For 95 years we have been teaching,
exploring, acting.

1925

BACKGROUND

During the planning phase for the Rostselmash plant (1925-1927), N.P. Krutikov, a future associate professor at the North Caucasus Institute of Agricultural Engineering, visited the USA with a group of engineers to study agricultural machinery production.

A special design group was created specifically for the Rostselmash plant project.

Professor Krutikov recalled: "At that time, the design of the factory posed a very complex problem. There was no such plant in the Soviet Union or anywhere in the world. The concepts of 'conveyor' and 'production flow' required exceptionally convincing arguments, calculations, and research. I was sent to the USA and visited 63 machine-building factories. This had a decisive influence on further design. The first design was based on horse-drawn machinery production, but the need for tractor-powered machines led to revisions. Several partial and two fundamental redesigns were carried out."

Krutikov Nikolay Petrovich 

Professor, Head of the Department of Agricultural Machinery since the foundation of the Institute until 1961. An active participant in the development of agricultural machinery in the South of Russia. Head of the technical project for the construction of the Rostselmash plant, one of the organizers of RISHMA. He became the first professor at the university.

1931

CREATION AND EARLY YEARS OF EXISTENCE

The forerunner of DSTU, the North Caucasus Institute of Agricultural Engineering, was established in 1930, when new plants for the production of agricultural machinery (the largest of which was Rostselmash) came into operation. The new plants required technologists and engineers, and the personnel trained by the Don Polytechnic Institute in Novocherkassk was insufficient. The governmental commission headed by V.V. Schmidt visited the Rostov region and decided to reorganize it. Schmidt decided to reorganize the Don Polytechnic Institute, opening several independent universities on its basis.

Based on the resolution of the governmental commission, the order of the People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR A.S. Bubnov No 259 of May 14, 1930 was issued on the establishment of the North Caucasus Institute of Agricultural Engineering on the basis of the Mechanical Faculty of the DPI. Opened on September 1, 1930 SKISKhM became the only higher education institution in the country, training personnel for the branch of agricultural machine building.

Lev Borisovich Sunitsa, an organizer of higher education in the Soviet Union, a member of the RSDLP since 1905, an initiator of the Bolshevik group in Vienna, where he lived in 1914-1918, was appointed Director of the North Caucasus Institute of Agricultural Engineering.

One of the most important issues that the head of the young institute managed to solve in an extremely short period of time was the issue of providing scientific personnel and qualified laboratory staff. His previous leadership experience played a decisive role: in 1923-1926, Sunitsa worked as a vice-rector of the Ural Institute of Science and Technology. Sunitsa worked as a vice-rector of the Ural-Siberian Communist University.

1932

THOSE WHO CREATED THE UNIVERSITY

The first team of teachers and organizers of SKISKHMA consisted of real enthusiasts of agricultural engineering, which was emerging in those years. N.P. Krutikov, E.I. Khmelevsky, Z.D. Efimenko, E.M. Rozenblat, D.Ya. Revich and P.V. Kondratiev came from the Don Polytechnic University, located in Novocherkassk, and K.I. Duvin, M.I. Bosov, and N.V. Kondratiev (he became deputy director of the SKISKHMA for scientific and educational work) from other universities.K. Mikhailovsky, N.R. Ruppeneit. Two specialized departments, "Agricultural Machinery" and "Technology of Metals," have moved from the Faculty of Mechanics of the DPI to the SKRCM.

Later, the teaching staff was replenished with industrial engineers from the Rostselmash plant, among whom were I.F. Popov, M.N. Dobrokhotov, M.M. Zagladny, G.G. Okhrimovich, K.F. Shcherbakov, I.I. Khoroshev, and graduates of the institute.

Initially, the institute had only two departments – "Agricultural machinery" (training personnel for agricultural machinery plants, the head of the department is N.P. Krutikov) and "Technology of Metals" (the first department in the country that trained specialists in the discipline "Metal–cutting machines", the head of the department is Professor P.V. Kondratiev).  The first faculties of the university were: Mechanical (Dean  – Professor N.P. Krutikov), General Technical (until 1936 it was concurrently headed by N.P. Krutikov, and since 1936 – associate professor, Ph.D. Ya.G. Lifshits) and evening (dean – T.F. Yakovlev).

The first university enrollment amounted to 125 people.

The first curriculum, developed by the Department of Agricultural Machinery under the supervision of Professor N.P. Krutikov, was approved by the USSR People's Commissariat of Education as a standard for this specialty. The textbook "Theory, Design and Calculation of agricultural machinery", the first edition of a team of authors edited by Professor N.P. Krutikov, has been translated and published in German and Chinese. The textbook has become the main manual for students specializing in agricultural engineering, both in the Soviet Union and abroad. The faculty's researchers have published lecture courses and several monographs devoted to the development of the design, theory and calculation of agricultural machinery, as well as the development of individual technological processes of agricultural production.

