From June 7 to 12, the Third International Festival of Puppet Theaters “The Crossroads” was held in Novosibirsk. Guests from many Asian countries participated in the event. Some of them visited our university and interacted with the NSPU staff and students. The first guest who arrived at NSPU on June 11 was a producer and director of the Theatrical Partnership “Ganga” (India), Raj Jog Singh. He was accompanied by Eduard Aleksandrovich Shornik, Manager for International Relations of the Novosibirsk Regional Puppet Theater. The guests were met by NSPU Vice-Rector for Scientific Work prof. Tatyana Aleksandrovna Romm, who greeted them on behalf of the NSPU administration, teachers and students.
Metal processing in the Novosibirsk region began a thousand years earlier than it was thought for a long time. New archaeological studies have showed the real age of the Bronze Age. The results of these studies were published by Igor Albertovich Durakov, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian and World History of the NSPU Institute of Historical Sciences, in his doctoral dissertation. The scientist defended his thesis at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences on May 14. The scientific consultant of the dissertation is the professor of the Department of Russian and World History of the New York, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin.
On May 15, the NSPU Institute of Philology, Mass Information and Psychology held a graduation ceremony for Chinese students who studied at the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University for a year.
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University invites schoolchildren to take part in the innovative project “ENGINERIA”. This project is a unique platform for teenagers who want to immerse themselves in the world of development and research of Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS).
On May 8, 2024, NSPU opened a new page in the chronicle of international contacts. The agreement was concluded between the university and the regional public organization “Center for Organizing Scientific and Cultural Events in the Sphere of Public Diplomacy”. This document connects the university to a project to train teachers of Russian as a foreign language in African countries. Burkina Faso will become first in the list.
Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University confirmed its high position in the educational space, entering TOP 10 Russian universities in the Siberian Federal District ranked by RAEX Rating Review 2024. The university took second place in this prestigious list.
Elena Veniaminovna Lisetskaya, Associate Professor of the NSPU Department of Design and Art Education, took part in the Second Chinese-Russian Forum of Children's Camps in Beijing to share her experience of organizing specialized sessions with her colleagues.
Aviation and Cosmonautics Day, celebrated on April 12, is a memorable date dedicated to the first human flight into space. This day of the scientific triumph is directly related to NSPU. The university Technopark of Universal Pedagogical Competencies, opened in 2022, was named after Yury Vasilyevich Kondratyuk. In 1929, while living in Novosibirsk, he wrote the book “The Conquest of Interplanetary Spaces”.
On March 27 and 28, NSPU held the All-Russian Linguistic and Methodological School dedicated to innovations in teaching foreign languages.