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.

Daria Sukhovskaya will give an open lecture at the Caucasus Investment Forum.

The Caucasus Investment Forum is held on an annual basis in the interests of sustainable social and economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District. This year the main theme of the Forum is “Investment Path: Past. Present. Future.”

On May 25 at 9:00 a.m. a lecture “Elbrus as a symbol and image: the mountain that influenced the world architecture and fashion of the 1970s” by Daria Sukhovskaya, candidate of philosophical sciences, researcher of culture and heritage of the region, will take place. The result of the research devoted to the cultural code of the highest mountain in Europe will be presented.

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