Pyatigorsk State University continues its annual a. Пятигорский государственный университет (ПГУ)

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 continues its annual action within the framework of the federal patriotic project “Scientific Regiment” of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.

On April 13, 1945, during the Vienna Strategic Offensive Operation, Soviet troops liberated Vienna, the capital of Austria, from Nazi invaders.

Today, 80 years later, we remember Grishin Gennady Pavlovich - a graduate student and then a teacher of our university, who was also a participant of the storming of Vienna and was awarded the medal “For the capture of Vienna”.