About KSTU


HISTORY OF KSTU

In the history of the Kyrgyz State Technical University named after I. Razzakov had many significant events. Among them, without exaggeration, is its 60th anniversary.

The fate of KSTU, like no other university, reflected the fate of the Kyrgyz Republic. Sharing with the country all the joys and hardships, its first engineering university managed to worthily this life span and realize its mission. It achieved the main indicator: the effectiveness of the system of higher engineering education. From year to year, despite all the most complex transformations in the country and society, it successfully carried out his specific business – it produced highly qualified specialists in engineering and engineering and economic areas, who, in turn, developed the entire production spectrum of Kyrgyzstan.

These are our graduates: engineers, scientists, production organizers, entrepreneurs built a cascade of hydroelectric power stations on the Naryn River; created unique devices and control systems for production and various defense special facilities, built houses, factories, factories, mines; created transport communications, developed and implemented original technologies in the food, processing and light industries.

Today, it is perhaps difficult to find a manufacturing company, a firm, an educational and scientific institution, a service sector, wherever the pupils of the "polytechnic" work. Moreover, thousands of them successfully implement their knowledge far beyond the borders of Kyrgyzstan. This is convincing evidence of the demand for an engineer, research scientist with a diploma from KSTU. That is why the anniversary date makes us re-evaluate the historical significance of the university, which has made a huge contribution to the development of the economy, engineering education, technical science and culture of the country.

In order to comprehend the significance of KSTU, its special place in the educational and scientific space, its contribution to the development of the country's intellectual potential, we involuntarily turn to the events of 60 years ago, to the memory of those who, in the most difficult conditions of the post-war devastation of the twentieth century, relied on technical direction, training of own engineering personnel. A tribute of great appreciation and gratitude must be paid to the initiator of the creation of the first engineering university in Kyrgyzstan, an outstanding political and 

statesman, truly great son of the Kyrgyz people Iskhak Razzakov and his associates. At that time, there were many who doubted the real prospects for the development of technical education and research thought in the traditionally agrarian Central Asian republic. Only time and subsequent generations will be able to appreciate the wisdom and foresight of Iskhak Razzakov, who proved by personal example that the fate of a person, society and the state as a whole cannot be successful without a good education.

The opening of the Frunze Polytechnic Institute in September 1954 was a real breakthrough in the educational sphere of the country, and eventually in the system of higher education in the Soviet Union. From the height of today, it seems incredible that KSTU then began with two faculties - mining and engineering and construction and energy with a contingent of 350 students and 31 teachers, among whom there were only 4 candidates of science. However, after two years the number of faculties doubled (construction, energy, mining and geological, mechanical and technological). The process of development of the FPI in those years was surprisingly dynamic. By 1959, it consisted of five daytime, one evening faculties and 31 departments. In 1962 Prospekt Mira adorned the main building of the Institute. In 1963, two general technical faculties were opened in the cities of Osh (now Osh Technological University) and Kara-Kul. In 1965, FPI teachers were given the opportunity to study in postgraduate and doctoral studies at the leading technical universities of the USSR. In 1967, the large-circulation newspaper "Polytechnic" began to be published.

In 1969, the first computers appeared at the university. New departments, specialties were opened, new educational buildings were built, classrooms equipped in a new way, classrooms. The connection with production was strengthened, student design bureaus (SKB) and many scientific circles were organized. Students and teachers of the FPI became winners of republican and all-Union scientific competitions, in amateur art, record holders in sports competitions. And what is especially important, students from the first years were involved in active work for the benefit of the university and the republic: they helped build educational buildings, dormitories, a recreation center "Polytechnic" on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, a sports complex. More than one generation of followers enjoyed the fruits of their labor with gratitude. In the summer, FPI students went to construction teams, provided invaluable assistance to collective farms, state farms, mines, hydroelectric power stations, and industrial enterprises. Thus, future specialists learned the price of labor, production processes, without which a real engineer cannot take place.

By its 20th anniversary, the FPI was the largest educational and scientific complex with a modern laboratory 

equipment and highly qualified teaching staff. The training of future engineers was carried out by 12 faculties in 60 departments, where 13 thousand students studied in 26 specialties, 350 teachers (200 with academic degrees and titles). By that time, the FPI had become a forge for the training of highly qualified personnel for the industry and construction of the Kyrgyz Republic and the entire Central Asian region. Among the 11.5 thousand engineers who graduated, many became leading specialists, chief engineers, trust managers, directors of combines, factories, mining departments, car fleets, design institutes, research institutes, prominent scientists, statesmen and politicians. The Frunze "Polytechnic University" is becoming a true center of attraction for the most talented graduates of prestigious central universities. For 20 years, the FPI has managed to nurture a new generation of teaching staff.

