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Theme: Our Institute

1. Our institute is situated

2. The University comprises 16 Faculties:

3. Kuban State University

I am a first-year student of the Shakhty Branch of South Russia State Technical University.
Our institute is situated in the center of the city. It occupies a big beautiful five-storeyed building. There is a green square in front of the institute.
The Institute was founded in 1958. It was established for training engineers for the mining industry of the Rostov region. It is one of the most important higher schools in the town. The high standard of teaching is provided by the skilled teaching staff. The total enrollment is about 2.500 students. The institute is headed by the director.
There are six faculties at the institute. They are the Mining Construction Faculty, the Faculty of Mechanics and Technology, the Faculty of Humanities and Economics, the Faculty of Qualification Improvement, the Preparatory Faculty and the Faculty of Extra-Mural and Distance Education. Each faculty is headed by the dean. The institute has a college.
The Extra-Mural Faculty is involved with part-time students. Extra-mural students either attend classes twice a week or study by correspondence.
The Department of Economics and Law was established in 1993. The De­partment of Management and Marketing was organized in 2000. Еconomic students study general sciences, humanities and specialized subjects. They take mathematics, physics, chemistry, technical drawing, computing. The students also study social sciences and foreign languages. Qualified lecturers deliver lectures on economics, accounting, advertising, marketing, statistics, logistics and management. After completing the course of training and passing the exams young people are qualified as economists, managers and lawyers.
The academic year consists of two terms. The first term begins in Septem­ber and ends in December. The second term begins in February and ends in May. Extra-mural students write tests in different subjects and send them to the institute. In January and June they come to the institute and take tests and ex­aminations. The term of part-time tuition is 6 years.
In the institute there is a library, a reading-room, lecture halls, computer rooms, well-equipped laboratories, gymnasiums and a sports ground.
After graduation from the institute young people work in banks, plants, mines, and private companies.
On June, 4th, 1920 at session of revolutionary committee the petition of a department of national education for opening on Kuban since autumn of 1920 of university in structure of faculties has been supported: medical, natural, sociohistorical.
On August, 9th, 1920 reception of applications of entrants in KubSU has begun. On September, 5th in solemn conditions the Kuban state university has been opened.
The university was placed in the first female grammar school. Duties of the rector were executed in the beginning by Samara professorA.V. Bagry. In 1920 the board of professors of university has selected on a post of the rector N.A.Marx.
The most numerous on structure of students and teachers of the Kuban university was sociohistorical faculty. It was planned to open the humanitarian faculty consisting of two branches: economic and historical. At the Kuban university a lot of scientific, stady-auxiliary services and establishments has been organized, the scientific university library is based.
Per 1921 the high school has been renamed into the Maximum pedagogical institute. To ithas passed all new reception of students of university.
During Great Domestic war from institute on front send awaymany teachers and students. On August, 1st, 1942 the institute has been closed.
On February, 18th, 1970 in day of opening of the Kuban university the solemn assembly took place. The generalmanagementof high school is carried out by the rector - professor V.A.Babeshko.
For years of the development the Kuban university on all basic parameters has left on the second place among universities of Northern Caucasus and now becomes the center of formation, a science and culture in edge. KubSU has entered into number 50 of leading high schools of the country
Kuban State University is a classical education institution, providing high-level fundamental theoretical education as well as deep practical knowledge.
KubSU offers 59 specialties in 16 Faculties, its graduates are employed at the leading state and joint-stock enterprises of the region, research institutes and higher education institutions, banks and courts, travel agencies and art studios, in the services sector and in the field of international activities. They develop the infrastructure of enterprises, cities and regions. They spread education, culture and science in the villages of the region, teaching schoolchildren, future University entrants, in the urban and rural areas of the Krasnodar region.
KubSU is cooperating with colleges and universities of the USA, England, France, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Korea, Vietnam, Jordan and other countries. Our graduates work in over 50 countries of the world. Our best students study at the colleges and universities of the USA, England, France, Germany, Greece, China and other countries.
KubSU constantly proves its competitiveness with the leading institutions of higher education of the world, winning a lot of international grants: CRDF (Civilian Research and Development Foundation), Tempus, Soros, Ford, MacCarthur etc. The University conducts high-level scientific research, professors from the USA, Germany, UK, Holland, Greece, Canada, France and other countries come to Kuban State University to deliver lectures and arrange seminars.
No wonder that the University rates high. In the rating list published by the newspaper Poisk of May 17, 2002 Kuban State University takes the 12th place among 80 leading higher education institutions of Russia.
KubSU is one of few higher education institutions in the South of Russia, possessing a military department where reserve officers are trained.
Having graduated from Kuban State University as high-skilled specialists, you will able to build the future of your Motherland, your own future and the future of your children in the new 21st century, the time of our country’s revival, the heyday of your skills and your talents
The University comprises 16 Faculties:

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  Mathematics
  
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  Applied Mathematics
  
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  Physics and Technology
  
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  Chemistry
  
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  Biology
  
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  Geography
  
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  History, Sociology and International Relations
  
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  Law
  
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  Philology
  
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  Romance-Germanic Philology
  
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  Journalism
  
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  Fine Arts and Drawing
  
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  Architecture and Design
  
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  Economics
  
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  Management
  

Since 1997, the Social-Pedagogical Institute has been included into the KubSU structure. The Institute trains teaching personnel for educational institutions in the following specialities:

