Platov South Russian state polytechnic university (NPI) was established on October 18, 1907, with the most excellent approval of Nicholas II as Don Polytechnic Institute. DPI was the first higher educational institution in the south of Russia. The university is the only higher educational institution in Russia created at the Cossacks and for the Cossack's initiative. Cossacks of the Great Don Army collected half of all funds spent on the opening of DPI. SRSPU(NPI) has made a significant contribution to the development of engineering education in Russia, having trained more than 150 thousand experts. Currently, the SRSPU (NPI) necessary activities are the large-scale fundamental and applied scientific research, innovative technologies aimed at training the highly qualified engineering personnel corresponding to the government's strategic problems in ensuring the transition from the resource economy to the economy of innovative type.
Vocational training is conducted at 10 Departments and five institutes of the primary higher education institution and in 2 branches. Annually more than two thousand school-leavers enter SRSPU (NPI) on the places financed from the federal budget, including about 1,5 thousand bachelors and specialists and about five hundred masters. In 2016 in SRSPU (NPI), the admission on budgetary places was carried out in 35 majors for bachelors (specialties). The postgraduate vocational education of highly qualified personnel is carried out in postgraduate training programs for candidates of sciences and doctors of the university's sciences. Annually SRSPU (NPI) postgraduate training programs train more than 300 candidates of sciences on 54 majors; also, there is a doctoral training course on 21 majors. There are 7 Thesis committees on 22 majors at the university.
SRSPU(NPI) is actively implementing the system of advanced training for the country's military-industrial complex based on the university participation in military R & D, based on the latest developments of modern science and technology. Its target is a comprehensive training of the system engineer - the modern engineering expert of a complete profile capable of solving production problems in the Russian economy's current conditions. One of the most critical components of university development is the organized, strategic partnership system, which creates conditions for improving educational services' quality and competitiveness. The well-known educational institutions of Russia and the leading countries of the world, public and non-profit organizations, and domestic and foreign enterprises of various production branches are all among strategic partners of SRSPU(NPI).
Among the SRSPU (NPI) priorities is the formation of an integrated system of professional education for the Cossacks. In October 2013, SRSPU (NPI) and the Cossack Military Community, the "Great Don Army," have signed an agreement on educational, youth, and social policies cooperation to prepare the Cossacks to bear the government and municipal service.
In 2014, the university created the Local Cossack Community "Platov" of the District Cossack Community "Novocherkassk district" of the Cossack Military Community the "Great Don Army." At the SRSPU(NPI) Military Institute, the Platov Cossack Hundred composed of 4 platoons has been created. Along with the higher engineering and military education, the Platov hundred's Cossacks master the additional all-developing "Social Management in the Cossack Societies" program to promote the Cossacks' traditions and culture for further employment in the management structures of the Cossack regions.
Today we certainly can say that considering the South Federal District's capital, NPI being the first university of South Russia, it is still the center of science, education, and culture of the region and remains one of the country's leading higher educational institutions. And this is its competitive advantage and uniqueness.
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