founded in Krasnodar in 1970, developing from the local pedagogical institute established in 1920.
As of 1973 the university had 11 departments: physics, chemistry, biology, geography, mathematics, philology, law, history, Romance and Germanic philology, economics, and artistic and technical drawing. In addition there are correspondence and evening departments, 51 subdepartments, a research sector, an agricultural and biological station, and a station for observing artificial earth satellites. The university library contains 700,000 volumes. In the 1972–73 academic year the university had an enrollment of 10,500 students and a teaching staff of more than 600, including 27 professors and doctors of sciences and 220 docents and candidates of sciences. The university publishes Nauchnye trudy (Scholarly Transactions).
K. A. NOVIKOV