Scientific research has identified four main areas: the creation of new agricultural machinery, scientific research in the field of metal cutting, developments in the field of physical, mathematical and chemical sciences, as well as research in the field of wear and the creation of antifriction ductile iron.  The group that led the research work related to the creation of new agricultural machines: Professor N.P. Krutikov, associate professors I.I. Smirnov and I.F. Popov.  Professor P.V. Kondratiev, Associate Professor K.P. Pchelichenko, teachers M.I. Bosov, E.I. Khmelevsky led scientific research in the field of metal cutting. Associate Professor Ya.G. Lifshits led the research in the field of wear and creation of antifriction ductile iron.  Professors V.P. Velmin and N.M. Lyapin, associate Professor D.Ya. Revich, teachers D.I. Kletenik, T.F. Yakovlev laid the foundations of research in the field of physical, mathematical and chemical sciences at the university. During the first decade, 13 teachers of the Institute defended their PhD theses.  The first scientific and technical conference was held at the Institute in November 1939. More than 250 people took part in its work – scientists of the institute, representatives of the Rostselmash and Krasny Aksai plants.

1932

THE FIRST NKB, THE FIRST CARS

Together with the plant “Rostselmash” in 1930 the department of agricultural machinery created a scientific and design bureau, performing work to improve agricultural machinery produced by the enterprise.

Senior students were actively involved in scientific work. With their participation tractor plows TP-3-30 and TP-4-30, which provide high reliability in any soil and weather conditions of the country, were put into production. The development was highly appreciated at the All-Union tests in 1933.

Professor N.P. Krutikov and Associate Professor I.F. Popov participate in the creation of grain harvester “Stalinets-1”, which at the International Industrial Exhibition in Paris in 1937 was awarded the Grand Prix diploma

The engineering solutions incorporated into the first combine harvester were so successful that in 1947, Associate professor of the Department of Agricultural Machinery I.F. Popov, together with the designers of the Rostselmash plant, was awarded the title of USSR State Prize Laureate for his participation in the development of the sixth modification of this line of combine harvesters, the S-6.

Combine harvester trailed motor "Stalinets-1".  In his design, he combined two machines into one whole – a reaper and a thresher. This design allows cutting bread and then threshing it and cleaning the grain. From 1931 to 1941, 54 061 combines of this series were produced.

On April 20, 1947, the first Stalinets-6 combine harvester rolled off the main assembly line. Seven years later, in 1954, the one hundred thousandth post-war C-6 combine harvester was assembled and produced.

1935

STUDENTS-CONSTRUCTORS

The North Caucasus Institute of Agricultural Engineering and the Rostselmash plant were created simultaneously and with the same goal – the rise of domestic industry. The plant is designed to provide the national economy with agricultural machinery, and the university with personnel for its production and maintenance.The first graduation of certified mechanical engineers at SKISKHMA took place in 1935, but university studies, the creation of new equipment and the establishment of production at Rostselmash during these years are so interconnected that it is sometimes difficult to determine who developed this or that innovation: plant engineers, scientific staff of SKISKHMA or its students.

In total, over the years of the first five-year plan, the university has graduated 316 young specialists.

1935

IVAN IVANOVICH SMIRNOV

One of the first graduates of the institute, who headed the university in 1939. The path he took was typical for young people of that time. He came to Rostov from a rural area of ​​the Ryazan region. He studied at basic vocational education courses and worked at the Krasny Aksai plant. He was one of the first to be recommended for graduate school and defended his PhD dissertation. The three years (1938-1941) that he headed the institute were marked by an upsurge in scientific work. From the first day of the war he was called up to the front and reached Berlin. In 1953, the USSR Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education sent Associate Professor of the Department of Agricultural Machinery I.I. Smirnova to the Dresden University of Technology. 

Thanks to his efforts, the Institute of Agricultural Engineering was opened and established at the Dresden Technical University.
At the RISHM, I.I. Smirnov headed the Department of Agricultural Engineering from 1962 to 1972, and published more than 50 scientific works, including four textbooks, two of which were republished abroad.

1940

A FAST-PACED DECADE

In the first decade of its existence, the institute was renamed several times.  The names changed due to territorial and administrative changes in the North Caucasus. Originally organized in 1930, SKISKHM was under the jurisdiction of Glavselmash and the Main Directorate of Educational Institutions of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry. In 1934, in connection with the formation of the Azov-Black Sea Region, the university was for some time called the Azov-Black Sea Institute of Agricultural Engineering (ACHISHM), but in 1935 it became known as the Rostov-on-Don Institute of Agricultural Engineering (RISKHM). However, in 1936, in connection with the transfer of RISKHMA to the GUUZ of the People's Commissariat of Medium Engineering, it was renamed the Rostov Machine-Building Institute (RMI) and worked under that name until 1947. Having passed under the jurisdiction of first the People's Commissariat of Agricultural Machinery, and then the Ministry of Higher Education of the RSFSR, it again became known as the Rostov Institute of Agricultural Machinery.  This name remained until 1992.

