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.

Representatives of PSU participated in a meeting of the Stavropol Krai Governor's Council on Interethnic Relations.

On May 26, a meeting of the Stavropol Krai Governor's Council on Interethnic Relations was held in Stavropol. The discussion focused on strengthening interethnic harmony, developing a unified cultural space, and preserving traditional spiritual and moral values.

Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov, Rector of Pyatigorsk State University, and Maya Artashesovna Astvatsaturova, Head of the PSU Center for Political and Ethnopolitical Studies, participated in the meeting.

During the meeting, participants discussed mechanisms for implementing the Strategy for the State National Policy of the Russian Federation until 2026, developing intercultural interaction, and holding open dialogues "Peoples of Stavropol" for schoolchildren and youth in the region.

Such meetings contribute to strengthening social harmony, developing interethnic dialogue, and maintaining an atmosphere of unity in the multiethnic Stavropol Krai.

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