Kurgan State Pedagogical Institute
Kurgan State Pedagogical Institute () is a higher education institution founded in 1952 to train teachers. It was reorganized in 1995 and Kurgan State University was established on its basis. History. On 30 May 1951, by decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 8472, by order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR No. 962 and by order of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR No. 424 in the city of Kurgan, on the basis of the Shadrinsk Pedagogical Institute, the Kurgan State Pedagogical Institute was established. The  educational buildings of the institute were located on Sovetskaya Street at 63. A. A. Kondrashenkov was appointed the first rector. On 17 June 1952, on the basis of the order of the Minister of Education of the RSFSR, the educational process was started at the institute. Initially, the structure of the institute consisted of three faculties: physics and mathematics, history and philology and foreign languages. The main backbone of the scientific and pedagogical staff were former teachers of the Shadrinsk Pedagogical Institute, at the time of the founding of the Kurgan Pedagogical Institute, it consisted of twenty-two teachers. In  1958, a new specialty of a secondary school teacher in physical education, anatomy and physiology was opened at the institute. In 1962, a new Faculty of Biology and Chemistry was opened at the institute, and departments appeared in the structure of the institute: general history, history of the USSR, foreign languages, Russian language and Russian and foreign literature. In 1977, the Faculty of History and Philology was established. In 1968, A. D. Sazonov was appointed rector of the institute. Since 1966, the Institute operated the Archaeological Laboratory under the leadership of T. M. Potemkina, whose employees conducted constant archaeological expeditions  until 1975. As a result of these studies, a large number of new monuments, settlements and burial grounds of various eras were discovered: rivers: Alabuga, Kurtamysh, Miass, Sueri, Tobol and Chernaya. Certification of 470 archaeological sites of the Kurgan region was carried out, among them Savin-1. From 1952 to 1985, the research work of the institute was carried out in the following areas: pedagogical foundations for teaching and educating schoolchildren and students of pedagogical universities, issues of local history, issues of industrial and agricultural production, theoretical foundations of science. In 1985, one hundred and eighty-eight teachers participated in the  research work of the institute, of which they had the academic title of associate professors and professors and about a hundred candidates and doctors of science. From 1980 to 1995, the structure of the Institute included: Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Geography, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of History and Philology, Faculty of Primary Education, Faculty of Psychology and the Departments of General Linguistics, History of the USSR (Russian history and documentation), general history, Russian language, algebra, geometry, information technology, Russian and foreign literature, French, English and German philology, foreign languages, history  of literature and folklore. In 1995, A.P. Kuznetsov was appointed the last rector of the institute. Over the years of its existence, the institute has trained more than twelve thousand teachers for secondary schools in various specializations. On September 30, 1995, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 990, Kurgan State University was established on the basis of the Kurgan Pedagogical Institute and the Kurgan Machine-Building Institute.