“OLVIA-PRESS”
THE DNIESTRIAN STATE UNIVERSITY IS SEVENTY-TWO.
Today, the Dniestrian State University named after T. Shevchenko marks
its 72nd anniversary since the day of foundation.
Nowadays, the University includes over 70
chairs, 13 basic faculties: historical, law, economic, medical, agricultural,
engineer-and-technical (with software PC), engineer-and-pedagogic,
philological, pedagogic (with a department of arts), physics-and-mathematics,
natural geographical, physical education and sports, and a scientific research
department. It also has a faculty of industrial and civil construction on basis
of Bendery polytechnic college.
Besides, the DSU also includes 30 scientific research labs, a computing
center, an agro-biological station, the center of pre-University studying, the
department of public professions, the cultural youth center “Sputnik”, and the
sports club “Record”. The University scientific library is the biggest one in
the republic – its book funds have over 850 thousand copies. The staff and
publishing department provides needs of the University in scientific-methodical
and didactic literature. The educational work is carried out in four museums of
the University and laboratory.
About 14 thousand people study and work in the University, 10330 are
students of internal and correspondence departments. Youngsters not only from
Dniestria but also from Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries of near
and far abroad get education here. Studying is carried out in three state
languages: Russian, Moldavian, and Ukrainian.
Scientific and educational work is carried out by Russian didactic plans
and standards. The RF ministry of education Supreme Attestation Commission
grants scientific degrees and titles to the DSU collaborators, diplomas of our
University’s graduates are provided with certificate of equivalence to Russian
diplomas. Ukraine and Belarus express full understanding and willingness to
help their compatriots. Representatives of the DSU sustain their dissertations
in these countries, students and aspirants from Dniestria study by quotes
there.
In 1999, the Dniestrian State University was admitted to the Eurasian
Association of leading state universities of the CIS countries. The DSU also
maintain close cooperation with the Moscow State University named after M.
Lomonosov in educational and scientific-methodical domain.
On October 1st, a solemn gathering devoted to the 72nd
anniversary of the University took place in the DSU. Many professors and
collaborators of the University were rewarded the honorable titles “Outstanding
Worker In Public Education” and the DMR ministry of education deeds for
responsible mission of preparing specialists of superior level for the DMR
economy. Besides, the oldest professor of the University Ippolit Antosyak was
rewarded the deed of the President of the Dniester Moldavian Republic, and
Mikhail Parovan was awarded the medal “For Labor Courage” by decree of the
President of Republic. The festive concert finished the solemn action.
L. Goncharova,
October 1st 2002