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 is training volunteers from the North Caucasus Federal District for the 2026 International Youth Festival.

The Pyatigorsk State University Volunteer Center is actively involved in preparing the volunteer corps for the 2026 International Youth Festival, which will be held from September 11 to 17 in Yekaterinburg.

The center's specialists organized the recruitment and selection of volunteers from across the North Caucasus Federal District, coordinated with the festival's directorate, and trained recruiters to conduct interviews. General training is currently underway for volunteers from Stavropol Krai, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia, and on June 27, a similar program will be held in Makhachkala for participants from Dagestan, North Ossetia, the Chechen Republic, and the Republic of Ingushetia.

Following the training, the main and reserve teams of the festival's volunteer corps will be formed, and team leaders and heads of functional areas will be selected.а

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