Tiraspol State University marks 90th anniversary of foundation

Chisinau, 1 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Tiraspol State University (UST), the first higher education institution of Moldova, which has been having its headquarters in Chisinau starting from 1992, marks its 90th anniversary today.

According to the data presented by the National Calendar of the National Library, the institution was inaugurated in Tiraspol (capital of the Moldovan Autonomous Social Socialist Republic) on 1 October with the name Public Education Institution of Moldova, with three faculties: Agro-biology, Mechanics and Mathematics, Philology, initially with the duration of education of three years (as of 1933, the duration is of four years). Subsequently, the History (1932), Geography (1938) and Pedagogy (1979) faculties were opened here.     

During its existence, the institution’s name was changed several times: Moldovan Institute of Public Education (1931), Moldovan Pedagogical Institution (1933). Taras Shevchenko Moldovan Pedagogical Institute (1939), Teachers’ Institution from Tiraspol (August 1944), State Pedagogical Institute from Tiraspol (1952) and the Tiraspol State University (UST, as of May 1992).   

In the first ten years of the institution’s work, ten rectors were appointed and dismissed from office. In 1937-38, five rectors were subjected to repressions, posthumously rehabilitated (Avram Bihman, Mihail Holostenco, Alexandru Pohinin, Dimitrie Prestenco și Tihon Nitiuleas). In the years of the World War II, the Tiraspol-based Pedagogical Institute was merged with the State Moldovan Pedagogical Institute from Chisinau (set up in August 1944) and evacuated to Russia, Orenburg region (1941-44). In August 1944, the Teachers’ Institute returns to Tiraspol and continues working.    

New specialties were created in 1960s-70s: biology and chemistry, physics and chemistry, pedagogy and methodology of the primary education, German language, French language, physics and astronomy, biology and foundations of the agricultural production.   

The institution was evacuated to Chisinau, in the wake of the military conflict started by the breakaway forces (July 1992). The university has been working with this status so far and contributes to the training of teaching staff, restructuring of the formative education, based on modern technologies, within 32 specialties (mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, geography, ecology, pedagogy of primary education, pedagogy and psychology, Romanian language and literature, Russian language and literature, modern languages, history, etc.)   

Since its foundation, UST has educated at its faculties more than 70,000 specialists, some of whom became outstanding personalities in diverse sectors: pre-university and university education, scientists in the national pedagogy and economy, culture, writers, etc.

The institution was awarded with the Order Badge of Honour (1980) and Faith Order Faithfulness to Motherland, first class, (2010).

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