Karaganda Technical University

Abylkas Saginov Karaganda Technical University (KSTU, Kazakh: Әбілқас Сағынов атындағы Қарағанды техникалық университеті) is a public technical university in Karaganda, central Kazakhstan, founded in 1953 as the Karaganda Mining Institute and renamed in 2022 in honour of its long-serving rector Abylkas Saginov.阿布卡斯·萨吉诺夫卡拉干达技术大学（Abylkas Saginov Karaganda Technical University，KSTU）是哈萨克斯坦中部卡拉干达的一所公立技术大学，1953 年以卡拉干达矿业学院之名创办，2022 年以其长期担任校长的阿布卡斯·萨吉诺夫命名。

It is the successor of the first specialised mining higher school in central Kazakhstan and later became the country's first polytechnic institute, and it now enrols about 9,400 students across 107 degree programmes.该校是哈萨克斯坦中部第一所矿业类高等学府的继承者，后来成为该国第一所理工学院，现有约 9,400 名学生、107 个学位项目。

It sits in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and placed 951-1000 in the QS World University Rankings 2026, but did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 or the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，2026 年 QS 世界大学排名位列 951-1000，但未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名、US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

History

• The university was created by a decree of the USSR Council of Ministers in 1953 and by orders of the USSR Ministry of Culture, No. 1223 of 9 July 1953 and No. 1274 of 18 July 1953, as the Karaganda Mining Institute.该校依据 1953 年苏联部长会议决议，以及苏联文化部 1953 年 7 月 9 日第 1223 号、1953 年 7 月 18 日第 1274 号命令，以卡拉干达矿业学院之名创办。
• The decision followed the wartime evacuation of the Moscow Mining Institute and the All-Union Coal Institute to Karaganda, after which many specialists stayed on to develop the region's coal basin.此前战时莫斯科矿业学院与全联盟煤炭研究所曾疏散至卡拉干达，战后许多专家留了下来开发该地区煤田，这一决定正建立在此基础之上。
• Its first director was Yunus Kadyrbayevich Nurmukhamedov, a Candidate of Technical Sciences, who led the institute from 1953 to 1955.首任院长为技术科学副博士尤努斯·卡德尔巴耶维奇·努尔穆哈梅多夫，1953 至 1955 年在任。
• The first intake numbered about 200 students in two specialties, the development of mineral deposits and mining electromechanics.首届招收约 200 名学生，设「矿床开采」与「矿山机电」两个专业。
• In 1954 the institute was allocated its own building at B. Mira Street 22, and unique volumes stamped by the libraries of the Stalin Moscow Mining Institute and the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute entered its library fund.1954 年学院在 B. Mira 街 22 号获得自有教学楼，带有斯大林莫斯科矿业学院、第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克矿业学院藏书印的珍本亦入藏图书馆。
• In 1955 Abylkas Saginovich Saginov, later an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, was appointed rector and served until 1987.1955 年阿布卡斯·萨吉诺维奇·萨吉诺夫出任校长并任职至 1987 年，他后来成为哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国科学院院士。
• Between 1955 and 1958 the mathematician Abdrakhman Ermekov, the first Kazakh professor of mathematics and author of the first Kazakh-language mathematics textbook of 1935, taught at the institute.1955 至 1958 年间，第一位哈萨克族数学教授、1935 年首部哈萨克文数学教科书作者阿卜德拉赫曼·叶尔梅科夫在该校任教。
• On 31 March 1958 the Karaganda Mining Institute was reorganised into the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute, the first polytechnic institute in Kazakhstan.1958 年 3 月 31 日，卡拉干达矿业学院改组为卡拉干达工学院，成为哈萨克斯坦第一所理工学院。
