Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University

Established in 1952, Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University is a non-profit public higher education institution located in the urban setting of the medium-sized city of Izhevsk. It has the largest technical library in the Udmurt Republic. ISTU provides vast opportunities to improve health, as well as to get into sports. Health services for students and employees are provided by the university polyclinic and health center. There is also a sports center for 100 persons located in the pine forest outside Izhevsk on the bank of the river Kama with 16 summer houses and 1 winter house. It also has a canteen providing 3 meals a day, sport grounds for football, volleyball, basketball and badminton, as well as a sauna. There is also a Palace of Culture “Integral” for entertainment. It houses the well-known university municipal theatre “Young Man” – the winner of many competitions and festivals, rock-club “Integral”, jazz band, vocal studio “Rec.time”. It hosts many students’ amusement festivities as well, such as intellectual and entertaining games Balda, multiple faculty parties and discos. In estate-museum of Peter Tchaikovsky in Votkinsk a cultural and educational center of Kalashnikov ISTU has been founded.