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Address: 18, Solnechny microdistrict, Stary Oskol, Belgorod region, 309502, Russia Phone: +7 4725 324912, 429403 Fax: +7 4725 324912 Director of Stary Oskol branch - Andrey V. Chesnokov e-mail: InfoSof@bsuedu.ru |
Deputy Director for Educational Activities – Irina I. Palasheva,
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, e-mail: Palasheva@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 312020.
Deputy Director for Science and Innovations, Strategic Development – Dmitry D.Polyakov,
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, e-mail: Polyakov@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 329340.
Deputy Director for Digitalisation and Additional Education – Natalia O. Gordeeva,
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor; e-mail: Gordeeva@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 312020.
Stary Oskol branch of Belgorod State University was established in 1999 by the Order of the Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Russian Federation dated 07.05.1999 №1242.
For more than 25 years of history, the Branch has successfully coped with personnel and innovation tasks for the regional education system. All its achievements are related to the name of his head, an experienced professional organiser in the field of training, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Honorary Professor of “Belgorod State National Research University”, Corresponding Member of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts, Honoured School Teacher of the Russian Federation, Honoured Worker of Education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Citizen of Stary Oskol - Tamara Pavlovna Belikova.
During this period, a highly professional teaching staff was formed under her leadership, more than 82% of full-time teachers have academic degrees and titles, a modern material and technical base was created, more than 10 thousand specialists of social and humanitarian profile were trained. Eighty percent of graduates are employed annually in Stary Oskol and Belgorod region, which confirms their competitiveness.
The educational activities of the branch are carried out in full-time, part-time and correspondence courses of education at three faculties: the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Economics and Management, the Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education - and four graduating and one basic departments.
Faculty of Pedagogy
The Dean – Candidate of Philology Marina Yu. Smelkovskaya, e-mail: Smelkovskaya@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 312020.
Faculty of Economics and Management
The Dean – Candidate of Histoty Ekaterina A. Shamrina, e-mail: Shamrina@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 312020.
Faculty of Secondary Vocational Education
The Dean – Senior Lecturer Irina P. Zhdanova, e-mail: Zhdanova@bsuedu.ru, phone +7 4725 312020.
Nowdays, the branch has formed the image of an educational institution with a modern material and technical base, a high level of innovation, professional culture, and social activity, which ensures a leading position in the educational services market.
Focusing its activities on the implementation of the national projects "Education", "Science", the branch ensures the implementation of a wide range of educational programs in socially significant areas of training: 12 educational programs of higher education and 6 programs of secondary vocational education.
Educational programs of higher education:
Educational programs of secondary vocational education:
More than 30 additional professional programs for advanced training and professional retraining are currently being implemented on the basis of Stary Oskol branch of “Belgorod State National Research University”.
More than two thousand students study in Starу Oskol branch in full-time and part-time forms of education.
Students have at their disposal a modern educational and laboratory base: 100% of the classrooms are equipped with modern equipment (more than 600 units of office equipment, 40 interactive whiteboards and more than 300 units of computer equipment). An information and educational environment has been formed, including a library, which at the beginning of 2025 amounted to more than 165,998 items, a new database of graduation qualification works, and electronic information resources.
The assembly hall has been modernized, the center for collective work «Territory of Development» has been created to organize interactive activities with social partners and employers, new classrooms have been prepared for students of higher and secondary vocational education, and laboratories have been equipped, as well as «Technopark of universal pedagogical competences» at the Faculty of Pedagogical Sciences.
The branch has a museum of history, a multifunctional center, an online learning classroom, a student office, a thrifty training ground, and all conditions have been created for the development of the faculty of secondary vocational education. Students have at their disposal a swimming pool, a gym, a library, a dining room for 210 people, a buffet.
Future graduates improve their professional competences at practical sites of state and municipal structures, enterprises, organizations, in the entrepreneurship and small business sector. 274 enterprises and organizations are practice bases for students of the branch, including large employers: Lebedinsky Mining and Processing Plant, Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant, Administration of Stary Oskol, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation in Stary Oskol and Stary Oskol District, Youth AFFAIRS Department of Stary Oskol, etc.
Students’ development of the equipment of research and educational laboratory of geodesy, cartography and photogrammetry
Research work in the branch is one of the most important activities of the teaching staff, postgraduate students and students. It includes applied research in a certain range of scientific fields, the performance of contractual scientific work, the development of project documentation, the implementation of expert opinions and the provision of advisory assistance.
