Ural Pedagogical University. Ural State Pedagogical University

About the university

Ural State Pedagogical University (USPU) was founded in 1930. This is one of the oldest universities in the Urals.

USPU is one of the 100 leading pedagogical universities in the Russian Federation, the best pedagogical university in the Urals Federal District. At present, USPU is the main supplier of teaching staff for the Sverdlovsk region, and for certain pedagogical specialties - for the Ural region.
Ural State Pedagogical University is a center of science, education and culture, conducting fundamental and applied research in a wide range of psychological, pedagogical, humanitarian, natural science areas of science

During its long history, the USPU has trained over 100,000 highly qualified specialists. Among its graduates and today's students? heroes of Russia, winners of the annual Russian and regional competitions "Teacher of the Year", public figures, masters of sports of international class, honored masters of sports, champions of the world and Europe, the Olympic Games, soloists of the leading theaters of Russia, leaders and activists of public organizations and associations.

Ural State Pedagogical University is a center of science, education and culture, conducting fundamental and applied research in a wide range of psychological, pedagogical, humanitarian, and natural science areas of science. Education at the university is conducted at all levels of higher professional education (bachelor's, specialist), postgraduate professional (master's, postgraduate) and additional education. USPU carries out multifaceted scientific and educational-methodical cooperation in organizing academic exchanges, conducting joint scientific research and publishing their results, sharing experience in organizing the educational process, writing and publishing textbooks, organizing and participating in international conferences, seminars, exhibitions.

More than 100 doctors of sciences and professors, about 500 candidates of sciences and associate professors work at the university, many of them are full members and corresponding members of state and public academies of sciences. and to increase the intellectual potential of Russia on the basis of an optimal combination of fundamental university education and practice-oriented profile training, taking into account the requirements of the time.

The educational process, research and innovation activities, educational work are provided at USPU by a team of highly qualified teachers.

More than 100 doctors of sciences and professors, about 500 candidates of sciences and associate professors work at the university, many of them are full members and corresponding members of state and public academies of sciences: the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the International Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, the Academy of Informatization of Education , the Academy of Social Sciences, the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Military Historical Sciences, the Russian Academy of Ecology, the Ural Branch of the Russian Society of Psycholinguists, etc.

More than 15 scientific schools have been formed and are successfully functioning at the university, which have gained not only Russian, but also world-class fame. The schools of A. S. Belkin, N. L. Leiderman, P. S. Popel, L. Ya. Rubina, T. N. Shamalo and others enjoy great prestige in scientific circles.

Various student associations operate at USPU: student self-government bodies (trade union organization of USPU students, student council of the university and student councils of dormitories), student teams, creative teams. Student research work is an integral part of the training of specialists at the university. Every year, USPU students become winners and prize-winners of scientific conferences, olympiads and competitions at the international, all-Russian and regional levels. More than 50 university students are scholarship holders of the President of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region, as well as the Academic Council of the USPU.

Since 2007, the Ural State Pedagogical University has been implementing the target university program "Preparing students for innovative activities", intensively preparing employees and heads of educational institutions of the Sverdlovsk region for the introduction of innovative technologies.

The current USPU quality management system complies with the requirements of the international standard ISO-9001:2000, which is confirmed by certificates of conformity issued to four educational departments of the university: the Institute of Social Education, the Institute of Special Education, the Faculty of Psychology, the Faculty of Management, Advanced Training and Retraining of Personnel. Certification was carried out by well-known international certification centers Cro Cert (Croatia) and TUV-NORD CERT GmbH (Essen, Germany).

Currently, USPU is the main supplier of teaching staff for the Sverdlovsk region, and for certain pedagogical specialties - for the Ural region. Various student associations operate at USPU: student government bodies (trade union organization of USPU students, student council of the university and student councils of dormitories), student detachments, creative teams: Contemporary Dance Studio, Variety Studio, Fashion Theater, Breakdance School, Rock Group Studio and many others.

Ural State Pedagogical University actively expands contacts with foreign universities, international organizations and foundations, participates in major international projects and educational programs, cooperates with universities in the USA, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and Japan.

"Ural State Pedagogical University"
(USPU)
Former names Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute
Motto Docere and discere
Year of foundation
Type State
Rector Simonova, Alevtina Alexandrovna
Location Russia Russia, Yekaterinburg
Legal address Yekaterinburg, Cosmonauts Ave., 26
Website www.uspu.ru
Awards

"Ural State Pedagogical University" (USPU) is a federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education, founded in 1930, one of the oldest universities in the Urals.

More than 20 thousand students study at full-time and part-time departments. There are postgraduate and doctoral studies, 11 dissertation councils. In terms of the number of full-time students (about 6,500), it ranks second out of 17 universities in the Sverdlovsk region (after the Ural Federal University named after B. N. Yeltsin). In 2010, it ranked 5th out of 71 according to the National University Ranking among pedagogical, humanitarian and linguistic universities.

