Don State Technical University
The university was founded in 1930, when new factories for the production of agricultural machinery came into operation (the largest of them was Rostselmash). For new enterprises, technologists and engineers were required, and personnel who were trained by the Don Polytechnic Institute (DPS, Novocherkassk) it wasn't enough. A government commission headed by V. V. Schmidt, who visited the Rostov region, decided to reorganize the Don Polytechnic Institute (DPS), opening several independent universities on its basis.
The years of the Great Patriotic War
In November 1941, part of the institute's staff was seconded to the Rostselmash plant and evacuated with it to Tashkent. Many university teachers have gone to the front, including its director, I. I. Smirnov. During the evacuation, the remaining employees and students, in addition to studying and work, were engaged in cotton harvesting in the fields of Mirzachul district, worked on the construction of the Salar hydroelectric power station, grew vegetables on the lands of the village