Buryat Mongolian Pedagogical Institute opened four schools - Physics and Mathematics, Natural Science, Literature and Linguistics, History and Economics - on February 10, 1932. Professor N. N. Kozmin became the Chair of the History Department. The first 25 students enrolled at theHistory and Economics School in 1933. However, the School was transferred to Irkutsk University in 1934. In 1937, the School opened again and it graduated its first class of 10 in 1940-41. In 1955, separate bodies of History and Philology Faculties merged into the Faculty of History and Philology, but in 1987 it was again divided into the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Philology. The first Dean of the Faculty was Nikifor P. Egunov, Candidate Degree in History.
Educational process of the Faculty includes multilevel Bachelor's, Master's and postgraduate training.
The scientific and educational process is provided by 5 departments of the Faculty: General and National History, History of Buryatia, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology and Theology.
Bachelor's degree programs:
Sociology (Social Theory and Applied Social Knowledge) – full-time;
Political Science (Comparative Political Science, Political Regional Science and Ethnopolitics) – full-time;
International Relations (Cross-Border Relations of Russian Regions in Internal Asia) – full-time;
Pedagogical Education (2 specializations) (History and Social Studies) – full-time;
History (Theory and Practice of Historical Researches) – part-time;
Pedagogical Education (Teaching History in Secondary School) – part-time.
Master's degree programs:
Political Science (Comparative Political Science, Political Regional Science and Ethnopolitics) – full-time;
History (Theory and Practice of Historical Researches) – full-time;
Philosophy (Social Philosophy) – full-time;
Pedagogical Education (Historical Education) – part-time.
Contacts: 6 Ranzhurova str., University building № 2, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia, 670000, tel.: 21-64-47, 29-71-60 (extension — 355)