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 hosted a meeting with the finalists of the Vladimir Potanin Scholarship Contest.

25 undergraduates of PSU became finalists of the first stage of the contest.

The winner of the scholarship competition of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation 2023/2024, deputy chairman of the PSU PPSU -Kucherova Ayuna and the Center for Student Initiatives and coordination of the activities of the primary branch of the RDDM “Movement of the First” jointly held a meeting for undergraduates.

According to the results of the two stages of the competition 750 winners will be determined, who will receive a personal scholarship of Vladimir Potanin monthly in the amount of 25 thousand rubles until the end of their studies.

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