Yelabuga Institute of KFU

The Elabuga Institute of KFU was established in 2011 on the basis of the Elabuga State Pedagogical University ^[1] .

Pre-Soviet period

In 1898, a new center for teacher education in the Vyatka province arose in Yelabuga . This was made possible thanks to the Elabuzh merchant, the hereditary Honorary Citizen Glafira Fedorovna Stakhaeva, who decided to perpetuate the memory of her late husband by donating funds for the construction of an educational institution.

Concerned with the needs of the Orthodox clergy of the Kama region, I came to the idea of ​​applying for the establishment of a theological seminary in the city of Elabuga - the central point for 5 counties of 3 lips: Vyatka, Ufa and Kazan ...

- G. F. Stakheeva ^[2]

The plan of the merchant, in general, was approved by the Diocesan Assembly , however, the Holy Synod rejected her request for a theological seminary and issued permission to establish the Diocesan Women's College.

The building project was developed by the Vyatka provincial engineer, first-degree architect I.A. Charushin . The builder was the architect-artist A. I. Gorokhov. The construction of the building lasted four years continuously, except for the first five winter months, and was completed by August 15, 1903 ^[3] . The building of the Elabuga Institute is an architectural monument, is included in the register of the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve ^[2] .

Pupils of the diocesan school studied the basic sciences, the law of God, etiquette, foreign languages ​​and music. Upon graduation, the girls received the title of home teacher. Additional classes opened at the school at the verbal-historical and physical-mathematical departments allowed graduates to acquire the specialty of a teacher in a parish school or diocesan school. Before the October Revolution, the diocesan school trained several hundred female teachers ^[4] .

Soviet period

In 1918, the diocesan school was closed; in the same year, a Tatar teacher's seminary was opened here. Later, according to the decree of the People’s Commissariat, the Yelabuga Tatar Teachers' Seminary was transformed into three-year teacher training courses for different national and ethnic groups. Since that time, Russian pedagogical courses have functioned here, as well as Mari, Votyak and Tatar.

In August 1923, at a meeting of the Tatar pedagogical council, a decision was made to rename them to the Yelabuga District Tatar Pedagogical College. The structure of the pedagogical school was constantly expanding, in 1930 it became Russian-Tatar. At the same time, primary school teachers were trained. In the academic year 1931-1932, the correspondence department was opened. In 1935, a library department was established at the pedagogical school, which in 1937 stood out as a separate technical school.

In the academic year 1936-1937, the Elabuga District Tatar Pedagogical College was transformed into a pedagogical school. In 1939, by decree of the Government of the USSR, a teacher institute was created on the basis of a pedagogical school, the main task of which was to prepare qualified teachers for incomplete secondary schools. Students were recruited from the nearest 12 districts of the Udmurt and Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics to four faculties: historical, physical and mathematical, philological, natural-geographical.

During the Great Patriotic War , Voronezh University , laboratories of the Leningrad University , as well as a branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences were evacuated to Yelabuga. All of them are located in the building of the Elabuga Teachers Institute.

In total, during the war years, 22 professors and 25 associate professors worked at the institute. During this period, such famous scientists as academician V. I. Smirnov , academician V. A. Fok , future academician V. A. Hambartsumyan , professor V. V. Mavrodin , professor S. I. Kovalev and others worked here. Since 1941, the first Tatar woman, Ph.D. in Philology M.G. Fayzullina, began working in Yelabuga.

In the post-war years, due to the wide development of secondary education and increased requirements for the level of qualifications of teachers, teacher institutes lost their importance. By a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of August 19, 1952, the Elabuga State Pedagogical Institute was formed on the basis of the Elabuga Teachers' Institute. On April 1, 1953, students were admitted to two faculties: physical and mathematical and philological. In the first year 150 students were accepted. The following year, the correspondence department opened, to which 200 students were admitted. In the future, the institute grew, forming new faculties: pedagogy and methods of primary education (1959), foreign languages ​​(1965), the only technical school in the Volga region at that time (1975), and a number of others.

Since December 1973, an 8-month preparatory department has been opened at the institute, the main task of which was to prepare working and rural youth to enter universities with a separation from production. Due to this, in 1973 the YPPI was assigned to the universities of the second according to the Ministry of Public Education of the RSFSR, and in 1986 to the first category.

In 1982, for the achievements in the training of teaching staff of the Unified State Pedagogical University, the rolling Red Banner of the USSR Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Union of Education Workers, Higher Schools and Scientific Institutions was awarded ^[4] .

Modernity

In 2003, the university was transformed into Yelabuga State Pedagogical University.

The university structure included 2 institutes (the Institute of Continuing Professional Education and the Institute of Technology, Economics and Service), 9 faculties (history and jurisprudence, Russian philology and journalism, physical and mathematical, foreign languages, Tatar and comparative philology, biological, psychology and pedagogy, physical education, natural-humanitarian); Graduate school was opened in several specialties.

February 2, 2011 EGPU was annexed to the Kazan (Volga) Federal University ^[1] .

Until January 22, 2013 the official abbreviated name of the university was: a branch of the Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education KFU in the city of Elabuga ^[5] .