The Institute, which was comparable in scale to the faculty at the time of its foundation, had become one of the largest universities in the Rostov region by the pre-war year.  More than 80 teachers worked here, 37 of them with academic degrees, and a thousand students studied. According to the results of the summer examination session, the average score for the university was 4.18. The university begins training in a new specialty – "Welding production" (head of the department "Equipment and technology of welding production" – A.I. Zelenov), 17 new laboratories have been created.

During the first decade, 12 departments, 14 classrooms were opened, and a pavilion of agricultural machinery was built. More than a thousand engineers have been trained.  Many of them became heads of large enterprises in the country. N.P. Glebov-Avilov worked as director of the Rostselmash plant, A.N. Ivanov – his deputy, V.I. Klimov – chief mechanic, N.V. Rayevsky – director of the Rostselmash plant. After the October Revolution in Odessa; D.I. Ryzhkov – chief engineer of the Gorky Machine Tool Plant; G.P. Solodenko was the head of the shop, chief engineer of the Rostselmash plant, Director of the Scientific and Technical Institute (Rostov-on-Don); V.I. Zilberberg was the Deputy General Director.

1941

EVACUATION

The war was approaching Rostov rapidly.  Many students were mobilized and sent to the Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy. Teachers went to the front, and the director of the institute, I.I. Smirnov, was called up. In November 1941, part of the staff of the Rostov Machine-Building Institute (the new name RISKHMA, which remained with it until 1947) was seconded to the Rostselmash plant and evacuated to Tashkent with it.

For some time, the remaining teachers and students continued to work in Rostov. But in the fall of 1942, when the university buildings were completely destroyed as a result of massive bombing and shelling, the institute finally moved to Tashkent. They studied in the evacuation according to new curricula with a shortened period of study due to summer holidays and diploma design. Factory departments became lecture halls, laboratory classes were held in workshops. In addition to studying and working, students and teachers were engaged in cotton harvesting in the fields of the Mirzachul district, worked on the construction of the Salar hydroelectric power station, and grew vegetables on the lands of Sredny Chirchik, where the university was allocated 10 hectares for subsidiary farming.

1941

HEROES FROM OUR UNIVERSITY

Tatyana Andreevna Malyugina, a teacher at the Institute, was one of the first to join the Rostov regiment of the People's militia.  Her example was followed by laboratory assistant Vassa Georgievna Boyko, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages Tamara Ivanovna Markova, and head of the library Lina Fedorovna Stepanova. Students:

Alexandra Ivanova-Vyazemskaya, 

Zinaida Kozlova,

Ivan Polevodin,

Valentina Kishelgof,

Leonid Movshevich,

German Yeletsky,

The soldiers of the ambulance platoon created under Malyugina's command carried the wounded from the battlefield on themselves and transported them across the Don River under constant fire. During one of the heavy battles for Rostov, Malyugina died.  On the same day, her husband, Anastas Ivakhnenko, who served as a political officer in one of the companies of the same people's militia regiment, died with her. A street in our city is named in memory of Malyugina.

1942

HEROES FROM OUR UNIVERSITY

The gunner of the artillery regiment, Georgy Larin, met the war in Bessarabia. The regiment took the first blows of the fascist invaders. With five shots from an artillery piece, Larin knocked out three enemy tanks. He died in the fighting in the autumn of 1941. For his feat, he was awarded a high award – the Order of Lenin.

Opening of the monument to the teachers, staff and students of RISKHMA who died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Maximilian Zhurakovsky,

German Yeletsky,

Konstantin Grishin,

In the summer of 1942, senior students Alexandra Ivanova-Vyazemskaya and Zinaida Kozlova, who fought in the ranks of the people's militia, died. Maximilian Zhurakovsky and Vladimir Martyshenko remained under Stalingrad forever. Ivan Semikozov was killed in the battles for the defense of Odessa. Leonid Movshevich, the political instructor, and Konstantin Grishin, the underground worker, fell to the death of the brave.

1943

STUDIES DURING THE WAR YEARS

In August 1943, after the liberation of Rostov-on-Don from occupation, the first wartime recruitment took place. 150 people were admitted to the institute, 13 departments were created. In Tashkent, whеre the institute was evacuated at the beginning of the war, 140 students from the day and evening departments were finishing the academic year. In June 1944, L.V. Krasnichenko sent a certificate with a plan for its gradual restoration to the People's Commissariat of Mortar Armament of the USSR, which was then in charge of the university. And already at the end of August 1944, the director of the university signed one of the most important documents, in his words, an order certifying that the Rostov Machine-Building Institute had resumed work in Rostov-on-Don. By this time, the staff that had been evacuated from Tashkent had returned to Rostov in two carriages and on two platforms. The teachers arrived: N.P. Krutikov, V.K. Tepinkichiev, I.I. Khoroshev, K.F. Shcherbakov, as well as 28 Rostov students. Soon, the new 1944/1945 academic year began for 256 students and 32 teachers of the university.

