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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]

Type

1929

3,000

20,000[1]

www.rgups.ru/en/

Building details

251-300 (2022)

History[edit]

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]

Today[edit]

Now RSTU is a dynamically developing large transport educational complex. The university ranks high in the rankings of transport universities in Russia. The RSTU is an active participant of the social, scientific and cultural life of the Rostov Region.[6]

Faculty of Road Building Machines

Faculty of Civil Engineering

Faculty of Transportation Management

Electromechanical Faculty

Faculty of Power Engineering

Faculty of Management Information Technologies

Faculty of Humanities

Faculty of Economics, Management and Law

The Students’ Town of more than 20 hectares with a garden square, a section of the railway for practical training in the courtyard, educational and research facilities

Administration Building

which is the center of cultural and festival activities of the university

Palace of Culture

Consulting and Diagnostic Clinic

4 Student's dormitories

[8]

soviet track and field athlete, high jump specialist

Nikolay Andryushchenko

russian singer and musician

El'man

russian politician

Oleg Lobov

soviet and ukrainian rocket engineer and General Director of PA Pivdenmash from 1961 to 1986

Oleksandr Makarov

Azerbaijani politician and billionaire[10] who served as the Minister of Transportation

Ziya Mammadov

Education in Russia

List of universities in Russia

Railway colleges in the Soviet Union

Official site of Rostov State Transport University