are 9 and post-graduates are 279. There is a post-graduate course for 19 specialities. People working for a doctor's degree and post-graduates can present their thesis for the Scientific Board of the university. The total number of graduates is about 52.000 engineers. There are Heroes of Socialist Labour, the heads of regional, municipal administrations, representatives of different Ministries and Departments, academicians and associate members of various Academies among them. They working in all regions of the Russian Federation. But they have made the most valuable contribution in the development of the main branches of industry in Kuzbass. Campus Kuzbass State Technical University has 8 buildings with total area of 102578m., 2,5 hostels (one is for family students), geodesic and ski bases, a group of dining-halls, a dispensary, a polyclinic, a rest base "Pisanye Skaly". The university has necessary technical devices for computer training of students. There are more than 700 PCs and 220 terminals of total use system. The university has access to the Internet. The book stock of the university's library is more than 500.000 copies (including 250.000 copies of study aids and 270.000 ones of research literature). The university has international connections with higher educational institutions and firms of the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Mongolia. The best students have a chance to study abroad. Great attention is paid to the spare time of students. There is a theatre-studio "Lodge" and some other amateur groups. The university is famous for its sportsmen. For example, V. Philippov and O. Trofimova are international grand chess-masters, D. Chatkin and S. Dvoretskyare masters of sports and some others. The university has the scientific newspaper "Vestnik". The instructors can publish training appliances and the results of their research work in it. In 1994 the Trustee Council was formed which consists of many enterprises and firms of the region. See also Education in Russia Education in Siberia List of universities in Russia Official site Kuzbass State Technical University in Russian Universities in Kemerovo Oblast Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union Educational institutions established in 1950 1950 establishments in the Soviet Union Technical universities and colleges in Russia