School General Description

The foundation of the State Pedagogical Institute in Naberezhnye Chelny on 28 May, 1990 was a unique historical event in cultural educational spiritual and creative life of the young developing town of truck builders. The rapid growth of the town in 1980s required a significant number of teachers to work in different kinds of educational institutions. Being the branch of Yelabuga State Pedagogical Institute, the Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical Institute trained future teachers at three faculties: pedagogical, artistic-graphic and preschool. Yu.I. Petrushin, T.N. Galiullin and his Vice-Chancellor took the lead in acquiring the status of an autonomous Institute. New faculties were introduced: philological, Maths, and later on geographic and foreign languages faculties. Thus, there were 7 faculties in 2000. The distinctive feature of Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical Institute was its being the first in Tatarstan Republic to open faculties where majors were taught in native languages, and graduates worked as teachers in the countryside.