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  Pedagogics and methodics of primary education
  
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  Technology and business undertakings
  
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  Pre-school pedagogics and psychology
  
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  Speech therapy
  
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  Pedagogics and psychology
  
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  Social pedagogics
  
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  Public relations
  

For over 30 years the Preparatory Department has annually admitted 120 students. The training is conducted in 54 specialities.
KubSU is the leader in the research and scientific field: over 200 grants won, 26 medals awarded at international exhibitions
http://www.kubsu.ru/index.php/eng/content/view/full/581/KubSU carries out research work on more than 120 federal scientific and technical programs, Russian and international projects. In recent years the University has won grants at a sum of more than 2,000,000 USD and the extent of scientific research, conducted by the scientists of KubSU, has doubled.
There are 13 Higher Degree Boards, including 11 Higher Doctoral Boards. More than 400 postgraduates and people working for a higher doctoral degree attend postgraduate and postdoctoral studies.
High level of scientific research held at the University can be demonstrated by 50 individual grants of the Soros Foundation awarded to the University scientists. The research results and scientific concepts are presented in hundreds of books, monographs, articles, training manuals published by the University professors and lecturers.
KubSU possesses modern facilities for conducting scientific experiments; laboratories and testing grounds in the area of Gelendzhik and the Lago-Naki plateau provide the students with the opportunities for carrying out scientific experiments and field studies.
144 Professors and 506 Associate Professors teach at 90 departments. Over 1,000 lecturers work at the University, including 1 Full Member of the Russian Academy of Science, 92 Members and Associate Members of other Russian Academies, prize laureates and Honoured Scientists.
Students’ life at the University is rich and interesting. The University has a tourist center, a theater club, a dance club, meetings of the University “Wiseguys and Wisecracks” Club take place regularly, sports competitions are held.
Non-residents of Krasnodar live in the University campus, which also accommodates a healthcare center.
The Students’ Organization of KubSU is one of the largest trade union organizations in the Krasnodar region. It comprises 15 trade union organizations of the University Faculties. The trade union committee consists of five boards: board for organizational issues, housing board, board on information, board on culture and education and sports and health-improving board.
The activities of the trade union organization are primarily aimed at the protection of its members’ rights, representation of their interests to the KubSU administration.
The trade union organization has succeeded in organizing summer vacation. Every year students have a chance to spend their vacation at the University student camp “Raduga” at the Black Sea coast.
The Youth Cultural and Leisure Center was founded 8 years ago, and has since then held over 200 concerts, “Wiseguys and Wisecracks” games, exhibitions.
I study at faculty of management and psychology. The dean of faculty - Alexander Mihajlovich Zhdanovsky, the candidate of historical sciences, the senior lecturer, the honourable worker of the maximum vocational training of the Russian Federation. The faculty was a part of university in 1996. Before itexisted as institute at university. Preparation of experts goes on following specialities: political science, psychology, the state and municipal management, management of the personnel, social work and management of the organization.
The faculty of faculty is presented by 11 doctors of sciences, professors, 32 candidates of sciences, senior lecturers.
Special disciplines give students of knowledge on problems: strategic management and development of the organization, municipal statistics and the municipal finance, psychology of marketing, political conflictology and to negotiating process, psychology of management and public relations, management of the personnel and an estimation of the staff, psychology of social knowledge and qualitative methods in social sciences.
Students of faculty have an opportunity to receive additional qualification the translator in sphere of the professional communications. Students of faculty pass practice in bodies state and municipal authority, personnel services, the political organizations, establishments of formation bodies of social protection.
Faculties of faculty actively cooperate with the largest international centres of science on political science, psychology, management and conflictology.
In particular, with Institute of the government and social researches of the Moscow State University, Institute of sociology of the Russian Academy of Science, institute of psychology of the Russian Academy of Science both other leading Russian and foreign educational institutions.
Our faculty settles down on 4 floor of new and newest cases. I study as specialities psychology, I very much like this speciality. At our faculty very good library - in it is a lot of books not only for study, but also for reading on interests.
Having ended the Kuban state university and becoming highly skilled experts, we shall define the future of the Native land, the future and the future of the children in a new 21 century on which revival of our country is necessary, blossoming of our forces, our abilities, our talent

^Summary
On June, 4th, 1920 at session of revolutionary committee the petition of a department of national education for opening on Kuban since autumn of 1920 of university in structure of faculties has been supported: medical, natural, sociohistorical.
On August, 9th, 1920 reception of applications of entrants in KubSU has begun. On September, 5th in solemn conditions the Kuban state university has been opened.
The university was placed in the first female grammar school. Duties of the rector were executed in the beginning by Samara professor A.V. Bagry. In 1920 the board of professors of university has selected on a post of the rector N.A.Marx.
KubSU offers 59 specialties in 16 Faculties. I study at faculty of management and psychology. The dean of faculty - Alexander Mihajlovich Zhdanovsky, the candidate of historical sciences, the senior lecturer, the honorable worker of the maximum vocational training of the Russian Federation. The faculty was a part of university in 1996. Before it existed as institute at university. Preparation of experts goes on following specialties: political science, psychology, the state and municipal management, management of the personnel, social work and management of the organization. I study on a specialty psychology. I consider{count} that my specialty very interesting. I very much like our teachers. As it is pleasant to me that each holiday is marked{celebrated} at our faculty. At us very good library. I consider{count} that specialties