For the successes achieved in the training of highly qualified personnel, the staff of the FPI, among the 26 best universities in the country, was awarded the Jubilee Badge of Honor of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions in honor of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the USSR. We invariably associate the results of the 20-year rise of the FPI with the name of its first rector, a true supporter of engineering education and science, endowed with remarkable human qualities, Professor Georgy Akimovich Sukhomlinov. Being a talented leader and organizer, he managed to attract the scientific and technical elite to the FPI: Akmatbek Sagynovich Dzhamanbaev, Usengazy Asanalievich Asanaliev, Leonid Trofimovich Dvornikov, Rakym Usubakunov and many others. It was these individuals, their like-minded people, the overflowing creative energy of the FPI that gave rise to university technical science, created the wonderful traditions of our university, shaped its ideals, the very spirit of the "polytechnic" that nourishes and inspires not only its many students, but also subsequent generations of teachers and students.

The 1970s and 1980s were fruitful years for the Polytechnic University, when it was led by Vladimir Mikhailovich Zhuravlev, who made a significant contribution to the development of the FPI. For several years, our university was among the top ten universities in the Soviet Union. However, I want to emphasize that it was a time of economic recovery in our republic, the country as a whole, when the state spared no funds for education. It was the time of the closest contacts of our university with the rapidly developing industrial sphere, with such famous centers of technical education and science as the Moscow State Technical University.named after N.E. Bauman, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow Road Institute and others. It was a time of systematic internships, academic and student mobility, respectively, the emergence of creative and human ties, the implementation of numerous joint 

economic contract projects that bring a solid economic support to the university and the republic. It was a time of significant strengthening of the material and technical, educational and laboratory bases, replenishment and development of the library fund. Accordingly, it was a time of further flourishing of university science, engineering, developments, inventions, implementations. The developments of FPI scientists have found application in the first lunar rover for the selection of soil on the Moon.

But the subsequent 15-year isolation from the general educational process, a sharp transition to a market economy, a decline in production, the lack of demand and hopelessness of technical specialties, the decline in the prestige of the engineering profession had the worst effect on the fate of our graduates, teachers and the university as a whole.

An intellectual migration process began, the outflow of leading scientists, professors, young teachers from the university to other areas and to other countries. Only the patriots of their cause and the university remained. At that time, it was about his elementary survival. Moreover, in those years, the process of transforming regional branches into independent universities began. However, time has shown the inexpediency of such \"transformations \" and, as they say, everything returned "to normal". In recent years, by decrees of the country's leadership, KSTU has returned its former branches in the cities of Kyzyl-Kiya and Kara-Kul, as well as the Institute of Mining and Mining Technologies. Undoubtedly, in the conditions of that period, when the personnel and age problem, the problem of advanced training, training of scientific personnel, updating the material and technical base were acutely felt, it was difficult to talk about any strategy for the development of the university, and even more so, engineering education and science in country. However, the educational, scientific, material and technical, and, most importantly, spiritual potential laid down by the predecessors was so high that the university continued to function along a given trajectory.

Today, Kyrgyzstan, like other republics of the former USSR, is going through the most difficult stage of its historical path, when it is necessary to preserve and strengthen the political and economic independence of the country. And how can we do without creators, without engineers! Judging by the fact that the state is increasingly focusing on the need to train new engineering personnel, on the technical education of the younger generation, the development and implementation of research ideas, the time is coming when engineering knowledge, skills, thoughts, initiatives and the desire to work for the good of society will be actively demanded. . At the same time, we are well aware that the state is not yet able to adequately finance this area. Universities today are financed from the state budget by less than 20%, although it is known that the training of a "techie" requires double the cost compared to the training of a "humanist".

Responding to the challenges of the time that require immediate action, we decided to choose the path of active integration into the global educational and scientific space, the path of implementing long-term projects to revive and expand international cooperation with leading technical universities in the near and far abroad, allowing us to solve the above problems and enter a new trajectory university development. In fact, having joined the process of globalization in the field of higher technical education, KSTU, like our partners, is far from blindly imitating newfangled trends. For example, gradually introducing the Bologna Declaration and other educational technologies, we are guided, first of all, by the main goal - improving the quality of the educational process, developing independent thinking among students. Today, computer and blank testing in all subjects allows assessing the real knowledge of students and the quality of teaching. The electronic library created jointly with European partners, the Department for Quality Management bear fruit. The dynamics of the development of international cooperation over the past four years pleases and inspires.

This is the creation of the Kyrgyz-German Technical Institute together with the Berlin Technical University of Applied Sciences. The graduation of the first bachelors of KSTI took place in 2008, now there is a joint preparation of master's programs with the issuance of a "double" diploma. A pilot project for PhD training has begun.

This is the creation of the faculty \”MPEI-KSTU\” together with the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University), the creation of a Distance Learning Center together with the East Kazakhstan State Technical University named after D. Serikbaev also with the issuance of “two diplomas.

This is the implementation, together with the University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis (France) and other European partners, of a project to create a structural cooperative network, which, starting from 2007, gradually links the country's major university libraries.

This is an integration with the International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP). Reliable partners in cooperation with KSTU are the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, MSTU. N.E. Bauman, Moscow State University of Printing, Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation, Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after Nosov, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Ryazan State Radio Engineering University, Kazan Power Engineering University, as well as technical