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 participated in the XXXIX session of the Scientific Council on the History of Education and Pedagogical Science.

The international scientific and practical conference "The University's Mission in the Professional Education of Teachers: Historical and Pedagogical Discourse and Current Trends" was held at I.S. Turgenev Oryol State University.

I.B. Fedotova, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Translation, Russian Studies, and Multilingualism, based on PSU's experience and chaired the "Historical Memory in Pedagogics" section. Thus, the Pyatigorsk historical and pedagogical school was well represented at the international forum, which is the main venue for presenting the key results of the scientific and pedagogical work of the country's leading universities.

The conference was held as part of the XXXIX session of the Scientific Council on the Problems of the History of Education and Pedagogical Science at the Department of Philosophy of Education and Theoretical Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Education.

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