Varvara Afanasyevna Bulgakova was a correspondent student at the Pedagogical Institute during the 1940s and worked as a German teacher at School No. 42 in Novosibirsk (now Gymnasium No. 1). Her documents were uncovered while working on the IIGSO NSPU project titled “Bridging Affairs and Fates”.
During their archaeological fieldwork in 2025, IIGSO students from NSPU, under the supervision of the NSPU professor Andrey Pavlovich Borodovsky, produced a new edition of the archaeological map of Novosibirsk, marking the first update in over 30 years. As a matter of fact, the previous version of the map had become considerably outdated due to numerous recent discoveries of archaeological sites.
On 20 June, NSPU held a meeting with international students who have completed their pre-university preparatory programme. The event was attended by students from Croatia, China, Cameroon, Algeria and other countries, alongside faculty members, specialists and volunteer mentors who supported the students throughout the academic year. Victoria Yermoshina, a journalism student, shares her account of how the meeting unfolded.
On 18 June, a delegation from Xinjiang University (China) held discussions with the representatives of the NSPU International Affairs and Academic Mobility Department, the Institute of Philology, Mass Media and Psychology, and the Faculty of Foreign Languages regarding new formats for enhancing cooperation between the universities.
On 29 May, the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Education approved the network project “Continuity in the Development and Implementation of Mentoring Practices at Different Levels of Education”, leading to NSPU being recognised as an innovative platform of the Russian Academy of Education.
At the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a monograph on the oldest rock paintings in Mongolia is being prepared for publication under the guidance of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Vyacheslav Ivanovich Molodin, who is also the Chief Researcher at the Institute.
Six students from NSPU were selected for the Novosibirsk Region team at the Russian Championship in Sports Aerobics, held in Omsk. The representatives of Novosibirsk Pedagogical University achieved gold, silver, and bronze medals.
Today, a large-scale All-Russian conference for rectors of higher education institutions under the supervision of the Russian Ministry of Education commenced in the heroic city of Sevastopol. The programme was inaugurated with a practical seminar titled “Development and Strengthening of the Self-Identity of a Pedagogical University in the Public Information Space”. During this seminar, rectors of pedagogical universities are addressing matters related to the establishment of a unified information field.