1945

WE WON

After the war, only hulks remained of the Institute's buildings, and its staff - a scattered group of teachers. In August 1944, the evacuated staff returned to Rostov from Tashkent in two cars and on two platforms. By 1945/1946 academic year 4 university buildings were restored, educational and production workshops with mechanical, locksmith, forge and press, foundry, welding and assembly shops were working, the teaching staff was formed, the post-war enrollment of students was made.

From the memoirs of L.V. Krasnichenko: “All the work on creation of Rostov Machine-Building Institute was carried out in extremely difficult and hard conditions, especially in 1944 and in the beginning of 1945”.

Already by the 1945/1946 academic year the buildings were restored, workshops were built, teaching staff was formed, and post-war enrollment was made.

Knowing how hard it is for students, Krasnichenko organized the supply of free bread to the canteens and cafeterias of the university. He supervised the construction of the main building of RISKhMa - a building recognized today as an architectural monument. All in all, during the “Krasnichenko era” six educational buildings, three dormitories, two recreation and sports camps - “Raduga” and “Snezhinka” (in Dombai), sanatorium-preventorium “Zarya” were erected. The only inter-university sports arena in the South of Russia was opened, houses for teachers and employees were built.

Science, including student science, was intensively developed at RISKhM, the range of specialties was expanded, and international cooperation was intensified.

1949

THE FIRST POST-WAR FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Construction of a new complex of buildings and structures for the institute has begun.

Every morning, the secretary of the party bureau, Alexander Stepanovich Revenko, and the rector, Leonid Vasilyevich Krasnichenko, were at the construction site of the institute.

1957

THE FIFTIES: PEACEFUL CREATION

In 1957, a specialized research laboratory of agricultural engineering (SNIL - first head - V.D. Martynov) was established at the Institute. The faculties of “Instrument Engineering” (first dean - P.I. Rusin), “Machine Building Technology” (first dean - M.G. Shtanko) and correspondence faculty were established.

In 1959 the department of “Precision Mechanics Instruments” was established (the first head - Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor P.I. Rusin). The Council for the defense of candidate theses was opened. The main building of the Institute was partially put into operation. The following departments moved to the new building: “Resistance of Materials”, “Equipment and Technologies of Welding Production”, “Machines and Metal Processing by Pressure”, “Machine Parts”, “Physics”, “Graphics” and others. A sports and recreational camp “Raduga” on the Black Sea coast was organized.

In the academic year 1957/1958 the Institute had 2,560 students. The teaching staff numbered 128 people. More than 25% of teachers had academic degrees and titles.

1960

NEW DEPARTMENTS, NEW BUILDINGS

In the academic year 1957/1958 the Institute had 2,560 students. The teaching staff numbered 128 people. More than 25% of teachers had academic degrees and titles.

Scientific schools were created, new departments were opened, the list of training directions was expanded. New buildings were built, the infrastructure of the university was developing. The departments “Automation of production processes” (1960, head - associate professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences V.D. Martynov) and “Machines and technology of foundry production” (1960, head - associate professor, Candidate of Technical Sciences S.F. Frolov) were established. The teaching-laboratory and engineering-laboratory buildings were put into operation. The interuniversity athletics sports arena was put into operation. The institute sanatorium and preventorium was opened.

1965

STRENGTHENING UNIVERSITY SCIENCE

In 1965, a joint scientific council for the defense of doctoral dissertations in the specialty “Agricultural Machinery” was organized.

In 1970 there were 6,727 students at the Institute. By 1975 the teaching staff increased to 459 people. By the beginning of the 70s, 160 people defended their PhD theses.

In 1971-1975, 330 research works were carried out, of which 100 were implemented at the enterprises. Scientific schools were created, headed by leading scientists - Professors Y.V. Grinkov, P.I. Rusin, L.V. Krasnichenko, V.K. Tepinkichiev, L.E. Starikov, V.A. Terlikov, I.I.

New departments were opened, the list of training areas was expanding. The full-time education was conducted in two forms: traditional full-time and allowing to combine study with work at the production site (a week of study - a week of work).

RISHM actively participates in the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR. From 1971 to 1975, 17 works were demonstrated at the VDNKH of the USSR.

1970

NEW COMBINES

Under the supervision of candidates of technical sciences I.I. Smirnov and O.V. Vernyaev, together with the GSKB at the Krasny Aksai plant, a universal cultivator with active working bodies for continuous inter-row tillage, plant fertilization, and herbicide application was developed. When creating the new generation of combines, new effective materials were used, created by researchers from the Department of Metal Technology under the supervision of Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor L.V. Krasnichenko, together with engineers from the enterprise and the GSKB. The developed sintered materials from iron-based powders were used in the designs of new grain harvesting combines "Niva" (58 parts), "Kolos" (15 parts).

1973

FEED PRODUCTION INDUSTRY

The experimental line of toothed-ring rollers for preparation of green fodder with the use of mechanical dehydration of protein-vitamin concentrate developed in 1973 at the training and experimental site was demanded by livestock farms of Rostov region, the results of research were used in the creation of fodder preparation shops in a number of republics of the Soviet Union.

