Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism

Ibragim Dzhavparovich Ibragimov

Yelena Sergeyevna Bocharova

Svetlana Viktorovna Chechel

Andrey Aleksandrovich Sokhan

Oksana Yevgenyevna Ivanova

Anna Yevgenyevna Mazevskaya

Svetlana Leonidovna Kazakova

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Shulzhenko

Murat Asimovich Ibragimov

About the Institute

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The Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism (ITAM) is in its way a microcosm of Pyatigorsk State University (PSU).

It has gone the way of 25 intense, yet successful years, and has firmly occupied its own educational place within the university structure. Today, it is a dynamically developing university division with well-qualified teaching staff and a great potential for scholarly research. The history of the Institute is more than a list of dates and years; it comprises the destinies of hundreds of people - talented students and high-rank faculty, most of whom are the former graduates and doctoral students of Pyatigorsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages.

At present, over 500 students, masters, and doctoral students study at the ITAM. The teaching process relies on the use of innovative technologies, including laboratories for simultaneous and consecutive interpretation and various multimedia facilities.

The innovative philosophy of teaching and learning at the ITAM reflects the central idea of the XXI century education: training “not a specialist, but a generalist”.

A mission of ITAM, which is carried out by its Scientific Board, Dean office, Chairs, and the Institute employees, lies in gradual implementation of innovative methods and informational humanitarian technologies, forming of poly-cultural linguistically competent person with advanced civil and professional awareness, fulfilling of diversity of studied languages and cultures, providing of high quality human resources training: bachelors, specialists, masters, who prove the international priority of the higher school.

The history of the Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism goes back to the year of 1993 when Translation and Interpretation program was first opened at the Foreign Students Department. Among those who rocked the cradle of the new university division were the former PSLU rector and president Yuri Davydov; the former university provost and current rector’s adviser Nickolay Baryshnikov; Professor Anna Artyomova, and a number of faculty who had worked at other university departments. The development of Translation and Interpretation Department was initially headed by its first dean Alexander Gorbunov, who is now the rector of the “University which Opens the World”, i.e. Pyatigorsk State University. Due to his professional management, multiplied by the enthusiasm and initiative of Prof. Artyomova, the first Chair of the Sub-Department of Theory and Practice of Translation and Interpretation, an efficient team which included both young and experienced teachers was formed within relatively short time.

In 1993 the Sub-Department of Theory and Practice of Translation and Interpretation had only seven faculty members: Prof. Artyomova, Ass. Prof. Zaitseva, Ass. Prof. Shamlidi, Senior Lecturer Pravikov, Ass. Prof. Bedareva, Ass. Prof. Horunzhaya, and Ass. Prof. Lyashenko. The next year the department welcomed a number of new teachers: Anna V. Artyomova, Larissa Gorokhova, Eugeny Kolomiets, and Valentina Loktionova. After three years, the department gave birth to a new structural division: Sub-Department of West-European Languages. Up till now, its Chair is Prof. Zaitseva. This department has raised not a few faculty members for other university divisions: Dr. Alimuradov is the university CEO for Scholarly Research; Ass. Prof. Yurchenko is the Chair of German Sub-Department at the Institute of Linguistics, Communicational Management, and Information Technologies; Ass. Prof. Kazaryan is the Chair of West-European Languages Sub-Department at the Institute of International Relations; Ass. Prof. Ibragimov is the Chair of the Sub-Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures; Prof. Yermakova is the head of Multi-Level Innovative Academy of Continual Education.

The history of the Institute is by no means trivial and easy: it has gone all the way along the path of reforms together with the university, the city, and the country. It has survived a number of transformations. On December 1, 1995, Translation and Interpretation Department became independent from the Foreign Students Department. For the following several years, it provided training of translators and interpreters in two languages, as well as offered a degree in management combined with translation/interpretation. The department also enrolled foreign students in a special program. In the summer of 1998, the Department of Civic and Municipal Management was formed at PSLU, which made its first steps within our division. Also, our Institute gave birth to the Department of International Relations (now the Institute of International Relations).

The Institute continues to grow and develop, preserving the best traditions of PSLU linguistic education. Today we have faculty members of different age, including several dynasties of teachers: A. Artyomova, O. Leonovich, and E. Leonovich; L. Pravikova and D. Lazarev; S. Chechel and O. Chechel; O. Zaitseva and A. Zaitseva; E. Aganesov and V. Aganesov; G. Lebedev, M. Lebedeva, and K. Lebedeva.

In 2003, a unique multi-language program was opened on the initiative and under supervision of Prof. Baryshnikov. The program stipulates a simultaneous study of four foreign languages (English, German, French, and Spanish).

In 2004/2005, Translation and Interpretation Department first offered a combined on-site and off-site training program in translation and translatology; in 2006/2007 a similar off-site program was opened, which by far has been unique for the tertiary system in the South of Russia.

In 2007 the Department stars a program of two higher education diplomas in short terms (three years in PSU, two years in PRC, in Changchun University).

The year of 2008 witnessed another expansion of the program specter: the Polish language was introduced as a third foreign language.

In 2009, a program in literary creative work was opened. The students of this five-year program are professionally trained to become not only literary workers and fiction translators, but also fiction and poetry writers.

On February 1, 2010, Translation and Interpretation Department was transformed into the Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism. In September 2010, the Institute introduced a two-level system of higher education, offering B.A. and M.A. degrees.

In the year 2012, the Institute first enrolled students in translation/interpretation and translatology with a minor in linguistic provision for international relations. This is a specialized 5-year program.

In 2012 extramural training of translators is run by the Institute of Distant Education and Development of Informational and Communicational Technologies, and in 2014 the enrollment to the evening school stopped.

2013 was marked with another spectrum broadening in “Translation and Translatology. The Institute starts an education of Turkish and English languages translation.

In 2015 the Institute for the first time enrolled students on “Translation and Translatology (English and Chinese languages) with a minor in professional translation in oil and gas field.

2016 year witnessed another enrollment in a special group of the major Linguistics (translation and translatology) with Chinese and English languages. After bachelor program termination, graduates may enter two master’s programs at the same time: in PSU and Shanghai University of Foreign Languages within the framework of the double master diploma program agreement.

In 2017 Higher School of Language Arts, Oriental and European Languages merged with the Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism.

In 2017, apart from the Linguistics, Translation and Translatology, Literature Creativity, an educational program of Pedagogic Education starts bachelor’s and master’s programs.

In 2018 an enrollment to the short term educational program (3+2) with minor in Linguistics stopped.

In 2018 Translation and Translatology broadened its majors' spectrum and started enrollment to the special translation in the tourism field.

In 2018 the number of languages was increased, and a group of Farsi and English was formed.

Nowadays the Institute trains bachelors, certified experts, masters in theory and practice of translation (on eight languages of Europe, Asia, and America: English (British and American), German, French, Spanish, Arab, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, and Persian since 2019), linguistics, intercultural communication, and literature art, as well as pedagogic education.

Ibragim Dzhavparovich Ibragimov

Director Institute of Translatology and Multilingualism

Yelena Sergeyevna Bocharova

Svetlana Viktorovna Chechel

Andrey Aleksandrovich Sokhan

Oksana Yevgenyevna Ivanova

Anna Yevgenyevna Mazevskaya

Svetlana Leonidovna Kazakova

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Shulzhenko

Murat Asimovich Ibragimov

Положение о об Институте / Высшей школе ФГБОУ ВО «Пятигорский государственный университет»
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Дата утверждения: 20.02.2019

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