Sultangazin Umirzak Makhmutovich - (1936-2005), mathematician, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1972), Professor (1974), academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1983). Graduated from KazGU (1958). Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department. KazSU (1958-1988), Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1978-1988), Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1985-1986), Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1986-1988), President of the NAS RK (1988-1994). From 1991 to 2005 – Director Institute of Space Research of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Scientific works are devoted to research in the field of differential equations, mathematical physics, computational mathematics, the application of numerical methods in the study of kinetic theory of transport, mathematical modeling of ecological systems, the creation of a system of space monitoring of the environment, nuclear safety problems. Scientific activity has been widely recognized abroad.
Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1987), the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1989). He was awarded orders and the S. P. Korolev Medal. He was a member of the Permanent Commission of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Science and Public Education, a representative of the Kazakh Republican Peace Foundation, a member of the Council of Presidents of the Academies of Sciences of the CIS. He was invited to give lectures at Charles University (Czechoslovakia), the University of Paris, the International Mathematical School is named after Banach (Poland), conducted research at Stanford and Maryland Universities (USA), lectured at Kyoto University (Japan).
The history of the development and formation of a pedagogical university in the region
The education system in the Kostanay province, and then the region, has always had a fairly good prospect of training, formation and development of pedagogical personnel. It was due to the fact that the network of schools was constantly growing in the region. This required a systematic replenishment of their new teachers staff.
Pedagogical educational institutions in the Soviet Republic were just beginning to be created. The new time has set important tasks for the Government of the republic in the field of education. It was urgently necessary to form higher educational institutions for the training of teachers of various profiles. In 1921, there were only four institutes of public education in the republic, but they did not meet the needs of schools. Teachers were trained for them in other universities of the USSR. In 1923, 23 people were sent from the Kostanay province to universities of the USSR and Kazakhstan to study pedagogical work. The number of schools continued to grow in the region, there was a struggle for the elimination of illiteracy, respectively, the need for teachers was systematically increasing. In order to solve somehow the problem of providing schools with teachers and especially Kazakh teachers, a pedagogical college was opened in 1923 in the city of Kostanay. But that didn't solve the problem either. The number of schools grew. If in the 1923-1924 academic year there were only 234 of them, then in the 1927-1928 academic year the number of schools doubled and amounted to 431.
The problem of teacher training has always been in the focus of attention of the leadership of Kazakhstan. In the republic in 1936 there were 25 pedagogical technical schools with a plan of admission of 2,365 people. Training in pedagogical technical schools was conducted in the following areas: preparatory classes, school, preschool, physical education, librarianship. It is known that in 1930, universal compulsory primary education was introduced in the country. The timing of its introduction was determined, the relevant documents were adopted that determined the school's operating mode and its structure. Schools grew rapidly in the district. The need for teachers increased, the attitude towards them changed, their status and financial situation improved. In 1936, the personal title of "Primary and secondary School Teacher" was established. The honorary title is "Honored Teacher". The teacher's salary was brought up to the level of remuneration of engineering and technical personnel at industrial enterprises. In 1936, four pedagogical colleges were already operating in the region. These are the Kostanay Kazakh Pedagogical College, the Kostanay Russian Pedagogical College, the Temir Kazakh Pedagogical College and the Fedorov Pedagogical College. At the same time, the Kostanay Institute of Public Education (the Kazakh Institute of Education) functioned. It was a whole complex carrying out various functions, but it did not conduct stationary training of students. There was no university in the region, although the basis for its opening was already looming. On July 29, 1936, the Kostanay region was formed. It received some of the young specialists who graduated from central universities, including Leningrad, Moscow and Almaty. However, due to the rapid development of public education, the shortage of teachers did not decrease, but increased. There were already 550 primary, 73 incomplete secondary and 18 secondary schools in the region. They had about 65 thousand students. There was a question of opening an educational institution that would produce specialist teachers in certain disciplines and subjects in a short period of time. In coordination with the Council of People's Commissars of the Kazakh SSR and the People's Commissariat of Education of the Republic, the Presidium of the Kostanay Executive Regional Committee of the Council of Workers' Deputies on August 21, 1939 adopted a resolution "On the organization of the Kostanay Teachers' Institute and its departments", which stated:
- To organize on the basis of the Kustanai Pedagogical School from September 1 of this year the Kustanai two–year Institute consisting of two faculties - physics and mathematics and natural geography;
- To organize a preparatory department and a sector for extramural learning at the Institute.