In 2007, following the results of the examination of the network project "Innovations in Education", the university received the status of an innovative enterprise, confirming this title in 2010 and 2012.

In 2012, according to the results of the "Public control over the procedures for admission to universities as a condition for ensuring equal access to education", carried out by order of the Public Chamber of Russia, the Ural State Pedagogical University took 4th place among 43 Russian pedagogical universities.

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  • Institute of Fundamental Social and Humanitarian Education
    • Faculty of Law
    • Faculty of Economics
    • Faculty of Sociology
  • Institute of Social Education
    • Department of Social Pedagogy
    • Advertising and public relations
    • History and theory of social work
    • Technologies of social work
  • Institute of Personnel Development and Management
    • Department of Theory and Practice of Organization Management
    • Department of Acmeology and Management Psychology
    • Department of Continuing Education
    • Department of Higher Professional Education
  • Institute of Pedagogy and Childhood Psychology
    • Center for Additional Education IPiPD
    • Center for Correspondence and E-Learning
    • Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Preschool Education
      • Department of Pedagogy and Childhood Psychology
      • Department of Theory and Methods of Education Culture of Creativity
    • Faculty of Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education
      • Department of the Russian language and methods of its teaching in elementary grades
      • Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Natural Science, Mathematics and Informatics in Childhood
      • Department of Pedagogy
  • Institute of Special Education
    • Regional Computer Center
    • Qualification Testing Center
    • Center for Psychological and Pedagogical Support of Vocational Education for the Disabled
    • Faculty of PC and PP Special Education Workers
    • Faculty of Correctional Pedagogy
  • University of the Foreign languages
    • Department of German Philology
    • Department of English Language, Methods and Translation Studies
    • Department of English Philology and Comparative Linguistics
    • Department of Romance Languages
    • Department of Professionally Oriented Language Education
  • Institute of Fundamental Psychological and Pedagogical Education
    • Department of Higher Pedagogical Education
    • Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Valeology
    • Department of Psychology
    • Department of Age Pedagogy and Pedagogical Technologies
    • Department of General Pedagogy and History of Education
  • Institute of Psychology
    • Department of General Psychology
    • Department of Educational Psychology
    • Department of Social Psychology, Conflictology and Management
  • Institute of Philology, Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication
    • Department of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication
    • Department of Modern Russian Literature
    • Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching the Russian Language
    • Department of Russian and Foreign Literature
    • Department of General Linguistics and Russian Language
  • Institute of Physics and Technology
    • Department of General Physics and Natural Science
    • Department of Theoretical Physics
    • Department of MP Physics and TCO
    • Department of General Technical Disciplines
    • Department of Technology
  • Institute of Music and Art Education
    • Department of singing and methods of musical education
    • Department of theory and history of music and music. tools
    • Department of Art Education
  • Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and Information Technology
    • Department of Informatics, Computer Engineering and Teaching Methods
    • Department of Information Technology
    • Department of NIT in Education

On the basis of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of June 2, 1978, in the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) was created and September 1, 1979 the country's first engineering and pedagogical institute was opened for the training of pedagogical personnel in the system of primary, secondary and higher vocational education. Blyukher Vasily Vasilyevich, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor, was appointed Rector.

The training of engineers-teachers was carried out at the mechanical engineering and electrical power faculties, which included 12 departments, which trained 300 full-time students.

The first graduation took place in 1984 and 232 specialists graduated, of which 20 graduates received diplomas with honors.

1985 year - Dr. chem. sciences, prof. Tkachenko E.V.

From the very beginning, he set a course for the significant development of all areas of the institute's activities. The opening of a postgraduate course and a dissertation council, increasing the leading role of the institute in the system of engineering and pedagogical education (IPE), coordinating scientific research in the field of IPE, developing international activities, and computerizing the educational process were identified as the main directions.

1992 year - by order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated 03.11.92 No. 2029 - rector of the Sverdlovsk Engineering and Pedagogical Institute E.V. Tkachenko was appointed First Deputy Minister and then Minister of Education of the Russian Federation.

An important role in the development of the institute and the engineering and pedagogical education of the country was played by a joint meeting of the collegiums of the Ministry of Education and the State Professional Education of the USSR in 1987 year. The Institute was approved as the country's leading university in the field of engineering and pedagogical education. The specialty 030100 - Vocational training was opened.

On the basis of the institute, an educational and methodological association was created with the aim of developing curricula and programs, other educational and methodological documentation, generalizing and disseminating best practices in training personnel in engineering and pedagogical specialties.

The Institute was entrusted with the coordination of research work in the field of engineering and pedagogical education and ensuring the continuous improvement and development of this type of education in the country.

With 1990 The Sverdlovsk Engineering Pedagogical Institute has consistently ranked among the top five pedagogical universities in the country. 1992 year - acting Vice-rector for scientific work G.M. Romantsev.

