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.

PSU holds the IV International Total Dictation in the languages of the peoples of Karachay-Cherkessia, timed to coincide with the International Mother Language Day.

The total dictation is held in all regions of Russia, where representatives of the peoples of Karachay-Cherkessia live, as well as in Abkhazia, Turkey, France, the USA, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

For the first time the dictation was written in Austria, Holland, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

The International Total Dictation in the languages of the peoples of the KCR in 2024 united more than 5000 people at 105 sites.

On the basis of PSU the dictation is held in the following languages: Abazi, Karachai-Balkar, Kabardino-Cherkessian and Nogai.

The dictation is open to students of all PSU Institutes and Higher Schools, as well as residents of the CMS region who know these languages.

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