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.

Today in Pyatigorsk, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District Yuri Chaika met with representatives of religious associations of the district subjects.

During the meeting, Vice-Rector of the PSU, Head of the Center for Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values Ibragimov Ibrahim Dzhavparovich was awarded a Letter of Gratitude from the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District.

For his significant contribution to the preservation of traditional spiritual and moral values and historical truth, the education of patriotism, the prevention of radicalism and the harmonization of interfaith relations in the North Caucasus.

We congratulate Ibrahim Javparovich on this important event and wish him further professional success!

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