Petrozavodsk State University

Address: 33, Lenin Str., 185910, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia
Tel: +7 8142 71-10-01
Fax: +7 8142 71-10-00
Website: http://www.petrsu.ru

Information:

The university has joined the best twenty classical universities of the general Russian Universities' rating of 2009 and has won the first place on the Internationalization criterion and the 6th place in the Brand nomination.

The university now comprises 85 chairs and 17 faculties: Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Faculty of History, Faculty of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Baltic and Finnish Philology and Culture, Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Physical Engineering, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Ecology and Biology, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, as well as Preparatory Faculty, Faculty of Improvement of Professional Skills, and Faculty of Postgraduate Education in the Sphere of Medicine. The university also includes 3 branches, of which two are located in Karelia - Priladozhsky branch (Sortavala), Belomorsk branch (Belomorsk) and Kola branch is located in Apatity, Murmansk region; more than 40 international, regional and university innovation centers, training and production facilities, Publishing house, Scientific library (one of the largest libraries in the European North of Russia which funds total more than one million four hundred thousand books), Botanic garden.

Among structural subdivisions of the university there are Northern Fisheries Research Institute, PetrSU Karelian scientific research institute on timber industry complex, Karelian regional institute of management, economy and law under the auspices of the Government of Karelia, Regional Center for New Information Technologies, PetrSU-Metso Automation Systems Center, PetrSU Interfaculty Ecological Legal Center, Institute of historical and theoretical problems of folk architecture, Budgetary monitoring center, Regional center of international cooperation in the European North of Russia, Karelian EU Information Center, Karelian Barents Center, Karelian Branch of the Information Bureau of Nordic Council of Ministers in St.Petersburg, Regional Coordinating Center of the Program "Step to the Future", Regional Center of Ministry of Education on Labour Protection and Safety Devices, Center for agricultural education development in the European North, etc.

PetrSU has a high status of large research center in the field of programming, information technologies, plasma research, microelectronics, mathematics, physics, medicine, biology, history, philology, political and social sciences, law, economy, problems of timber, building and agroindustrial complexes, etc. Annually more than 300 scientific, educational and economic agreement projects financed by the Federal Agency of Education, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Russian Foundation for the Humanities, Russian Federal Property Foundation, other Russian and foreign foundations and programs, organizations and enterprises are implemented in PetrSU. Also from 60 to70 international, All-Russia and regional conferences and seminars are held in PetrSU annually, and dozens of scientific monographies, textbooks and manuals are published.

From the beginning of 1990s the university has chosen innovative way of development as one of the main priority in its activity. It has demanded serious changes in preparation of school graduates and students, organization of scientific research and application-oriented solutions, development of international cooperation, university management.

Category: Russia