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.

Pyatigorsk State University held career guidance classes as part of the "Pro100profi: Discover. Try. Create. Choose" project, implemented jointly with the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Stavropol Krai.

Participants included students in grades 8–11 from Pyatigorsk and the Mineralovodsky, Predgorny, and Kirovsky municipal districts. They learned about professions in the tourism and hospitality industries and were able to try their hand at various careers.

They participated in master classes on "Secrets of the Ideal Hotel," "Guide-Interpreter Workshop," a business game on "How to Realize Your Dream in the Gastronomy Business," and a quest called "Entertaining Work in the World of Business Tourism."

The classes were led by faculty from the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and International Tourism and the Department of Creative and Innovative Management and Law at PSU.

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