The unique peat museum of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University was opened 10 years ago. The museum approached its anniversary with all seriousness: today the museum's fund contains unique exhibits and materials about the origin of peat, the possibilities of its use in agriculture, the energy industry and medicine.
In the the Peat Museum of the TSPU visitors can get acquainted with the history of studies of swamps in Western Siberia, descriptions of expeditions undertaken by scientists and students of the Tomsk Pedagogical University, learn about the peat resources of Siberia and the Vasyugan Swamp and the flora and fauna of swamps. The specialists of the museum study swamp ecosystems of Western Siberia and Gorny Altai, their properties and functioning.
The volunteer team "Point of View" of the TSPU has been actively cooperating with the Children's Charitable Foundation named after Alena Petrova. Our volunteers have participsted in many projects, including "Open Yourself", "Mom's Pies" and the "Touch" program, the work on which started again this academic year.
Within the scope of the "Touch" project, the TSPU volunteers visit the foundation once a week to provide pupils with an interesting and useful activities, relieve the psychological stress of children: they conduct educational games for them, read fairy tales, and make craftwork together.
More than three hundred families with gravely ill children live in the Tomsk region. Caring for a special...
3 position among best student cities of Russia (after Moscow and St-Petersburg)
Achievements and rankings of TSPU in 2020
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 41 position out of all Russian universities 186 position among universities of CIS countries, Central and Eastern Europe
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 47 position out of all Russian universities 189 position among universities of BRICS countries
the only pedagogical university of Russia in the ranking one of the 24 best universities in Russia of the list Top-200 universities in the world and top-20 universities in Russia in the nominations «Physics regional research reputation» и «Physics international collaboration»
Top-10 best Russian universities Top-25 universities in the world in the nomination «Regional joint publications»
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 43 position out of all Russian universities 18 position in the nomination «Social Impact»
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 20 position out of all Russian universities 1 position among pedagogical and 18 position among Russian universities in subject ranking «Physical sciences»
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 40 position out of all Russian universities 182 position among universities of Central and Eastern Europe 484 position among universities ofBRICS countries
66 position out of all Russian universities Top-200 Russian universities on social media (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter)
1 position among all pedagogical universities of Russia 31 position out of all Russian universities
Six TSPU professors are among top 100 most-quoted Russian scientists (in their respective fields)
The traditional August forum "August.PRO: a matrix of pedagogical changes" is held in Tomsk. Participants include teachers and university professors, school principals, representatives of regional education authorities and the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Education. The TSPU also joined the discussion of the forum's issues, and the key speakers from the Pedagogical Center were the rector Makarenko and Vice-Rector for Development Smyshlyaeva. The changes in the field of education, new challenges of the upcoming academic year — are main topics of the forum. Among the themes proposed for discussion are "Modern school", "Teacher of the future", "Digital educational environment", "Support for families with children", "Success of every child", "Young...
It is widely known in Russia and far beyond its borders that the Tomsk State Pedagogical University trains the strongest specialists in the field of education. Studying professional disciplines, the firstyear students do not forget about all-round development, participating in creative competitions, making scientific discoveries, winning sports competitions and raising the level of sportsmanship.
Maxim Ovsyannikov, a third-year student of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the TSPU is a good example of this approach. His sports talents were highly appreciated: by order of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation he was awarded the title of "Master of Sports of Russia"...
Each year the Tomsk State Pedagogical University attracts many talented applicants. This year among them are the European Champions in curling with hearing impairments and the winner of the Interuniversity Olympiad in Pedagogy “First Success”.
When young people choose the place of study they take various criteria into account. And most of their requirements are found in the TSPU. Thus, Roman Serebrennikov, a member of the team of winners of the II European Championship in Deaflympics Curling, notes that the TSPU has all conditions for teaching hearing impaired people, which prompted the athlete to make a choice in favor of our university: “I live in Tomsk, I work and train here, I need a sports education. TSPU has a rather successful experience in teaching students...
According to the Nature Index Ranking, which is based on scientometric data on research publications in leading world scientific journals, the Tomsk State Pedagogical University takes 16th place in the global Nature Index Ranking - Physical Sciences among the leading universities in Russia and the first — among pedagogical ones.
The publications by the TSPU scientists in top world journals is an important component of the university's image. In the period from May 2019 to April 2020, the famous theoretical physicists of the TSPU S.D. Odintsov, I.L. Buchbinder, P.M. Lavrov, I.L. Shapiro, S. Capaziello have published articles in the following top-rated world journals: Physical Review Letters, European Physical Journal C, Journal of High Energy Physics.
The Department of Youth Policy, Physical Culture and Sports of the Tomsk Region has summed up the results of the regional competition "Sports Elite". Among the winners of the competition are students of the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of the TSPU.
The "Sports Elite" competition has been held in the Tomsk region since 1993 and is aimed at promoting the development of sports achievments. In 2020, the competition had picked 44 best athletes and coaches, as well as one national team, who achieved high results and made a significant contribution to the development of physical culture and sports in the region from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020.
The sports achivements of the students of the TSPU were highly...
In 2019-2020 Russia is represented in URAP by 33 universities. TSPU is the only Russian pedagogical university among national research, federal and other universities included in the published part of the rating.
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The URAP is composed by the Institute of Informatics of the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey).
The URAP rating is based on six indicators:
number of articles indexed by WoS;
number of citations of articles published in the last 5 years, excluding self-citation;
