Transbaikal State University

Transbaikal State University
Забайкальский государственный университет
MottoLatin: Non scholae, sed vitae discimus
Motto in English
We do not learn for the school, but for life
Established1974
RectorSergey A. Ivanov (Russian: Серге́й Анатольевич Иванов)
Academic staff
>700
Students15000
Location,
Russia

52°01′55″N 113°31′44″E / 52.032074°N 113.528882°E / 52.032074; 113.528882
Building details
Map
Websitehttp://www.zabgu.ru/

Transbaikal State University (Russian: Забайкальский государственный университет) is an institution of higher education in Chita, Russia. It is the largest educational, scientific and innovative center in Zabaykalsky Krai. Transbaikal State University (until 2011: Chita State University) was established in 1974 on the base of the Technology Department of Irkutsk Technical Institute which was opened earlier in 1966.

Now the university comprises eight schools: the School of Mining, the School of Power Engineering, the School of Construction and Ecology, the School of Law, the School of Social and Political Systems, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Technological and Transportation Systems, and the School of Adult Education and Refresher Courses.[1]