• By 1958 the institute had five faculties and trained in 15 specialties, and that year it produced its first graduates, 157 mining engineers.到 1958 年学院设 5 个系、开设 15 个专业，并于当年培养出首批毕业生——157 名矿业工程师。
• By 1 October 1962 it had grown to 28 departments, 326 teachers, two professors and 40 associate professors or candidates of science.到 1962 年 10 月 1 日，学院已发展到 28 个教研室、326 名教师、2 名教授和 40 名副博士。
• In the 1960s the institute opened branches in Temirtau, Balkhash, Jezkazgan and Tselinograd, and by the end of 1963 its main building with laboratories, a gym, auditoriums and three hostels was completed.20 世纪 60 年代学院在铁米尔套、巴尔喀什、杰兹卡兹甘与切利诺格勒开设分校，1963 年底带有实验室、体育馆、阶梯教室与三栋宿舍的主楼落成。
• In 1966 a united board for the defence of candidate dissertations was created, and in 1993 the Higher Attestation Commission of Kazakhstan approved a board for doctoral dissertations.1966 年学院设立统一的副博士论文答辩委员会，1993 年哈萨克斯坦最高学位委员会又批准设立博士论文答辩委员会。
• Nursultan Nazarbayev, the future first President of Kazakhstan, studied at the institute from 1962 to 1965.哈萨克斯坦首任总统努尔苏丹·纳扎尔巴耶夫于 1962 至 1965 年间在该校就读。
• In 1972 the institute received the Jubilee Badge of the CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers, an award that out of 870 Soviet universities went to only two institutions, Moscow State University and KPTI.1972 年学院获苏共中央与苏联部长会议颁发的纪念奖章，在 870 所参赛苏联高校中仅莫斯科国立大学与该校两校获此殊荣。
• On 18 February 1976 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded the institute the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.1976 年 2 月 18 日，苏联最高苏维埃主席团授予学院劳动红旗勋章。
• In 1976 and again in 1981 the institute was inscribed in the Golden Book of Honour of the Kazakh SSR.1976 年与 1981 年，学院两次被载入哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国荣誉金册。
• In 1983, marking its 30th anniversary, the institute had graduated about 28,000 engineers.1983 年建校 30 周年之际，学院已培养约 28,000 名工程师。
• In 1987 a State Prize of the Kazakh SSR was awarded to Saginov, Lazutkin, Yantsen and Eshutkin for the theory and creation of hydraulic impact machines.1987 年，萨吉诺夫、拉祖特金、扬岑与叶舒特金因冲击式液压机械的理论与研制获哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国国家奖。
• In 1988 Alexander Grigoryevich Lazutkin, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, was elected rector and served until 1993.1988 年，哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国科学院通讯院士亚历山大·格里戈里耶维奇·拉祖特金当选校长，任职至 1993 年。
• In 1989 teaching in the state Kazakh language began for the first time in five specialties, and a programme for the development of Kazakh up to 2000 was drawn up.1989 年，学院首次在 5 个专业以国语哈萨克语授课，并制定了到 2000 年的哈萨克语发展纲要。
• In 1996 the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute was reorganised into the Karaganda State Technical University, and in 1998 the Kazakhstan Multi-profile Institute of Reconstruction and Development was founded within it.1996 年卡拉干达工学院改组为卡拉干达国立技术大学，1998 年又在其内部设立哈萨克斯坦多学科重建与发展研究所。
• On 29 June 2020 the university was re-registered as the non-profit joint-stock company Karaganda Technical University, and on 18 February 2022 government decree No. 67 renamed it in honour of Abylkas Saginov.2020 年 6 月 29 日学校重新登记为非营利股份公司「卡拉干达技术大学」，2022 年 2 月 18 日政府第 67 号决议又以其命名为阿布卡斯·萨吉诺夫。
• In 2024 Saule Savetovna Sagintayeva became chair of the board and rector, the first woman to lead the university.2024 年萨乌列·萨韦托夫娜·萨金塔耶娃出任董事会主席兼校长，成为该校首位女性领导人。

