Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University may well be considered the time of creation in 1898, and the city of Warsaw, where the imperial Polytechnic Institute opened, is the place of the distant Polish capital.
Becoming
In 1915, the school was transferred to Moscow due to the approaching front line of the First World War, and in 1916 to Nizhny Novgorod, in temporary premises. A set was made here, and out of four and a half thousand applicants, four hundred people began to study. In 1918, by merging with other educational institutions, the Nizhny Novgorod State University was established, which included, in addition to the Polytechnic Institute, the People’s University, agricultural courses, a pedagogical institute and medical courses. Total - six faculties: chemical, mechanical, construction, agronomic, pedagogical and medical.
Then, in 1930, instead of one diverse university, six special ones were formed: civil engineering, agricultural, pedagogical, medical, chemical-technological and mechanical-engineering. The Mechanical Engineering Institute became the foundation for the establishment of the university, which today is the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. Then there were six specializations in the technical department, four in design and mechanical, two in shipbuilding. There were five departments at the Chemical Engineering Institute: skin technologies (wool, leather), silicates, wood chemistry, fats and oils, and the fundamentals of the chemical industry.
Reorganization
The future Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University is actively developing its departments until 1933, whereby the departments are abolished and faculties are formed: industrial engineering, shipbuilding and technological. And in 1932, KhTI and MMI merged into the Gorky Industrial Institute (GII). Faculties: general engineering, chemical engineering, transport engineering and mechanical engineering.
In 1936, a radio faculty was opened at the GII, and the transport and engineering department was transformed into a shipbuilding department. In 1938, graduate school was opened. In 1939, the Department of Automotive (Automotive) faculty was opened and the general technical faculty was abolished, as students now began to specialize directly from the first course. In 1940, a new faculty, forging and pressing equipment, separated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Technology.
War
The war took two-thirds of the staff, nearly five hundred people died in the fighting, and six hundred students left the walls of the institute in the very first days. The remaining teachers, students and staff built defensive fortifications, worked in workshops and laboratories, performing research for the defense industry.
Three hundred people were awarded government awards for participating in the design and scientific work. Students simultaneously studied and worked at defense enterprises. The difficult years were marked by the Great Victory, a huge contribution to which was made by the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.
Post-war years
In 1947, reorganization took place again: the radio faculty was transformed into an electrotechnical one with two specialties: electronics and radio engineering. The Faculty of Mechanics has combined three - forging and pressing, auto-mechanical and mechanical-technological. In 1950, the GII became known as the Gorky Polytechnic Institute. Then the metallurgical faculty was organized, and the radio engineering department was separated from the electrotechnical one.
In 1953, the first branch was opened - Sormovsky, and in 1956, the second - Dzerzhinsky. In 1958, the Faculty of Engineering was established. In 1959, the GPI acquires a training base - the Foundry and Mechanical Plant. In 1962, the Faculty of Physics and Technology was opened. Ten years later, the Faculty of Radio Engineering is transformed into a modern one - radio electronics and cybernetics. In 1980, the State Property Inspection received the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. In 1992, the university was renamed the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University.
Nowadays
In 1993, NSTU acquired the socio-economic faculty. In 2007, by order of the Federal Agency NSTU received the name: Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. R. E. Alekseeva. The history of this glorious university is far from over. Everything that happens today will inevitably soon become a history that will surely replenish with new achievements.
The development of the educational institution is not completed, the work is moving systematically. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University R. E. Alekseeva today has nine research institutes and faculties, five large and well-equipped branches: Arzamassky, Dzerzhinsky, Vyksunsky, Zavolzhsky and Pavlovsky.
ITS
The department of NSTU - the Institute of Transport Systems, which was created by the merger of the faculty of aviation and marine engineering and the automotive faculty, is developing dynamically. Since 1921 (from the creation), more than twenty seven thousand highly qualified specialists have been trained and began to work for the good of the country, including prominent scientists and technicians, teachers of higher education, major leaders of industry, transport, and also educational and scientific organizations.
IRIT
Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University Alekseeva for seventy years has been composed of an educational and scientific unit: an institute that deals with radio electronics and information technology. He gained vast and varied experience, recognized outside the borders of our country.
The training of both engineering and scientific personnel at this institute is at a very high level: among the graduates there are seven Lenin Prize winners, more than fifty State Prize winners, dozens of doctors of sciences and many hundreds of candidates of sciences. The management team of the scientific and engineering personnel of the largest research institutes in the industry is to a very large extent staffed by specialists who have been educated here, within the walls of IRIT NSTU. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University has long been famous for its remarkably trained personnel.
Dzerzhinsky Polytechnic Institute
In 1974, an order was signed on the creation of a branch of GPI in the city of Dzerzhinsk, and in 2004 the branch was renamed. The history of DPI is closely connected with the life of the country and, of course, with the history of the head university. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after Alekseev participated in the construction of chemical enterprises, in many military defense orders, in the formation of the country's mechanical engineering.
Research institutes were created, the chemical industry was developing. Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University could not stay away from the pressing problems of Russia. Dzerzhinsky branch is a glorious page in the history of NSTU.
Targeted training
The basic department of DPI is engaged in chemistry and technology of organic nitrogen compounds. It was created to train specialists for strategic partners - the State Research Institute of Crystal and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Sverdlov Plant under additionally agreed programs. Another basic department of “Modern Technologies of Applied Programming” works for targeted training of highly qualified specialists in LLC “Mera Nizhny Novgorod”, deepening and expanding educational, scientific and industrial relations. The third basic department of "Power Supply: Design and Automation" is the integrated structure of the two departments of DPI (Physics and Electrical Engineering and Automation and Information Systems) and NIPOM OJSC (Scientific Research Enterprise of General Engineering).
In addition, there are departments in the DPI: “Chemical Technology”, “Technologies and Equipment for Chemical and Food Production”, “Automation, Transport and Information Systems”, “Energy, Economics, Applied Mathematics”, and “Humanities”. Specialists who are proud of Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University are trained here: the departments are well equipped with highly qualified specialists and have an excellent modern technical base.
AF NSTU
The branch in Arzamas has existed since 1968, it was created on the basis of a consultation center and evening faculty. The educational institution was planned as a branch of the Moscow Aviation Institute. However, despite all the reconstructions and renaming, the main task of the branch has never changed: engineers of radio engineering, instrumentation, and engineering specialties are trained here for the entire Volga-Vyatka region, for enterprises of the Gorky region and Arzamas in particular.
From the very beginning, even in the evening department, only two hundred twenty-five students studied, taught by twenty teachers. Now there are two and a half thousand students, but each graduate still cherishes the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University. The Arzamas branch has two large faculties, a preparatory department and an educational services center. Full time, evening and distance learning. Eighty teachers teach, including five professors, more than forty candidates and doctors of sciences.