The most important task was solved in the country to find highly productive methods of fodder production. The university opened a problematic research laboratory, the team of which was engaged in the development of a new technology for the country “Production of concentrated fodder and food proteins from green plant matter”. 

Under the guidance of Professor V.I. Fomin, Academician, I.A. Dolgov, Professor Y.F. Novikov, Professor N.I. Proydak have conducted long-term studies and developed effective methods of processing plant raw materials into protein fodder, revealed the main physical and mechanical regularities of the process of green juice coagulation, created mathematical models that allow to adequately describe technological processes, determine their modes of operation. These regularities have become a scientific basis for the creation of resource-saving environmentally friendly technologies for the production of various types of forages and components for combined and artificial foods. Together with the scientists of the All-Russian Research Institute of Forages and All-Russian Research Institute of Comestibles, the technology and equipment for complex processing of leafy biomass of annual and perennial grasses into fodder and protein supplements were developed.

The results of research in the field of vibration and noise reduction conducted under the guidance of Prof. Grinkov allowed to introduce a number of original solutions in the designs of grain combines of Rostselmash and Taganrog combine plant.

1987

START OF MODERNIZATION

During the transitional time for RISHM and the entire Russian education system, the university was headed by its graduate, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor Anatoly Andreevich Ryzhkin. Honored Scientist and Technologist of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Higher Education was first elected rector of his native university during the elections held on an alternative basis in February 1988, and headed it until 2007.

While researching physical and technical problems of friction and wear, he founded the scientific and practical direction of "Physicochemical Thermodynamic Foundations of Controlling the Wear Resistance of Tool Cutting Materials" at the university.

According to the entire logic of development, RISHM was transformed from an industry university focused on agricultural engineering into a multidisciplinary technical institute.

In 1987, the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics, which had just been organized at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Technology (headed by a graduate of RISHM, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor A.K. Tugengold), opened the specialty of Robotic Systems and Complexes. The Department of Applied Mathematics opened the specialty of Software for Computers and Automated Systems.

In 1991, RISKHM began accepting students for two new specialties for the industry university: "Machines and Apparatus for Food Production" and "Organization and Management of Production". The research sector and research laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Machine Building of the RSFSR were transformed into the research and production enterprise "Sintez". In 1989, the Humanities Faculty was organized, uniting the departments of social sciences, foreign languages, physical education, labor protection and the environment. In 1991, the Department of Cultural Studies was organized.

In 1993, a cultural center, the South Russian branch of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation, the North Caucasian branch of the Academy of Quality Problems of the Russian Federation, and the Don branch of the International Academy of Ecological Sciences and Life Safety (MANEB), headed by Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor A.E. Astvatsaturov, were opened. The departments of "Pedagogical Measurements" and "Public Relations" appeared in the structure of the university. In 1996, the North Caucasus Innovation Center for Higher Education was created on the basis of DSTU within the framework of the innovative program “Support for young entrepreneurship and new economic structures in science and scientific services for higher education”.

In 1996, the university held its first bachelor's degree graduation.

In 1997, DSTU successfully passed its first state certification as a multidisciplinary university. In 1998, the Azov Polytechnic College was transformed into a polytechnic college and included in DSTU as a branch. In 1999, a department of higher vocational education was created in the college. Later, in 2001, the DSTU college was transformed into the Azov Technological Institute (ATI), which had faculties of higher and secondary vocational education. ATI DSTU became the first university in Russia to begin implementing a two-level training of specialists.

In 1999, the Institute of Technology was created on the basis of the Volgodonsk Institute of Service and included in DSTU. In the same year, the Taganrog branch of DSTU was established (in 2015 it was renamed Taganrog Polytechnic University).

1992

NEW NAME OF A FAMOUS UNIVERSITY

Under the leadership of Anatoly Ryzhkin and largely due to his personal efforts, a multidisciplinary technical university was created on the basis of an industry university: in 1992, RISHM was transformed into DSTU. By order of the Ministry of Science, Higher School and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation dated December 24, 1992, the Rostov-on-Don Institute of Agricultural Machinery (RISHM) was renamed the Don State Technical University (DSTU).

2002

THE ZEROES – A NEW STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

The modernization of the university that began in the 1990s was bearing fruit: the multidisciplinary university expanded its scientific and business partnerships and strengthened its infrastructure.

In 2002, the Aircraft Engineering Department was organized jointly with the Russian Military Industrial Complex of Rostvertol OJSC. From its creation until 2015, the department was headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rostvertol OJSC Boris Nikolaevich Slyusar, a 1971 graduate of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In the same year, the Regional Center for Continuous Education of DSTU was created. In 2004, the Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering and High Technologies of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences was opened on the basis of DSTU. In 2005, the university opened the first university educational engineering laboratory in Russia in collaboration with the Italian company Camozzi, a recognized world leader in the production of pneumatic automation systems.

