Kuban State University
The Kuban State University (, KubSU) is a university in Krasnodar, in the Kuban area of southern Russia. It was founded on September 19, 1920, and since then it has trained over 100,000 specialists, including over 1,000 foreign students. Memberships and recognition KubSU is a participant in the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). The KubSU president in 1982–2008 was V.A. Babeshko, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a laureate of the Russian State Prize. Academics KubSU is a complex of 16 branches and over 40 educational and research centers. The system of KubSU branches covers the whole territory of southern Russia: Armavir, Gelendzhik, Goryachy Klyuch, Korenovsk, Kropotkin, Leningradskaya stanitsa, Novorossiysk, Otradnenskaya stanitsa, Pavlovskaya, Stavropol, Tikhoretsk, and Ust'-Labinsk. Over 8,000 students study at the KubSU affiliates in seven specialties: Law Accounting and audit State and municipal management Finance, credit and currency circulation Philology. Teacher of two foreign languages Psychology Fine arts and drawing KubSU incorporates over 30 educational and research centers: State Research Center for Forecasting and Prevention of Geological and Man-Caused Disasters Regional Northern Caucasus Education-Research Center for Information Security Center of International Educational Programs Internet Center and others. KubSU has a system of additional education: inter-branch