Rostov State Transport University
Rostov State Transport University (Russian: Ростовский государственный университет путей сообщения), abbreviated as RSTU (Russian: РГУПС) and formerly known as Rostov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (1934–1993), is a public university in Rostov Oblast, Russia with campuses in Rostov-on-Don. Subordinate to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Railway Transport and its Southern Directorate.[3]
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Rostov State Transport University was founded on May 30, 1929 by decision of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union. Initially it was called the “Mechanical Institute of Transport” (Russian: Механический институт транспорта), and on July 12, 1929 the institute was renamed the Rostov Institute of Railway Engineers (Russian: Ростовский институт инженеров путей сообщения).
On October 1, 1929, 292 students began classes at three faculties: Railway, Water Transport and Road Engineering. The Rostov Institute of Railway Engineers has become a southern outpost for training personnel for transport in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.[4]
On December 29, 1934, the institute was transformed into a railway higher education institution called the Rostov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (Russian: Ростовский институт инженеров железнодорожного транспорта). Two new faculties were created - “Locomotive”, “Wagon”. A training, laboratory and production base has been created.
During World War II, many of the institute's staff and students went to the front to defend their homeland and the world from the attack of Nazi Germany. In 1942, the institute was evacuated to Tbilisi, where it continued training specialists for railway transport and conducted scientific research. In August 1944, the Institute returned to Rostov-on-Don. During World War II, the material and technical base of the institute was almost completely destroyed. During the restoration of the institute, new faculties, departments, laboratories, offices, educational and production premises appeared.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union began replacing steam locomotive traction with diesel and electric ones. The institute was one of the first to begin training diesel locomotive engineers.
In 1993, the institute was renamed Rostov State Transport University (RSTU). Since 2007, the University has included: Rostov Technical School of Railway Transport, Volgograd Technical School of Railway Transport, Vladikavkaz Technical School of Railway Transport, Liskinsky Technical School of Railway Transport named after I.V. Kovalev and Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport. Since 2017, the University has included Voronezh Technical School of Railway Transport.
In 2019, the RSTU celebrated its 90th anniversary. Over the years of its existence, the university has trained more than 200 000 specialists for transport and other sectors of the country’s economy.[5]