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South Russian State Polytechnic University or Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (also known as Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute) is a state university in the city of Novocherkassk,
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, Southern Russia.


History


In the Russian Empire

The university during its nascent days were known as the Don higher educational institution. The institution was established with a background of the demands from the local authorities and the public in general for forming a university in the city of Novocherkassk, which started informally around 1870s. Consequently, some student unrest took place during 1905–1906. This event was followed by the approval of the Imperial Regulation of the Council of Ministers on 2 March 1907, and the University was legally established with the aim ''"to recognize the expediency of the establishment of the Don Polytechnic Institute in the city of Novocherkassk".'' Initial departments of the university included mining, engineering and
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, and chemical technologies. On 5 October 1907, the Don Polytechnic Institute started to operate, while becoming the first higher educational institution in the southern part of the Russian Empire. At that time, the institute did not have its own buildings and was collectively operating in seven distinct closely located buildings. In the year 1909, the institute was named after
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, and started to be known as Alekseevsky Don Polytechnic Institute. On 9 October 1911, construction began for own buildings of the University which were designed by Bronislaw Roguisky. This construction project included the main, robotic (modern name), chemical, mining corps and was finally completed in 1930.


After 1917

During the years 1918 to 1920, the institution was named after Alexey Kaledin. Then the institution was renamed as Donskoy Polytechnic. In April 1930, the Don Polytechnic Institute was divided into several independent higher technical educational institutions which included: * Energy * Checmical Technology * Geological Exploration * Civil Engineering * Aviation Engineering * Metallurgical * Agricultural engineering On 21 March 1933, by order of the then People's Commissar for Heavy Industry Sergo Ordzhonikize, the geological exploration institute, chemical technology institute and energy institute were merged. Due to the result of such merger, the North Caucasian Industrial Institute was formed, which in 1934 was renamed as Novocherkassk Industrial Institute, named after Ordzhonikidze. File:Новочеркасск_Политехнический_институт_горный_факультет2.jpg, Mining Faculty File:Новочеркасск_Политехнический_институт_химический_факультет.jpg, Chemical Faculty File:Новочеркасск Политехнический институт энергетический факультет.jpg, Faculty of Energy On 27 February 1948, via order No. 264 of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education Department, the institute received a new name – Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. This name remained associated with the Institution until 1993. In 1957, the institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. On 5 July 1993, by order No. 55 of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for Higher Education Department, the university received a new status and the name was further changed to Novocherkassk State Technical University. On 2 February 1999, by Order No. 226 of the Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Russian Federation, it was renamed again and this time the new name was South Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute). On 19 August 2002, it was enrolled under the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as a ''state educational institution of higher education'' while retaining its previous name. Later it was transformed into a ''federal state budgetary educational institution of higher professional education'' (FGBOU VPO), while the name remained unchanged. On 25 October 2012, order No. 463 was adopted by the Government of the Rostov Region to assign the name of the University after M.I. Platov, which was supported by the petition of the university management dated 8 April 2013 No. 38-3 / 115. Consequently, on 24 June 2013, by order No. 482 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the university was decided to be renamed into FSBEI HPE South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) commemorating M.I. Platov. During 18 and 19 October 2007, celebrations took place for marking the 100th anniversary of the oldest university in the southern Russia. In the mentioned days different events were held both in the city and the university arena itself. The celebrations began in the covered courtyard of the university and ended with a gathering in the city theater Komissarzhevskaya. On 17 October, the All Russian Exhibition Fair of Research Works and Innovation Activities was inaugurated at the University premises which was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the university. The opening ceremony was attended by the mayor of Novocherkassk, the head of the city duma and the top officials of the university. For commemorating the occasion, "Mail of Russia" produced 20 thousand envelopes and stamps with an image containing view of the main building of the University. In the workshop, which was the part of the event, Nikolai Shevkunov (Don medalist), commemorative medals were inaugurated. Until 2008, there was a presidential governance system at the university, its last president was V.E. Shukshunov. In 2014, the Expert RA agency included the university in its list of the ''best higher educational institutions'' of the Commonwealth of Independent States, where it was assigned a rating class "E".


Official names over time

* 1907 – Don Polytechnic Institute * 1909 – Alekseevsky Don Polytechnic Institute, in the honor of
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. There was a badge about graduation from the Alekseevsk Don Polytechnic Institute. * 1918 – Don Polytechnic Institute named after Ataman A.M. Kaledin, in honor of A.M. Kaledin * 1920 – Don Polytechnic Institute * 1930 – North Caucasian Industrial Institute, after division into several independent higher technical educational institutions, some of which in 1933 were re-united into a single institute. * 1934 – Novocherkassk Industrial Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. For some time the institute existed under the name of the Azov-Black Sea Industrial Institute. * 1948 – Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute. * 1993 – Novocherkassk State Technical University, from 5 July. * 1999 – South-Russian State Technical University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute), from 2 February. * 2013 – South-Russian State Polytechnic University (Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute) named after MI Platov, from 24 June.


