Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages

Foundation of the Institute

In the fall of 1949, a teacher institute of foreign languages ​​was created on the basis of the Belotserkovsky Pedagogical College. The task of the new educational institution was to prepare teachers of English and French for grades 5-7 of the comprehensive school. And already in the 1953-1954 academic year, the Belotserkov Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in which 39 teachers worked, was organized on the basis of the teacher's institute. Karp Kirillovich Shvachka, candidate of philological sciences, specialist in the Ukrainian language, was appointed director of the institute.

September 9, 1954 Belotserkovsky Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages ​​was transferred from the city of Bila Tserkva of the Kiev region to the city of Gorlovka, Stalin (now Donetsk) region and named: Gorlovsky Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, which became the first higher educational institution in the city of Gorlovka .

Institute Development in Gorlovka

For the quick and productive acquisition of a foreign language, in addition to the practice of the language and the study of various theoretical features of its application, students studied the history, life, and customs of the people who are its bearers within the limits of regional geography and the history of the language.

Obtaining the specialty of a foreign language teacher was closely associated with patriotic and international education, as well as instilling an artistic taste. The number of teachers and students of the institute grew from year to year, and a candidate of sciences appeared.

The creation of a higher educational institution in Gorlovka, of course, influenced the social, cultural and sports life of the city. Thus, the tradition of holding regular methodological seminars in English and French was launched, which provided qualified assistance to local teachers.

Smart and active students in the institute were creatively and interestingly approaching the organization of their leisure time. In the 1962-1963 academic year, amateur art circles began to work at the institute: choral and solo singing in their native and foreign languages, dance, drama circles, and a brass band. The leaders of these circles were specialists from music, singing and dancing, and teachers from specialized departments of the Gorlovsky Pedagogical Institute. In the same 60s, a lot of sportsmen were trained from among students for sports cultivated at the institute: football, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, athletics, handball, shooting, tourism, table tennis. Students and teachers could enjoy the holidays and vacations in a picturesque corner of the Donetsk region on the banks of the Seversky Donets River , where in July 1963 a sports and recreation camp was organized in which 50 students rested for the first time. At the beginning of its existence, Altair functioned as a tent city, but gradually it was comfortably equipped with various buildings.

At the end of the 70s, the transition of the Gorlovsky Pedagogical Institute to the training of teachers in two specialties was introduced: "teacher of English and German" and "teacher of French and German" with a term of study at both faculties - 5 years. The first graduation of specialists from two languages ​​at the faculties of English and French took place in 1979

The development of the Gorlovka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages ​​was led by conscientious and talented individuals: candidate of philological sciences Shvachk Karp Kirillovich (rector of the Institute of Fine Arts, 1953-1975), candidate of pedagogical sciences, associate professor Ivanenko Galina Sergeevna (rector of the Institute of Philosophy, 1975-1982), candidate of historical sciences, associate professor Klitsakova Ivan Alekseevich (Rector of the GIIII 1982-2001). During the 80-90s, the number of students at the institute increased, new specialties and faculties were opened, the number of teachers and staff, including highly qualified specialists, increased. Appeared full-time doctors, strengthened international relations.

Since 1992 An agreement on cooperation in the field of the educational process and the establishment of direct cultural, scientific contacts with university professors was developed between the Institute and the Southern University (USA).

Relations with Germany are developing, primarily with the representative office of the Goethe Institute in Kiev. The German language faculty receives reference, scientific, educational literature from Germany.

2007-2008 A mutual exchange of delegations of students and teachers with the Cracow Academy named after Andrzej Fritsch Modzhevsky on the basis of signed agreements on cooperation and exchange of students and teachers.

In 2001, at a meeting of the labor collective, the professor, doctor of historical sciences Viktor Dokashenko, was elected rector of the institute.

Since 2012, the institute has been part of the Donbass State Pedagogical University as a separate structural unit of the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages.

Since November 2014, due to the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, the institute was evacuated to the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.

The Institute is located in the city of Gorlovka, Donetsk region. The entire material and technical base, namely 6 buildings and 4 hostels, remained in Gorlovka , the institute is actively developing and moving forward.

Faculty of Social and Language Communication

The structure of the faculty of social and language communication today includes the following departments:

- domestic and foreign history

- Ukrainian philology

- English philology and translation

- linguistics and the Russian language

- psychology and pedagogy

Faculty of Romano-Germanic Languages

The faculty of Romano-Germanic languages ​​consists of the following departments:

- Department of Germanic Philology;

- Department of French and Spanish;

- Department of foreign literature.

July 1, 2016 on the basis of the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages, State Higher Educational Institution "DDPU" the Educational Center "Donbass - Ukraine" was created. The Educational Center "Donbass - Ukraine" organizes activities to implement the Admission Procedure for higher education of persons whose place of residence is the territory of the anti-terrorist operation. The center was created jointly with general educational institutions of a communal form of ownership for conducting annual assessment and state final certification, ordering and issuing a state-standard document on basic or secondary education.

• Davidova Victoria Kirillovna

1989 year of release. Press and Information Advisor to the Ukrainian Delegation of the EU (Brussels).

• Shitikova Svetlana Petrovna

1995 year of release. Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Development, Member of the Board of Directors of the Global Development Learning Network, Director of the National TEMPUS Office in Ukraine.

• Gvindzhia, Maxim Kharitonovich

1999 year of release. Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia .

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