Yelets State University . I. A. Bunina is one of the oldest universities in Russia. It was created on the basis of a working faculty, and that one was transformed from a female gymnasium at the beginning of the twentieth century. History of YSU Bunina is the topic of the article.
Gymnasium
Yelets State University . I.A. Bunin was founded in 1939. But its creation is preceded by a half-century history. In 1979, a female gymnasium was established in Yelets. Her graduates had the right to teach in elementary school and at home.
The program included both compulsory and additional disciplines. The training of future teachers was practical. Among the required subjects were the Russian language, geography, mathematics, and the law of God. Additional disciplines included French, drawing and pedagogy.
Faculty of Work
In 1919, the young Soviet state created an educational institution designed to prepare applicants for admission to the institute. It was called the working faculty. Mostly the children of peasants and workers studied there. Among students, those whose age was close to thirty prevailed.
It was on the basis of the rabfak that twenty years later the Yelets State University named after I.A. Bunina. But before setting out the history of the university itself, a few words should be said about the teaching staff and students of the educational institution for representatives of the proletariat.
At the rabfak the offspring of NEPMans studied only by virtue of shortage. The advantage was given, as already mentioned, to children from working families. The teaching staff was composed of experienced and strong educators. But the time was not easy. By the end of the thirties, when the Yelets State University named after I.A. Bunina, many teachers were arrested.
Teacher institute
According to official figures, it was in 1939 that the University named after Bunina. Yelets is a city in which by the end of the thirties there were two prestigious educational institutions: a vocational school and a teacher training school. On their basis in March 1921 a teacher institute was founded, later renamed the university.
The training lasted only two years. Graduates had the right to teach at a seven-year school. The institute had philological, historical and physical-mathematical departments. In 1939, the number of students was 225 people. The training was conducted in two buildings, the first of which was located at 83 Lev Tolstoy Street. This building remembered pre-revolutionary times. The second building was equipped as a student dormitory.
Young people from the Oryol, Kursk and Voronezh regions studied at the Yelets Teacher Institute. Training was paid. Its cost was 150 rubles per year, while the scholarship - from 116 rubles per month. Such conditions could not but stimulate students to study more diligently, given that most of them were from poor families. In the pre-war era, there was an active selection of the teaching staff, curricula were formed, and the library fund was replenished. The first issue took place in 1941.
At the beginning of the war, many second-year students went to the front. The rest took part in the defense of the city. During the days of occupation, part of the institute’s property was destroyed, which they did not have time to evacuate. After the war, it took years to restore textbooks and other materials.
University
In the post-war period, a shortage of teaching staff was sharply felt in the USSR. Many schools have been reorganized. Since 1953, the teacher's institute in Yelets began to be called the pedagogical. In 2002, the university was reorganized into a university.
General information about the university
Today at YSU named after Bunina is studying about five thousand students. Faculties at the university train teachers of history, Russian and foreign languages and other disciplines included in the compulsory school curriculum. Not so long ago, the department of hotel business was founded, thanks to which YSU students have the opportunity to get a sought-after profession in the hotel business.
The oldest faculty is physical and mathematical. Since 1993, the university conducted scientific work. This year, graduate school was opened at YSU. Bunina. And a year later - the dissertation council.
Over the years, the university has trained about twenty thousand teachers. YSU graduates work not only in the Lipetsk region, but also in other regions of Russia: from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka. Eleven graduates of this university living in Yelets carry the title of Honored Teacher. More than thirty continue their studies at graduate schools of Moscow universities. YSU is one of the best universities in the Lipetsk region. That is why not only residents of the city, but also residents of other cities dream of becoming a student at this university.
Other universities in the Lipetsk region:
- Lipetsk State University of Pedagogy.
- Lipetsk State Technical University.
In Yelets, graduates of secondary schools have the opportunity to get higher education also at the branch of the Russian New University.