GENERAL INFORMATION

Institution Name in Russian: Volgogradskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet
Institution Name in English: Volgograd State University

Address:

30, 2nd Prodol'naya Street
400062 Volgograd
Russian Federation

Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-81-24
Fax: 007 (8442) 43-81-24
Electronic Mail: oms@volsu.ru

Rector: Oleg Vassilyevich Inshakov
Period of Office: (1996 - ......)
Doctor of Economics
Phone/fax:7 (8442) 43-81-24
E-mail: oleg.inshakov@volsu.ru
First vice Rector :
Boris Nickolayevich Siplivy
Doctor of Technical Sciences
Phone/fax: 7 (8442) 43-82-64
E-mail: boris.siplivi@volsu.ru
Vice Rector for Academic Affairs: Sergei Grigorievich Sidorov
Doctor of Histori
Phone: 7(8442) 43-37-35
E-mail: sergei.sidorov@volsu.ru
Vice Rector for Research Olga Ivanovna Sgibneva
Doctor of Philisophy
Phone/fax: 7(8442) 43-82-64
Vice Rector for Student Affairs:
Igor Olegovich Tiumentsev
Doctor of History
Phone: 7 (8442) 43-37-35
E-Mail: tijumencev@mail.ru
Vice Rector for Informatization:
Alexander Alexandrovich Voronin
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics
Phone: 7 (8442) 43-13-02
E-mail: alexander.voronin@volsu.ru
Vice Rector for Finance:
Vassily Valeryevich Tarakanov
Candidate of Economics
Phone: 7 (8442) 43-36-67
E-mail: vasily.tarakanov@volsu.ru
Director of Facilities:
Victor Lavrentyevich Ostapenko
Phone: 7 (8442) 43-49-85
E-mail: victor.ostapenko@volsu.ru

University foundation date: 02.02.1980

Other Major date(s):
1985

First Graduation
Foundation of the Law School
Foundation of Economic School
2000
Establishment of the Continuing Education School;
Establishment of the Schools of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Philology and Journalism, Regional Economics and Management, International Economics and Finance, Philosophy and Social Technologies and History and International Relations.

Institution status: Public

University composition:
11 schools, 39 chairs;
5 branches in Akhtubinsk (the Astrakhan region), Volzhsky, Kalach-on-Don, Mikhailovka, Uryupinsk (the Volgograd region);
Information and Technology Institute;
Graduate and Doctoral Schools;
8 Dissertation Boards;
Regional Branch of the Russian Humanities Academy;
5 research institutes;
6 research laboratories;
Research-industrial complex at the Volgograd Electronic Machine Building Plant;
5 student research laboratories.

THE AVERAGE AGE OF THE TEACHING STAFF: 38.
FOREIGN STUDENTS: 30
ACADEMIC DEGREES OR DIPLOMAS AWARDED: Diploma of Specialist (5-year course), Bachelor of Arts (4-year course), Bachelor of Science (4-year course), Candidate of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences, Master of Arts (1 to 2-year course), Master of Science (2- year course).

11 SCHOOLS

  • History and International Relations
  • Philosophy and Social Technologies
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Philology and Journalism
  • Management and Regional Economics
  • International Economics
  • Law and Continuing Education
  • Informational Technologies and Telecommunication.
  • Continuing Education

  • ACADEMIC STRUCTURE

    Continuing Education School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Economics, Law, Foreign Languages
    Name of the Dean: Ella Vladimirovna Iskrenko
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-28
    E-mail:eiia.iskrenko@volsu.ru

    Linguistics and Intercultural Communication School
    Major Sub-Divisions: English Philology, German Philology, Romance Philology, Interpretation and Translation
    Name of the Dean: Nikolai Leonidovich Shamne
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-25
    E-mail:nikolay.shamne@volsu.ru

    History and International Relations School
    Major Sub-Divisions: History, History of Russia, Archaeology, Regional Studies and International Relations.
    Name of the Dean: Igor Olegovich Tiumentsev
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-20-25
    E-mail:sergey.golunov@volsu.ru

    Law School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Civil Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Social Work
    Name of the Dean : Felix Victorovich Glazyrin
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-60-73

