Tomsk State Pedagogical University

International Relations

TomskState Pedagogical University is the Centre for Education, Science and Culture, one of the leading educational institutions of Russia. Special attention is given to the international activities of the University.

In 2009 Tomsk State Pedagogical University became the winner of the "hundred best universities in Russia".  The competition was held by the International Academy for Quality and Marketing under the auspices of the Federation Council Committee on Education and Science and the State Duma Committee on Education. Rector of Tomsk State Pedagogical University , Valery V. Obukhov, recognized the rector of the year, and the Pedagogical University was awarded a gold medal, "European Quality " also got 2 diplomas of the winner of the contest in the category: "Scientific School" and "Leader of international activities".

Tomsk State Pedagogical University has extensive international contacts, established partnerships with such influential international organizations such as the Department of Education of the Council of Europe, the Institute for Research and retraining United Nations (UNITAR), the DAAD, the Institute after Goethe, IREX, the Alliance Francaise , the British Council, Fulbright, American Councils for International Education, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Dutch Institute, the Carnegie Foundation and others. A special place in international relations takes participation of TSPU in a consortium led by the Dresden University of Technology in the framework of the academic mobility "Erasmus Mundus".

The university is implementing various programs of international collaboration with the  foreign universities and organizations. The cooperation with the universities of the Republic of Poland - Wroclaw, Opole and Krakow University. Permanent academic exchanges and mutual interactive lectures over the Internet in real-time physics, chemistry, sociology, English and Spanish TSPU performs with the University of North Carolina, Pembroke (USA).

Collaboration with the University of Indiana is part of a specific project "Cultural Immersion". An agreement was signed between the Department of Theoretical Physics, Tomsk State Pedagogical University and the University of Uestern Case Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio (USA), which introduces a research and exchange of information is carried out .

Concluded international agreements on cooperation in the specialty "Linguistics" with the city of Sardis Science Centre (Canada), University of Belefeld (Germany), University of Rouen (France), with a degree in "Theoretical Physics" - with the universities of Philadelphia (United States), Munich, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig (Germany), the University of Crete (Greece), Polytechnic Institute, Paris (France, Technical University of Gothenburg (Sweden), University of Utrecht (The Netherlands), Imperial College London(UK), specialty "Polish" - with the Ministry of education of Poland, the field of "Russian as a foreign language", "Polish as a foreign language " with the University of Wroclaw (Poland), specialty "Physical culture and Sport" - with pedagogical university, Mogilev (Belarus), the Institute of Physical Culture in Ulan Bator (Mongolia).

In recent years, there is an active development in cooperation with universities in Japan - Hiroshima University and Ochanomizu University, Tokyo. On the basis of TSPU opened the country's only information booth Hiroshima office of the Institute of Research and Professional Enhancement of the United Nations (UNITAR).

Advanced Training Vocational retraining лучше сделать One of the main activities of the university is working on academic exchanges. Graduate and undergraduate students leave for probation, in accordance with agreements with foreign universities, universities in Poland, Japan, Norway, China, the U.S., Mongolia, Brazil, Australia, Finland, the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. It has become an annual tradition to send students for a period of 3-4 months to the U.S. under the "Work and Travel" program and to work as counselors through the offices of the programs.

Scientific Achievements

TomskState Pedagogical University is one of the leaders of higher education of the Russian Federation. University is a leader in independent rankings:

  • According to the rating of Russian universities for scientific achievement (http://reitor.ru/common/img/uploaded/files/R_hirsh.pdf), prepared in 2009 by  the agency ReitOR, Tomsk State Pedagogical University is ranked 12th among all universities in Russia (including all research and federal universities), and 1st among pedagogical universities in the country according to the Hirsch index , which characterizes the relevance, importance and citations of scientific results.
  • Rating of scientific publication activity of Russian universities for 2010, prepared by NRU "Higher School of Economics " (NRU HSE, Moscow ) at the request of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (http://www.hse.ru/org/hse/sc/interg) showed that the Tomsk State pedagogical University ranks 13th among all universities in Russia (including all research and federal universities), and 1st among pedagogical universities of Russia.
  • As per the ranking of the world research organizations according to the citation of publications from the Corporation Microsoft (http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Organization/16409/tomsk-state-pedagogical-university) TSPU in physics ranks 5th among all universities in Russia for citation, second only to MSU, MIPT, MEPhI, SpbSU and outrunning other universities of the Russian Federation. According to this rating, Tomsk State Pedagogical University is in the top 20 % of research organizations in the world of physics.
  • In the National rating of colleges of the Russian Federation for 2010, prepared by the international group "Interfax" and "Radio Moscow » (http://unirating.ru/rating_branch.asp?br=13) in the category of "pedagogical, humanitarian and linguistic universities" Russia Tomsk State Pedagogical University ranked 2nd place  with 99 points, second only to the RSPU named by A. I. Hertzen University Herzen (100 points). Research in this rating Chair for the 1st place .
  • In 2011, Professor of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Sergey Odintsov was  included in the top 10 of the most famous Russian scientists according to the publication Forbes (http://www.forbes.ru/ekonomika-slideshow/lyudi/75452-10-samyh-izvestnyh-v-mire-uchenyh-russkogo-proishozhdeniya/slide/7). According to the American scientific information base SPIRES professor Odintsov is one of the most cited scientists in the world (the number of references to his work more than 16 thousand). Sergey works at TSPU of internationally recognized scientific school of theoretical physicists, which has the official status of " Leading Scientific Schools of the Russian Federation." Among the co-authors, S.D. Odintsov, Professor of TSPU: I.L. Buchbinder, P.M. Lavrov, V.V. Obukhov, K.E. Osetrin  I.L. Shapiro, as well as many foreign scholars (from Japan, Spain, Norway, etc.).

