Orenburg State University


Orenburg State University, previously known as Orenburg Polytechnic Institute, is a university in Russia.

History

The university was founded in 1955 as a branch of :ru: Самарский государственный технический университет|Kuibyshev Polytechnic Institute.
In 1971, it converted into Orenburg Polytechnic Institute. In 1994, it became Orenburg State Technical University. In 1996, converted into Orenburg State University.
In 2014, Orenburg State Institute of Management integrated with Orenburg State University.

Staff and students

Currently the university employs more than 1,200 academics and 1,800 support staff. More than 40,000 undergraduates and 3,000 advanced degree candidates are enrolled. More than 5,000 specialists participate in refresher courses for career enhancement.

Graduates

The university's main campus is composed of four education buildings, a dining hall, a health-improving and physical training gym with sport grounds, a library, students’ polyclinic and the Chapel of Saint Martyr Tatiana.
The OSU campus also includes:
  1. Dormitories
  2. Medical Prophylactics Center
  3. Students’ Center
  4. The Palace of Culture "Russia"
  5. The Palace of Youth Creativity "Progress"
  6. The Aesthetic center "Dialogue"
  7. OSU Museum
  8. Geologic Museum

    Institutions and research centres

  9. Institute of Bioelements is the satellite centre to Trace Element — Institute for UNESCO in Russia
  10. Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology
  11. Laboratory electronic media for educational purposes
  12. Small Academy of Public Administration
  13. Interdepartmental laboratory of geographic information technologies
  14. Interdisciplinary Regional Centre of Training and Retraining
  15. Meteorological Training Station
  16. Research Institute of History and Ethnography of the Southern Urals
  17. Research Institute of Regional Economy
  18. Research Centre for monitoring of buildings and structures
  19. Research and Education Center of Biochemical Physics of Nanosystems
and several others

Rectors

  1. Aleksander Burba
  2. Ramses Abdrashitov
  3. Anatoly Kozachenko
  4. :ru:Бондаренко, Виктор Анатольевич|Victor Bondarenko
  5. :ru:Ковалевский, Владимир Петрович|Vladimir Kovalevsky
  6. Zhanna Ermakova