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.

Issues related to the Russian language in the CIS were discussed at a round table meeting in the Federation Council.

The Federation Council's Committee on Science, Education, and Culture discussed problems related to the functioning of the Russian language in the CIS, ways to solve them, and prospects for promoting the Russian language and education in Russian in the CIS countries.

The round table was attended by I. B. Fedotova, Director of the Institute of Translation Studies, Russian Studies and Multilingualism at PSU, who presented PSU's experience and made proposals on behalf of the university for inclusion in the final document.

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