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.

The rector of PSU, chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities of the North Caucasus Federal District, and member of the Council of the Russian Union of Rectors, Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov, took part in an expanded meeting of the

Council of the Russian Union of Rectors

The main reports on the agenda were presented by the President of the Russian Union of Rectors, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichy, and Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia Valery Nikolaevich Falkov.

The participation of the Rector of PSU in such a large-scale event underscores the importance of the university in the implementation of state educational policy.

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