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.

Last weekend, the Hospitality Industry Center of the Institute of International Management and Tourism at PSU and the Mineralka Touring Club organized a traditional but no less exciting excursion to Arkhyz for students and teachers of our university.

This trip was a real immersion into the history, nature, and culture of the Caucasus:

We visited the ancient Alanian settlement (Nizhnearkhyzskoye) and immersed ourselves in the world of myths and legends of the first settlers;

We saw a unique shrine—a rock image of the Face of Christ, a fresco painted at a height of 100 meters;

We took a cable car up to an altitude of 2,240 meters in Romantika.

We enjoyed the stunning autumn and winter landscapes, the summit of Mount Sofia, and learned a lot of interesting facts about the geography and history of the region.

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