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The Samara State University was founded by the Constituent Assembly Members' Committee and Samara Provincial Board in 1918. Closed in 1927 because of financial strait, it was reopened in 1969 consisting of Mathematical and Mechanical, Physical, Chemical and Biological Faculties and Faculty of the Humanities.

In the 1990s, structural changes and a switch to the new generation of government educational standards had begun at the university. In May of 1996 Academic Senate passed Conception of Samara State University Development as a scientific, cultural and educational center of Volga Region, supported by the Governor of Samara Region K.A. Titov. As a result of the changes, the number of faculties, departments and specialties had increased. University administration managed to retain potential of Natural Science Faculties. Conception of the University Development envisaged opening of deficient humanitarian specialties, which Samara Region needed.

In 1994-2000 licenses to realize 11 educational programs on psychology, theory and history of culture, social work, management, social pedagogy, organization and technology of data protection, information systems security, scientific discipline of documentation, documentation supplying of management, state and municipal management, journalism, linguistics and intercultural communication were obtained.

In 2001 – 2003 licenses to realize two more educational programs – on mathematical methods in economics, mathematical supplying and administration of information systems – were obtained.

Now 22 educational programs are realized at 10 faculties of the university. Much work on structural and matter renewal of lecture courses and practical training and on bringing of study process methodical supply into accordance with requirements of Governmental educational standard’s second generation. There are 6702 day students, 1209 evening students and 4709 students by correspondence at the university. Total number of students had ran up to 12619. 94% of alumni get job placement.

Representatives of the university are created and develop in towns of Syzran’ and Pokhvistnevo. SSU branched out in Togliatti by Russian Federation Educational Ministry order №4245 of 26.12.2001.

University has contracts on experts’ training with Samara Region Administration departments, towns’ of Togliatti, Syzran’ and Pokhvistnevo administration. Post-graduate courses develop rapidly (48 specialties), about 300 post-graduates study there. Doctors’ training courses are opened (9 specialties).

As a result of Academic Boards’ network reorganization 9 of such Boards function at the university, 6 of them are for Doctors’ degrees and 3 – for Candidates.

Staff Program has been accepted and is being realized; it is provided to increase university’s intellectual potential and to rejuvenate its professors’ and lecturers’ staff in its course. 72 Doctors of science, professors and 282 Candidates of science, senior lecturers work at the university.

In 1996 Samara State University was included in number of 33 classical universities of Russia, where regional university Internet free access centers would have been created.

Such a center was opened at SSU in July of 1997 under support of Open Society Institute, RF Government and Samara Region Administration; it had given a powerful incentive to informatization of study process and scientific work: 20 display classes, more than 900 personal computers. SSU library takes part in Electronic Information Resources to High Schools of the Region project realizing.

Divisions of Russian Academy of Natural Science, of Russian Humanitarian Academy, section of Russian Tsiolkovsky Academy of Cosmonautics were constituted on the SSU basis. Scientific and research institutes were created: Institute of History and Archaeology of Volga Region (together with Pedagogical University), Institute of Ecology, Institute of Social Technologies, Center of Raising the Skill’s Level and Retraining of Specialists, Faculty of Raising the Skill’s Level of High and Secondary Schools’ Lecturers.

In 1998 Samara University Association had been created; gymnasiums’, colleges’, lyceums’ and secondary schools’ collectives of Samara, Togliatti, Syzran, Otradny, Pokhvistnevo entered into it.

Scientists’ participation in elaboration of federal and regional programs appreciably increased. Platonov’s Lecturing (for post-graduates and students of Russian Historical Faculties), which has been supported by Fusion federal program, are very popular.

Relations with a number of universities in USA, Great Britain, Germany and other countries. VII Congress of Eurasian Universities’ Association approved Samara State University as a real member of association.

Samara State University is a rapidly developing high school, and its collective, in spite of crisis economical events, successively deals with raising the quality of all kinds of high school activity, thereby intensifying its influence upon science, culture and education development in Samara Region.