Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University

About Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University

Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University (VGSPU, in Russian ВГСПУ) is a state university in Volgograd. The university gives 22 May 1931 as its creation date. In 1969 it was called Volgograd State Pedagogical Institute. The founder is the Russian Federation, represented by the Ministry of Education. The main address is 27 V. I. Lenin Avenue, Volgograd, 400005. The university has no branches. It is a different institution from Volgograd State University and from Volgograd State Medical University, which have their own official sites.

Institutes and research

The university is organised into institutes. They include the Institute of Early Childhood and Primary Education, the Institute of Foreign Languages, the Institute of Historical and Legal Education, the Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and Physics, the Institute of Russian Language and Philology, the Institute of Social and Correctional Pedagogy, the Institute of Technology, Economics and Service, and the Institute of Art Education. There are also an Institute of Additional Education, an Institute of Pedagogical Informatics and a Confucius Institute.

For international applicants

The Institute of International Education was created in 2019 on the basis of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. It is the successor of the faculty for teaching foreign citizens. The university first admitted foreign citizens in 1969. That first group had 28 people, including 23 students from Vietnam. According to the institute, current students come from China, Egypt, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Australia, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Haiti, Palestine and other countries.

The institute lists these programmes: bachelor's Linguistics (profiles "Russian language and translation studies" and "Foreign languages in economics and finance"), master's Pedagogical Education ("Russian as a foreign language"), and master's Linguistics ("Foreign languages and intercultural communication in business and management"). It also describes joint programmes with Changchun University and Tianjin Foreign Studies University in China, launched in 2014 and 2015. The institute includes a testing centre for foreign citizens.

Housing

According to the state disclosure page, the university has three dormitories with 1,799 residential rooms for non-resident students. Other facilities include a library building, a sports building with eight sports halls, a stadium, a botanical garden and a swimming pool.