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.

The Mashuk Knowledge Center hosted a round table within the framework of the All-Russian project “Coaches of Universities” dedicated to the development of student sports in the North Caucasus Federal District.

PSU was represented at the meeting by Boris Arkadievich Agadjanov, head of the Center for Student Initiatives, and Lorena Bagaeva, chair of the Pyatigorsk Eagles student sports club.

The participants discussed the future of sports clubs, exchanged experience and proposed ideas for the development of projects of the Association of Student Sports Clubs of Russia.

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