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.

Leading researcher at PSU, Darya Sukhovskaya, has been included in the management talent pool for the Russian science and higher education system.

Leading researcher at PSU, PhD Darya Nikolaevna Sukhovskaya, has completed training under the federal Program for the Development of a Strategic Management Talent Pool in Science, Technology, and Higher Education and has been included in the management talent pool of the Russian Federation.

The program is being implemented at the request of the President of the Russian Federation and aims to develop a new generation of management corps – leaders capable of ensuring the strategic development of universities, research organizations, and the country's educational policy in the context of technological transformation and global knowledge competition.

The inclusion of representatives from regional universities in the federal management pool confirms the growing role of university centers in shaping the country's intellectual potential.

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