Valerievich Arturov, Chairman of the Board of the . Пятигорский государственный университет (ПГУ)

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.

Valerievich Arturov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Russian Public-State Movement of Children and Youth "Movement of the First," visited PSU.

As part of the visit, a meeting was held with PSU Rector Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov and the Rector's Advisor for Educational Work and Youth Policy, Elvira Dmitrievna Kondrakova. The participants discussed cooperation between the university and the "Movement of the First," as well as prospects for joint work in the area of youth education and development.

Artur Valerievich also visited the Patriotic Education Center, the L.K. Klenevskaya PSU History Museum, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. He attended a presentation, "Milestones of the Era in Faces and Fates," dedicated to the history of the university and the people associated with its development.

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