    Regional Economics and Management School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Marketing, Economics and Management, Environmental Economics, Mathematical Methods in Economics Name of the Dean: Vladimir Vladimirovich Fesenko
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-26
    E-mail:en@econ.volsu.ru

    Mathematics School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Analysis, Mechanics, Discrete Mathematics, Optimization and Probability Theory, Economic Modeling.
    Name of the Dean: Vladimir Gennadyevich Tkachev
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-14-26
    E-mail: math@volsu.ru

    Russian Philology and Journalism School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Russian and Literature, Journalism, Documentation and Information.
    Name of the Dean: Dmitri Yurievich Ilyin
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-73-22
    E-mail:dilyin99@mail.ru

    Philosophy and Social Technologies School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Philosophy, Theology, Sociology.
    Name of the Dean: Nickolai Victorovich Omelchenko
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-23
    E-mail:nomelchenko@mail.ru

    Physics School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Radiophysics, Astrophysics, Chemical Physics, Solid State Physics, Electro physics, Theoretical Physics, Optics.
    Name of the Dean: Valery Vasilyevich Yatsyshen
    Address: 20, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-35-56
    E-mail:valery.yatsishen@volsu.ru physic@vlink.ru

    International Economics and Finance School
    Major Sub-Divisions: Theoretical Economics, World Economics, Finance and Credit, Book-keeping and Audit.
    Name of the Dean: Elena Gennadyevna Russkova
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-48-10
    E-mail: elena.russkova@volsu.ru

    Informational Technologies and Telecommunications School
    Major Sub-Divisions:Automated Systems of Information Processing in Management, Complex Provision of Information Protection of Automated Systems, Applied Information Science in Management, Telecommunications .
    Name of the Dean: Igor Vadimovich Sharkevich
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-63-53
    E-mail: itt@volsu.ru

    PRINCIPAL RESEARCH CENTERS AND INSTITUTES

    Research Institute of the History of the Russian Language

    Head of the Institute: Sofia Petrovna Lopushanskaya, D.Sc., Professor of Philology, Academician
    Major subjects: development and functioning of verb in Slavonic and West-European languages; comparative study of Russian verb, its categories and forms; Russian verb in oral and written discourse; verb studies in teaching Russian as a foreign language
    Address: 30, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 40-55-32
    E-mail: iryas@zmail.ru

    Research Institute of the Russian Economic History of the XX-th century

    Head of the Institute: Maxim Matveevich Zagorulko, D. Sc., Academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Educational Institutions
    Major subjects: foreign capital and the Soviet economic development in the 1920s - 1930s; cooperative societies in the XX-th century, development of the USSR economy during the industrialization period; the role of the land lease and aid of anti-Hitler coalition in the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War; economic aspects of guerrilla movement on the occupied territory of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War.
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-73-27
    E-mail:peir@mail.ru

    Research Institute of the Regional Economics

    Head of the Institute: Oleg Vassilyevich Inshakov, D.Sc., Academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher Educational Institutions
    Major subjects: mechanisms of transformation and modification of economic systems; competitiveness, security and sustainability of territorial sub-systems of the transitional Russian economy; programs of anti-crisis and sustainable development of the Volgograd Region.
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-81-24
    E-mail:oleg.inshakov@volsu.ru

    Research Institute "Social, Economic and Ecological Aspects of Management of the Region Resource Potential Reproduction"

    Head of the Institute: Ivetta Mikhailovna Shabunina, D.Sc., Acting Member of the Russian Ecological Academy
    Major subjects: methodology of the environment, resource evaluation and activity risks; economic mechanisms of the regional environment management; formation and development of the regional labor resources and labor potential in the transitional economy; transformation of regional economy and its management systems.
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-48-10

    Research Institute of Archaeology of the Lower Volga Region

    Head of the Center: Anatoly Stepanovich Skripkin, D.Sc., Professor of Archaeology
    Major subjects: problems of Scythian-Sarmathian Archaeology of the East Europe
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-35
    E-mail: igor.sergatskov@volsu.ru

    Center for American Studies "Americana"

