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 will host an open lecture by Maxim Ivanovich Zelnikov, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor, and Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Space Physics Problems in the Theoretical Physics Department of the M.P. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The lecture's topic is "The Formula of Creation: The Origin of the World from the Perspective of Modern Physics and Russian Religious Philosophy."

Participants will join the leading astrophysicist in addressing some of humanity's most complex and fascinating questions: how the universe emerged, why it is structured the way it is, and how scientific understanding of its origins relates to philosophical concepts of existence. The lecture will provide a forum for dialogue between modern cosmology and Russian religious philosophy.

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