The Syktyvkar Forest Institute Today

The history of the institute dates back from 1952. In 1995 it became an independent establishment. It is headed by the professor Nikolai Bolshakov – doctor of economics, academician. For the last decade (he Forest Institute has made a tremendous breakthrough in its development. It seemed to be a real rebirth. Today the institute is ready to become innovative and business-oriented, it has dozens of licenses on educational activity.

Nikolai Bolshakov tells that the Forest Institute today has:

• five faculties,
• thirty departments,
• twenty modem specialities and their constant increase,
• full-time, part-time and external forms of education,
• post-graduate study,
• about seven thousand students,
• entrance contest (above five people per place),
• about 300 lecturers and subject teachers (60 % doctors and candidates),
• high competition and demand of graduates,
• vacancy fair,
• practical system of controlling the quality of educational process,
• material incentives and moral reward,
• integration with professional educational institutions,
• social defence of students,
• cooperation with universities of Europe, Asia, America and Africa,
• working and studying on probation abroad,
• the department of international contacts and connections,
• students research laboratory,
• GIS-technology centre,
• taiga forests monitoring centre,
• ecological centre,
• technological centre,
• business incubator; business plans,
• computer classrooms (including rooms for studying foreign languages),
• language laboratories,
• • electronic libraries and reading halls,
• the Internet,
• participation in local and international Olympiads, competitions, festivals, seminars, conferences, rounds, sports and athletics meetings,
• the Academy of Natural Sciences (forest sector),
• dendro-park,
• trade-union committee,
• technological lyceum,
• distant education,
• students' self-government,
• rationalizers and inventors society,
• intellectual property protection,
• Patent Department,
• hostels, consumer service establishment,
• Veterans Council,
• sports and health centre,
• professional training centre,
• building of a sports-complex,
• publishing and printing office,
• two newspapers,
• three museums,
• creative union «Drevo» – a lot of studios,
• folk and popular music ensembles,
• chores,
• drama and musical theatres,
• clubs of students creative work,
• its own hymn, flag, slogan.

A. Zabrovskaya