Kaluga State University

Kaluga State University (KSU, Russian: Калужский государственный университет), or in full, Kaluga State University in the name of K. E. Tsiolkovsky (Russian: Калужский государственный университет имени К. Э. Циолковского) is a university in Kaluga, Russia.

Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University
Калужский государственный университет имени К. Э. Циолковского
Former name
Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute, Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University
TypePublic
Established1948 (1948)
RectorMaksim Kazak
Academic staff
287
Students4,500
Postgraduates121
Location
Kaluga
,
Russia

54.5089°N 36.2739°E / 54.5089; 36.2739
Campus
Websitewww.tksu.ru
Building details

The university was founded in 1948 as Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute. In 1963 it was named K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute, in honour of rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. In 1994 it became K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University, and in 2010 K. E. Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University.

The university consists of six institutes: Natural Sciences, History and Law, Pedagogics, Psychology, Social Relationships, and Physics and Technologies; two faculties: Foreign Languages, and Philology, and the institutes of Pre-University Training, and Additional Professional Training.

There are three museums in the university: The Museum of KSU's history; The Museum-study of Alexander Chizhevsky; The Museum of the Natural Sciences' Institute.

The University publishes the scientific quarterly "The Kaluga University Bulletin" (Russian: Вестник Калужского университета).

The rector of the university is Maksim Kazak.

Names
  • 1948-1963 — Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute
  • 1963-1994 — Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical Institute
  • 1994-2010 — Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University
  • Since 2010 — Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State University
  • The University building on Stepan Razin street, 22/48
    The University building on Stepan Razin street, 22/48
  • The University building on Stepan Razin street, 26
    The University building on Stepan Razin street, 26
  • The University building on Lenin street, 83/2
    The University building on Lenin street, 83/2
  • The University building on Voskresenskiy lane, 4
    The University building on Voskresenskiy lane, 4
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