The higher education system is represented in Kamchatka by two Kamchatka universities and five branches of universities, whose head offices are located in other regions.
City Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
The history of the formation of higher education in the Kamchatka Territory is inextricably linked with the development of the economy and the development of this region remote from the capital. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is considered one of the oldest cities in the Russian Far East. The first Cossacks got there in 1697 and founded a prison to store supplies and yasak, which was collected from the local population.
The next major expedition to the region took place only forty-three years later, and it was headed by Vitus Bering and Alexey Chirikov. It was this expedition that gave the name to the prison, as its two ships were called "Holy Apostle Peter" and "Holy Apostle Paul".
Today, the population of the city is about one hundred eighty thousand people and the activities of most of its inhabitants are inextricably linked with the sea. The main sectors of the economy are the extraction and processing of fish, as well as the mining industry.
Actively developing in recent years, and tourism business. Numerous agencies offer a variety of hot spring routes and multi-day walking excursions along the coast.
Universities of Kamchatka Krai
The oldest university in the region is considered the Kamchatka State Technical University, founded in 1942. Initially, however, it was a secondary education institution - a fishing technical school, which in the harsh years of the war was to provide rear services for specialists in the extraction, processing of fish and maintenance of the entire fishing infrastructure.
Ten years later, the technical school was transformed into a naval school and naval disciplines began to be taught in it. Since 1960, the distance learning program began to work at the school, and radio electronics was added to the specialties.
In the eighties, the list of specialties expanded, and the names changed. The university acquired its modern status and name only in 2000. Today, the university provides training in more than forty areas and specialties, and extramural courses are functioning. The cost of training at Kamchatka State Technical University is from 59 thousand to 85 thousand rubles.
Kamchatka State University
In 1958, on the basis of the already existing pedagogical school in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, a Pedagogical Institute was created in which cadres were trained for the entire region.
In 2000, the institute was renamed by special decree to the Kamchatka State Pedagogical University. Today, the university bears the name of Vitus Bering, and it consists of six faculties.