Academics

• The university teaches 107 educational programmes, comprising 54 bachelor's, 39 master's and 14 PhD programmes, and its military department offers nine military specialties.该校开设 107 个教育项目，含 54 个本科、39 个硕士与 14 个博士项目，其军事系还开设 9 个军事专业。
• In the 2024 academic year it enrolled 8,485 bachelor's students, 716 master's students and 155 doctoral students.2024 学年该校在校本科生 8,485 人、硕士生 716 人、博士生 155 人。
• Its teaching and research base includes five research institutes, among them the Kazakhstan Institute of Welding, the Kazakhstan Multi-profile Institute of Reconstruction and Development, New Materials, Industrial Ecology and Patriotic Education.其教学科研基础包括 5 个研究所，含哈萨克斯坦焊接研究所、哈萨克斯坦多学科重建与发展研究所，以及新材料、工业生态与爱国主义教育研究所。
• It operates six centres of working professions covering mining, machine building, welding, construction, energy and telecommunications, as well as four small enterprises for applied work.学校设有 6 个职业工种中心，涵盖采矿、机械制造、焊接、建筑、能源与电信，并办有 4 家从事应用项目的小企业。
• Seven centres of engineering competences are equipped with hardware and software from TOTAL, FESTO, Schneider Electric, Mitsubishi Electric, Leica Geosystems, Epam Systems and FLUOR.7 个工程能力中心配备了道达尔、费斯托、施耐德电气、三菱电机、徕卡测量系统、Epam Systems 与福陆公司的设备与软件。
• An IT competence centre houses the laboratories of six technology companies and a Cisco Networking Academy.信息技术能力中心设有 6 家科技公司的实验室与一家思科网络学院。
• Four research and education complexes focus on Industry 4.0, digital mechanical engineering, nanotechnologies in metallurgy and bioengineering.4 个科研教育综合体分别聚焦工业 4.0、数字机械制造、冶金纳米技术与生物工程。
• The campus contains 185 laboratories, 70 computer classes and 88 interactive classrooms.校园内设有 185 个实验室、70 个机房与 88 个互动教室。
• An accredited engineering testing laboratory works on the integrated development of mineral raw materials, alongside five world-class teaching and research laboratories.一个经认可的工程检测实验室从事矿物原料综合利用研究，另有 5 个世界级教学科研实验室。
• A Business Skills Park of 300 square metres provides co-working space, business incubator offices and start-up support for students.占地 300 平方米的 Business Skills Park 为学生提供共享办公空间、企业孵化办公室与创业支持。
• The digital campus includes an Upgrade Centre for monitoring and management, an International Centre for Materials Science, the Univer information system and the Directum document workflow system.数字校园包括用于监测与管理的 Upgrade Center、国际材料科学中心、Univer 信息系统与 Directum 文件流转系统。
• Between 2018 and 2020 the university renewed 90 per cent of its computer fleet and installed more than 3,000 modern workstations.2018 至 2020 年间学校更新了 90% 的计算机设备，安装了逾 3,000 个现代工作站。
• Its Wi-Fi network of about 500 access points covers all teaching premises and the surrounding campus area.由约 500 个接入点组成的无线网络覆盖全部教学场所及周边校园。
• Students are admitted to state-funded and fee-paying places through the national testing system, and the university offers distance learning via Univer 2.0, Moodle and Cisco Webex.学生通过国家统一测试制度进入公费与自费名额，学校还通过 Univer 2.0、Moodle 与思科 Webex 提供远程教学。
• Research output indexed by OpenAlex amounts to 2,760 works and 15,016 citations across engineering, materials and mining disciplines.OpenAlex 收录该校 2,760 篇成果与 15,016 次引用，集中于工程、材料与采矿等学科。
• In 2026 three university research projects received grant funding in the 2026-2028 competition for young scientists.2026 年，该校 3 个科研项目在 2026-2028 年度青年科学家资助竞赛中获得资助。

