About University

History

07 February 1938 Chechen-Ingush Teaching Institute was established based on preparatory pedagogical courses with a two-year study period and subsequently, on 01 September 1938 it was reformed into the Chechen-Ingush State Pedagogical Institute (ChISPI) with a four-year study period. The Institute comprised three Faculties: Philology, History and Physics and Maths. A little later Natural Sciences and Geography Faculty joined them. The first cohort of new graduates was 79 people.

In 1940 the body of ChISPI already included 8 Departments (Physics, Maths, Pedagogy and Psychology, Languages, Literature, Marxism and Leninism, General History, History of USSR Peoples), 6 classrooms and other units: School Hygiene Office, Military Preparation, Sports Hall, Physics Laboratory, Library.

Together with performing the main function – production of Pedagogy specialists of the highest degree – the Institute’s departments started their research and methodological work. A.I. Boyarchuk, T.T. Malsagova, F.G. Petrash, S.K. Shenec and other Professors of the Institute stood at the origins of such work.

The first to step on the challenging path to science and enlightenment at the helm of the Grozny Teaching Institute was Evgeniy Fedorovich Bykov. In 1938 Evgeniy Fedorovich was appointed Director of the Grozny Pedagogical Institute, which he led until 1945. Later at different times the institution was managed by:

1945-1951: Alexander Petrovich Efleev;

1951-1959: Khabech Aslancherivich Pchentleshev, Candidate of Historical Science;

1960-1963: P.M. Stepanov;

1963-1966: Nikolay Pavlovich Gritsenko, Doctor of Historical Sciences;

1966-1970: Viktor Isaakovich Sinelnikov;

1970-1986: Michail Pavlovich Pavlov, Doctor of Economic Sciences;

1986-1991: Victor Abramovich Kan-Kalik, Doctor of Pedagogic Sciences;

1992-1994: Myukhadi Shakhidovich Israilov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences;

1995, 2000-2006: Adnan Daguevich Khamzaev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences;

1996: Ibragim Uzumkhadzhievich Israilov, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences;

1996-1999: Raikom Khasimkhanovich Dadashev, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences;

2006-2008: Anzor Akhmedovich Muzaev, Candidate of Technic Sciences;

2008 to present: Zaurbek Aslanbekovich Saidov, Candidate of Economic Sciences.