Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov

On March 25, 1932, the resolution of the Council of People 's Commissars of the RSFSR No. 289 was signed “On the results of the autumn 1931 admission to vocational schools, the network, enrollment contingents and investments in these institutions in 1932”, which approved the creation of 17 pedagogical universities, including the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical Institute.

On June 19, 1932, by order of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR No. 293, Vasiliy Pavlovich Ovseychik was appointed director of the university. The plan for admission to the three departments (historical, economic, chemical, biological and physical-technical) was set at 120 people. At the same time, a working faculty was opened with a reception plan of 60 people.

For studies, the institute was provided with one of the best in the city building of the former boarding house for children of hereditary nobles, a stranger in 1903 designed by architects A. A. Shode and E. V. Spanner (now the Corps of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​of UlSPU) . The staff of the institute was taken 12 teachers. The regional library handed over to the institute 2500 volumes of educational and scientific literature, including foreign ones.

On October 1, 1932, a solemn meeting devoted to the opening of a teacher training university was held. The start of classes at the institute was a great event for all residents of Ulyanovsk. At the suggestion of the Middle Volga regional executive committee, the newly organized pedagogical university was named after the writer M. Gorky.

By 1941, the institute had 3 faculties (Physics and Mathematics, Natural Geography, and Philology), 11 departments. The institute had three educational buildings, three dormitory buildings for students and teachers. The book fund of the library has increased to 45 thousand volumes. 2500 students studied at the university, including 573 full-time students, 806 at the teacher’s institute, and 1127 in the correspondence and evening departments. In total, in the pre-war years, more than 300 full-time research workers worked at the university.

Since the beginning of World War II, more than 250 teachers, employees and students of the institute volunteered for the front. the labor collective remaining in Ulyanovsk was mobilized for agricultural work. The studies were started only in January 1942. This academic year was the hardest in the history of the war years of the institute. By decision of the city committee of the CPSU (b) and the city executive committee, the building of the institute is transferred to military institutions. Despite all the difficulties and hardships of wartime, the pedagogical institute continued to carry out educational activities, reprofiling it and adding various areas of military specialties.

From the 1943-44 school year, the situation in the regional education system began to enter the normal course. By the 1943–1944 school year, the institute had received the first 18 classrooms in its building. The regional party committee supported the petition of the institute to open the fourth faculty - historical, and in October 1943 . new faculty began to work. [one]

In 1946, the Faculty of Foreign Languages was opened, in 1960, the Faculty of Preschool Education.

The most important element in the system of training teachers for secondary schools was teaching practice. In 1947, the institute was assigned as the bases for the pedagogical practice of students and the research work of teachers in two schools of the city: the 4th female secondary and the 26th male seven-year, and later the 1st secondary school. V.I. Lenin.

The successes of the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical Institute in the training of teachers were highly appreciated. On September 13, 1956, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, he was named after the outstanding educator and educator I. N. Ulyanov.

In the 1956/57 school year, the institute began to prepare teachers of general interest. This required a new serious restructuring of the entire academic work. Duration of study increased to five years. The Faculty of Physics and Mathematics began to prepare teachers of mathematics and drawing, physics, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering; natural - teachers of biology, chemistry and geography; historical and philological - teachers of history, Russian language and literature. Additional special courses and practical workshops were introduced, classrooms and laboratories were equipped with new machines and devices.

A month-long practical training was organized for physics students at the automobile plant and the Kontaktor plant. Behind them were fixed machines, in which students worked under the guidance of masters and foremen. This experience was approved by the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR and was included in the curricula of all pedagogical institutes as a compulsory subject.

Under the guidance of the senior lecturer of the Department of Physics R. M. Raznik, in 1957 a planetarium and a visual station for optical observation of artificial earth satellites were created - one of the first stations organized by the USSR Academy of Sciences in our country.

At estgeofak the foundation was laid for the creation of a museum of zoology. It also had a geological section with exposures of minerals and paleontological remains. At the initiative of V.V. Blagoveshchensk, the Department of Botany began to form a scientific herbarium of the institute. In 2005, the scientific herbarium of the UGPI was registered in the international database of the world's leading herbaria.

In the postwar years, the research work of students and teachers of the institute also reached a new level. In 1948, the first issue of UGPI Scientific Notes was published. In 1950, a postgraduate course was opened at the institute, conditions for the publication of scientific works improved, and the qualifications of the teaching staff increased.

At the Institute, scientific expeditions began every year: folklore, dialectological, archaeological, botanical, zoological, geographical. The material collected during these expeditions was used by students in their term papers and scientific papers. Thus, the literary circle under the direction of associate professor P. S. Beysov collected proverbs, sayings, songs throughout the Ulyanovsk region. A lot of valuable material was collected during their field practices by biology students, geographers, zoologists.

