Gorno-Altaisk State University is the leading scientific center of the Altai Republic. His interdisciplinary research activities are mainly focused on the following key areas:
- historical and cultural heritage of the Altai Republic;
- Altaistics and Turkology;
- socio-economic and political development of Gorny Altai;
- monitoring the social and ethnopolitical situation in the Altai Republic, forecasting and evaluating strategic scenarios for the development of the territory;
- environmental safety and sustainable natural resource management in the context of the transformation of the natural environment in the Republic of Altai;
- literary heritage, written sources, mythology, folklore and languages of the peoples of the Altai Republic;
- development of mechanisms for psychological and pedagogical support of a personality in the Altai Republic: issues of education, human health and safety, interfaith relations and intercultural communication;
- new technologies in animal husbandry and crop production, processing and storage of agricultural products in the Altai Republic.
The university currently has structural units that are basic for research, industrial and educational practices of students.
Institute of Tourism, Service and Hospitality
Scientific research centers:
Scientific Research Center of the History and Culture of the Turkic Peoples Center of Altaistics and Turkology "Kоk-teheri"
Center for Strategic Studies
Center for Molecular Genetic Research "Biotech"
Scientific Research Center for Sociological Research "NCSI"
Laboratories:
Laboratory of Communication Research and Linguistic Expertise
Robotics Laboratory
Laboratory of Ecological Genetics and Plant Breeding Scientific
Research Laboratory "Altai Philology"
Scientific Research Laboratory of Anthropology Scientific
Research Laboratory for Mapping Natural Conditions and Resources
Scientific Research Laboratory of Geophysics
Scientific Research Laboratory "Innovative Educational technologies"
Scientific Research Laboratory of Ecology of arid territories
Scientific Laboratory of Ethnographic
Research Chemical and Environmental Laboratory
Scientific schools:
Scientific School "Development of educational systems in a small region based on competence and axiological approaches";
Scientific School "Typological study of the history and culture of the Turkic-Mongolian peoples".
University and Academic Department of Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories
Updated 28.04.2025 by Z. Poletaeva