December 1993 year, by the decision of the boards of the State Committee for Higher Education and the Ministry of Education of Russia, by order of the Minister of Education of Russia, it was transformed into the Ural State Vocational Pedagogical University (UGPPU), and the educational and methodological association for engineering and pedagogical specialties was reorganized into the educational and methodological association of higher and secondary educational institutions of the Russian Federation for professional -pedagogical education (UMO for PPO).

1993 year - for the first time on an alternative basis, out of 5 candidates, G.M. was elected rector of the university. Romantsev.

AT 2004 It was an anniversary - 25 years have passed since the creation of the Sverdlovsk Engineering and Pedagogical Institute and 75 years of professional and pedagogical education in the Urals.

For 25 years, the university has grown significantly and raised its academic status: 1979 - Sverdlovsk Engineering and Pedagogical Institute (SIPI), 1993 - Ural State Vocational Pedagogical University (UGPPU), 2001 - Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University ( RGPPU).

In honor of the 25th anniversary of RSPPU, 6 university employees were presented for state awards, 139 people. were awarded industry, regional and city level awards, 165 people. were awarded honorary diplomas of RSPPU and 38 employees were thanked.

During the anniversary events, the university was congratulated by the first President of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin; Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District VF Basargin; Head of the Department of Educational Institutions of the Federal Agency for Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation E. Ya. Butko; E. E. Rossel, Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region; A.P. Vorobyov, Chairman of the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region; Committee on Education and Science of the State Duma of the Russian Federation; the House of Representatives and the Regional Duma of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region; a number of ministries and departments of the Sverdlovsk region; administration of Yekaterinburg and Ordzhonikidzevsky district; dozens of enterprises, organizations, banks, institutions; more than a hundred universities, colleges (technical schools) and schools; university graduates, etc.

A significant event was the opening of a computer class in the main building of the University. B. N. Yeltsin for 12 terminals, equipped with computer equipment donated by the first President of Russia.

AT 2004 completed the overhaul, reconstruction and equipping of the cultural and sports complex of the university with modern equipment. The total cost of funds spent was about 30 million rubles.

The university is more than 17 thousand students, graduate students, doctoral students and listeners mastering educational programs of higher and postgraduate, secondary and additional professional education. The university has 10 institutes, a faculty for advanced training, doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, 6 branches in the cities of the Sverdlovsk region and beyond. AT 2005 opened: two new departments and two departments - sound engineering, film and television production and music and computer technologies, the Research Institute of Informatization of Vocational Education, as well as a new department - legal and documentary support of management - as part of the Institute of Pedagogical Jurisprudence.

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated July 26, 2006 No. 1053 - p, a decision was made to reorganize the state educational institution of higher professional education "Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University" by joining it as separate structural units of the state educational institution of secondary vocational education Yekaterinburg Machine-Building College and the state educational institution of secondary vocational education Yekaterinburg Electromechanical College . The university is 10 institutes, 2 departments, PhD, doctoral studies, postgraduate studies, 2 colleges, 8 branches, 18 representative offices.

The educational and methodological association for secondary vocational education under the leadership of RSPPU includes 212 educational institutions: 126 universities and 89 colleges (technical schools).

To 2007 25,000 students graduated from the RSPPU, the Graduate Employment Assistance Center (CSTV) was added to the structure of the university, and the eighth branch of the RSPPU was opened in Pervouralsk on the basis of the Ural Pipe Plant (in addition, the university has 20 representative offices).

In Brno (Czech Republic) during the IX International Competition for Young Designers and Fashion Designers "Podium-2007", the collection presented by the RSPPU students became one of the best.

The admission campaign showed that RSPPU has the highest competition for the specialty "design and interior" (14.8 people), followed by "foreign language" (9.37).

AT 2008 the Institute of Sociology and Law began its work, uniting the Institute of Sociology and the Institute of Pedagogical Jurisprudence; On the basis of the Engineering and Pedagogical Institute, the Machine-Building Institute, including EMK, and the Electric Power Institute, including EEMK, were created. On February 1, 2008, the Confucius School was opened on the basis of a memorandum signed by the PRC government, China Radio International and the Laboratory for Research on Interethnic Communication Problems of the Ural Scientific and Educational Center of the Russian Academy of Education.

Successfully passed the third attestation of the university.

As a result of the meeting with representatives of state authorities, education, the industrial and economic complex of the Sverdlovsk region, a tripartite agreement was signed on cooperation on the issues of training qualified personnel between the Government of the Sverdlovsk region, the Sverdlovsk Regional Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University.

RSPPU is the first among the universities of the city in 2009 the city received the status of an autonomous educational institution (order of the Government of the Russian Federation of November 16, 2009 No. 1732-r). By this time, the walls of the university had already left 30 thousand graduates. With the support of the Foundation of the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin is equipped with modern multimedia technology and an auditorium named after the first President of Russia is open, as well as
for the first time the scholarship was awarded to them. B.N. Yeltsin.