The scientific activity of the University covers the current trends in basic and applied science, humanities, psychological and pedagogical sciences.

In TSPU developed several scientific schools, including special place:

  • Scientific school of theoretical physicists, "Quantum field theory. Gravity "
  • Studies of Research School "Wetlands and Biosphere"
  • ScientificSchool of comparative-historical, typological and comparative linguistics studying the Germanic, Indo-European languages, the languages and culture of the indigenous peoples of Siberia and the North.
  • Scientific school of  mathematics teaching "Mathematics. Psychology. Intellect "
  • ScientificSchool"The philosophy of education. Philosophy of science and technology. All-Russian School of Young Scientists (complex  approach to the preparation of the expert and researcher)".

Summer schools

ЛЕТНЯЯ ШКОЛА РУССКОГО ЯЗЫКА И КУЛЬТУРЫ -2018

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 11.06.2018 - 30.06.2018 Подробнее

Программа занятий Школы русской речевой культуры для иностранных преподавателей русского языка как иностранного

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Rectorate

Rector: Valery Obukhov
Address: 634061 , Tomsk, ul. Kievskaya, 60 office 301
Telephone: ( 3822) 52-17-54
E-Mail: rector@tspu.ru
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8.45 - 13.00 and 13.45 - 17.15
Visitors hours: second and fourth Monday of each month.

 

 First Vice-Rector : Andrey Makarenko
Address: 634061 , Tomsk, ul. Kievskaya, 60, office 308/1
Telephone: (382-2) 311-456

Internal Phone: 261
E-Mail: andre@tspu.ru
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8.45 - 13.00 and 13.45 - 17.15
Visitors hours: Monday 16.00 - 18.00

 

 

Vice-Rector for Legal Affairs: Olga Shvabauer
Address: 634061, Tomsk, ul. Kievskaya, 60, office 319/1
Telephone: ( 382-2) 52-15-69
Internal Phone: 230
E-Mail: shvabauerOA@tspu.ru
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8.45 - 13.00 and 13.45 - 17.15
Visitors hours: Tuesday 15.00 - 17.00

 

Vice-Rector for Economic Development and Campus Maintenance: Igor Medvedev
Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75 office 133
Telephone: ( 382-2) 52-13-42
Internal Phone: 140
E-Mail: Medvedev@tspu.ru
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 8.45 - 13.00 and 13.45 - 17.15
Visitors hours: Tuesday 16.00 - 17.00

Postgraduate Programs

ID

Programme

Period of study

Academic Degree

1

01.04.02

Theoretical Physics (also avaliable in English)

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

2

02.00.01

Nonorganic Chemistry

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

3

02.00.04

Physical Chemistry

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

4

03.00.08

Zoology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

5

03.00.13

Physiology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

6

03.00.16

Ecology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

7

03.00.27

Soil Science

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

8

07.00.02

Russian History

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

9

07.00.06

Archeology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

10

07.00.07

Ethnography, Ethnology, Anthropology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

11

08.00.05

Economics and National Economy Management (in branches and spheres of activity)

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

12

09.00.08

Philosophy of Science and Technology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

13

09.00.11

Social Philosophy

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

14

09.00.13

Religious Studies, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture 

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

15

10.01.01

Russian Literature

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

16

10.02.01

Russian Language

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

17

10.02.02

Languages of the RF Nations (Nganasan, Selkup, Tatar, Khanty, Ket)(also avaliable in English)

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

18

10.02.04

Germanic Languages (also avaliable in English)

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

19

10.02.20

Historical, Typological and Comparative Linguistics

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

20

13.00.01

General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

22

13.00.02

Theory and Methods of Education and Training (in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Informatics, Biology, Geography, Literature, Russian Language at comprehensive and higher school; levels of general and higher professional education )

