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invasion Khan marches steep bank armour in haste detachment foundation stronghold ravines moat rampart to be enclosed sentry towers to crumble fort borders peasants coachmen merchants handicraftsmen exile in brief

вторжение хан походы крутой берег снаряжение, доспехи в спешке подразделение основание крепость, оплот овраги ров вал быть окружённым часовые башни обваливаться, рушиться форт границы крестьяне ямщики купцы ремесленники ссылка вкратце

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6.2. Read the text and make the review about main higher educational establishments in town.

The main trends of scientific research in the region are connected with regional problems. They are carried out by the scientists within such major programs as “Oil and Gas of Western Siberia” and “Man in the North”. To ensure that roads are open all the year round and to improve the reliability of machinery and metal constructions at low temperatures – these and other problems are being solved on the laboratories of research institutes and higher educational establishments.

Tyumen is a city of students. There are now about ten higher educational establishments in town. The region’s most important higher educational establishment is Tyumen State University, founded in 1973 on the basis of Western Siberia’s oldest Teacher Training Institute. It has many doctors and candidates on the staff. 11 buildings house 13 faculties and 2 institutes. More that 10.000 students study at the full- and part-time departments. There are 4 centers of training in the university structure – the humanities, physics-mathematics, the natural and economic sciences. The University is constantly improving its laboratories and teaching facilities such as language laboratories and computer classes.

The University under professor Gennady Kutsev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, collaborates under various direct agreements with higher educational establishments in Canada, France and Germany. It organizes student exchanges and invites foreign specialists to give lectures.

A special role in the training of specialists is played by the State Oil and Gas University. About 30.000 students are trained at 50 specialties. The university is now the largest in the region having 12 departments, numerous educational centers and 13 branches all over the North. Many of the university’s graduates are now in charge of geological expeditions and oil refineries or work in research department and large oil companies.

The Tyumen Institute of Arts and Culture was opened in 1991 on the basis of the Chelyabinsk Culture Institute.

The monumental building ofthe University of Architecture and Civil Engineering can be considered as the ”face” of Tyumen. The wonderful “Palace on the hill” is seen from far away. It trains architects, builders, road constructors, economists. Among the Academies of the town Agricultural, Military and Medical ones can be named.

These basic institutions and their branches train specialists in all fields necessary for the region, for its industrial and cultural development, improvement of its environment, public health, public order and education. The staff of the region’s higher educational establishments boast 156 doctors of Science, more than 1000 Candidates of Science and 14 Academicians. Over the last 20 years they have educated more than 1000 000 specialists in 70 professions. A total of 75% of their graduates work in Tyumen. Many occupy leading posts in the management and economic structures in the city, the region and the country.

So the number of specialities is constantly growing at the higher educational establishments of Tyumen because different branches of region’s industry demands more highly qualified specialists.

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At present there are 13 higher institutions in the region. The Surgut University, the Nizhnevartovsk Pedagogical Institute have been opened recently in our region. The regional Institutions have their faculties and branches in the cities of Surgut, Novy Urengoi, Nyagan, Kogalym, Nadym,Urai, Noyabrsk, Langepas, Khanty-Mansiysk and others.

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to carry out to ensure educational establishment to house to collaborate branches

выполнять заверять образовательные заведения вмещать сотрудничать филиалы

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