Sochi State University (SSU)

Sochi State University was established in 1989 as the Educational and Scientific Center for Training and Professional Development of staff for recreation and tourism industry. The main subdivision of the Center was the branch of the Kuban State University. Three years later the Branch University became Sochi State Institute for Recreation and Tourism and in 1997 acquires the status of a university. In 2011 Sochi State University of Tourism and Recreation was renamed to the Federal State budgetary educational institution of higher education "Sochi State University". Since December 2021, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences, I.V.Gaidamashko is an Acting Rector of Sochi State University.