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.

An all-Russian seminar was held at the New Chersonesos Museum and Temple Complex with the participation of Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

Participants discussed the formation of the socio-humanitarian part of the unified core of higher education—the basis of a new model that will unite the humanities for all students of Russian universities.

The rector of PSU, chairman of the Council of Rectors of Universities of the North Caucasus Federal District, Professor Alexander Pavlovich Gorbunov, took part in the discussion, emphasizing: “The fundamental importance of the social and humanitarian core in terms of life and activity is higher than the fundamental importance of the natural science and technological components of education.”

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