Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University

About Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University

According to Wikipedia, Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University is a Ukrainian university in Uman, Cherkasy Oblast, in Central Ukraine. History The university was founded in August 1930 under the name of the Institute of Social Education ; it had four faculties: technical, mathematical, socio-economic, linguistic and literary, biological. Training lasted three years. One hundred twenty students initially enrolled. In 1933 the institute renamed as the Pedagogical Institute offering four years of study and four faculties: historical, linguistic-literary, mathematical, biological. In 1935 the name changed to Teacher's Institute, which had two faculties – physical and mathematical and natural-geographical. In 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union temporarily ceased to exist. In June 1944 Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union issued a resolution to renew the activity of the educational institution. On June 15, 1944, its two faculties: physical-mathematical and natural-geographical, resumed their work. In 1946 the Faculty of History was restored, in 1947 the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Odesa Teachers' Institute was joined, a year later the same faculty of the Kyiv Institute. In 1952 Uman Teacher Training Institute was reorganized into Uman State Pedagogical Institute. In 1960 The Faculty of Pedagogy and Methods of Primary Education was established. In 1967 the university was named after Pavlo Tychyna.