Surgut State University

The University combines six educational Institutes employing seven hundred people of academic and teaching staff.

There are over seven thousand and five hundred of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students at the University. SurGU provides many undergraduate, master and postgraduate programmes in the following areas: Engineering, Science, Law, Medicine, Humanities, Economics and Management.

The University cooperates with the secondary schools and colleges of Surgut and Surgut district providing them with the training courses in Programming, Operating Systems Administrating, Chemistry, and Electrical Engineering. Such cooperation gives the pupils an excellent opportunity to choose their future profession.

Surgut State University was founded on May, 26th in 1993 on the initiative of Administrations of Surgut and Surgut Region by the decision of the Governors of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra and Tyumen Region.

The founder of Surgut State University was the first Rector Georgiy Nazin, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor – whose leadership helped to turn the first classical university of Ugra into the educational and cultural centre of Russia. The current Rector of SurGU is Sergey Kosenok, Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor and Honored Teacher of Russia.