Seversk State Technological Academy
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Seversk State Technological Academy (Russian: Северская государственная технологическая академия) is a post-secondary educational institution in the City of Seversk
Seversk
Seversk is a closed city in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Tomsk on the right bank of the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1949, it was known as Pyaty Pochtovy until 1954 and as Tomsk-7 until 1992. Town status was granted to it in 1956.The current Chair of the City Duma and Mayor...

, Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Population:...

, Russia
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. The school has 1,150 students, of whom 500 study full time and 75 professors. The current rector
Rector
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 is Aleksandr Nikolaevich Zhiganov.

History

The school was founded in 1959 as a branch of the Physics-Technological faculty of Tomsk Polytechnic University
Tomsk Polytechnic University
Tomsk Polytechnic University in Tomsk, Russia, is the oldest technical university in Russia east of the Urals. The university was founded in 1896 and opened in 1900 as the Tomsk Technological Institute. In 1923, the school was renamed the Siberian Technological Institute and in 1930, the institute...

.

From 1996 to 2001, the school was known as the Seversk Technological Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University. Later, it became an independent institution called the Seversk State Technological Institute and in 2005, adopted its current name.

Academics

The school has four main faculties:
  • Management Technology
    • Higher Mathematics
    • Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Applied Informatics
    • System Management and Accounting
    • Economics
  • Electrical Engineering and Automation
    • Electrical Drive and Automation
    • Chair of Physics
    • Electronics and Automation of Physical Installations
    • Chair of Physics Education
  • Techological Faculty
    • Machines and Apparatus of Chemical Production)
    • Chemistry and Technology of Modern Energetics Materials
    • Technical Mechanics and Graphics
    • Foreign Languages
  • Continuing Education


There is also a division that provides re-training and continuing education to employees of the Siberian Group of Chemical Enterprises and a Distance Learning Faculty.

Foreign relations

The school has partnered with a number of foreign universities including University of Dortmund and University of Karlsruhe in Germany
Germany
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, Open University
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 in the United Kingdom
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, Boston University
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 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, United States
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 and Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
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