The development of the university, which celebrated its 30th anniversary, is aimed at the transition to a two-level system of higher education (bachelor-master), the creation of a high-tech base for practice: in 2010 The training and demonstration center "Pumori-SIZ" was created, the system of telecommunications education for students of the RSPPU was launched, a media hall was opened in the scientific library, the second international conference "Professional education of handicraft specialists" was held. According to the RIA Novosti and State University rating, the Higher School of Economics RSPPU ranks first among the pedagogical and technical universities of the Ural Federal District in terms of scientific and publication activity.

The Faculty of Cinema and Television of the Institute of Arts of the RSPU has released the first specialists.

According to the results of the monitoring of Russian state and universities "The quality of admission to universities 2011 : Average and Minimum Unified State Examination Scores in the Areas of Training” RSPPU took 1st place among Russian universities leading admissions for areas in the “Pedagogical Education” group. There are 8 institutes, 1 department, 3 colleges, 19 branches and representative offices in the structure of RGPPU, as well as an educational center for road safety "ElIn-Avto", equipped with unique modern training equipment. RSPPU won the largest number of grants from the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation among organizations in the Sverdlovsk region.

The university is fixed in the flagship position: it took 1st place in popularity among graduates of Yekaterinburg schools 2012 year, having received 62% of their votes (poll of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion); the accreditation commission issued a conclusion on the compliance of RSPPU with the requirements for a modern higher education institution; headed by the university UMO for PPO celebrated its 25th anniversary. The Ural Center for Testing Russian as a Foreign Language for Citizens of Foreign Countries was established (Rector's Order No. 394 dated July 31, 2012), the certificates of which are recognized by ALTE (European Association for Linguistic Testing).

AT 2013 In 2008, RSPPU was among the universities that the Sverdlovsk Regional Fund for Entrepreneurship Support selected to organize training for entrepreneurs. The university not only trains professionals at nine institutes, but also establishes productive contacts with employers: according to the All-Russian rating of higher educational institutions, which demonstrates the level of work of graduate employment assistance services, the university took third place among the universities of the Sverdlovsk region. Even in the process of learning, students get the opportunity to try their hand, for example, SSO "Energetik" RGPPU takes part in the construction of a new electrical substation "Yenisei" in Krasnoyarsk.

In the spring of 2013, in connection with the expiration of the powers of the current rector G.M.

E.M. Dorozhkin

By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated August 28, 2013 No. 1002, the federal state autonomous educational institution of higher professional education "Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University" and the federal state budgetary educational institution of higher professional education "Nizhny Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Academy" were reorganized in the form accession of NTGSPA to RGPPU as a separate structural subdivision (branch).

Anniversary, 2014 RSPPU celebrated the year with the successful completion of the monitoring to assess the effectiveness of Russian universities, carried out by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, as well as membership in the International Association for Vocational Education and Training (IVETA), whose activities are aimed at improving and improving high-quality vocational education and signing an agreement on networking for issues of personnel training for the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan by the integrated base department of the RSPPU, created at the non-state educational institution of higher professional education "University of Management" TISBI "(Kazan). The university ranks second in the Sverdlovsk region in terms of the number of students who are assigned a scholarship of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk region (24 people), in addition, in order to implement the program for the development of student associations of the RSPPU, a grant was won, so the student theater "Lyudi T" received 100 thousand rubles. for a social project.

In the same year, a competition was announced, as a result of which the RSPPU trademark (logo) was developed and put into use.
The main vector of development in the following, 2015 year, the international activity of the university became: RSPPU and the Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University signed a cooperation agreement; plans for joint events, projects and scientific research were discussed at the Russian Center of the University of Pecs (Hungary); RGPPU entered the Association of Higher Educational Institutions of Azerbaijan and Russia; During the International Forum-Conference held in Shanghai (China), the Confucius School of the RSPPU was awarded as the best Confucius School in the world.

In accordance with the new charter, the name of the university has changed: Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University" (RSVPU). The structure has also changed: nine faculties were merged into three institutes (Institute of Engineering and Pedagogical Education, Institute of Psychological and Pedagogical Education, Institute of Humanitarian and Socio-Economic Education). Born on the basis of SIPI-USPPU-RSVPU, the Educational and Methodological Association for PPE has grown to the framework of the Federal UMO VO "Professional Pedagogical Education", the expert council of which was headed by the rector of the RSVPU Evgeny Mikhailovich Dorozhkin.

The second most important vector was the increase in the level of professionalism of university students: according to the results of the national championship of excellence according to WorldSkills standards, two "golds", two "silver" and "bronze" were won; two students became laureates of the regional stage of the annual Student of the Year award.

Work in these areas has yielded results. AT 2016 In 1999, RSPPU was accepted into the consortium of the International Association for Professional Further Education, and also received two projects under the Erasmus + program "Developing the potential of higher education" (partners are the universities of Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia, Russia and Uzbekistan). For the first time in Russia, on the basis of the RSPPU, a project was launched aimed at exchanging experience in the field of European practices of workplace learning (Work-Based Learning) in secondary vocational education.

