The only university in the country that has been training specialists for the linen industry, mechanical engineering, light and textile industries, for the forest complex for more than eighty years, is the Kostroma State Technological University. In addition, highly qualified personnel for labor protection and protection in emergency situations, for the tourism and jewelry industries are graduating from there, there are also areas for training lawyers and economists. Kostroma State Technological University did not immediately receive its modern name and various training programs.
Start
In November 1931, the People's Commissar of Light Industry and the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR opened a textile institute in Kostroma. In the building on Dzerzhinsky Street, where it is located, there used to be a diocesan school, then technical schools: forestry, land management, linen andameliorative.
They became the basis for the functioning of the new educational institution. Years later, having gone through many renamings, the institute received its current name - Kostroma State Technological University. This happened in 1995.
History
The history of this university is very interesting: in 1962 the Institute of Technology grew from the Kostroma Textile Institute, and in 1982 it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor for good training of specialists, and by 1995 it became the Kostroma State Technological University. Now it is the leading university in the region, focused on the latest technologies, with great scientific potential, excellent material base and incredible demand for graduates in Russia.
The whole history is a dynamic and continuous development - from the "linen" high school to the technological university through all sorts of significant events that are associated with its wonderful graduates. These people to this day, with all their creativity, confirm the high place in the rankings that Kostroma State Technological University occupies.
KSTU - early years
In the first years, only 200 people studied both in the daytime and in the evening departments, and after a natural five-year dropout, only 72 graduates received diplomas. The level of preparation was weak, applicants bypassedside institute. The question of closing this educational institution was raised several times, but each time it was possible to defend it. Before the war, the number of graduates reached 570. Then there was a war that dramatically changed all the plans of both students and teachers. A huge part of them went to fight, the rest stood behind the machines. Two rifle companies were formed entirely from the volunteers of the Kostroma Institute and went to beat the enemy.
And military hospitals are located in the building. Classes were nevertheless conducted - in the workshops of enterprises, in utility rooms, when it was not necessary to harvest firewood and peat, build railway lines to Galich, an airfield in Kostroma and defensive lines on the Volga. In addition, almost constantly it was necessary to unload the wagons and, conversely, send all kinds of cargo, harvest crops in the nearest villages, sew uniforms and solve many other urgent tasks: collect parcels for the front, give concerts in front of the wounded, take care of them, help them write letters. Before school?
KSTU today
The high authority of KSTU grew gradually, as the fruit of the work of the entire team of employees, teachers, students, over many decades. A special advantage of the university is graduates who occupy leading positions in institutions, in production, in banks, and, of course, in science. Universitytoday is a major center of educational, scientific, sports, cultural, and educational work in the Kostroma region.
They study here at the same time7,000 students and graduate students, more than a thousand employees and teachers bring their knowledge and skills to them. Eight educational buildings, equipped with the latest science and technology, accept students, five dormitories provide them with decent comfort and all kinds of amenities for preparing for classes, a dispensary was created to improve the he alth of students and staff, there is a kindergarten, as well as a sports camp. All these conditions are created in order for the university to flourish, for a he althy, strong, creative team to continue to live under the sign of a reliable present and a confident future, since this is what Kostroma State Technological University is fighting for.
Military Department
Nevertheless, in 1944 the institute moved to the building where the Kostroma State Technological University is now located. The photo shows us this building in its modern form. 430 students entered the institute in 1945 and began their studies. Four professors and 16 associate professors have started their work, and in total there are 52 teachers. The rest did not return from the war… 122 members of the teaching staff died heroically defending the country's right to live.
Then, in 1945, a military department was opened at the institute. It still carries out training and education of reserve officers - first commanders of combined arms platoons, then reserve officers of the clothing service of the rear of the Armed Forces. Over seven thousandman, thus, prepared the Kostroma State Technological University.
Faculties
The post-war years were also marked by all sorts of interesting events. Teachers and students demobilized from the USSR Armed Forces began to return to the institute from the war. The set was completed and over-fulfilled. They returned covered with military glory, decorated with orders, among them were even Stalinist scholarship holders, former partisans, signalmen, artillerymen … Forty people returned. The rest died. They were remembered by name of all those who managed to continue their studies. And studies began this year only at two faculties - mechanical and technological. Here they studied and improved apparatus and machines for the light and textile industries.
Then faculties were added, and in 1962 the institute could rightfully be called technological - for the first time graduates received diplomas of specialists in woodworking technologies, and in 1965 - mechanical engineers, specialists in metal-cutting tools and machine tools, in complex mechanization and automation chemical-technological processes. The Institute receives the right to an academic council for the defense of dissertations. In 1969, the first specialists of the forest engineering faculty graduated, and in 1971, the faculties of economics and consumer goods industry gave a start to life for their students.
Time to win
The Institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Laborin 1982, at the same time, a museum was opened, where the history of the institute was presented consistently and in all its manifestations. In 1987, new faculties graduated specialists in business analysis and accounting, and in 1994 a doctoral program was opened. In 1999, the university, already the Kostroma State Technological University, significantly increased its speci alties: it trained specialists in knitwear technology, CAD, and artistic processing of materials.
Now there are five faculties: technological, mechanical, humanitarian, forestry, the faculty of automated systems and technologies. In addition, three institutes work in the structure of the university: legal, economics and finance departments, additional vocational education, and there is also a military department and a pre-university training center. Specialists are trained for the light and textile industry, mechanical engineering, timber industry, institutions and organizations of management, economics and finance, for the legal sphere, for the hotel and tourism business.
Teachers
More than 400 teachers work in the staff of the university, and student education is carried out at the highest level, since 8 academicians, 37 professors and doctors of science work with them. Of the total number of teachers, more than 60% have academic titles and degrees.
Almost everyone who teaches students hasthe richest practical experience both in production and in research institutes. Many studied and trained in various educational institutions abroad of our country: in the USA, Germany, England, India. France, Slovakia, Bulgaria.
Applicants
All the speci alties in which the university trains are in demand, and there are never problems with employment. It is also easy for graduates to make a career with a diploma from this university, they are known everywhere and are expected at all enterprises. There are many famous and wonderful people among them. For example, Sergei Sobyanin, who has been the mayor of Moscow since 2010, is a graduate of the university, which is now called the Kostroma State Technological University. He probably remembers the address of his wonderful institute, but for applicants it is as follows: Kostroma, Dzerzhinsky street, house 17. The admission committee is in room number 108. Open days are held several times a year.
