Zapolyarny State University named after N.M. Fedorovsky (ZGU, Norilsk)

About Zapolyarny State University named after N.M. Fedorovsky (ZGU, Norilsk)

Zapolyarny State University named after N.M. Fedorovsky (Russian: Заполярный государственный университет им. Н.М. Федоровского, ZGU) is a state university in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The university gives its English name as Fedorovsky Polar State University, also written Fedorovsky PSU or PSU. It was founded on 30 December 1961 as the Norilsk Evening Industrial Institute, after a mining and metallurgy technical school was converted. It received its present name on 15 September 2021. The founder is the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The registered address is 50 Let Oktyabrya Street, building 7, Norilsk. The university describes itself as "the only state university in Taimyr and the northernmost in Russia".

Institutes and research

The university has two faculties: the Faculty of Electric Power Engineering, Economics and Management, and the Faculty of Mining Technology. It also runs the Polytechnic College and a centre for advanced training and professional retraining. Research and public units include a research centre for construction technologies and building monitoring in the northern Arctic territories, the scientific and practical centre "Health Ecology" and the eco-educational centre "Noosphere". Its published fields of study include construction, applied informatics, electric power engineering, technological machines, automation, metallurgy, economics and management. Mining is taught at specialist level. The university also lists master's and postgraduate programmes.

Housing

According to the university's official information, it has no dormitories or boarding houses.