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.

Scientific cooperation between PSU (Pyatigorsk State University) and Armenia is evolving from a simple exchange of experience to the joint training of academic and research personnel.

At Yerevan State University (YSU), Zara Samvelovna Ayrapetyan successfully defended her dissertation, titled "Language as a Key to Understanding Legal Discourse," for the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences.

Professor Irina Mikhailovna Akopyants, Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and International Tourism at PSU, served as an official opponent for the defense.

The research explores the intersection of linguistics and jurisprudence, with findings that hold significant implications for the development of legal translation and intercultural communication.

This defense marks a major milestone in the collaboration between PSU and YSU—a partnership that is progressing from academic exchanges and joint conferences toward the training of researchers and the implementation of collaborative research projects.

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