and Armenia. The event was hosted by the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

As part of the forum, Pyatigorsk State University Rector Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov delivered a report entitled "Pyatigorsk State University's Contribution to the Intercultural and Educational Dialogue between Russia and Armenia." The presentation focused on the activities of PSU's Center for Armenian Language and Culture, which represents a model for integrating external (international) and internal collaboration, creating an additional mutually enriching effect. The university's extensive academic collaboration with the Russian-Armenian University and Yerevan State University of the Republic of Armenia was also highlighted.

"The importance of such cooperation is difficult to overestimate." "For us, it has deep historical, territorial, and cultural roots and expresses our sincere worldview, in which the Armenian people, their culture, traditions, customs, language, and their historical homeland—Armenia—are presented and understood not as something external, but as something truly internal and native," emphasized Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov.

The forum has become a platform for exchanging experiences in the field of scientific and educational integration, developing inter-university cooperation, and strengthening direct ties between Russia and Armenia.

PSU's participation allows us to present our accumulated experience and outline prospects for further cooperation between the two countries.

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