Volgograd State Pedagogical University

The Volgograd State Pedagogical University (Russian: Волгоградский государственный педагогический университет, Volgográdskiy gosudárstvennyi pedagogícheskiy universitét ímeni A. S. Serafimóvicha, abbreviation: VSPU), is one of the major pedagogical institutions in the Russian Federation. The university is located in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad (Russia).

Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Coat of arms of the Volgograd State Pedagogical University
TypePublic
Established1931
RectorAlexander Korotkov
Studentsover 13,200[1]
Address

Russia
,
Volgograd
,
Russia
Campusurban
Websitewww.vspu.ru

History of the University

Established by decree of the Council of the People's Commissars of the USSR in 1931, it was previously known as the Stalingrad Industrial Pedagogical Institute. It was completely ruined during the Stalingrad battle of World War II and its library burnt out.[2] In 1949, the school was renamed in honor of a Russian Proletarian writer, Alexander Serafimovich. Under political reforms of Nikita Khrushchev, the city was renamed from Stalingrad to Volgograd in 1961, and the name of the institution was changed to the Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute. In 1992 it was granted university status.[3]

For the past ten years, the university stands amongst 10 best leading pedagogical and linguistic universities in Russia and 100 best universities worldwide.[1]

Photograph of the building

Structure of the University

Today, the urban structure of the university includes Institute of Primary and Special Education, Foreign Languages Institute, Institute of Art Education, and Institute of Computerized Pedagogics. There are four buildings on campus with over 13,000 students: 13,000 full-time and part-time students and about 200 post-graduates and foreign students who study at their own expense.[1][4] Also, there is a branch of VSPU located in Mikhaylovka, Volgograd Oblast.[2]

VSPU has 43 research centers and laboratories, 16 faculties, offers four-year bachelor (Russian: бакалавр) degrees, 33 two-year master (Russian: магистр) degrees and kandidat nauk (Candidate of science, equals PhD) postgraduate degrees, and 6 doktor nauk (Doctor of science, equals Full Professor) post doctoral degrees.

Faculties and Departments
Awards of the VSPU
1981: Order of the Badge of Honour

Scientific Research and Academic Relations

VSPU is a federal experimental base of the Russian Academy of Education, it is developing the ideas of continuous pedagogical education and interaction of pedagogics and school teaching techniques.

The university maintains international academic relations with higher education institutions o United States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France, People's Republic of China, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.[2]

Library and publishing services

As of 2010, the VSPU library collection contains about 852,000 copies. Its fund of research literature on Psychology and Pedagogics is considered the most valuable and is represented by the monographs by Yury Babansky, Pavel Blonsky, Vasily Vodovozov (ru:Водовозов, Василий Иванович), Vasily Vakhterov (ru:Вахтеров, Василий Порфирьевич), Anatoly Zak, Leonid Zankov (ru:Занков, Леонид Владимирович), John Amos Comenius, Peter Lesgaft, Anton Makarenko, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Nikolay Pirogov, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Konstantin Ushinsky, Lev Vygotsky, Daniil Elconin (ru:Эльконин, Даниил Борисович, de:Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin), David Feldstein, and M. Kle.

Scientific research results have been published ten times a year in the VSPU journal, titled Izvestia Volgogradskogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta (Russian: Известия Волгоградского государственного педагогического университета), ISSN 1815-9044.

See also

References
  1. "VSPU: Information for foreign students" (in Russian). www.vspu.ru, Volgograd State Pedagogical University. Archived from the original on 2012-05-07.
  2. Vitaly Korovin. "An article about the VSPU with no title" (in Russian). Volgograd.ru. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  3. "Volgograd State Pedagogical University, Volgograd, Russia" (in Russian). Math-Net.Ru. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
  4. "Pedagogical Institutions of Russia: Volgograd State Pedagogical University" (in Russian). www.uvspu.ru. Retrieved 03.12.2010. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

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