The journal "Education and Science" was included in the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) expanded the territory of its distribution to foreign countries.

The work of the university was highly appreciated by the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region - the Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University was awarded an honorary diploma for its great contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists (Decree No. 3031-ПЗС dated June 29, 2016). In the same year, the 50,000th graduate left the RSPPU walls.

Extracurricular activities of students also had a positive effect. The student newspaper "Profi" became the winner of the XXIII Moscow Open Festival of Student Creativity "Festos-2016". Volunteer students, participating in university and international projects, have achieved a high award: a ceremony was held to transfer the JLLC of veterans and pensioners (order No. 5 of 04/27/2016) to eternal storage of a copy of the Victory banner at the RSPPU.

Not resting on its laurels, RSPPU continues to improve its structure in accordance with the requirements of the time. The Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Education (NTs RAO RSPPU) was opened, focused on researching the problems of the development of vocational pedagogical and vocational education (based on agreement No. 06–15/11 dated December 22, 2016 on scientific cooperation with the Russian Academy of Education). Colleges (EMK and EEMK), which are part of the university, by order of the rector of RGPPU dated March 30, 2016 No. 223, were merged into the College of Electricity and Mechanical Engineering (CEM).

In the next 2017 In 1999, RSPPU became an experimental platform for the Institute for the Development of Education of the Russian Academy of Education "Innovative Models of Educational Systems in the Continuity of Lifelong Education", and the Institute for Lifelong Education (INO) was created on the basis of the Faculty of Advanced Studies and the Department for the Development of Information Networks and Technical Support. According to the results of a large-scale study of the scientific productivity of universities, conducted by the analytical center "Expert", RSPPU is among the 15 best universities in Russia in the field of social sciences. RSPPU becomes the conductor of the mission of expanding the social engagement of universities: a representative of the university became a participant in the seminar of experts on the reform of higher education "Universities and Social Inclusion", held at the University of Nicosia (Republic of Cyprus).

Both humanitarian and technical areas are developing harmoniously. At the Yeltsin Center site, together with the Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Sverdlovsk Region, the university held the first regional conference on the development of professional competencies "WorldSkills of RSVPU", and the Nizhny Tagil branch of the RSPPU (NTGSPI) became the site for the first national interuniversity championship "Young Professionals (Worldskills Russia) )" in terms of competencies "teacher of technology" and "teacher of basic and secondary schools". The project "New artisans of Russia: the revival of the social layer of artisans-entrepreneurs" received support and was included in the portfolio of projects of the Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Education on the basis of RGPPU.

In order to develop cooperation with organizations of higher education in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and other countries, RSPPU held an international online conference "Language education as the basis for the formation of university graduates' readiness for intercultural communication."

With such results, the university approached the next election of the rector, announced at an extraordinary meeting of the RSPPU Academic Council.

Significant for the university 2018 The year was filled with important events. The RSPPU team voted for re-election of Evgeny Mikhailovich Dorozhkin as rector. Successfully passed the accreditation examination for the main educational programs implemented at the university and its branch in Nizhny Tagil.

The popularity of RSPPU among applicants has grown: the university entered the top 5 pedagogical universities in Russia based on the results of monitoring the quality of admission to universities in 2018 and 2017. This was also facilitated by the fact that the university ranked second in the city in terms of the number of gubernatorial scholarships, second only to UrFU. And the fact that the victory in the competition and the availability of federal grant support allowed students to large-scale implement the WorldSkills of RSVPU, “Names of Heroes” projects, hold an all-Russian seminar for the organizers of student activist schools and the RSVPU Media School. The reputation of the university was strengthened by the fact that the level of training provided students with participation in international events in Yekaterinburg as translators, in particular, in the World Cup.

RSPPU continued to work on deepening the integration of the university into the economic and social structure of the Russian Federation, starting the implementation of a program of targeted training of teaching staff for enterprises in the region. Master's diplomas were awarded to teachers of the educational center of the group of enterprises of the Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ), participating in the corporate educational program "The Future of White Metallurgy".

The success of the team of university scientists involved in the international project "RU Ecvet" led to the opening of the National Training Center "ECVET RSPPU" at the Institute of Continuing Education of the RSPPU. The University has joined in the experiment to implement the concept of Russian education export in terms of vocational education and training.

Many events took place dedicated to the preparation for the 40th anniversary of the SIPI-UGPPU-RSVPU.

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"To open the Ural Industrial Pedagogical Institute in Sverdlovsk for the training of teachers for schools, FZU and FES" (Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR No. 33 of August 25, 1930).
One of the first sections of the FZS department, created in UrIPI in 1930, was the section of general literature. Today it is the Institute of Philology, Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication.
The Institute of Physics, Technology and Economics of the Ural State Pedagogical University also dates back to 1930, when a physics and technology section was opened at the UrIPI at the department of the FZS. From the 1932/33 academic year, the section began to be called physics and mathematics.
By order of the director of the institute dated December 2, 1930, and under his leadership, a socio-economic department was formed at the institute, which later grew into the Faculty of History.