Rectors

The list of Rectors of the University (chronologically as per year of appointment): # 1907 – Zinin, Nikolay Nikolaevich # 1910 – Zykov, Vladimir Pavlovich (April–August) # 1910 – Yupatov, Ivan Ferapontovich # 1917 – Abramov, Nikolay Matveyevich (March) # 1917 – Sushchinsky, Pyotr Petrovich # 1918 – Abramov, Nikolai Matveyevich (March − May) # 1918 – Uspensky, Nikolay Semyonovich # 1922 – Sushchinsky, Pyotr Petrovich # 1924 – Troitsky, Mikhail Viktorovich # 1926 – Sushchinsky, Pyotr Petrovich # 1928 – Egorshin, Vasily Petrovich # 1929 – Kasatkin, Vasily Nikolaevich # 1933 – Parshikov, Ivan Agafonovich # 1934 – Shumsky, Efim Grigorievich # 1935 – Khaletsky, Illarion Isaevich # 1936 – Vlasov, Victor Gavrilovich # 1938 – Semchenko, Dmitry Platonovich # 1939 – Shilnikov, Kuzma Afinogenovich # 1949 – Semchenko, Dmitry Platonovich # 1952 – Kobilev, Alexey Grigorievich # 1958 – Avilov-Karnaukhov, Boris Nikolaevich # 1963 – Frolov, Mikhail Alexandrovich # 1974 – Smirnov, Vladimir Alexandrovich # 1977 – Goncharov, Semyon Ivanovich # 1981 – Shukshunov, Valentin Efimovich # 1988 – Taranushich, Vitaly Andreevich # 1998 – Lunin, Leonid Sergeevich # 2009 – Perederiy, Vladimir Grigorievich # 2019 – Razoryonov, Yuri Ivanovich


Description


Academic structure of the university

* 10 faculties (including the faculty of open distance learning) * 4 institutes * 39 departments * 2 institutes as branches * 1 college * inter-sectoral regional center for advanced training and professional retraining of specialists * 12 research institutes * 7 research and production enterprises * publishing organizations and other departments that support the activities of the university The SRSPU employs 3919 employees, including a teaching staff of 2054. 22,000 students study at its faculties and branches, including more than 15,000 full-time students, about 4,000 part-time students, and about 2,000 part-time education. More than 1,000 students undergo retraining every year. The university houses the largest university scientific and technical library in the south of Russia. The library fund has more than 3 million publications. The university employs the oldest primary trade union organizations of employees and students in the south of Russia.


Publications

* "Personnel of Industry" is a large-circulation newspaper of the YRSPU (NPI). Published since December 1929. * Scientific and technical journal "News of higher educational institutions. Electromechanics". Published since January 1958.


University staff


Faculty

* 255 doctors of sciences, professors * 1058 candidates of sciences, associate professors * 13 honored workers of science and technology * 2 honored cultural workers * 9 honored workers of higher education * 109 academicians of industry and public academies * 1 Corresponding Member of RAS


University buildings

The campus of the South Russian State Polytechnic University includes: * Main building * Robotic building * Chemical building * Mountain body * Energy building * Laboratory building * Educational library building (concert hall) * Sports facilities (stadium, swimming pool, tennis court, gymnasium, athletics arena) The main, chemical, mining and energy buildings are architectural monuments of federal significance. In the twenty-first century, at the right entrance to the territory of the university, a checkpoint and a chapel were built in honor of the patroness of all students – the holy great martyr Tatiana.


Anthem

The verse of Vladimir Abramovich Schwartz, a member of the university literary group, a 1964 NPI graduate – "I love you, NPI" is considered as the anthem of the University.


Research work

The University is known for carrying out research activities in 26 different disciplines including powder metallurgy, theory of ore formation in volcanic sedimentary strata, micrometallurgy of Semiconductor structures, on antifriction materials, polymer synthesis, effective methods for solving problems of mathematical physics, simulator construction and others. Research and development activities are carried out at different levels which include faculties, branch institutes, workshops (UPPK), Donskoy Technological Park, R&D centers and other divisions of the university. More than ten R&D centres function as part of SRSPU (NPI). Each includes one or more faculties, departments, research institutes (Scientific Research Institute) and other research and manufacturing departments of the university, as well as some non-department organizations, enterprises of the university. Six research institutes operate on the basis of departments, research laboratories, pilot production facilities of the university: * Research Institute of Energy * Research Institute of Water Supply and Sanitation * Research Institute of Electromechanics * Research Institute of Computing, Information and Control Systems * Research Institute of the History of the Cossacks and the Development of Cossack Regions * Center for Collective Use "Nanotechnology" In 2010, SRSPU took 459th place (a total of 474 universities participated) in the ranking of scientific and publication activity of Russian universities, annually compiled by the Higher School of Economics.


