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 held its first extended Academic Council meeting of the new academic year.

The agenda of the extended meeting of the PSU Academic Council (which was attended by heads and staff of all university departments and student organizations) included the following:

The results of the 2026 university admissions process;

PSU's priorities and key objectives as a co-integrated, ideologically-focused, transformative, and creative university for the 2026/2027 academic year in the context of the updated Development Program to 2036;

Approval of the work plan of the PSU Academic Council for the 2026/2027 academic year and a list of priority issues for consideration by the Academic Councils of Institutes/Higher Schools and Departments in the 2026/2027 academic year;

Approval of the Regulation on the Organization of Socio-Political Work at the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "PSU";

Also, approval of the updated Regulation on the Effective Contract and a discussion of organizational measures for the full university staff's participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

In his speech, Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov outlined and described the university's main priority and key objectives for the 2026/2027 academic year in the context of the updated Development Program to 2036 and reported on the successful results of the admissions campaign.

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