The institute has a new name - the Ural Pedagogical Institute (UPI). In November 1932, branches of the workers' faculty were created at Uralmash and in the cities of the Ural region: Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Sarapul, Nevyansk, Irbit, Alapaevsk, Kushva, Verkhnyaya Salda, Aramil and others. By the end of the year, there were about 900 rabfakovites.

The Institute was renamed into the Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute. Under this name, it existed for almost 60 years.

The Institute moves to a faculty system, faculties are established: historical and economic, literary, physical and mathematical, pedagogical, chemical. In the same year, the first graduates left the walls of the faculty - 106 people.

Final state examinations are introduced. The Faculty of Geography was created, which later became the Faculty of Geography and Biology. In the same year, the section of physical education was established, which later grew into the Faculty of Physical Culture.

A department of foreign languages ​​is being created, which today has grown into an institute of foreign languages. Repressions did not bypass the institute either. Many teachers are released from lecturing, from heading departments, and are arrested by the NKVD. 1940
For 10 years, 7 graduations of students were made at the institute, 3100 students study at the institute. On the balance sheet of the Institute there are 3 educational buildings and 6 dormitories.


At the call or as volunteers, 57 teachers and employees, 186 students of the institute go to the ranks of the workers 'and peasants' Red Army. SSPI transfers most of its buildings and dormitories to military organizations. There is a mastering of military general education programs "tank destroyer", "signalman", "military translator". Throughout the war years, the sanitary squad (about 100 people) headed by R. B. Rubel has been actively working. The squad has its own sponsored hospital in Bankovsky Lane. By the end of the year, the institute has 150 donors.

In January 1943, the first front-line students (37 people), demobilized for injuries and other reasons, began to return to the institute. During the war years, non-institutional labor assignments for the staff of the university increased sharply. Students and teachers work as helpers at the construction sites of Uralpromstroy (sites for military plants named after Kalinin, Turbomotorny, named after Vorovsky are being created). Large groups of students are sent to collective farms and state farms. Several detachments specialize in preparing firewood for the Institute. In November 1943, postgraduate studies were opened at the Institute.

End of the war. Victory. The staff of the institute has always honored the memory of teachers, staff, students who fell on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. There are forty-one of them, and the memory of those who gave their lives for the Fatherland is carefully preserved in the memoirs of contemporaries, their names are imprinted on the mournful plaques in the buildings of the institute. After returning from the war, about 60 front-line soldiers studied at the institute. graduate school opens.

A student scientific society is being created at the institute.


For 20 years, the institute has trained 5334 teachers for secondary schools and technical schools. Over 1,700 graduates of the Institute have been awarded orders and medals of the USSR. Many have been awarded the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR. Of the 900 middle school teachers in Sverdlovsk, 720 were educated at the institute. The Institute receives the entire building on the street. K. Liebknecht, 9 (at the beginning of the journey, the institute rented several classrooms in this building). For 36 years, it has become its main educational building. The institute has 4 faculties, where about 4,000 students study. 120 teachers work at 17 departments, including 2 professors and 30 associate professors. Over the past 5 years, they have defended 2 doctoral and 12 master's theses. In 1950, at the Faculty of Geography, it was created under the leadership of the first woman in the Sverdlovsk region - master of sports in tourism R. B. Rubel.

In 1956, tuition fees were abolished in senior classes of secondary school, in secondary specialized and higher educational institutions. The students breathed a sigh of relief. The university could now gather within its walls the most gifted students, and not those who were able to pay for their studies. The decisions of the 20th Congress of the CPSU oriented the school towards the implementation of polytechnic education, to familiarize students with the basics of industrial and agricultural production. Mechanical engineering, heat engineering, automotive and tractor business, electrical engineering with installation work are being introduced at the institute. Workshops are held.

The next instruction of the MP of the RSFSR is about the practical preparation of students of the pedagogical institute for extracurricular work with children. An avalanche of circles is overflowing. The number of faculties is growing. Among the seven experimental ones is the Sverdlovsk University - in 1957 a faculty was opened to train primary school teachers. Today it is the Institute of Pedagogy and Childhood Psychology.

The Ministry of Education of the RSFSR decided to open musical and pedagogical faculties in the pedagogical institutes of a number of Russian cities. In the same year, the Music and Pedagogical Faculty was opened at the Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute. Today, in its place, the Institute of Music and Art Education has been established.


In 1960, the 30th anniversary of the institute was celebrated. The results of the work are significant and varied. The institute has 6 faculties, 21 departments. They are located in four own educational buildings. The university has 4 hostels for 750 places. Of the 190 teachers, 60 have scientific degrees and academic titles.