- Make a new admission of students by September 1:
- for the main faculties - 120 people;
- for the extramural sector - 50 people;
- 70 people for the preparatory department.
Total: 240 people
In 1939 the teaching staff of the Institute was formed from local personnel, with the exception of the former director of the United Opera Theater in Alma-Ata, I.P. Naidenov, who was appointed director of the Kostanay Teachers' Institute by order of the People's Commissariat of Kaz. SSR No. 2504 of October 1, 1939. The staffing of the Institute included 4 departments (fundamentals of Marxism —Leninism, pedagogy, physics and mathematics, natural science and geography) and 13 teaching units, but they were not all filled at once. Practically no one had significant work experience. There were no persons with academic degrees and titles. The total teaching experience of most teachers ranged from one to three years. In the autumn of 1940, the institute opened a correspondence department in the same specialties as at the hospital, 68 people were accepted for the 1st course.
The first graduate students received diplomas when the Great Patriotic War began. On July 27, 1941, the first graduates of the Kostanay Teachers' Institute, having passed state exams, received diplomas, and on July 28 at 6 o'clock went to the front to defend their Homeland. Most of them did not return from the front. Certified teachers died as heroes. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the institute had taken only its first steps, its formation was far from complete. However, the war forced his team to take on their shoulders everything that the terrible time imposed. Although the university was in the deep rear, its lifestyle, character and working conditions have changed dramatically. The composition of teachers and students has become completely different. In the first year of the war, 22 students, 8 teachers and employees of the Institute left for the Red Army: I.P. Naydenov, H.F. Yumankulov, T.M. Musakulov, M.B. Grenadier, B.N.Shibaev, G.Asanov, Popov and Bisembayev. There were calls for students and teachers to join the army in all subsequent years of the war. Few of them returned. Many who left the Institute fell to the death of the brave. Among them are former teachers — mathematician B.N. Shibaev, physicist Popov, Kazakh language teacher G. Asanov, assistant director of the household Bisembaev, student Kiselyov and many others, whose bright names, unfortunately, remain unknown. The teaching staff was significantly replenished during the war years at the expense of evacuated university workers. The Department of Physics and Mathematics was headed by Prof. P.G. Kulikovsky, the Department of Natural Sciences and Geography by Prof. L.I. Nikonov, the Department of Pedagogy by Prof. B.B.Reznik. The famous Jewish writer-playwright L.B. Reznik worked at the Department of Russian Language and Literature. The emergence of new qualified personnel allowed the Institute to open a department of Russian language and literature and a corresponding department in the autumn of 1942.
The history of the Kostanay Teachers' Institute, the first and for a long time the only one in the region, is an important and glorious part of the annals of education in the region, the region, an inspiring example of training specialists in one of the most difficult and hard periods of the country's life. In 1944, the institute was named after Amangelda Imanov. The heads of the institute changed throughout the war. After I.P. Naidenov left the army, O.L. Belinskaya performed the duties of the director of the Institute, then V.I. Suntsov replaced her. The deputy director of the Institute for scientific and educational work was F.K. Stashevsky, the first of the residents of Kostanay to receive the degree of Candidate of Sciences. The first post-war year found the institute in a small one-and-a-half-story pre-revolutionary building on the corner of Pushkin and Tashkent Streets. In 1946, the institute had a dormitory for students with a total area of 145 sq.m.