Branches

As of 2019, the university includes the following branches: * Bagaevsky branch (recreation center) * Kamensk Institute (branch) – opened in 1998 * Shakhty Institute (branch) – opened in 1958


Faculties

The major faculties of the University includes: * Faculty of Information Technology and Management * Faculty of Geology, Mining and Oil and Gas Engineering * Faculty of Mechanics * Faculty of Civil Engineering * Faculty of Technology * Faculty of Energy * Faculty of Innovation and Industrial Engineering * Faculty of Transport and Logistics (existed from autumn 2018 to the end of winter 2020) * Faculty of military training * Faculty of Open and Distance Learning


Memory


Commemorative plaques

The NPI main memorial plaque has the following text embedded: ''The complex of buildings of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute (Main building. Chemical. Mining and energy) is an architectural monument of republican significance. Protected by the Law. The complex was built in 1911–1930. Designed by architect B. Roguisky (1861–1921).'' It was installed on the facade of the main building on 28 December 1985. In 2010, in connection with the installation on the facade of the university, two new boards with the name of the University respectively in Russian language and English language was installed. At that time this board was moved to the right wing of the main building. Many commemorative plaques were made and installed at the expense of specialized departments within the campus of the University. For example, at the Faculty of Mechanics, a plaque in memory of Professor AS Lyshevsky can be found; at the Faculty of Energy a plaque can be found mentioning – Honored Worker of Science and Technology, Professor A. D. Drozdov (in 1981); a similar plaque can be found at the Mining and Geological Faculty about Professor and Rector of NPI M. A. Frolov (from 1963 to 1974). A memorial plaque was unveiled in memory of ND Mizerny, the first head of the military department of NPI (since 1944), who is a hero of the Soviet Union. This commemorative plaque was installed in 1983 with the assistance of the leadership of the military department. In 1980, on the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of the geologist P.N. Chirvinsky, a memorial plaque was opened on the building of the Mining and Geological Faculty. In the period from 1976 to 1985, 16 memorial plaques were unveiled on the NPI buildings. Before that there were only 4 memorial plaques and two monuments: a bust to the Hero of the Soviet Union G. Petrova and a monument erected in 1939 to S. Ordzhonikidze in the lobby of the main building whereas in 1983 it was dismantled as well. Currently, SRSPU (NPI) has more than 28 memorial plaques on buildings and in subdivisions, including eight at its different departments.


Monuments

Within the territory of the university and its outside, there are monuments erected in honor of the notable graduates. File:Sculpture at Campus.jpg, Monument to those killed in World War II File:Azhinova_L.D.jpg, Monument to Azhinova L.D., student of GGF NPI, in the old cemetery of the city File:Monument_SRSP.jpg, Monument to Polytechnics, volunteers of the Great War


Notable people who studied and worked in DPI-NPI-YURGTU-YRSPU

During the Great Patriotic War, some of them fought and died at the front. A monument was erected in their honor near the left entrance to the territory of the institute. Near the right entrance there is a bust of Galina Petrova. Among the graduates of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic University are: * 19 laureates of the Lenin Prize * 64 laureates of the State Prize * 35 honored workers of science and technology: ** Zubekhin, Alexey Pavlovich * 28 Heroes of Socialist Labor: ** twice Hero of Socialist Labor  – Smirnov, Leonid Vasilievich ** Mil, Mikhail Leontievich – MI helicopter designer * Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia: ** Vovchenko, Nikolay Dmitrievich ** Klimenko, Ivan Ivanovich ** Lobov, Georgy Ageevich ** Petrova, Galina Konstantinovna ** Simonov, Mikhail Petrovich ** Smolyanykh, Vasily Ivanovich ** Shelaev, Anton Stefanovich Every year, usually in the summer, an official reunion of university graduates of different years of graduation take place.


Portrait gallery

The gallery of portraits of university professors, created by artist Ivan Krylov is located on the second floor of the Main Building, on the outer wall of the assembly hall.


Interesting facts

* In the Alekseevsk Don Polytechnic Institute, a non-periodical publication "News of the Testing Station of Materials" was published. * In 1927, Anatolii Dorodnitsyn passed the entrance exams of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic University with honors but was not allowed to be admitted due to his "non-proletarian origin" (since father was a doctor and mother was a housewife). Anatoly had to get admitted to another educational institution for this reason. * In September 1930, when the DPI was divided into several independent higher technical educational institutions, the Novocherkassk Aviation Institute (NAI) was created on the basis of its aviation faculty (opened in 1919). It was founded simultaneously with the aviation institutes in Moscow and Kharkov. Owing to the decision of the government in 1932, the ''Faculty of Aviation,'' Motor Building ''of the'' NAI was moved to Rybinsk, where the Rybinsk Aviation Institute (RAI) was established. In 1941 the RAI was further moved to the city of Ufa. * During the occupation of Novocherkassk by German troops, the training of evacuated students and the work of NPI teachers continued at the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute. * In the mid-'70s, the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Bliki" was invented by Alexander Shekhtman (now living in Israel) at the Faculty of Energy. * In 2018, in Novocherkassk, a multi-part television film ''The Sky is Measured in Miles'' was filmed, of which some scenes were filmed at the institute.


See also

* Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University


References


External links

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