Vyatski state pedagogical institute

1. The Vyatka Teachers' Training Institute was founded on July 1, 1914, with only 2 Faculties (Physics; Science and History) and 29 students. In 1918, the Institute was reorganized into a higher educational institution.
The first Rector of the Insittute was the well-known mathematican Professor N.A.Dernov.
In different years the teaching staff of the Institute included such well-known scholars and educators as A.K.Volnin (A.S.Makarenko's supervisor), Professor N.N.Shimbiryov, the author of the first soviet textbooks on pedagogics; Associate Academican N.M.Karinsky, Professors P.N.Luppov, K.V.Dryaguin, B.A.Tapayevsky, V.V.Multanovsky, A.S.Vasilevsky, V.F.Sakharov, M.G.Yanovskaya, V.I.Chernov, Ya.G.Birenbaum, V.G.Reshetov.
At present, Rector of the Insittute is A.M.Slobodchikov.

2. The Institute has 52 Departments and 13 Faculties:

• Pre-Institute Training
• History
• the Russian Language and Literature
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Industrial Training
• Natural Science and Geography
• Foreign Languages
• Elementary and Pre-Scholl Education
• Physical Culture
• Pedagogical Qualification Improvement for Educators
• Additinal Pedagogical Porfessions

There are about 4000 full-time and 200 extra-mural students students at the Institute.

The faculties of the Institute include an observation station for the Earth artifical satellites, a botanical garden, an agro-biological station, a field practice centre, a swimming pool, a sports camp. The Institute has also got a science library, an editorial-publishing division, and the Institute's history museum.

3. The teaching staff of the Institute numbers 515 lecturers and instructors, and among them - 21 Professors, Doctors of Sciences, 206 Associate Professors, Candidates of Sciences.

4. The students are trained in 17 specialities:

• mathematics and computers
• physics and computers
• chemistry and psychology
• biology and chemistry
• geagraphy and biology
• history and foundations of law
• the Russian language, litreture and the world arts culture
• English and German
• German and English
• French and English
• French and German
• labour training
• domestic science
• physical culture training
• principles of life security and physical culture training
• pre-school pedagogics and psychology
• pedagogics and methods of elementary education

5. The basic research trends and fields are as follows:

• psychology and pedagogics
• science, humanities and theory
• regional studies

Postgraduate courses of the Instituet offer research programmes in 5 specialities.

6. The Institute heads the Educatinal, scientific and pedagogical complex of the Vyatka region, and is also the founder of educational institutions of new type (gymnasiums, lyceums, colleges).