Rostov State Transport University (), abbreviated as RSTU () and formerly known as Rostov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (1934–1993), is a public university in

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblastʹ, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast ...

, Russia with campuses in

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...

. Subordinate to the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation represented by the Federal Agency for Railway Transport and its Southern Directorate.

History

Rostov State Transport University was founded on May 30, 1929 by decision of the Board of the

People's Commissariat of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union The People's Commissariat of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union was the state body of the Soviet Union, which controlled the activities of the railway and other types of transport of the Soviet Union in 1923–1946. History In 1923, after ...

. Initially it was called the “Mechanical Institute of Transport” (), and on July 12, 1929 the institute was renamed the Rostov Institute of Railway Engineers (). On October 1, 1929, 292 students began classes at three faculties: Railway, Water Transport and Road Engineering. The Rostov Institute of Railway Engineers has become a southern outpost for training personnel for transport in Russia,

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, Azerbaijan and

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. On December 29, 1934, the institute was transformed into a railway higher education institution called the Rostov Institute of Railway Transport Engineers (). Two new faculties were created - “Locomotive”, “Wagon”. A training, laboratory and production base has been created. During

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, many of the institute's staff and students went to the front to defend their homeland and the world from the attack of

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. In 1942, the institute was evacuated to

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, where it continued training specialists for railway transport and conducted scientific research. In August 1944, the Institute returned to Rostov-on-Don. During World War II, the material and technical base of the institute was almost completely destroyed. During the restoration of the institute, new faculties, departments, laboratories, offices, educational and production premises appeared. After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union began replacing

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traction with

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and

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ones. The institute was one of the first to begin training diesel locomotive engineers. In 1993, the institute was renamed Rostov State Transport University (RSTU). Since 2007, the University has included: , Volgograd Technical School of Railway Transport, Vladikavkaz Technical School of Railway Transport, Liskinsky Technical School of Railway Transport named after I.V. Kovalev and Tikhoretsky Technical School of Railway Transport. Since 2017, the University has included . In 2019, the RSTU celebrated its 90th anniversary. Over the years of its existence, the university has trained more than 200 000 specialists for transport and other sectors of the country’s economy.

Today

Now RSTU is a dynamically developing large transport educational complex. The university ranks high in the rankings of transport universities in Russia. The RSTU is an active participant of the social, scientific and cultural life of the Rostov Region.

Faculties

Source: * Faculty of Road Building Machines * Faculty of Civil Engineering * Faculty of Transportation Management * Electromechanical Faculty * Faculty of Power Engineering * Faculty of Management Information Technologies * Faculty of Humanities * Faculty of Economics, Management and Law

Infrastructure

The university has: * The Students’ Town of more than 20 hectares with a garden square, a section of the railway for practical training in the courtyard, educational and research facilities * Administration Building *

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, which is the center of cultural and festival activities of the university * Consulting and Diagnostic Clinic * 4 Student's dormitories

Sports infrastructure

* Universal sports stadium * Mini-football field * Swimming pool * Games room for playing volleyball and basketball * Hall for practicing various types of wrestling * Weightlifting hall * Table tennis room * Chess Club

Alumni

* Nikolay Andryushchenko, soviet track and field athlete, high jump specialist * El'man, russian singer and musician *

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, russian politician * Oleksandr Makarov, soviet and ukrainian rocket engineer and General Director of

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from 1961 to 1986 *

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References

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External links

Official site of Rostov State Transport University
Universities in Rostov-on-Don Universities and colleges established in 1929 Vocational education in Russia Rail transport in Russia Vocational education in the Soviet Union Rail transport in the Soviet Union Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union