Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education
“Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin”
 Booklet Omsk SAU
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The history of Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin dates back to the first half of the 20th century. The University, throughout its history, has always played a significant role not only in the field of education but also, realising its responsibility towards society, in the social life and development of the country. Founded in February 1918, the University has been developing and continuously establishing new educational programmes and exploring new fields of research. Along with an ongoing transformation of its organisational and legal form, the University has never stopped producing high-qualified, fully devoted staff for the labour market: more than 100 000 people have graduated since 1918. Annually more than 9000 students study at Omsk SAU. Over the years of its existence, the university has earned high prestige at the regional, national and international levels.
Nowadays, Omsk State Agrarian University is a large science-and-research centre with a highly developed infrastructure which includes 8 different faculties, 3 institutes, and a branch in the town of Tara. Our University can offer a diverse range of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses, meeting the demands of many peculiar interests and covering 12 aggregative groups of specialties and programme tracks: earth sciences, biological sciences, agriculture, forestry and fishery, veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, industrial ecology and biotechnology, technosphere safety and environmental engineering, geodesy, economics, operation of transport and technological machinery and systems, law, information systems and technologies.
Baccalaureate (undergraduate study)
The baccalaureate is a level of higher education. According to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Decree 12.09.2013 No. 1061 “On the approval of the list of specialities and programme tracks”, upon completion students are awarded the qualification of “Bachelor”.
Applicants who have completed general secondary education, vocational secondary education or higher education are eligible to apply for a bachelor’s programme.
The academic workload of a bachelor’s programme amounts to 240 credits. The intramural training period, including the holidays following the federal state examination, covers 4 years. Mixed and extramural training periods exceed intramural up to no less than 6 months and no more than 1 year.
Types of bachelor’s programme:
- Applied baccalaureate. The programme is primarily focused on practice-oriented and applied types of professional activity.
- Academic baccalaureate. The programme is primarily focused on science-and-research and pedagogical types of professional activity.
Master’s programme (graduate study)
The master’s programme is a level of higher education. According to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Decree 12.09.2013 No. 1061 “On the approval of the list of specialities and programme tracks”, upon completion students are awarded the qualification of “Master”.
Applicants who have completed higher education (bachelor’s degree) are eligible to apply for a master’s programme.
The academic workload of the master’s programme amounts to 120 credits. The intramural training period, including the holidays following the federal state examination, covers 2 years. Mixed and extramural training periods exceed intramural up to no less than 3 months and no more than 6 months.
Types of master’s programme:
- Applied master. The programme is primarily focused on practice - oriented and applied types of professional activity.
- Academic master. The programme is primarily focused on science-and-research and pedagogical types of professional activity.
Postgraduate course
Postgraduate courses are a level of higher education. Upon completion of the programme, according to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Decree 12.09.2013 No. 1061 “On the approval of the list of specialities and programme tracks”, graduates are awarded the qualification of “Researcher. Teacher-researcher”.
Applicants who have completed higher education (specialist’s or master’s degree) are eligible to apply for a postgraduate course.
The postgraduate academic workload is regulated by corresponding programme track standards and may amount to 180 or 240 credits.
The types of professional activity of postgraduates are reduced to science-and-research activity in the corresponding scientific field and teaching activity in higher education curricula.
According to educational standards, the extramural training period exceeds intramural up to no less than 6 months and no more than 1 year (See Omsk SAU undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studying programmes for more detailed information).
Research priorities at Omsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin are focused on core state, federal and regional programmes regarding the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation and of Omsk Region and are fully aligned with strategic statements (See Omsk SAU research priorities for more detailed information by the link https://www.omgau.ru/en/science/research-priorities/).
The University infrastructure offers a wide range of facilities aimed at improving the educational process and provides all means to help students expand their findings and to support their intellectual endeavours:
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Scientific Agricultural Library of Omsk SAU was created in 1918 and is the oldest university agricultural library in Siberia. Today the library is one of the main fund holders on agricultural topics in the Western Siberian region. The total number of storage units is more than 1 million copies available in Russian, English and several other languages. Of particular value is the fund of rare books of the 16th - early 20th centuries, numbering over 7,000 documents. The Scientific Agricultural Library of Omsk SAU is deservedly included in the “All-Russian Corpus of Book Heritage” and is a member of the Russian Library Association.
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University Museums – The University museum funds amount to over 3,350 items and include some of the rarest pieces in each scientific field (zoology, parasitology, anatomical pathology, soil science, etc.).
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Botanic Garden – Founded in 1927, it is the second oldest botanic garden in Siberia and the Far East. The Omsk SAU Botanic Garden is listed in the international gardening catalogue “World Botanic Gardens” and is a member of the Siberian and Far East Council of Botanic Gardens. The varied plant life of the garden covers a 2.83 ha area of the University campus, which is enough to harbour a collection of over 1,300 plant species. A unique “living” Red Book of the Omsk Region is being created in the garden. The collection funds preserve 32 rare species of plants, among them 29 species included in the Red Book of the Omsk Region, 7 from the Red Book of Russia. The greenhouse contains a collection of plants from different climatic zones. The pride of the botanical garden is its collection of tropical and subtropical plants, numbering more than 300 species and constantly growing. The collection of the exposition of medicinal herbs includes 250 species. The botanical garden is an educational laboratory of an educational and experimental farm.