Since April 1962, the university has become the center of a number of zonal associations of teachers of pedagogical universities in the Ural region: mathematics, Russian and foreign languages. During the year, 12 scientific conferences were held with 140 reports. More than 70 teachers took advantage of scientific trips during 1962. Student science also developed - in 1962 there were 30 scientific circles at the departments. At the faculty of elementary grades, a defectological department was opened, which today has become an institute of special education.

In January 1964, the editorial and publishing department (RIO) was created. For the first time, 12 collections of scientific papers were published with the stamp "Sverdlovsk State Pedagogical Institute" during the year. The teachers of the institute published 268 works in 1966, including 3 monographs and 4 textbooks. RIO put into production 26 collections of study notes.
There was a famous "divorce" of physicists and mathematicians, when separate physics and mathematics departments were formed. Today, on the basis of the Faculty of Mathematics, the Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and Information Technologies has been established. An important event for the university was the decision of the bureau of the CC CPSU in December 1964, according to which the institute was allowed to publish the large-circulation newspaper "People's Teacher". The first issue comes out in 3 months - in March 1965. The newspaper has been published to this day, for more than half a century, being a chronicle of the life of the university.


During these years, interaction with schools was carried out in the most active way - in 1973 there were 75 universities, lecture halls, seminars, courses and other associations, which were attended by over six thousand teachers. 75 conferences and seminars were held, 1300 lectures were given. About 50 schools for young physicists, mathematicians and others with 4800 students worked at the departments.

At the All-Russian Review of Faculties of Public Professions (FOPs) of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, the first place was taken by the SSPI - in 1975 it had twelve departments of the FOP, where 1532 students study to be leaders of circles. In October 1975, the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR approved a technical project for the construction of the institute complex: the total area of ​​the educational building is 27.2 thousand square meters. m, two dormitories for 640 people each - 13.8 thousand square meters. m., dining room capacity - 530 seats. The total estimated cost of construction is 10.4 million rubles.

According to the results of the social competition of pedagogical institutes, Sverdlovsky won the third republican prize along with the Moscow and Leningrad pedagogical universities. By this year, the performance at the institute is 93.7 percent, 213 excellent students and 1009 "drummers" (35.4 percent).


In 1978-1979, two new dormitories for 620 and 640 people were put into operation on Cosmonauts Ave. By September 1975, the last boiler house was liquidated. Now all the buildings of the university were connected to central heating. The institute has 4 comfortable hostels for 2100 places. The Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary in a solemn atmosphere. For half a century, he trained about 33,000 teachers, forty of them became honored teachers of the RSFSR, 3,000 were awarded orders and medals. Through tireless work and growth, the institute has become one of the leading pedagogical universities in the country. It has 6,600 students, out of 420 teachers - eleven professors and doctors of science, 87 associate professors and candidates of science, the degree rate was 23 percent.

For the successes achieved in training personnel for public education and in connection with the 50th anniversary of its foundation, the Institute was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. Since then, it has become known as the Sverdlovsk Order of the Badge of Honor State Pedagogical Institute. The mention of the order will leave the name of the university after the collapse of the socialist system. Since the opening of the military department at the university in 1980 for the training of military school leaders, the faculty of life safety originates.

The leadership of the SSPI applied to the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR with an application to open a faculty for advanced training of organizers of public education at the institute, which today has grown into an institute of management and law.

In June 1984, the party committee decides to organize a museum of the history of the SSPI and creates a commission headed by A. M. Lushnikov, Vice-Rector for Research. The first exposition is scheduled to open by May 9, 1985.

The main building of the University moved to a new building at 26, Cosmonauts Avenue, where it is currently located. Blocks A, B and D are put into operation, where the faculties of geographical and biological, defectological and physical education move, a year later the Institute of Foreign Languages, PIMNO, the rector's office.

A “Problem laboratory for the use of computer and microprocessor technology” was created under the leadership of V. G. Zhitomirsky. Subsequently - the laboratory of information technologies in education (B. E. Starichenko).

The 1991 perestroika year has come. In the activities of educational and other institutions of the education system, the tendency to seek extrabudgetary funds and work on a contractual basis is gaining more and more weight. The institute has a new name "Ural State Pedagogical Institute (UrGPI) Order of the Badge of Honor". A socio-pedagogical faculty was opened at the institute, training of specialists in social pedagogy has begun, and since 1994 - in social work. Today it is an institute of social education. Museum of memory of soldiers-internationalists "Shuravi" was opened.

The Faculty of History reopens at the institute. He began training history teachers with an additional specialization in psychology. 1992 was the year the institute launched active commercial activities due to its deteriorating financial situation, as well as in accordance with the permissive orders of the RSFSR Ministry of Defense. To receive extrabudgetary funds, various "remote structures", courses, classes, and creative teams are organized and introduced.

The institute was given the status of a university. The new name of the university is Ural State Pedagogical University.
The first council in the history of the institute for the defense of candidate dissertations in pedagogical sciences is opened. Chairman of the Board - A. S. Belkin. Subsequently, the number of dissertation councils at USPU will be 11. An economic department is opened at the Faculty of Mathematics.