Campus

• The university's buildings and structures occupy more than 96,000 square metres in Karaganda, at about 49.80 degrees north and 73.10 degrees east.该校建筑与设施位于卡拉干达，总建筑面积逾 96,000 平方米，地理坐标约为北纬 49.80 度、东经 73.10 度。
• The campus consists of seven academic and laboratory buildings, 185 laboratories, a sports complex, three halls of residence, a Palace of Youth and the Polytechnik sports camp.校园由 7 座教学实验楼、185 个实验室、1 个体育综合体、3 栋学生宿舍、青年宫以及「Polytechnik」体育营组成。
• The Polytechnik sports and recreation camp lies in the resort area of Karkaralinsk, where students and staff have rested since it was organised in 1961-1963.「Polytechnik」体育休养营位于卡尔卡拉林斯克疗养区，自 1961-1963 年创办以来一直是师生休养之所。
• The main building, completed at the end of 1963 with laboratories, a gym, auditoriums and three hostels, was partly built by the students themselves.1963 年底落成的主楼设有实验室、体育馆、阶梯教室与三栋宿舍，其中部分工程由学生亲手参与建设。
• An athletics arena was added in the early years to broaden the sports base and is still in use.学校早年增建了一座田径馆以扩展体育设施，至今仍在使用。
• In 1972 a new laboratory building was opened for the transport-road and engineering-construction faculties, equipped with cars, tractors, engines and laboratory installations.1972 年为交通运输与工程建设系启用新实验楼，配置了汽车、拖拉机、发动机与实验装置。
• The university library holds unique editions bearing the stamps of the Stalin Moscow Mining Institute, the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Institute and the NKVD.校图书馆藏有盖有斯大林莫斯科矿业学院、第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克矿业学院与内务人民委员部藏书印的珍本。
• Branches were historically established in Temirtau, Balkhash, Jezkazgan and Tselinograd, reflecting the industrial geography of central Kazakhstan.学校历史上曾在铁米尔套、巴尔喀什、杰兹卡兹甘与切利诺格勒设立分校，反映了哈萨克斯坦中部的工业地理格局。
• The Palace of Youth and the sports complex serve as the main gathering and recreation venues for the university community in Karaganda.青年宫与体育综合体是卡拉干达校园内师生主要的聚会与休闲场所。

Reputation

• Karaganda Technical University was placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a joint-band position in the global table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，卡拉干达技术大学位列 1001-1200 区间，这是该校在该全球榜单上的并列区间位次。
• In the QS World University Rankings 2026 it stood in the 951-1000 band, a higher position than in the 2027 edition.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位列 951-1000 区间，高于 2027 年版的位次。
• Among the 20 Kazakhstani universities represented in the QS world ranking, the university has been listed repeatedly in the country's top ten.在入选 QS 世界排名的 20 所哈萨克斯坦高校中，该校多次跻身全国前十。
• It did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 or the Shanghai ARWU 2026.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名、US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。
• OpenAlex records 2,760 research works and 15,016 citations for the university, reflecting its technical and engineering output.OpenAlex 记录该校 2,760 篇研究成果与 15,016 次引用，体现了其工程技术领域的产出。
• The institution was the first polytechnic higher school in Kazakhstan, a status that anchors its domestic reputation in engineering education.该校是哈萨克斯坦第一所理工类高等学府，这一地位奠定了其在国内工程教育中的声誉。
• Its Soviet-era honours include the Order of the Red Banner of Labour of 1976 and two inscriptions in the Golden Book of Honour of the Kazakh SSR, in 1976 and 1981.其苏联时期的荣誉包括 1976 年获得的劳动红旗勋章，以及 1976 年与 1981 年两次被载入哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国荣誉金册。
• In 2002 the International Association for the Promotion of Industry in Paris awarded the university the Gold Medal SPI for dynamic development and quality.2002 年巴黎国际工业促进协会因该校的快速发展与质量，授予其「SPI 金质奖章」。
• The university has trained more than 100,000 specialists, including Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first President of Kazakhstan.该校培养了逾 10 万名专业人才，其中包括哈萨克斯坦首任总统努尔苏丹·纳扎尔巴耶夫。
• It maintains international academic mobility programmes and cooperation with institutions such as Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and, in 2026, Iraq's Middle Technical University.该校开展国际学术流动项目，并与圣彼得堡彼得大帝理工大学等院校合作，2026 年又与伊拉克中等技术大学建立联系。

