Kaluga State University
higher education institution in Russia
Kaluga State University (KSU, Russian: Калужский государственный университет), or, in full, Kaluga State University in the name of K. E. Tsiolkovsky (Russian: Калужский государственный университет имени К. Э. Циолковского), is a university in Kaluga, Russia.
The university was founded in 1948 as Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute. In 1963 it was named K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute, in honour of rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. In 1994 it became K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University, and in 2010 K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University.
The university consists of nine institutes:
Arts and Socio-Cultural Design;
Engineering and Technologies;
History and Law;
Linguistics and World Languages;
Medical;
Natural Sciences;
Pedagogics;
Philology and Mass Media;
Psychology;
Also The University has Institute for the Development of Professional Competencies.
There are three museums in the university: The Museum of KSU's history; The Museum-study of Alexander Chizhevsky; The Museum of the Natural Sciences' Institute.
The University publishes the scientific quarterly "The Kaluga University Bulletin" (Russian: Вестник Калужского университета), "The Kaluga University Bulletin. Series 1. Psychological sciences. Pedagogical Sciences" (Russian: Вестник Калужского университета.
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