The foundations of spiritual education were laid, which would become an important component of educational work at the university. In 2008, on the territory of the DSTU Student Park, the foundation stone was laid and consecrated at the construction site of the future church in the name of the holy martyr Tatiana. At the same time, a spiritual and educational center for youth was created at the university under the leadership of the rector of the Church of St. Martyr Tatiana, priest Mikhail Gaponenko, head of the department of youth affairs and missionary service of the Rostov-on-Don diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. In 2009, in connection with the reorganization of DSTU, RGASM became part of the university structure as the Institute of Power Engineering and Mechanical Engineering of DSTU.

The contribution of the university administration to the development of higher education during the difficult transition period of the nineties was duly appreciated by the country's leadership. In 2003, Prof. A.A. Ryzhkin and the university's research team were awarded the 2002 Presidential Prize in Education for the series of works "Scientific, educational, methodological and organizational support for the training of engineering and scientific personnel in the field of tribology (friction, wear and lubrication)". In 2009, for the scientific and practical development “Methodological, organizational and scientific support for the functioning of the regional educational system “School – University”, the Russian Federation Government Prize in the field of education was awarded to teachers and staff of DSTU, headed by prof. B.Ch. Meskhi.

2007

THE ZEROES – A NEW STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

In 2007, a new stage of the university's development began. In May of this year, the rector elections were held. The conference of the work collective by an overwhelming majority of votes - 84.3% - elected the vice-rector for administrative and economic work and capital construction, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Besarion Chokhoevich Meskhi to the post of rector of DSTU.

Large-scale construction of the infrastructure of the developing multidisciplinary university is underway. In 2007, dormitory No. 5 with an area of ​​4,779 m2 was commissioned. In 2008, educational and laboratory building No. 8 (area of ​​17,150 m2) was commissioned. In 2011, a physical education and health complex with a swimming pool with an area of ​​2,486 m2 was put into operation. In 2013, the DSTU Congress Hall was put into operation.

The implementation of the Housing project has begun, within the framework of which the university is building residential buildings for teachers and young scientists on preferential terms. Two comfortable buildings are being built in the Raduga sports and recreation complex on the Black Sea coast, and a unique methodology for shared construction of affordable housing for DSTU employees has been developed and implemented.

2013

CONGRESS HALL FOR THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY

The Congress Hall, which can accommodate 1,500 guests and is equipped with the most modern technology, is an effective tool for integrating the university into the international educational, economic, scientific, innovative and socio-cultural space. The Congress Hall has repeatedly become a venue for regional events organized by the Rostov Region Government, in particular, for the United Russia Party Congress and for summing up the work of various ministries.

Built in 2013, the DSTU Congress Hall with an area of ​​6,954 m2 is rightfully considered one of the most popular places in the capital of the Don for holding a wide variety of educational, socially significant and entertainment events - from concerts and conferences to youth gatherings and hackathons.

2015

MEDIA PARK "SOUTHERN REGION - DSTU"

In 2015, the media park “Southern Region – DSTU” was created on the basis of the university. It is a unique production and educational platform for the South of Russia, working to form an infrastructure for the creation, support and development of start-ups and innovative developments in the IT and multimedia business sectors.

The media park has a production center, where, thanks to a qualified team and high-tech equipment, original projects of any complexity are created.

"Southern Region - DSTU" is the only multimedia center in the South of Russia with a professional filming pavilion for the television and film industry and an OPEN SPACE for holding the most unusual events.

All technical capacities of the media park are used in the process of teaching professional skills to students of the faculty of "Media Communications and Multimedia Technologies".

Since 2015, the media park has hosted the annual all-Russian television competition "Student TEFI", established by the "Academy of Russian Television" foundation. "Student TEFI", like the Rostov TEFI School named after R. Ya. Bespechnaya, organized in the media park, contributes to raising the general level of training of personnel of domestic television, creates conditions for the growth of their professional skills.

In 2015, the general director of the "Academy of Russian Television" foundation Eteri Levieva held a master class for the participants of the "Student TEFI" competition.

In 2018, the City Press Center of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia operated on the basis of the DSTU media park.

2016

SUPPORT UNIVERSITY

At the end of 2009 – beginning of 2010, a long and difficult reorganization of the technical college at the Rostselmash plant was completed. Founded in 1960, the technical college was a very effective structure under the conditions of that time, allowing for the training of highly qualified specialists of the lower and middle levels in a short time in the “week of study – week of work” mode. The quality of education was ensured by the teaching staff – many teachers combined work at the technical college and RISHM – and the material base provided by Rostselmash (primarily machine tools). In total, there were 7 such technical colleges in the USSR. In the nineties, when the economy of the entire country was being restructured, connections between educational institutions and industries were weakened and broken, and the reorganization of the technical university began.