Student life

• The university maintains no formal Latin motto, and its mission statement stresses training engineers for the mining, metallurgical and energy industries of Kazakhstan.该校没有正式的拉丁校训，其办学宗旨强调为哈萨克斯坦的采矿、冶金与能源行业培养工程师。
• The Museum of the History of KSTU, whose exposition chronicles the university from 1953, keeps diplomas, banners, photographs and personal collections of its early teachers.卡拉干达技术大学历史博物馆的展陈记录了 1953 年以来的校史，收藏了早期教师的文凭、锦旗、照片与个人藏品。
• Students took an active part in the construction of the campus, laying brickwork, parquet floors and the shelving of the library archives.学生积极参与校园建设，亲手砌砖、铺设镶木地板，并为图书馆档案库焊接书架。
• Cultural life has included a Russian national chorus, an orchestra of Russian and Kazakh folk instruments, an English-language chorus and the drama club IFA.校园文化生活包括俄罗斯民族合唱团、俄罗斯与哈萨克民族乐器乐队、英语合唱团以及戏剧社 IFA。
• In 1982 the KPTI folk-song chorus was honoured with the rank of People's Chorus, a title it confirmed in later years.1982 年该校民歌合唱团荣获「人民合唱团」称号，并在随后数年中多次保持该荣誉。
• The Polytechnik student construction brigade won 14 banners in social competitions and took part in the virgin-land harvest campaigns of the 1960s.「Polytechnik」学生建筑队在社会竞赛中 14 次夺得锦旗，并参加了 20 世纪 60 年代的垦荒收获运动。
• Recreation is centred on the Polytechnik camp in Karkaralinsk and a camp on the bank of the Topar reservoir, where about 900 people rested each year in the 1980s.师生休养以卡尔卡拉林斯克的 Polytechnik 营地和托帕尔水库畔营地为中心，20 世纪 80 年代每年约有 900 人在此休养。
• Nauryz, the spring holiday, and other national traditions are celebrated at the university together with its leadership and students.学校与师生共同庆祝纳吾鲁孜节等民族传统节日。

Notable people

• Yunus Kadyrbayevich Nurmukhamedov, a candidate of technical sciences, was the first director of the Karaganda Mining Institute from 1953 to 1955.技术科学副博士尤努斯·卡德尔巴耶维奇·努尔穆哈梅多夫于 1953 至 1955 年担任卡拉干达矿业学院首任院长。
• Abylkas Saginovich Saginov, rector from 1955 to 1987, was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR and a two-time laureate of the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR, and the university now bears his name.阿布卡斯·萨吉诺维奇·萨吉诺夫 1955 至 1987 年任校长，是哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国科学院院士、两度获国家奖，该校现以其名命名。
• Abdrakhman Ermekov, who taught at the institute between 1955 and 1958, was the first Kazakh professor of mathematics and wrote the first mathematics textbook in the Kazakh language in 1935.1955 至 1958 年在校任教的阿卜德拉赫曼·叶尔梅科夫是首位哈萨克族数学教授，并于 1935 年编写了首部哈萨克文数学教科书。
• Kanysh Satpayev, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR, visited the institute in 1958 during a visiting session of the academy.哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国科学院院士卡内什·萨特帕耶夫于 1958 年科学院巡回会议期间访问该校。
• Nursultan Nazarbayev, the first President of Kazakhstan, was a student at the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1965.哈萨克斯坦首任总统努尔苏丹·纳扎尔巴耶夫于 1962 至 1965 年在卡拉干达工学院就读。
• Alexander Grigoryevich Lazutkin, rector from 1988 to 1993 and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, shared the 1987 State Prize of the Kazakh SSR.1988 至 1993 年任校长的科学院通讯院士亚历山大·格里戈里耶维奇·拉祖特金，是 1987 年哈萨克苏维埃社会主义共和国国家奖的共同获奖者。
• Gennady Georgievich Piven, a doctor of technical sciences, led the university as rector from 1994 to 2008.技术科学博士根纳季·格奥尔基耶维奇·皮文于 1994 至 2008 年任校长。
• Arstan Maulenovich Gazaliev, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan and laureate of the State Prize of Kazakhstan, was rector from 2008 to 2016.哈萨克斯坦国家科学院院士、国家奖得主阿尔斯坦·毛列诺维奇·加扎利耶夫于 2008 至 2016 年任校长。
• Marat Kenesovich Ibatov, an honorary academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, served as rector from 2016 to 2024.哈萨克斯坦国家科学院荣誉院士马拉特·克涅索维奇·伊巴托夫于 2016 至 2024 年任校长。
• Saule Savetovna Sagintayeva, a doctor of economics and professor of mathematics, has been chair of the board and rector since 2024.经济学博士、数学教授萨乌列·萨韦托夫娜·萨金塔耶娃自 2024 年起担任董事会主席兼校长。
• Among the university's graduates are political figures and directors of large industrial enterprises in Kazakhstan and neighbouring countries.该校毕业生中不乏哈萨克斯坦及周边国家的政治人物与大型工业企业负责人。