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.

More than 300 people from all over the country, representatives of 54 subjects of the Russian Federation gathered at Pyatigorsk State University to visit the II All-Russian Youth Forum “Friendship. Unity”. Consent”.

The forum was visited by Barinov Igor Vyacheslavovich, head of the Federal Agency for Nationalities Affairs (FADN) of the Russian Federation.

The organizers of the forum: Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Interethnic Relations, FADN of Russia, Union of Armenians of Russia, NGO FNKA ArmRos, PSU and NCFU.

The rector of the PSU, Professor A.P. Gorbunov, was awarded a Letter of Thanks from the Chairman of the Union of Armenians of Russia.

The forum will last for two days – March 10 and 11. This is the final stage of the Forum, which started in Omsk.

Go to group