Half-Сentury of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical University

The history of the Faculty of Pedagogy of Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical University has never been studied in the history of science.The anniversary article compiled by the authors on the basis of the historical and descriptive method, using such sources as first-hand narrative, print media and personal-origin provenance, aims at the historical representation of the Faculty of Pedagogy as a complex space of interaction of all participants of educational relations, localised in the conditions of Naberezhnye Chelny in the context of the contradictions specific to the educational policy of our country.Having become a basis for the establishment of the university, the Faculty of Pedagogy experienced all the difficulties of material and organisational nature faced by the university in the course of its formation in the 1980s and formed a permanent pedagogical staff.In the 1990s, after the establishment of the university, human and other resources became a basis for the expansion of the faculty through increasing the number of paying students and extending the list of specialities.The seamless development of the Faculty in the conditions of the all-Russian crisis of higher education in the 2000s created the due conditions for scientific revitalisation by increasing the number of defended dissertations, raised grants and overall improvement of financial and material stability.To date, the Faculty, faster and more efficiently than other faculties of the university, is advancing towards the University 3.0 model while extending and integrating the range of training areas, maintaining a large flow of applicants to the Faculty, a significant number of highly qualified research teachers and a high proportion of students involved in design teams and research groups.