Volgograd State Pedagogical University

The Volgograd State Pedagogical University , is one of the major pedagogical

Pedagogy

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institutions in the Russian Federation. The university is located in Volgograd

Volgograd

Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...

, formerly known as Stalingrad (Russia

Russia

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History of the University

Established by decree of the Council of the People's Commissars

Council of the People's Commissars

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of the USSR in 1931, it was previously known as the Stalingrad Industrial Pedagogical Institute. It was completely ruined during the Stalingrad battle of the World War II

World War II

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and its library burnt out. In 1949, the school was renamed in honor of a Russian Proletarian writer

Proletarian literature

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, Alexander Serafimovich

Alexander Serafimovich

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. Under political reforms of Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

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, the city was renamed from Stalingrad to Volgograd

Volgograd

in 1961, and the name of the institution was changed to the Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute. In 1992 it was granted a university status.

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

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. Also, there is a branch of VSPU located in Mikhaylovka, Volgograd Oblast

Mikhaylovka, Volgograd Oblast

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.

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

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

United States

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, Germany

Germany

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, Austria

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, Netherlands

Netherlands

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, France

France

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, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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, Serbia

Serbia

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, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

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, and Kazakhstan

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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 representated 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

Peter Lesgaft

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, Anton Makarenko

Anton Makarenko

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, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

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, Nikolay Pirogov, Vasyl Sukhomlynsky, Konstantin Ushinsky

Konstantin Ushinsky

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, Lev Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky

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, Daniil Elconin (:ru:Эльконин, Даниил Борисович, :de:Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin), David Feldstein, M.Kle.

Scientific research results have been published 10 times a year in the VSPU journal called Izvestia Volgogradskogo Pedagogicheskogo Universiteta , ISSN: 1815-9044.

History of the University

Structure of the University

Faculties and Departments

Scientific Research and Academic Relations

Library and Publishing Services

See also