Kostroma State University (russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Костромской государственный университет» (КГУ)) is a public university in

Kostroma Kostroma ( rus, Кострома́, p=kəstrɐˈma) is a historic city and the administrative center of Kostroma Oblast, Russia. A part of the Golden Ring of Russian cities, it is located at the confluence of the rivers Volga and Kostroma. Popu ...

, the capital city of

Kostroma Oblast Kostroma Oblast (russian: Костромска́я о́бласть, ''Kostromskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kostroma and its population as of the 2021 Census is 580,97 ...

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. It was created in its current form in 2016 with the merger of the Nekrasov Kostroma State University and the Kostroma State Technological University.

History

Nekrasov Kostroma State University

The Nekrasov State University traced its history to the Kostroma State Workers' and Peasants' University which was the first university in the city and was formally established by the Decree of the

Council of People's Commissars The Councils of People's Commissars (SNK; russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), ''Sovet narodnykh kommissarov''), commonly known as the ''Sovnarkom'' (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of ...

issued on January 21, 1919, declaring the establishment of the state university and decided to considered November 7, 1918 as the opening date.

Kostroma State Technological University

On November 1, 1931, the

State Planning Committee The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan ( rus, Госплан, , ɡosˈpɫan), was the agency responsible for central economic planning in the Soviet Union. Established in 1921 and remaining in existence until the dissolution of ...

of the

RSFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

approved the proposal to open a textile institute in Kostroma. On July 26, 1932, the People's Commissariat of Light Industry appointed V. G. Bobrov as director of the Kostroma Textile Institute. The building of the former diocesan school, then occupied by land management, forestry, reclamation and flax technical schools (15 Dzerzhinskogo), was allocated for the future institute. in 1962, the Textile Institute was transformed into a technological institute. in 1995, the Institute of Technology was transformed into the Kostroma State Technological University.

Merger

The university in its current form was formed in accordance with the order of the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Livanov Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov (russian: Дми́трий Ви́кторович Лива́нов, born February 15, 1967 in Moscow) is a Russian Doctor of Physics, professor, former rector of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and the Minister ...

No.196 issued on March 10, 2016 through the reorganization of two universities in the form of annexation: Kostroma State Technological University to Nekrasov Kostroma State University with the name after the merger Kostroma State University. As part of the merger, higher budgets invested in the new university.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Kostroma Public universities and colleges in Russia