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In october 2022 KBSU celebrated its 90th anniversary. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of the University the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. Let’s go back to the history of our university’s creation!

It should be noted that before 1917 both Kabarda and Balkaria were included in the number the most backward national districts of Russia of that time. There were no large industrial enterprises on their territory, only primitive agriculture existed and only the national education on the beginning stage. Educational activities were conducted by the small group of compatriots who got good higher education in Moscow, St-Petersburg and abroad. Literate people among the Kabardians were only 1.9%, and among the Balkarians — 0.9%. There was no written language like Kabardian and Balkarian. None of the villages had a secondary school.

In the 20-30s of the last century the young Soviet Republic proclaimed a cultural revolution in the country. At the first stage, the goal was to have a universal literacy of the population. Many teachers came to Kabardino-Balkaria from different industrial and cultural centers of Russia.

Pedagogical staff for Kabardino-Balkaria was educated in Gorsky Pedagogical Institute, located in Ordzhonikidze (present Vladikavkaz). Also, in 1924 Leninsky training campus was opened in Nalchik for training specialists, and in 1931 Pedagogical faculty began its work. However, these measures did not solve the problem of teachers’ lack in the republic. Therefore, at the end of 1931 the Kabardino-Balkarian regional committee of the party refers to the Council of People’s Commissars of the Russian Federation with a request to open an independent pedagogical institute. Resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of Russian Federation of July 7, 1932 reorganized the Gorsky Pedagogical Institute into the North Caucasus Pedagogical Institute. At the same time, this resolution abused to create pedagogical Institutes in Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia and Chechen-Ingush republics. And those Institutes were to begin work in the autumn of 1932. From this time the independent history of our university begins.

In September 5, 1932, the first group of 120 students started classes at three faculties: physical and mathematical, biological, Russian language and literature. The teaching staff of the Institute consisted of 22 teachers.

So that to provide seven-year and secondary schools with personnel, it was decided to create a two-year term of study on the bases of the Pedagogical Institute in 1934. It had two departments mathematical and historical. A little later, two more branches were opened natural-geographical and language and literature. In the same year of 1934 the correspondence department (distance learning) was opened in the Pedagogical institute.