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

23

13.00.04

Theory and Methods of Physical Training, Sports Training, Health Improving and Adaptive Physical Education

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

24

13.00.08

Theory and Methods of Professional Education

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

25

19.00.01

General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

26

25.00.23

Physical Geography and Bio-geography, Soil Geography and Geo-chemistry of Landscapes   

3 years

Candidate of Sciences

Application procedure

Applicants must submit the following documents:

  1. A formal application addressed to the Rector of TSPU (standard form).
  2. A documented report of the interview conducted by a prospective academic supervisor. The in terview is aimed at testing the applicant's knowledge and his ability to enter the program during the current academic year (standard form).
  3. A personal data sheet certified by the Personnel Department at the applicant's workplace. A photo 4x6 must be attached.
  4. A certified copy of the applicant's diploma. For international students, including citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a copy of the diploma or other document of education issued by their state, and a copy of the certificate of its equivalence to the diploma of higher professional education of Russian Federation , issued by the 
    Federal Agency of Russian Federation, must be presented. If the diploma is issued in a name other than the present name of the applicant, a document certifying the change of the name must be produced.
  5. A certified copy of a supplement to the diploma presenting the applicant's academic records.
  6. A list of publications officially certified (signed and stamped) or scientific essay (no less than 24 pp.) related to the topic of the dissertation.
  7. Review of the academic supervisor on the essay (according to five-mark system) or scientific articles related to the topic of the dissertation.

The applicant must show his passport and diploma in person.

Applications and other documents are submitted to Postgraduate Study Department from June 1 till September 10.

Postgraduate entrance exams in a selected specialty, philosophy and a foreign language are held during the period from September 20 till October 20. Entrance exams can be taken only once. Their results are valid until the end of the calendar year. The candidates who passed the examina­tions required for the degree of Ph.D. do not have to take entrance examinations.

Duration

The length of a postgraduate study program is three years, for extra-mural students - four years.

Tuition

The average tuition is $2,000 - $2,500 per year. .

Thesis Defense/Presentation

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PhD thesis defense is possible without taking postgraduate course, if the candidate has executed certain amount of research and his dissertation meets the requirements of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.
TSPU Dissertation Councils are licensed to award the PhD degree in the following fields of science:

  • Theoretical Physics
  • Philosophy of Science and Technology
  • Religious Studies, Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Culture
  • Languages of the Russian Federation Peoples (Nganasan, Selkup, Tatar, Ket, Khanty)
  • Historical, Typological and Comparative Linguistics
  • General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education
  • Theory and Methods of Education (in Physics, level of general and higher professional education)
  • Theory and Methods of Professional Education

A Council takes an application (standard form) of PhD candidate into consideration if the following documents written in Russian are submitted:

  •  Curriculum Vitae. A photo 4x6 must be attached;
  • a certified copy of the applicant's diploma. For foreign students, including citizens of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a copy of the diploma or other document of education issued by their state, and a copy of the certificate of its equivalence to the diploma of higher professional education of Russian Federation , issued by the Federal Agency of Russian Federation, must be presented*. If the diploma is issued in a name other than the present name of the applicant, a document certifying the change of the name must be produced;
  • certification of passing PhD exams on History and Philosophy of Science, one of the foreign languages and a special discipline in the field of research;
  • thesis in Russian or English;
  • an abstract of the thesis (up to 10 pages);
  • conclusions of the supervising organization.

The procedure of thesis defense allows the use of English with consequent interpretation to Russian. The dissertation file is processed in Russian. Upon the completion of thesis defense by the candidate the Academic Council immediately makes its own decision whether to reward the candidate with PhD degree or not. In positive case the decision is subject to be approved by the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC). After that a foreign citizen will be conferred a diploma of state standard in English or Russian issued by HAC.

*Application for recognition can be made either by candidate or by TSPU according to the rules described in:
http://en.russia.edu.ru/edu/inostr/prizn/

Trade Union

Head: Gennady Popov
Address: 634041, Tomsk , pr. Komsomolsky, 75 office 243
Telephone: ( 382-2) 190655
Internal telephone: 180, 291


Representatives at TSPU Units

Faculty of Biology and Chemistry: Porokhina Ekaterina


Faculty of Foreign Languages: Lavrentieva Valentina
E-Mail: magma@scalpnet.ru


Faculty of Physics and Mathematics: Olga Radchenko


Faculty of Physical Training and Sports: Pavlov Valery


Faculty of Pedagogy: Nikolskaya Olga


Faculty of History and Philology: Kotok Alexandra


Faculty of Technology and Entrepreneurship: Degtyareva Tatiana


Faculty of Psychology, Public Relations and Advertising: Kamarova Nazir


Faculty of Economics and Management: Porkhunova Irina


Faculty of University Disciplines: Dolgikh Alla


Institute of Applied Informatics: Butakov Alexey


University Administration: Medyuha Natalia
Shelbagasheva Oksana Valerievna
E-Mail: av-3@mail.ru


Campus Maintenance and Housekeeping Unit: Chuyko Alexey

TSPU structure

Information on the university's administration and departments

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Research

The Tomsk State Pedagogical University is actively involved in scientific activities in various fields of science: humanities, natural and technical sciences, from cosmology to linguistics. The TSPU conducts research in more than 20 main scientific areas including Theoretical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Ecology, Soil Science, History, Economics, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Literature, Linguistics, Pedagogy, Psychology, Culture, etc. Over the long history of the university, many scientific schools have been formed and won scientific recognition.

