Congratulations from the Rector of PetrSU A.V. Voronin on the Beginning of the Academic Year

Knowledge Day, which always brings many new meetings and acquaintances, interesting projects, important professional ideas and tasks, new prospects and guidelines!

This day opens the way to the future for every student and especially first-year students. Since this year Petrozavodsk State University celebrates its 85th anniversary, the current first-year students, who have joined the honorary ranks of our many-thousand friendly university family, have become jubilee students for our university! I am sure that every first-year student in the future will continue the long-standing traditions of the alma mater.

Dear first-year students, PetrSU opens up for you the potential opportunity to acquire a wide range of knowledge, improve your level of culture, the ability to think independently and creatively, and find new friends.

You have stepped into the world of education and science. The years of study at the university can be the best in your life.

Professional knowledge and skills obtained at PetrSU will give you the opportunity to set goals, try, take risks, implement your ideas, make discoveries, and realize the most daring ideas!

Strive to learn new things, be inquisitive, do not be afraid of difficulties, learn from mentors who are ready to share knowledge and experience, support and inspire.

With all my heart I congratulate the faculty of Petrozavodsk State University, who always provide students with the most up-to-date knowledge. The high professionalism of the teachers and staff of PetrSU is the key to the high quality of education and the results of scientific activity, a significant contribution to the development of Russian education, to the formation of a new generation of highly professional specialists.

Every year, graduates of Petrozavodsk State University join the ranks of highly qualified specialists, find application for their knowledge and talent in various fields of education and science, economics, management and law, international activities, culture, sports, thereby forming a positive public opinion about the university, one of the leading flagship universities in Russia.

Show how talented, smart, optimistic and inexhaustible energy you are to the whole world.

Let this academic year be a year of achievements, professional and personal victories for all of us! Happiness to you, success and professional growth, study and work with pleasure!

Happy new academic year!

Rector of PetrSU

Professor Anatoly Viktorovich Voronin