Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University
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University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
in Minsk
Minsk
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, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
. It specialises in teacher training of mathematics, chemistry, physics, psychology, geography, history, languages and others for primary and secondary schools.
History
Minsk State Pedagogical University (first name - Minsk teachers institute) admitted his first students in 1914.For a long period the institution was reorganised into a pedagogical department of Belarusian State University
Belarusian State University
Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...
. After being a part of another university for ten years the Decree of the Ministry of People's Commissars of the BSSR proclamed the Pedagogical Department of Belarusian State University an independent Belarusian State Pedagogical higher institution named after the Soviet author Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
in 1936. Since that the pedagogical institute has its continuous history.
In 1972 the institute was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was an order of the Soviet Union for accomplishments in labour and civil service. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order.-History:The Red...
for its success in preparing teachers and for its research activities.
In 1993 after Belarus achieved its independence and in frames of the policy of the development of sovereign educational system the institute got a status of the University.
Two years later the University was renamed after the Belarusian Soviet poet Maksim Tank.
Since 2007 the University is a member of the Eurasian Association of Universities.
Departments
There are 13 departments (and a number of subdepartments) within the university structure:- Department of History
- Department of Mathematics
- Preparatory Department
- Department of Pre-school Education
- Department of Natural Sciences
- Department of Physical training
- Department of Primary school education
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Belarusian and Russian Philology
- Department of Logopedics, Surdopedagogy and Typhlopedagogy
- Department of Social Pedagogy
- Department of Physics
- Department of Aesthetics
Non-educational departments
- Social-psychological unit
- Library
- Sports complex
- Therapeutic facility
- Publishing centre
- Editorial office of the newspaper Настаўнік (The Teacher)
- Haryzont Student Outdoors ClubHaryzont Outdoors ClubThe Haryzont Outdoors Club is a student outdoors club based on the Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University. Founded in 1966 it helps students take advantage of outdoor opportunities in Belarus and neighbour countries. Nowadays the club is a center of touristic and sport life of the...
(bel. - турыстычны клуб Гарызонт) - Student amateur theater