The research at Stary Oskol branch of “Belgorod State National Research University” provides a complex of departments carrying out research work, including the science sector, 3 faculties, 5 departments and 7 teaching and research laboratories (theory of the Russian language, psychology, online learning and digital educational resources, geodesy, economics and business, integrated control systems, sociology and political science), as well as a 3D modeling and robotics studio, the Center for Pedagogical Education, the Center for Collective Work "Territory of Development".
The staff of the branch: 85% of candidates and doctors of sciences; 7 scientists awarded the honorary titles "Honored School Teacher of the Russian Federation", holders of the honorary badge "Excellence in Public Education”, etc.
The research cluster of the branch in the 2024-25 academic year is focused on one of the priority areas of the national technology initiative - NDP 4 Life Sciences "Man, Society, Science: Problems and Development Prospects", which is being implemented in 4 scientific areas:
The research topics reflect the scientific interests of the departmental teams. The scientific areas in which research is being conducted are integrated into the scientific schools of the Belgorod State National Research University, which makes it possible to consolidate the efforts of scientists in priority areas for the development of science and practice.
In the process of the research agenda, the tasks of network interaction with Russian and foreign universities are being solved, the mechanisms for integrating scientific applied research and educational activities are being improved, as well as the development of scientific and methodological support for the design and research activities of teachers and students of Stary Oskol.
As part of the signed memorandum, the staff of the branch is actively cooperating with one of the leading universities in Kazakhstan - Pavlodar State University.
Students of the branch represent exhibits «Touch a Science» within the framework of the All-Russian Festival of Science.
Within the framework of the signed memorandum, the branch team actively cooperates with one of the leading universities in Kazakhstan, Pavlodar State University.
Scientific directions of the Department of Philology:
Scientific directions of the Department of Pedagogy and Physical Education:
Scientific directions of the Department of Management:
Scientific directions of the Department of Economics and Cadastres:
The branch staff is an active participant in scientific and practical conferences, forums, scientific seminars and lectures. Every year, the educational institution hosts scientific conferences of various levels devoted to current issues of education, linguistics, sociology, and municipal management.
The faculty of the branch is distinguished by high publication activity. Every year the staff of the branch ensures planned indicators in this area of activity. In accordance with the scientific specialization, based on the results of the conducted research, monographs, collections of scientific papers of departments, materials of scientific practical conferences of various levels are published, articles are published in the journals of the Higher Attestation Commission and the Russian Science Citation Index.
Patent and licensing activities have been further developed. In cooperation with the university intellectual property department, the branch ensures receipt of certificates of intellectual property of the mandatory federal copy of the electronic publication of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Scientific and Technical Center "Informregistr".
Stary Oskol branch of the National Research University "BelSU" is a communication platform for developing further strategies for the implementation of the national project "Youth and Children", a conductor of scientific knowledge to educational organizations of the region. Every year, foresight sessions, round tables, the Festival of School Scientific Societies are held on the basis of the university, a new project for schoolchildren is being implemented - the interactive educational platform "Discovery" whose purpose is to popularize science and involve students of schools of Stary Oskol in the scientific and educational environment and project activities.
The educational institution has significant potential for the development of innovative activities, constantly increasing its scientific component and infrastructure resources, improving the organizational forms of scientific research activities.
Under the leadership of the branch director, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Professor Tamara Pavlovna Belikova, the project activities of the branch team have significantly developed.
The branch team continued innovative activities within the framework of federal sites of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Based on the results of activities in the reporting year, the implementation of two projects on federal sites by experts of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the basis of the branch was recognized as effective.
In 2024, the branch team actively participated in the implementation of the municipal project “Creation of a career guidance system for students of educational organizations based on the model “kindergarten school-organizations of vocational and higher education employer in the territory of Stary Oskol (“Better at home!”).
Innovative formats of interaction with students of general education schools and teachers have been developed and tested: “Festival of school scientific societies “Scientists of the Future”, competitions of scientific research works, project sessions and quests.
Research work of students
The leading role in improving the quality of training of specialists is played by the scientific research work of students. The synthesis of the educational program and scientific work of students is the main factor in the formation of professional competencies of a bachelor.
The regulatory framework for students’ research activities is formed by a number of documents: Regulations on the student scientific society “Scientific Initiative”, Regulations on the student’s research rating, Regulations on the “Student Researcher” competition, and others.
The branch has created and improved conditions for effective research work of students. While fulfilling federal state standards of higher education in the areas of training, mastering educational programs and building individual educational routes, all students actively work with teachers based on educational and research laboratories. The results of fruitful work are prepared scientific articles, competitive scientific research works.