    Head of the Center: Alexander Ivanovich Kubyshkin, D.Sc., Professor of History, Academician
    Major subjects: political and historical traditions of North-American and Latin American societies, analysis of higher education in the countries of the American continent, Russian-American relations.
    Address: 30, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-20-25
    E-mail: alexander.kubyshkin@volsu.ru

    Center for Eurasian Studies
    Head of the Center: Alexander Ivanovich Kubyshkin, D.Sc., Professor of History, Academician
    Major subjects: social and political processes in Muslim countries of CIS; international relations of CIS countries; new borders between Post-Soviet states.
    Address: 30, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-20-25
    E-mail:sergey.golunov@volsu.ru

    Association of European Studies (Volgograd Branch)

    Head of the Branch: Dzhuchi Mikhailovich Tugan-Baranovsky, D.Sc, Professor of History
    Major subjects: history of France of XVIII - XIX centuries, Germany and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1920s and 1930s, international relations in the XX-th century, problems of European integration in the post-war period.
    Address: 30, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-20-25
    E-mail: novist@mail.ru

    Innovative Research Laboratory of Radio electronics

    Head of the Laboratory: Boris Nikolaevich Siplivy, D.Sc., Professor of Physics and Mathematics
    Address: 20, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-35-43
    E-mail: ivanov@physic.vgu.tsaritsyn.su
    issledovaniya@mail.ru

    Research Laboratory of Computational Physics and Environmental Modeling

    Head of the Laboratory: Anatoly Ivanovich Ivanov, D.Sc., Professor of Physics and Mathematics
    Address: 20, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-35-41
    E-mail: ivanov@physic.vgu.tsaritsyn.su

    Research Laboratory of Quantum Electronics

    Head of the Laboratory: Boris Vasilyevich Anikeyev, D.Sc., Professor of Physics and Mathematics
    Address: 20, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007(8442) 43-35-56
    E-mail: ivanov@physic.vgu.tsaritsyn.su

    Laboratory of Philosophical and Anthropological Research

    Head of the Center: Nikolai Viktorovich Omelchenko, D.Sc., Professor of Philosophy
    Major subjects: philosophy, concept of man in the context of world civilization
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 96-55-23
    Address: 30, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd
    Russian Federation
    E-mail: nomelchenko@mail.ru

    SPECIAL UNITS

    Academic Programs Division
    Head: Tatyana Yevgenyevna Makeyeva
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-63-54

    Office of International Relations
    Head: Irina Anatolyevna Dudina
    Telephone/ Fax: 007 (8442) 43-37-86
    Electronic Mail: oms@volsu.ru

    STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS

    Total number of Study Abroad Programs: 17
    Volgograd University participates in 14 inter-university exchange programs and has applied for participation in the TEMPUS Joint European project together with Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Dijon (Universite de Bourgogne), France. In 1998-2000 VolSU together with Kent State University, USA, received two USIA grants - for the development of distance learning programs in international management and student-professor exchange programs.

    Foreign institutions of higher education with which Volgograd State University has exchange programs/agreements:
    Institut fur Ubersetzer-und Dolmetscherausbildung Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Graz, Austria
    Agreement on the exchange of translation and interpretation students
    Institut Libre Marie Haps, Bruxelles, Belgium
    General Cooperation Agreement; joint research; participation in TEMPUS projects)
    Sprachen-und-Dolmetscher Institut, Munchen, Germany
    Agreement on the exchange of translation and interpretation students
    Universitat zu Koln, Koln, Germany
    General Cooperation Agreemen
    Joint research programs
    Fachhochschule zu Koln, Koln, Germany
    General Cooperation Agreement
    Joint research programs
    Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maitres de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    General Cooperation Agreement
    Special programs for secondary education majors
    Student/professor exchange
    Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Dijon (Universite de Bourgogne), Dijon, France
    General Cooperation Agreement (student/professor exchange; joint research; participation in TEMPUS projects)
    Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
    General Cooperation Agreement (student/professor exchange)
    Akron State University, Akron, Ohio, USA
    General Cooperation Agreement
    Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
    General Cooperation Agreement
    Mansfield University, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, USA
    General Cooperation Agreement
    Joint research programs
    Agreement on the archeological exchange
    Agreement on business group exchange

    Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
    General Cooperation Agreement

    BRANCHES/CAMPUSES

    The main campus of the University is set in the Soviet district of the city with bus and tram links to other parts of Volgograd. Libraries, laboratories and teaching rooms are all close at hand. The fourteen-story hostel is located very close to the University, accommodation in double rooms with all modern conveniences; every floor has a kitchen. The University branches are located in the towns of the Volgograd and Astrakhan regions: Volzhsky, Mikhailovka, Kalach-on-Don, Uryupinsk and Akhtubinsk.