In 1970, the country celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. By this date, a number of buildings were built in Ulyanovsk , including the new UGPI academic building, equipped with modern scientific and educational equipment. The pride of the university and its "calling card" was the winter garden, located in the lobby of the main building and numbering more than 70 types of greenhouse crops. In front of the university, a monument was opened to I. N. Ulyanov , the authors are sculptor A. I. Klyuev and architect N. N. Medvedev.

On May 19, 1982, the Ulyanovsk Pedagogical Institute named after I. N. Ulyanov was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for his great work in the training and education of teaching staff.

At the end of the 80s, UGPI was one of the first in the country to attempt to create an educational, scientific and pedagogical complex that would ensure the consistency and continuity of various levels of education. Its structure includes: kindergarten No. 144 of Ulyanovsk, pedagogical classes in 16 rural and 4 urban schools, physical and mathematical lyceum of Ulyanovsk, pedagogical lyceum of Dimitrovgrad, Karsun rural lyceum. Regional Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining of Educators.

In June 1994, UGPI received university status.

• Lecturers UlGPU named after I. N. Ulyanov
• Lyubishchev, Alexander Alexandrovich

• Graduates of UlGPU named after I. N. Ulyanov
• Krylov, Vladimir Valentinovich
• Golovikhin, Evgeny Vasilyevich
• Senkevich, Yury Nikolaevich
• Skepner, Olga Viktorovna
• Dubova, Nadezhda Valerievna
• Guliyev, Zafar Safar

At present, more than 8,000 students (about 4,000 - full-time students) and 121 graduate students, as well as annually undergo professional retraining and advanced training of about 5,000 education and social workers in the Ulyanovsk region. 32 departments implement training in 151 basic professional higher education programs, 27 training programs for scientific and pedagogical personnel, and 47 additional professional education programs.

374 full-time teachers work at UlSPU, of which 36 are doctors of science and 221 are candidates of science .

According to the National Center for Social and Professional Accreditation, educational programs of the university in the areas of preparation “pedagogical education” and “psychological-pedagogical education” are among the best in Russia.

Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University is a scientific center of research in the field of physical and mathematical, natural and human sciences, pedagogy and psychology recognized in the Volga region.

In 2011, UlGPU, among 55 Russian universities, became the winner of the federal competition of programs for the strategic development of state educational institutions of higher professional education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation . Implementation of the program in 2012-2014. allowed to significantly modernize the university infrastructure (open: media center, Center for Education of Science and Culture Forum; modernized athletics arena, hostel, scientific library; built the Burevestnik swimming pool) and lay the foundation for the further development of the university

In December 2012, the pedagogical university received a state accreditation certificate for a period of six years.

In 2014, UlGPU among 13 higher educational institutions of Russia became the winner of the project of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation “Expert and analytical support for the implementation of projects for the development of programs of pedagogical magistracy, pedagogical bachelor degree, projects of variability of pedagogical education” within the framework of the Federal Program of Regional Education (2011-2015). As part of this project, UlGPU has become the lead executor for the development and testing of new modules of the main professional educational program of a professional (pedagogical) magistracy within the enlarged group of specialties “Education and Pedagogy” in the direction of training “Psychology and Pedagogical Education” (Educator).

Since 2015, Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University has been implementing a program to create, on its basis, a unified scientific and educational complex of continuing teacher education.

It includes:

- scientific and educational center "U-Znayki" (kindergarten),

- 12 Small Academies of Continuing Education for adolescents and youth,

- Pre-university (10-11 specialized lyceum classes),

- distributed lyceum (20 educational organizations, 39 classes, 900 high school students of the Ulyanovsk region and the Republic of Tatarstan)

- the university itself

- The Faculty of Educational Technologies and Continuing Education (on the basis of the Institute of Advanced Training for Educators in the Ulyanovsk Region, which is affiliated with the university).

Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University is a participant in the program for the development of pilot innovation territorial clusters of subjects of the Russian Federation (Center for the Development of Nuclear Innovation Cluster of Dimitrovgrad), the Supercomputer Consortium of Russian Universities (the only teacher in the consortium) [2] , the National Supercomputer Technology Platform and the “Medicine of the Future” technology platform.

