Orel State University

History of University

The origins of the idea of ​​creating a higher educational institution in Oryol for the first time date back to the era of the First World War, when the intelligentsia of the provincial center, developing the initiative of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of 1916, in January-March 1917, created a "commission for the organization of a people's university - polytechnic". In May of the same year, the issue of its creation was discussed by the Oryol City Commission on Public Education.

 The result of the work was a report submitted on September 7, 1918 to the Provincial Executive Committee, which concluded that it was necessary to create a university in Oryol with a set of classical faculties.

However, the events of the autumn of 1917 changed the situation in the country and the province, and the new authorities returned to the issue of creating the university a year later, when on October 31, 1918, by the Decree of the Department of Public Education of the Oryol Governorate Executive Committee, the Oryol Proletarian University named after V.I. Lenin, which opened on November 5 of the same year and existed in Orel until 1920.However, talking about the creation in Oryol of a full-fledged state university with a classic set of faculties dates back to 1919, when on June 23, the decision of the College of Higher Educational Institutions of the People's Commissariat for Education was made, which established Oryol State University. 

This day can rightfully be considered the birthday of the university as a classical university, the leading educational institution in the region.In development of this decision, on March 19, 1920, the Board of the Oryol Provincial Committee for Education adopted a Resolution "On the reorganization of the Oryol Proletarian University" and on the establishment on its basis and on the basis of the Institute of Public Education of the Oryol State University.In a short time, on the basis of the scientific and pedagogical personnel available in the city (forces, as they said a century ago), the backbone of the teaching staff was created, students were recruited to two faculties. In the spirit of the era, a workers' faculty was created at OSU.Changes in state policy in the field of higher education led to the adoption on November 4, 1921 of the Council of People's Commissars (on the basis of the decision of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Education dated August 18, 1921) a decision to create a Higher Pedagogical Institute on the basis of OSU. 

Its grand opening took place on October 9, 1921. However, the further course of the country's leadership towards the specialization of higher education led to the decision of November 15, 1922 to close the Oryol Higher Pedagogical Institute. Students were transferred to other universities and technical schools, and the teaching staff of the university moved to work at the Oryol Pedagogical and Mechanical-Construction Technical School. However, after a few years, the development of higher education in the Oryol region received a new impetus.In 1927, groups for the training of engineers were created in the Mechanical-Construction Technical School in parallel with groups for the training of specialists with secondary education, and on August 5, 1931, by the order of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, an industrial-pedagogical institute was created in Orel, the grand opening of which took place on October 16 1931 in the structure of four faculties (physical and technical, chemical and biological, socio-economic (literary and social, polytechnic).

In 1932, the Workers' Faculty, the Evening Institute (until 1938) was opened at the OGPI. Belgorod Pedagogical Institute is united with OGPI.Since 1934 (September 1), two institutes have been structurally created within the university - a teacher's institute with a two-year term of study and a pedagogical institute with a four-year term of study that graduated teachers for secondary schools. During the period of preservation of this structure until 1952, the university was called the Oryol State Pedagogical and Teachers Institute, keeping the name Oryol Pedagogical Institute in the press and documents of internal circulation. The institute has a Rabfak (until 1949), created within the OSU in 1920 and an exemplary school.In 1940 - the first two volumes of "Scientific Notes of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute" were published: Volume I "Natural Science and Chemistry"; Vol. II "Physics and Mathematics".The further development of the OGPI was determined by the Great Patriotic War. In June 1941, 200 students and teachers left the institute for the front.

On August 23, 1941, by order of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, the OGPI was evacuated to the city of Birsk of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, where the Birsk Pedagogical Institute was created on the basis of the teachers' technical school, which retained the structure of the Oryol Pedagogical Institute.November 20, 1943 By order of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, the OGPI was re-evacuated to Yelets, and in August 1944 returned to Orel.1945 - the first post-war collection of "Scientific Notes of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute" was published, in the same year the first dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Science was defended at the university (Ya.Ya. Tseb).In 1952 - the teacher's institute of the Oryol Pedagogical and Teacher's Institute was closed, which was renamed into the Oryol State Pedagogical InstituteIn 1954, the first postgraduate course in the history of the OGPI was opened at the Department of the Russian Language. In the same year, an evening department was opened. 

In the same year, on February 26, technical education in Orel took the form of higher education. In the structure of the All-Union Correspondence Machine-Building Institute (VZMI), the Oryol UKP was created. On November 30, 1960, the General Technical Faculty of VZMI was established on its basis. On June 29, 1962, full-time education was introduced at the OTF VZMI, and on June 6, 1966, it was transformed into the Oryol branch of the VZMI.On November 6, 1981, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the OGPI was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.April 21, 1988 PF VZMI was reorganized into the Oryol branch of the Moscow Institute of Instrumentation (PF MIP), on May 17, 1993 into the Oryol State Polytechnic Institute, and on March 14, 1995 - the Oryol State Polytechnic Institute was renamed into the Oryol State Technical University.In 1994 - OGPI received the status of a pedagogical university (Oryol State Pedagogical University - OGPU), and in 1996 it was transformed into a classical university. 

June 6 of the same year - on the basis of Orel State Technical University, an educational-research-and-production complex (UNPC) was created.In 2002, the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of education for scientific and practical development for educational institutions of higher professional education "Improving the quality of engineering and technological education based on continuity and interuniversity integration of scientific schools of engineering technologists" was awarded to a group of employees of OrelSTU. In 2003, the creative team of the University was awarded the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of education for scientific and practical development for the system of vocational education and scientific and innovative infrastructure of the regions "University educational and scientific production complex as the basis for the development of education, economy and social sphere of the region.

"On November 25, 2010 Orel State Technical University was renamed into the State University - educational, scientific and industrial complex, and in 2015 - into the Prioksky State University.

In the same year, the Government of the Russian Federation made a decision on the establishment of the Orel State University in the Oryol Region, in pursuance of which, in 2016 (April 1), the Oryol State University named after I.S. Turgenev "....IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING …

Oryol State University named after I. S. Turgenev is the first flagship university in Russia; the only multidisciplinary center in the region that provides continuous training of specialists of all levels in the field of pedagogical, engineering, medical, natural science and humanitarian education.Today the structure of the university consists of 3 branches (Karachevsky, Livensky and Mtsensky), 12 institutes and 13 faculties. These are 297 educational programs taught by more than 940 doctors and candidates of sciences. About 19,000 students from 55 countries study at our university; more than 4000 students graduate annually. Almost a third of them are excellent students.