In 1991, the branch of the technical university at the Rostselmash plant was transformed into the Rostov Institute of Automation and Technology of Mechanical Engineering, which 4 years later was renamed the Rostov-on-Don State Academy of Agricultural Engineering (RSAME). In 2009, the process of merging RSAME with DSTU began. The integration stage, the main objective of which was to preserve the viable methods of RSAME and the teaching staff, lasted 5 months.

In early 2010, RGASM became part of the university as the Institute of Power Engineering and Mechanical Engineering of DSTU, with Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor Vladimir Lavrentyevich Gaponov as its director.

The South-Russian State University of Economics and Service (SUSUES) in Shakhty was established in 1999 on the basis of the Don State Academy of Service (DSAS).

In 2012, SUSUES became part of DSTU as a separate structural division (branch) – the Institute of Service Sphere and Entrepreneurship. Shakhty ISOP is the largest branch of DSTU in terms of the number of students.

At the end of 2015, the Academic Council of the Rostov State University of Civil Engineering (RSSU) voted for a merger with DSTU and for participation in the competition to create a flagship multidisciplinary regional university in the Rostov region. The university was founded in late 1943 as the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute (RISI) and from the first years of its work became one of the most important suppliers of qualified personnel for the construction industry of the USSR. RISI is located within the walls of the commercial school building built in 1900, reorganized in 1918 into the Donskoy Commercial Institute. In 1997, RISI received university status and was renamed Rostov State University of Civil Engineering. By 2015, RSSU trained students in 56 professional education programs, had 10 bachelor's degree programs and 4 master's degree programs. Taking into account all training programs and postgraduate studies, the total number of students was more than 14,000 people.

In 2020, more than 10,000 students are studying at the university. The structure of the university includes a physics and mathematics school with universal and humanities classes, a college of economics and service, an Academy of applicants and a Children's University. Education at the university is conducted in 21 departments of three faculties: "Engineering and Technology", "Jurisprudence, Social Technologies and Psychology", "Economics, Service and Entrepreneurship".

At the beginning of 2016, RSSU became part of DSTU as its structural division and became known as the Academy of Construction and Architecture. This unification is rightfully considered the decisive factor that determined DSTU's victory in the competition to obtain the status of a flagship university.

2016

PRIORITIES AND PROSPECTS

The flagship university has established a Regional Expertise Directorate and centers of excellence for “Advanced Robotic Machines and Complexes” and “Advanced Materials for High-Tech Applications.”

The Center for Advanced Materials is headed by Valery Nikolaevich Varavka, a renowned specialist in the field of materials science, under whose leadership projects of federal and departmental target programs, grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and numerous agreements with large industrial enterprises were successfully implemented.

In 2017, the ZEISS CrossBeam340 dual-beam scanning microscope was installed and put into operation at the Advanced Materials for High-Tech Applications Center of Excellence. It allows for the creation of multilayer coatings consisting of many thousands of layers. In the Southern Federal District, an installation with such capabilities is unique and allows for solving problems of creating functional gradient materials and coatings for aviation equipment, as well as for personalized prostheses, implants, etc.

The largest industrial enterprises of the city and region have become strategic partners of DG

TU in the scientific and technical sphere, including in conducting R & D: PJSC Rostvertol, LLC KZ Rostselmash, FSUE RNIIRS, PJSC Tagmet, OJSC Krasny Kotelshchik, PC NEVZ.

2017

CREATION OF BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS

A team of scientists from the flagship university is developing methods for creating biocompatible materials needed for ocular and dental prosthetics. The research is being conducted within the framework of a mega-grant from the Government of the Russian Federation. The work is being carried out on the basis of the laboratory of mechanics of biocompatible materials at DSTU.

The research team, led by Professor Michael Swain of the University of Sydney, included students, postgraduates, staff of DSTU and leading universities of Rostov-on-Don, as well as experts in the field of medicine from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

2017

NEW GENERATION PROBIOTICS

In 2019, a research laboratory, the Center for Agrobiotechnology, was created at DSTU under the leadership of Mikhail Chikindas, a professor at Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA).

In the same year, the laboratory's capacities were used for large-scale research into veterinary probiotic preparations for the targeted modulation of animal health - substances that enhance resistance to environmental influences by normalizing the body's immune responses. The research is funded under a government mega-grant for a period of three years (2019-2021). The research team led by Professor Chikindas included Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Veterinary Medicine Alexey Ermakov and Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Agro-Industrial Dmitry Rudoy. Scientists plan to develop the composition and technology for obtaining feed additives with the inclusion of the studied probiotic strains, study the composition and properties of the strains of poultry microflora, and analyze the effect of the drugs on their microbiota.

The center has become an educational base for students and postgraduates of DSTU, a consolidating core of the network scientific and academic community of specialists in the field of veterinary science and applied agrobiotechnology, engaged in the development of new technologies in this area, as well as their inclusion in educational programs and industrial practice.

2018

APPLIED SCIENCE AT DSTU

The innovation of the joint research platform of DSTU and the oncology institute - RNIOI will allow the method of layer-by-layer printing to create bioactive scaffolds from a mixture of materials that support the viability of cells. Special biomaterials are used as a basis, the properties of which are maximally identical to natural ones.