The development of students' research work is also ensured by the student scientific society "Scientific Initiative", which includes scientific associations: the research laboratory "Innovative Economics and Financial Literacy" under the leadership of Professor N.I. Lyakhova, the scientific association "Digital Volunteers" under the leadership of Associate Professor Natalia Olegovna Gordeeva, the School of Advanced Studies of Educational Innovations under the leadership of Associate Professor Lyudmila Vladimirovna Buraya the Academy of Leadership and Youth Initiatives under the leadership of Associate Professor Tatyana Ivanovna Shnurenko.
The branch takes part in the implementation of a special university program for selective support of the most talented students, actively participates in all-Russian and regional science festivals, holds a Student Science Week with a wide program of student participation under the guidance of teachers in scientific and practical conferences, project sessions, scientific quests, and project defenses.
The branch hosts an intellectual tournament for the cup of the director of the Belgorod State University Department of Social Sciences, which annually identifies new talented students.
Professional development of a future specialist in the university environment is primarily associated with the development of one’s research competencies. Working with promising students ensures their participation in scientific conferences, competitions, festivals and forums of various levels, preparation of projects and models for regional and all-Russian exhibitions.
Students of the branch represent exhibits «Touch a Science» within the framework of the All-Russian Festival of Science
The branch annually holds sessions for students to familiarize them with the international exchange programs of Belgorod State University, as well as with grants to support academic mobility.
Academic mobility provides an opportunity for students, postgraduates and young scientists to continue their education or gain scientific experience abroad by participating in a short-term educational or research program.
Students of the branch use summer academic exchange programs for short-term stays abroad for the purpose of language training. Every year, students of the branch participate in the summer language school of the National Research University "BelSU", where they receive the necessary knowledge and competencies for further participation in academic exchange programs.
The Branch of the National Research University "BelSU" has created all the conditions for scientific research, creative development and professional education of students. Every year, the branch hosts more than 100 cultural, scientific, educational, and career guidance events. The largest ones are the Day of Knowledge at the Branch of the National Research University "BelSU", the Open Day, the regional festival "Pedagogical Talents of Belogorye". Student Science Week, the All-Russian scientific student readings "Student of the 21st Century: Values, Worldview, Ideals", the Festival of School Scientific Societies "Scientists of the Future", University Saturdays, intellectual tournaments and project quests. In 2025, the Science Week was launched, with the participation of scientists from the National Research University "BelSU".
Students of the branch are multiple winners of the All-Russian competition "National Treasure of Russia"; All-Russian competitions and Olympiads of the Union of Economists and Financiers of Russia; All-Russian competition for the best organization of activities of student self-government bodies; All-Russian patriotic festival-competition among hero cities and cities of military glory of Russia "Cities covered with glory"; regional festival of TO among students of higher educational institutions; Regional review-competition of educational organizations of higher education of the Belgorod region for the best organization of physical education and sports work among students, etc.
Every year the number of students with high achievements in studies, science, sports and creativity increases in the branch. Much attention is paid to the development of student self-government, the Student Council functions.
Students of the Belgorod State University's SOF are active participants in the volunteer movement. The volunteer association "Volunteer-31" has more than 700 members.
Anastasia Marakhovskaya, a graduate of the 2024, was nominated to receive the highest award of the Belgorod State University, the “Worthy” medal.
Special attention at the Belgorod State University Department of Social Sciences is paid to the formation of a healthy lifestyle among student youth by introducing health-saving technologies into the system of teaching and upbringing students.
The branch's athletes participate in regional and all-Russian competitions, track and field races dedicated to significant dates. Students represent the interests of the university in the city Universiade, participating in competitions in tennis, polyathlon, volleyball, track and field, basketball, chess and occupying leading positions. According to the results of 2024, the branch team became the winner of the Universiade of the Stary Oskol urban district. For high sports achievements and active participation in physical education and
More than 300 students, teachers and staff were awarded with honorary certificates of the university, branch, badges of the All-Russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex “GTO” and other awards for their sports activities.
The students of the branch are scholarship holders of the governor, the administration of the Stary Oskol urban district, the rector of the National Research University "BelSU", the "Generation" foundation, and winners of the regional educational projects "Pegasus", "Platform-31", "Nezhegol", "Ladoga".
The branch has repeatedly become a venue for holding meetings of the Government of Belgorod, the Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of the Belgorod Region. The experience of interaction between the branch and the university in implementing a modern model of training personnel for municipalities has been summarized and recommended for dissemination by the Council of Rectors of the Belgorod Region.
Information was given by Natalia Gerdeeva 26.09.2025