KHABAROVSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

The KHABAROVSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (KSUT) was founded in 1992 on the basis of the local Polytechnical Institute which, for its part, developed from the local Automotive-Motor-Road Institute opened in 1958. Over the decades that have since elapsed the University has graduated about 50 thousand specialists. Today it is the largest educational and scientific centre in the Far Eastern Region. The University comprises eight institutes (concerned with: information technologies; economics and management; law; architecture and construction; motor vehicles and roads; transportation and power development; forestry and the woodworking; sectoral technologies, management, business and law); three faculties (international, of mathematical modelling and control processes; the last mentioned outfit is a correspondence one). The total student enrolment is 11 thousand; besides, there is a centre for additional educational services, preparatory courses, an architectural, a polytechnical and a transport lyceums (secondary schools), a business-school and a number of consultation centres in large cities of the Russian Far East. A research institute of computer technologies, the Khabarovsk territorial, centre for novel information technologies, the Far Eastern Ecological Centre, a number of centres for certification of products of the forestry and woodworking industries and services having to do with motor vehicles and construction also function under the University of Technology. Among the 736 KSUT teachers and Professors there are one Academician and three Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 19 Academicians and Corresponding Members of other Academies, 57 Professors, Doctors of Sciences, and 310 Associate Professors, Candidates of Sciences, as well as 12 Merited Workers of Science and Honoured Workers of the Higher School. The University takes a hand in implementation of a whole range of regional and federal research programmes as the leading organization; it closely cooperates with a number of establishments of higher learning in other countries and sponsors and conducts international and regional techno-scientific conferences.

KHABAROVSK STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY UNDER THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. 136 Tikhookeanskaya St., Khabarovsk 680035, Russia. Tel.: (4212) 35-8316. Fax: (4212) 72-0684.

E-mail: khstu@khstu.ru

Internet: www.khstu.ru