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Arboretum. The so-called “Green pearl”, covering a 10 ha area, is home to over 400 plant species with a diverse range of vegetation: larch, spruce, Siberian pine, linden, oak, white-cedar, juniper, lilac, etc.
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Business incubator was created to develop student entrepreneurship and support business projects for their further development.
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Digital Situation implements the functions of integrating the educational process with production, preparing and supporting management decisions in the agro-industrial complex, which allow the most complete and prompt presentation of information about the current situation to interested parties, forecasting possible scenarios for its development, and prompt preparation possible alternative management decisions and evaluate their consequences.
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International selection and genetic center. In the Center the patterns of adaptability of agricultural plants have been studied, methods have been developed for creating drought-resistant varieties of field crops, methods for using cell technologies in breeding and seed production have been proposed, sets of aneuploid and isogenic wheat lines have been created, valuable foreign genes have been transferred into wheat, the effects of genes have been studied, and models of drought-resistant varieties of spring wheat have been developed. , a physiological analysis of the production process in wheat crops was given, methods for assessing varieties for potential productivity and resistance to stressors in field conditions were improved. More than 20 varieties of spring soft wheat have been created, which are included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements in 4 regions of the Russian Federation, and are cultivated on tens of millions of hectares.
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Campus life. The University has three campuses, two of which are located in the Omsk city area, while the third is in the town of Tara. The Omsk SAU infrastructure offers a wide range of facilities aimed at improving the educational process and provides all means to help and support students: a practical training and marketing centre, a business incubator, a gardening centre, as well as co-working and linguistic centres.
Our international partnership network counts more than 50 foreign institutions and embraces over 13 countries, including Armenia, the People's Republic of China, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mexico, Mongolia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, etc. (See Omsk SAU partnership network for more detailed information).
Due to its solid international ties, Omsk SAU has excellent records of its participation in international projects: since the early 2000s international cooperation history has included a range of different projects in the frame of Tempus, Erasmus Mundus and Erasmus + programmes (See Omsk SAU project history for more detailed information).
The University international activity is mainly driven by our corporate objectives to become an integral part of the global scientific and educational network and to promote our image at a global level, along with the ambition to transform our University into a modern, innovative brand capable of training world-class staff in the field of agribusiness.
ADMINISTRATION
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Address, contacts |
| Oksana Viktorovna Shumakova | Rector, Doctor of Economics, full professor |
Address: 1 Institutskaya square, main corpus, office 227 Phone No. +7 (3812) 65-11-46 ov.shumakova@omgau.org |
| Svetlana Yuryevna Komarova | Vice–rector for education, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, assistant professor |
Address: 1 Institutskaya square, main corpus, office 227 Phone No. +7 (3812) 65-17-72 su.komarova@omgau.org |
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Yuriy Ivanovich Novikov |
Vice–rector for research, Candidate of Economics, assistant professor |
Address: 1 Institutskaya square, main corpus, office 222/2 Phone No. +7 (3812) 65-10-54 ui.novikov@omgau.org |
| Vitaliy Mikhaylovich Pomogaev | Vice–rector for economics and informatisation, Candidate of Economics, assistant professor |
Address: 1 Institutskaya square, main corpus, office 223 Phone No. +7 (3812) 65-27-88 econ@omgau.ru vm.pomogaev@omgau.org |
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Andrei Ivanovich Zabudsky |
Vice-Rector for Social Work and Youth Policy |
Address: Address: 1 Institutskaya square, main corpus, office 422 Phone No. +7 (3812) 65-16-55 ai.zabudskiy@omgau.org |
| Svetlana Vladimirovna Chernigova | Director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies, Doctor of Veterinary Sciences |
Address: Address: 92 Oktyabrskaya street, training clinical corpus, office 101 Phone No. (3812) 24-15-35 sv.chernigova@omgau.org |
| Anatoly Pavlovich Shevchenko |
Director of the University College of Agribusiness Candidate of Technical Sciences, assistant professor |
Address: 8/1 corner Partizanskaya and Muzeynaya street, training corpus, office 154
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Alexander Nikolaevich Yatsunov |
Director of the Tara Branch of the University, Candidate of Technical Sciences |
Address: Tara town, 18 Tyumenskaya Street 18
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| Natalya Vladimirovna Gavrilova |
Director of the Institute of Additional Professional Education, Candidate of Biological Sciences
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Address: 6 Sibakovskaya Street, Institute of Additional Professional Education, office 202
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Information on performance monitoring system indicators
Licenсe to carry out educational activities (with supplements)
State Accreditation Certificate
Charter of the educational organisation