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.

GSDIA PSU together with the Russian Academy of Arts and the Creative Union of Artists of Russia today opened the work of the international scientific and practical conference “Dialogue of Academies: to the 300th anniversary of the Decree of Peter I on the establishment of the Academy”.

The purpose of the conference is to create a dialogue of the Academies, to comprehend modern processes in the field of art and culture in general.

The conference will be presented in the format of interdisciplinary meetings of designers, artists, architects, art historians, teachers and philosophers.

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