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.

Today the Minister-Counselor of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in the Russian Federation, 1991 graduate of PSUIJA - Moncif Cherkaoui Jaouad visited our university with an unofficial visit.

The alumnus was greeted by PSU Rector, Professor A.P. Gorbunov, who at the time of his studies was the Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Students.

“In my memory are forever alive memories of the time of studying at the Pyatigorsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. I remember the campus, my second dormitory, Pyatigorsk. I am very grateful to my teachers for the knowledge that allowed me to become a diplomat. I am proud that 30 years later I returned to Russia as Deputy Ambassador of Morocco to Russia. I wish my home university continued prosperity and success,” says Moncif Cherkaoui.

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