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.

Meanings of the Caucasus: an expert and analytical session was held at Pyatigorsk State University. The session was attended by students of PSU of various humanitarian areas of training.

A welcoming speech to the participants of the event was addressed by the head of the department for the implementation of public projects of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the NCFD Andrei Karpov.

Key speakers of the event were the head of the regional development department of the North Caucasus Federal District of the Russian Society “Knowledge” Alexander Jadov, the head of the laboratory “Senses of the Caucasus” Asker Tumov, as well as the director of the programs of the Mashuk Knowledge Center Grigory Mkhitaryan.

The project “Senses of the Caucasus” has been implemented since 2022 with the aim of forming a community of young specialists of social and humanitarian profile who are able to develop and offer solutions for the consolidation of the Russian Caucasus. Representatives of the academic community, business, social movements and state authorities explore and develop symbols of historical memory and image of the future of the Caucasus.

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