The Institute was constantly replenished with new personnel. So, in 1948, young specialists from KazGU,who later became veterans of the institute, arrived at the Department of Russian Language and Literature. They were I.T. Kirdyaev, V.I. Kandalina, O.D. Pavlova.
In accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR of July 1, 1955 and in order to improve the quality of training of secondary school teachers and meet the needs of the Kostanay region, the Ministry of Education of the Republic on July 5 of the same year decided to organize the Kostanay Pedagogical Institute on the basis of the Teachers' Institute on the basis of both stationary and correspondence departments, having two faculties — Russian language and literature and physics and mathematics, with a plan to recruit 75 people to stationary faculties and 50 to correspondence faculties. In September 1956 , training in the following specialties was determined at the Institute: Russian language, literature and history; mathematics, physics and drawing (respectively at the historical and philological and physical and mathematical faculties). In 1958, the competition allowed inviting candidates of sciences K.G. Gazizov, B.M. Wolfson, N.P. Makushin to the Institute. In the 1959-1960 academic year, two new departments were opened — pedagogy and methods of primary education, physics and general technical disciplines. The following year, the first of these departments was transformed into the Faculty of Methodology of Primary Education (MPE).
In 1972, the A.Imanov Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute was awarded the title of the 50th anniversary of the USSR. In 1979, the Correspondence Department was transformed into the Correspondence Faculty. The first dean of this faculty was Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor I.K. Ternovoy. In 1982, he headed the institute, becoming rector. Since September 1981, the Faculty of Advanced Training of Directors of secondary schools, headed by V.I. Ovchinnikova, has been operating at the Institute. The teaching staff grew qualitatively and quantitatively. As of January 1, 1984, the teaching staff included 226 people, including 72 people with academic degrees and titles. In addition, the Institute employed 81 teaching and support staff, 29 librarians, 9 general institute departments and 21 departments at faculties. The fame of the institute was far beyond its borders. In 1984, the staff of the Pedagogical Institute was the winner in the All-Union socialist competition among organizations and institutions of the Ministry of Education of the USSR for the successful completion and over-fulfillment of tasks of the third year of the eleventh five-year plan. He was awarded the Red Banner of the Ministry of Education of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Workers of Education, Higher Education and Scientific institutions. The Institute grew and developed rapidly. The Pedagogical Institute in the 80-90s provided the region and the Northern regions of Kazakhstan with almost all the specialties of teachers, bringing the annual output to 700-900 people. Accordingly, he grew up himself. In the 1990-1991 academic year, 93 teachers with academic degrees worked here at 34 departments, including 3 professors and doctors of sciences.
In 1992, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan issued a resolution on the transformation of the Kostanay Pedagogical Institute named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR into the Kostanay State University.
In 2004, the Government decided to establish 5 pedagogical universities in the Republic, including the Kostanay State Pedagogical Institute. So again from April 1, 2004, the Pedagogical Institute was revived as a modern university of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In 2020, Umirzak Sultangazin KSPU merged with A. Baitursynov KSU, where the Pedagogical Institute became a structural subdivision.
The Modern Pedagogical Institute is a creative community of scientists and teachers, students, postgraduates and undergraduates united by one common concern — the matter of professional training of a teacher, educator, special teacher. Educational programs of the pedagogical direction work to train competitive specialists for educational organizations. In total, the Pedagogical Institute trains teachers for the education system in 26 educational programs.
The Directorate of the Pedagogical Institute (Director Utegenova B.M., Deputy Director Yessimkhan G.E., Zhamanguzova N.A., Nurpeisova E.T., chief specialists Kasymova D., Aituarova G.) ensure the continuity of the educational process, closely interact with departments that implement Educational programs in the courses. The activity of the departments of the Pedagogical Institute is aimed at the implementation of tasks:
- the involvement of students in educational and research activities,
- the possibility of employment of students,
- the presence of a continuous track: bachelor's- master's-doctoral studies,
- the competitiveness of teaching staff.