Pitirim Sorokin Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin (; russian: Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин; – 10 February 1968) was a Russian American sociologist and political activist, who contributed to the social cycle theory. Background ...

Syktyvkar State University (russian: Сыктывкарский государственный университет имени Питирима Сорокина; kv, Коми Республика, Сыктывкарса канму университет) is a public university in the city of

Syktyvkar Syktyvkar (, rus, Сыктывка́р, p=sɨktɨfˈkar; kv, Сыктывкар) is the capital city of the Komi Republic in Russia, as well as its largest city. It is also the capital of the Syktyvkar Urban Okrug. Until 1930, it was known as U ...

, the capital of the

Komi Republic The Komi Republic (russian: Республика Коми; kv, Коми Республика), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Syktyvkar. The population of the ...

(Russia). With over 9,000 full-time students and more than 600 faculty members, it is the largest institution of higher education in the Komi Republic. Syktyvkar State University was founded in 1972, making it the oldest university in the Komi Republic. The university includes 13 institutes and 52 departments and offers programmes at bachelor, master and doctoral levels in the fields of the mathematical and natural sciences, technology, humanities, law, medicine, economics, management, pedagogics and art. Syktyvkar State university actively participates in international partnership programmes and cooperation. It is a member of the cooperative network

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, which concerns with education and research in the North. During the fall and winter 2007-2008, Syktyvkar State University was selected to host the Associate Regional Office of Undergraduate Studies for Russia of the

. The university is associated with the Russian Mineralogical Society. In March 2009 the university established the Sorokin Research Center to undertake research and publication of archive materials on the sociologist

from international sources, mainly from the Sorokin's special collection at the

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