Mari State Medical University

Mari State University is one of the young classical universities in the country, a large educational and scientific center of the Republic of Mari El and the Volga Federal District.

On May 4, 1971, the Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the RSFSR V.N. Stoletov signed an order to organize a university in Yoshkar-Ola, designed to fill the acute shortage of personnel for the intensively developing leading sectors of the republic's national economy: industry, construction and agriculture.

The initiators of the creation of the university were the first secretary of the Mari regional committee of the CPSU V.P. Nikonov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the MASSR P.A. Almakaev and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic T.I. Gorinov, who in January 1970 appealed to the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR with a request to create the first university on the Mari land. Comprehensive support of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Union and the Russian governments became the key to the success of the new undertaking. Already in December, the structure of the MarSU was approved, consisting of the historical-philological, biological-chemical, physics and mathematics, agricultural faculties, a preparatory department, 17 departments, a research sector, 40 classrooms and laboratories. It was planned to conduct training in 10 specialties. At the same time, the construction of educational buildings, a residential building for teachers began.

Classes for students of the Faculty of Agriculture, temporarily located at the Mari Polytechnic Institute, began on September 1, 1971; a year later, students from other faculties began their studies. In December 1971, a preparatory department was opened. Since January 1972, the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Mari Pedagogical Institute was transferred to MarSU and transformed into the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry.

During 1971, the Government of the Republic handed over to the university two former buildings of the House of Soviets. In the summer of 1972, the biology, chemistry and agriculture faculties were housed in a newly built standard secondary school building. By the decision of the Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU, dozens of enterprises in the cities of Yoshkar-Ola and Volzhsk, on special orders, were engaged in equipping with equipment, furniture, inventory - everything necessary for organizing the educational process. The dormitory building of the Mari Pedagogical Institute under construction was leased to the university to accommodate students. The Pedagogical and Polytechnic Institutes shared their scientists with MarSU. More than 20 universities of the country participated in the acquisition of the university library, including Riga, Lvov, Chisinau, Odessa, Saransk, Petrozavodsk, Alma-Ata, Perm, Kazan, Kirov, Moscow.

The leadership of the republic helped to staff the faculties and departments with experienced managers.

The population of the republic, especially the rural ones, was waiting for the opening of the Mari State University. His expectations were fully justified - according to the results of the first admission exams, 274 applicants (out of 425) from rural areas were recommended for admission, or more than 64 percent of the total admission, two-thirds of freshmen are children of workers and collective farmers.

On November 25, 1972, celebrations were held to mark the official opening of MarSU. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the USSR, the Mari Republic, its people received a classical university as a gift.

The Mari State University, which has been developing since its foundation as a large republican and regional educational, scientific and cultural center, trains specialists with fundamental education in priority areas of science and technology. The mission of MarSU is to meet the educational needs of the individual, society and the state in the field of fundamental and applied science, maintain leadership in the modernization of the education system in the republic, actively influence the socio-economic and cultural development of the Mari El Republic and the region, harmonize interethnic and interfaith relations.

Currently, the university trains personnel in the following areas: physical and mathematical, natural, humanities; education and pedagogy; Culture and art; economics and Management; agriculture and fisheries; power engineering, power engineering and electrical engineering; technology of food and consumer goods.

Continuity of education is provided by a multi-stage training system based on the implementation of programs:

secondary general and vocational education through a multidisciplinary and polytechnic lyceum, a boarding school for gifted children, a linguistic school, specialized classes in schools of the republic and the MarSU college;higher professional education, carried out in two specialties and 42 areas of training;

postgraduate education - through postgraduate and doctoral studies;

additional education carried out by the IDE.

The university trains teachers in the field of innovative pedagogical, information and communication technologies, and implements the President's program for professional training of management personnel in a consortium with MESI.

he university has created a solid scientific potential. Scientific research is carried out in the areas of humanitarian, natural-mathematical and technical profiles. University scientists became laureates of international, all-Russian and republican competitions for the best scientific and educational book. Among the scientific community, the yearbooks "Mari archaeographic bulletin" and "Mari juridical bulletin", published by the Faculties of History, Philology and Law, enjoy authority.

The training of scientific personnel is carried out in 51 specialties in graduate school and 7 in doctoral studies; there are three doctoral dissertation councils.

Every year the role of the university in shaping the policy aimed at the accelerated development of higher education in the republic, the Volga Federal District, and the country is increasing. MarSU is a member of the Eurasian and Volga Region Associations of Classical Universities, in 2005 it became a member of the Association of Classical Universities of Russia.

The University is a recognized center of Finno-Ugric studies, which forms friendly relations between peoples, countries and states. Occupying a leading position in world Finno-Ugric studies, the university has established particularly close contacts with foreign Finno-Ugric scientific and educational centers: universities, institutes, departments of Finland (Turku, Helsinki), Estonia (Tartu, Tallinn), Hungary (Budapest, Szombathely), with society M. Castrena (Finland). Mari State University is one of the founders of the Association of Finno-Ugric Universities, which includes Mordovia, Mari, Syktyvkar, Yugorsk, Petrozavodsk, Udmurt State Universities, the University of Western Hungary and universities in Finland.

The established status of MarSU in the Finno-Ugric world has strengthened contacts with the Finno-Ugric regions of Russia, with the Mari, compactly living in Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Kirov, Sverdlovsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions. In 2005, the University hosted the X International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies and in 2006 the XXII International Finno-Ugric Student Conference IFUSKO-2006.

The multifaceted professional relations of the university with foreign educational institutions, organizations contribute to the process of integrating higher education in Russia into the global educational space, and the humanization of education.

Mari State University today is a recognized center of education, science and culture. It has 6 faculties, 5 institutes, about 9 thousand students, a highly professional team of professors, teachers and researchers, numbering 570 teachers, including about 100 doctors of sciences and professors, 400 candidates of sciences and associate professors.

The creation of the Mari State University was a recognition of the place and role of the Mari ASSR in the fraternal family of Soviet peoples. Its formation marked a new stage in multiplying the intellectual potential of the republic, put it on a par with the recognized centers of economic, social, cultural development of the country and, perhaps most importantly, increased the national consciousness of the people. Of course, the university was created by the hard work of its scientists and staff. And at the same time, he is a brainchild, lovingly fostered by the entire republic, its multinational people, and its leadership. The university experiences their day-to-day attention, respect for themselves and a sincere desire to support it. All this increases the responsibility of the university staff before the Government of the republic, inspires it to work even more actively.