By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia dated July 13, 2015 No. 714, the Elabuga Institute (branch) of the Kazan State (Volga Federal University) Federal University Autonomous Educational Institution was renamed the Elabuga Institute (branch) of the Kazan Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education Volga Federal University. ”

Management of the Institute is carried out ^[6] :

• Director
• Deputy directors;
• Academic Council;
• Board of Trustees;
• Training Division;
• Graduate School
• Department of research work;
• Department of Graduate Studies
• Department of social educational work;
• Department of accounting and financial control;
• Selection committee;
• Human Resources and Records Management Department;
• Center for Continuing Education, Retraining and Further Education;
• Information Technology Center, etc.

The Yelabuga Institute also has 7 faculties, at which 19 departments, 4 museums, more than 20 educational and problem-scientific laboratories work.

Faculties

• Faculty of Engineering and Technology
• Faculty of Foreign Languages
• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy
• Faculty of Philology and History
• Faculty of Economics and Management
• Faculty of Law

Chairs

Museum Complex

• Museum of Archeology and History of Tatarstan;
• Museum of History, Yelabuga Institute of KFU;
• Museum of Elabuga Merchants;
• Museum of the Tatar language and literature.

The most unique historical exhibits are presented in museums of archeology and history of Tatarstan, as well as the Elabuga merchants. The latter, for example, contains genuine merchandise, furniture, documents, photographs. The museum spaces have a thematic division, in accordance with the key areas of merchant life and economy: a merchant shop, a corner of a girl’s restroom, a merchant lounge ^[7] .

Also in the university are: the scientific part; graduate school; editorial and publishing complex; Center for Continuing Education, Retraining and Further Education; educational resource center; scientific library (funds totaled more than half a million volumes); Salon of innovative educational technologies; sports complex; sports and fitness camp; five educational buildings.

As of January 1, 2018, the number of faculty members at the Yelabuga Institute of KFU was 187 full-time teachers, of which 127 have an academic degree: 8 doctors of sciences and 119 candidates of sciences. Among them are honored scientists of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan , excellent students of public education, honorary workers of higher professional education of the Russian Federation, honored teachers of the school of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan.

International Staheev Readings

Staheev readings is the name of a scientific conference traditionally organized at the Yelabuga Institute of KFU with the participation of scientists from metropolitan and regional universities, as well as representatives of leading scientific schools of near and far abroad.

The name of the conference reflects the cultural and historical heritage of the region and comes from the surname of the famous dynasty of Russian merchants-patrons Stakheyevs who were associated with the construction of the educational building of the Elabuga Institute of KFU and the birth of professional education in Elabuga.

The Staheev readings, which began in 1990, were also held in 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 with the participation of scientists involved in the history of entrepreneurship, the study of Russian classical literature, local history experts, and sociologists. It is traditional to take part in the conference of the descendants of the Stakheyevs who now live in Russia, Great Britain, France, Australia, and Singapore.

International School Teacher Festival

It was first organized at Yelabuga State Pedagogical University in August 2010. About 150 teachers from the Republic of Tatarstan and other regions of Russia took part in the first festival ^[8] . Since that time, it has been held at the Yelabuga Institute of KFU annually.

New Generation Teacher

The main goal of the project is to train competitive personnel in the context of a modernizing education system.

The project participants, mainly senior students of the Elabuga Institute, undergo additional training in courses such as English in professional activities, pedagogical innovation and pedagogical culture. The general training program also focuses on psychological training, meetings with leading teachers of the university, Tatarstan and Russia, leading managers and sociologists of large companies.

Children's University

Children's University is an educational project, first of all, of the Kazan (Volga) Federal University. The main goal of the project is to conduct interactive classes in history, law, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, biology, etc., in the form of popular science lectures for children aged 8 to 14 years by professors and leading teachers of the university.

At the Yelabuga Institute of KFU, the classes of the Children's University were held for the first time on December 11, 2011 and since then have been regularly held ^[9] .

IntELLeto

The project was created in 2010 on the basis of EGPU. His goal was the organization of outdoor activities and the diverse development of children aged 7 to 15 years on school days in the form of an intellectual health camp.

KFU - School

In the framework of the project of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University "KFU - School", a number of textbooks for students and teachers of secondary schools were published at the Elabuga Institute.

• Univerit is the official newspaper of the Yelabuga Institute of KFU. Circulation 999 copies. Published monthly, distributed free of charge.
• Flash is a student newspaper. It is published mainly by the students of the faculty of Russian philology and journalism.
• Shәkert is a student newspaper of the faculty of Tatar and comparative philology.

Public Organizations and Associations

• Student club;
• Headquarters of labor units;
• Psychological service "Aelita";
• Primary trade union organization of students;
• Student Security Service "Outpost";
• Environmental voluntary society of students "EcoDOS";
• Sport Club;
• Archaeological Circle;
• School of Legal Education;
• School of Guides;
• School of a young journalist.

Creative groups

• Team KVN "Gentlemen";
• KVN team "Prospect Mira";
• Student choir;
• Vocal group "Academy" and others.

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