The rating of scientific activity of 108 pedagogical universities of Russia, conducted by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 1994, placed the university in third place. The literary school of N. L. Leiderman and the schools of pedagogy of A. S. Belkin and M. A. Galaguzova received the highest marks. The first two places in the ranking are traditionally occupied by the Russian (St. Petersburg) and Moscow Pedagogical Universities.

The economic department is transformed into an independent economic faculty.

In July 1997, the Faculty of Psychology was opened, which grew into the Institute of Psychology. It took a long time to pick shots. We needed specialists with a basic psychological higher education.

The university is the third pedagogical university in Russia that has been given a license to introduce the second stage of higher professional education - the magistracy. Another achievement is that the Presidium of the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education decided to open the Ural Branch of the Academy on the basis of the University.

A department of sociology was created, which later became a structural subdivision of the IFSGO; The Faculty of Advanced Training of Special Education Workers was established as part of the Institute of Special Education.


A department of social and cultural technologies has been opened, which for several years has been providing training in the specialties "Fine Arts", "Social and Cultural Service and Tourism" at the Faculty of Social Education.

Licenses were obtained for the right to conduct educational activities in the specialties of higher professional education in 2 branches of the USPU, just opened - in Chelyabinsk and Novouralsk.


In the official rating of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation for 2002, USPU occupies the 10th place among 70 universities of the Ural region and the 1st place among the best pedagogical universities in Russia in terms of a set of all indicators. According to an independent examination, it is included in the top 100 universities in Russia (including non-state ones).

The university is successfully undergoing a comprehensive assessment of the university, which combines the procedures of state certification, licensing and state accreditation, a license has been obtained for the right to conduct educational activities in the areas of pre-university, university and postgraduate training.

USPU branches operate in 5 cities - Chelyabinsk, Novouralsk, Serov, Krasnoufimsk, Kamensk-Uralsky, there are 10 representative offices.

USPU is 75 years old. In the anniversary year, the university has 7 institutes and 17 faculties, 69 departments, 4 research centers known in Russia and abroad. More than 20 thousand students study at full-time and part-time departments. They receive higher education in 35 specialties and over 70 specializations. The university has 11 dissertation councils. Postgraduate education is conducted in 37 specialties, doctoral studies - in 6 specialties.

A representative office of the USPU was established in Alapaevsk. Licenses were obtained for new specialties and areas of higher professional education: "Conflictology", "Organization of work with youth", "Preschool pedagogy and psychology", "Information technologies in education", in the specialties of secondary vocational education: "Hotel service", "Tourism", DPO "Teacher of higher schools."

USPU received licenses for the specialties of the enlarged groups "Culture and Art" and "Folk Art", for which students were accepted from the 2007/08 academic year. Thus, the admission of students to the university was carried out in 7 enlarged groups of licensed specialties: "Humanities", "Social Sciences", "Education and Pedagogy", "Culture and Art", "Economics and Management", "Service Sector", "Informatics and computer technology".

New specialties and areas of training of specialists have been opened: Document management and document management support; Museum work and protection of monuments; International relationships; Applied Informatics; Technological education (Technology of processing of structural materials), technological education (Technology of processing of textiles and food products), Social work. The number of specializations at the USPU increased from 49 (2003) to 74 (2008), the number of completed additional professional education programs increased from 23 (2005) to 49 (2008). The quality management system of USPU is certified for compliance with the requirements of ISO-9001:2000 by international certification centers IQNet and TUV NORD.

The scientific and educational center of the Ural State Pedagogical University was opened together with the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The USPU has created a Council to promote the employment of graduates.


The journal "Pedagogical Education in Russia" is included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission. In accordance with the order of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (No. 2480 dated October 6, 2010), the Ural State Pedagogical University was recognized as the absolute winner of the competition "Quality systems for training graduates of educational institutions of vocational education" among higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation. In 2010, the university celebrated its 80th anniversary. The USPU structure includes 13 institutes, 12 faculties and 74 departments. The university has 15 scientific schools, 6 research centers, known in Russia and abroad. The university has a license to carry out educational activities in 63 specialties and areas of higher professional education, in 46 postgraduate specialties and 4 doctoral specialties. More than 15 thousand students study at full-time and part-time departments.

On November 14, a significant event took place - a solemn ceremony of opening a sculptural composition dedicated to the feat of home front workers, front-line brigades, children of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 took place on the territory of the USPU park.

In 2015, the university was awarded the jubilee medal of the Russian Federation "70 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and a diploma signed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The University was awarded by the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory" for its active participation in the patriotic education of citizens and the solution of socio-economic problems of veterans of the Great Patriotic War. In the 2014-2015 academic year, the university passed all indicators of monitoring the effectiveness of universities, thereby confirming its high status and rating for the fourth year in a row.

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