    Volzhsky Humanities Institute
    Provides instruction in 5 specialties: Applied Mathematics, Management, Law, English and German Languages Translation

    Total number of students: 1994
    Address: 37, 40 Let Pobedy Street,
    404132 Volzhsky, Volgograd region
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 7 (84423) 9-83-81/ 9-17-78

    Mikhailovka branch
    Provides instruction in two specialties: Law and Audit, Accounting.

    Total number of students: 317

    Address: 42a, Oborony Street,
    Mikhailovka, Volgograd region,
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (263) 3-14-96

    Kalach-on-Don branch
    Provides instruction in three specialties: Law and Accounting, Audit, Management

    Total number of students: 257
    Address: 78, Oktyabr'skaya Street
    Kalach-on-Don, Volgograd region,
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (272) 3-39-40

    Uryupinsk branch Provides instruction in four specialties: Philology, History, Law and Management.

    Total number of students: 591
    Address: 3, Prospekt Lenina
    Uryupinsk, Volgograd region,
    Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (242) 2-05-85

    Languages of Instruction: Russian, English, German, And French

    PRINCIPAL DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS

    Diploma of Specialist in a particular field of study, 5 years.
    Kandidat nauk (Candidate of Sciences), a further 3 years and dissertation.
    Doktor nauk, by thesis after Kandidat.

    LIBRARY

    The Central Library (650 000 volumes) is located in the main building of the University. VolSU library has 9 departments, including:

    Foreign Literature Department (room 3-06 Ã) where students get their readers' cards - 11 900 volumes
    Rare Book Department - 5 000 volumes
    Mathematics and Physics Library - 82 000 volumes
    Literature and Linguistics Library - 271 000 volumes
    Economics Department Library - 274 703 volumes
    Reading room + catalog (room 3-21 Ã).
    Other Libraries 5 397 volumes

    MUSEUMS

    • Academician Borkovsky Museum with the Library (5 000 volumes)
    • Archaeology Museum
    • Russian Military Cadets Museum
    • Ethnography Museum
    • University History Museum
    • Money and Monetary History Museum

    PUBLISHING HOUSE

    Volgograd University Press

    Director: Lev Kirillovich Kozhevnikov
    Address: 20, 2nd Prodolnaya Street
    400062 Volgograd Russian Federation
    Telephone: 007 (8442) 43-34-79

    Principal periodical publications

    Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Conference
    Annual Students and Junior Scientists' Papers and Reports
    Topical Publications of VolSU (2 annual volumes)
    Course books and teaching materials by Volgograd University Press schedule

    FACULTY NUMBERS

    Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
    Total 372 352 381 386 579
    Doctor of Sciences, Professors 29 34 39 46 58
    Percentage 7.8 9.7 10.2 11.9 10.0
    Candidate of Sciences, Associate Professors 145 166 155 165 215
    Percentage 39.0 47.2 40.7 42.7 37.1
    Total of Candidates of Sciences and Professors 174 200 194 211 273
    Percentage 46.8 56.8 50.9 54.7 47.2

    STUDENT NUMBERS

    Year 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
    Total 6423 4780 8395 9479 9964
    Full time 4522 5074 5621 6164 6106
    VolSU 3656 3927 4284 4735 4634
    Volzhsky Humanities Institute 866 1147 1337 1429 1472
    Correspondence 1901 2406 2774 3315 3858
    VolSU 1143 1314 1429 1585 1540
    Volzhsky Humanities Institute 162 252 338 565 912
    Kalach-on-Don 227 252 236 257 293
    Mikhailovka 172 220 273 317 369
    Uryupinsk 197 368 498 591 626
    Akhtubinsk 118