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 became one of the organizers of the All-Russian Forum “Cossacks in the North Caucasus: the current state and image of the future”.

The session of the forum at the university was held by Alla Viktorovna Grigorieva - Honorary Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, specialist of the Center for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values of PSU, PhD Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor and Alexander Alexandrovich Pokhilko - Deputy Director for Scientific Work and Innovation Activities of the Pyatigorsk Institute (branch) of NCFU, Cand.

The result of the session was an analytical report with recommendations and proposals for the formation of the image of the future Cossacks of the North Caucasus

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