The university created and operated:

- Research Center for Fundamental and Applied Problems of Bioecology and Biotechnology,

- laboratory of mathematical modeling, equipped with a Super Micro workstation and a computing cluster of T-Platform's hybrid architecture (total peak performance of more than 10 TFlops),

- Scientific and Educational Center - UNESCO Chair "Title Languages ​​in Intercultural Educational Space",

- research laboratory of gravity, cosmology and astrophysics,

- laboratory of psychophysiology and psychodiagnostics;

- archaeological laboratory;

- Research Center "Karamzin Laboratory"

- the scientific and educational center “Traditional culture and folklore of the Ulyanovsk Volga region”, which has unique archives of materials on traditional ceremonial and children's folklore, created by the efforts of Professor Maina Pavlovna Cherednikova and her students;

- French resource center,

- Research and Education Center for Sports and Health Innovations,

- humanitarian center of sports and social rehabilitation of disabled people,

- testing center for foreign citizens,

- preparatory department for foreign citizens,

- The scientific journal "Volga pedagogical search";

- a depository of know-how and a bank of objects of intellectual property of the university (more than 60 storage units).

Studies of leading scientific schools and young scientists of the university have repeatedly received grant support from the President of the Russian Federation, leading Russian and foreign foundations.

International connections:

UlGPU cooperates with foreign universities, foundations and embassies in accordance with 16 international cooperation agreements. The university has students from China, Vietnam, Egypt, Palestine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Belarus. Bachelors from the Changchun Institute of Guang Hua (China) study at the master's degree at UlSPU in the specialty "Russian as a foreign language." Thanks to the concluded agreements on academic mobility with the University of Franche-Contet (Besançon, France) and the West Kazakhstan University. M. Utemisov (Uralsk, Kazakhstan) there is an exchange of students from two universities.

The biggest event of 2014 was the holding of a round table at UlGPU: “Youth. Future ”at the meeting of the Russian-Chinese working group on humanitarian cooperation with the participation of Vice-Premier of the State Council of the PRC Liu Yandong . [3]

In October 2015, the International School of the Global Institute for Social Work (Singapore) was opened for the first time in Russia at UlGPU. In October 2016, on the basis of an agreement with UNESCO, an international UNESCO Chair “Title Languages ​​in the Intercultural Educational Space” was opened at UlGPU.

Educational work:

In 2014-2017 UlGPU was one of the winners of the All-Russian competition of programs for the development of student associations. The university has 46 student associations of various kinds. Among them:

- volunteer center;

- humanitarian center for working with wheelchair users;

- center of patriotic education,

- student press center and television studio;

- The center of rendering legal assistance to the population;

- center of preparation for family life;

- Theater Studio “Absurdus”;

- Dance ensemble “Dance avenue” (participant of the cultural program of the Olympic Games in Sochi and finalist of the World Dance Olympiad-2014);

- film club;

- student choir.

Interregional projects implemented:

- vocal competition “Song Marathon in Tatyana’s Day”

- student camp seminar "Energy"

- School "Volunteer of Russia"

- All-Russian film-music festival "Existence"

- All-Russian literary contest "Verliber"

- International Festival of Languages ​​and Cultures

On the basis of UlGPU implemented federal projects:

- District stage (VFD) of the All-Russian competition "Student Leader",

- All-Russian seminar-meeting of the leaders of the student government and vice-rectors on the educational work of educational organizations of higher education

- School of the All-Russian Student Spring VFD.

Infrastructure - five educational buildings; - scientific library (800 thousand volumes); - comfortable hostel with 1200 beds; - cinema and concert hall with 600 seats; - media center for 74 computer places; - track and field arena; - sports and recreation complex with a swimming pool "Petrel"; - student canteens in each building; - three agrobiostations; - summer sports camp "Youth".

The university has created several museums: the UlGPU Museum of History (opened in 1982), the museum of I. Ulyanov (opened in 1971), the Zoological Museum.

Since 1937, the university has published its own newspaper (in 1937–1941, the Proletarian Way, 1958–1966, For Pedagogical Personnel, from 1966 to the present, Vocation). The Center for Public Relations of the university is the winner of the All-Russian contest "Press Service of the University-2015" in the nomination "Profi" [4]

Administration

• Rector Tamara Vladimirovna Devyatkina
• President Anatoly A. Bakaev
• Vice Rector for financial and legal activities and personnel management Irina Vladimirovna Astrakhantseva
• Vice-rector for scientific work Irina Nazimovna Timoshina
• Pro-rector for educational and methodical work Igor O. Petrishchev
• Vice-rector for social development and educational work Denis Viktorovich Edyshev

Board of Trustees

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of UlGPU - Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Morozov, Sergey Ivanovich

Faculties

• Natural geographic
• Physico-mathematical and technological education
• Pedagogy and Psychology
• Historical and philological
• Foreign languages
• Physical Education and Sports
• Law, Economics and Management
• Educational technology and continuing education

Official site

[1] Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical Institute during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Virtual Exposure