In the future, the bioprinter developed at the flagship university can be used to print tissues for regenerative medicine, cosmetic surgery, as well as for pharmaceutical testing and drug selection.

Under the supervision of Svetlana Kurenova, Head of the Department of Design, Technology and Construction at the Shakhty branch of DSTU, a thermal protective suit for rescuers has been developed that maintains a microclimate, warns of danger and allows working in extreme conditions. The development of built-in sensors that transmit information about the state of health is underway, which will become part of the intelligent system of the "smart" suit. The system will allow maintaining a comfortable microclimate taking into account the ambient temperature.

Anna Korinteli, a graduate student at the department, has developed fire-resistant armor gloves that protect hands from burns and cuts. Unlike existing models, the armor gloves created at the university allow for more delicate work, with a secure grip and high sensitivity during operation. The innovation can be used both in production – for welding and mechanical processing, and in the work of police officers and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Postgraduate students of the flagship university, Maxim Beloyvanov and Issam Samara, developed a system for determining pulse and respiratory rate using a contactless method via a webcam.

2019

WORLD-CLASS SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER

DSTU is the coordinator of the work on the creation of the Southern Scientific and Educational Center – a structure designed to improve the efficiency of interaction between scientific institutions, government authorities, higher education organizations and the production sector of the regional economy.

The key focus of the Southern Scientific and Educational Center is the digital transformation of the agro-industrial and industrial complex.

The center’s partners include such industrial heavyweights as Rostselmash, Rostelecom, Steppe agroholding, Rostvertol, Sberbank, Beriev Aircraft Company (ROSTEKH Group), VRS Towers (RUSNANO Group), Kamenskvolokno and many other organizations, higher education institutions and research institutes.

2019

TURNKEY ENGINEERING

Since 2018, the Don Engineering Center has been operating on the basis of DSTU, providing turnkey engineering services - from consulting and development of technological ideas to the implementation of the finished product.

The center was created at the intersection of three industries: mechanical engineering, creation of industrial materials and signal processing. An additional area of ​​activity of the center will be the development of complexes, including autonomous ones, for detection and prevention of emergency situations of various natures.

In 2020, the Rostselmash center was opened on the basis of the Don Engineering Center, which will implement joint projects of the flagship university and the Rostselmash company in the field of digitalization of the agro-industrial complex and agricultural machinery.

The tasks of the new center include designing new generation agricultural machinery, calculating the service life of key components and strength characteristics of machines, simulation modeling and creating digital twins of advanced equipment.

2019

CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The Science building, opened in 2019, is equipped with modern equipment for the development of innovative activities and technological entrepreneurship.

The area of ​​more than 1,500 m2 houses turning, milling, drilling, grinding machines, a robotic welding complex, a painting and sandblasting chamber, a gas and plasma cutting unit, as well as muffle furnaces for uniform heating of various objects. A total of 22 machines are installed in the new building.

On the first floor of the building there is a production facility of the small innovative enterprise of DSTU, OOO Enset, whose staff includes master's and postgraduate students of DSTU, doctors and candidates of technical sciences. Enset's products are supplied to leading Russian enterprises: Rostvertol, Rostselmash, NEVZ, Silovye Mashiny, KAMAZ, UAZ, Sevkavelektroremont, and are exported to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Peru. In 2019, the company supplied equipment for the first time to enterprises in Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland.

In 2020, the innovative scientific and technological center (ISTC) “Don Valley” was opened on the basis of the building. Its main areas of activity will be the digital transformation of the agro-industrial complex and industrial complex, the development of organic farming and food and processing industry technologies, unmanned transport, artificial intelligence, robotics, and crop quality monitoring systems.

2020

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

In 2020, 46 graduates who mastered the military registration specialty "Combat use of engineer-sapper (engineering) formations, military units and subdivisions" received officer ID cards and badges of completion of the DSTU Military Training Center.

Over the course of 5 years, the center's cadets, in parallel with their military training, master a civilian specialty in the direction of "Ground transport and technological means." This allows them to choose between service in military units and employment in civilian enterprises.

Following the successful implementation of the volunteer program of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, the Rostov Region Volunteer Development Center was created at DSTU, which became the intangible legacy of the championship. The center pays special attention to the development, popularization and promotion of volunteer values ​​in the Don region.

The flagship university has more than 30 national teams in various sports. DSTU students have repeatedly become winners and prize winners of prestigious all-Russian and international competitions.

A new type of campus is under construction. The project envisages the creation of new educational, scientific and sports facilities with a total area of ​​over 175,000 m2. The infrastructure model envisages the formation and development of an innovation center with exhibition halls and lecture halls, sports facilities (stadium, physical education and health complex, swimming pool, the largest athletics arena in the South of Russia) on the territory of the university in the central part of the city.

The area of ​​the new educational and laboratory buildings will be more than 57,000 m2, the total cost of the project is 8 billion rubles.