"Quantum field theory and gravity" (professors I. L. Buchbinder, P. M. Lavrov, V. V. Obukhov, S. D. Odintsov, I. L. Shapiro, K. E. Osetrin, V.Y a. Epp and others), according to the Russian and foreign experts, carries out important research at the world level.

"Swamps and Biosphere" under the leadership of professor L. I. Inisheva carries out work on the project within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation on the topic: "Regularities of the functioning and evolution of Siberian swamp ecosystems under conditions of changing climatic factors".

The scientific school in the field of methods of teaching mathematics in higher and secondary schools (professors E. G. Gelfman, M. A. Kholodnaya) united many researchers, teachers of mathematics at pedagogical universities and schools. The results of their activities are widely used in the education system of many regions of the country.

Many research areas are carried out in collaboration with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), the Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow), the Institute of Mathematics (Novosibirsk), the University of Pennsylvania (USA), University of Maryland (USA), Nagoya University (Japan), Institute for Educational Systems Development of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Goethe, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), A. Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Wroclaw University (Poland).

In the recent researches, the employees of the TSPU studied the following topics:

  • Supersymmetry in quantum field theory and higher spin field theory.
  • Foreign students of Tomsk universities from Asian countries: educational migration as a factor in the development of the export potential of the Siberian region.
  • Spatially homogeneous models of space-time in metric theories of gravity, allowing separation of variables in the Hamilton-Mock equation for test particles
  • Regularities and trends in the development of university cities: an economic and sociological review
  • Features of rural schools in the context of the formation of the information society in Russia. Subdivision: Faculty of Psychological, Pedagogical and Special Education.
  • Interaction of junior schoolchildren with different educational needs in a foreign language lesson through educational communication. Subdivision: Faculty of Preschool and Primary Education

The TSPU regularly participates in international conferences and organizes scientific events. Recently the university took part in the following conferences:

  • International videoconference "Prospects for the development of joint scientific projects" together with Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Santa Catarina (Brazil)
  • V International Video Conference "Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language” together with Polish Institute (Poland), Mudanjiang Pedagogical University (China)
  • International Round Table "Events and Events in Slavic Literatures of Critical Epochs" together with Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
  • International videoconference on joint scientific projects in the field of physics and mathematics together with Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (Brazil),
  • International Conference "Quantum Field Theory and Gravity - QFTG'2020"

 

Trade Union of Employees

The trade union organization of employees is public organization, acting within the Charter of the Trade Union of Public Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Its main objectives are representation and protection of individual and collective social, labour, professional rights and interests of union members.

The main activities

  • development of the collective agreement and monitoring its implementation;
  • study of working conditions and monitor the implementation of the agreement on the implementation of measures for protection of labour, control over the observance of labour legislation;
  • organization of cultural, educational, sports events for employees;
  • organizing activities for health of employees and summer camps for children.

The structure of the trade union committee includes social work commission, labour commission, commission for cultural work and mass-organisational commission.

The Commission on Social Work

The main activities of the commission:
  • organizing events for staff working with children (Christmas gifts, children's recreation, etc.);
  • organization of medical examinations in cooperation with medical institutions;
  • organization of aid to labour veterans, pensioners of TSPU, preparation of events and activities for the older, generation;
  • organization of leisure for the university staff.

Labour Commission

The main activities of the commission:
  • preparation of a draft of the collective agreement, control over the implementation of the collective agreement, preparation of amendments to the collective agreement;
  • control over compliance with the rules and regulations on labour protection and safety complaints of employees on health and safety;
  • consult on legal issues, controlling labour records.

Commission on Cultural Work

The main activities of the Commission:
  • organizing and conducting of sport events;
  • organization and conducting of cultural and educational events (Victory Day , Teacher’s Day , etc.).

Mass-Organisational Commission

The main activities of the Commission:
  • subscriptions to publications and Russian editions of regional trade union organization of education and science;
  • attraction of new members to the union ;
  • preparation for demonstrations, rallies, pickets, organized by the parent body of trade unions.

Our contacts:

Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75, office243
Phone: (382-2) 550-619, internal: 180, 291
E-mail: profcom@tspu.ru