The history of our college

The college building (the old one) was constructed in 1937 by Polish authorities. They wanted to open a school here.

During German occupation the teacher's seminary  was opened here.

After  the war  it was renamed into the pedagogical college. In 1947 the first  teachers graduated from here. And all conditions for future work were offered for them.

The school contained 2-storeyed building in which there were 6 classes, a teacher's room, hte director 'soffice, a small hall for physical culture and a library. Besides, the school posessed the wooden house where there lived two teachers and two buildings used as a hostel. Here there lived 66 future teachers. At the hostel there was electric illumination, but it was impossible to use it fully because of  current low voltage. Therefore oil lamps became a common reality. 66 students studied  on the first course. Their preparation was characterised as insufficient, especially on languages and mathematics.

Basically the children of collective farmers studied here. The teaching structure was characterised as hardworking. Almost all teachers had higher education. Financial  position of the educational establishment was unsatisfactory. The pedagogical college was closed in August, 18th 1955.

The history of formation of Postavy PTC-165 goes back to 1955. There was a tendency to raise agriculture in the country, to master virgin lands and to solve these major state problems qualified specialists were required: tractor operators, drivers.

Thus in October, 1955 the Vocational school of agricultural mechanisation № 2 was opened in Postavy.

The first director of school  was .
150 students were admitted to the school. Five groups were made (№ 1, № 2, № 3, № 4, № 5)  with 30 people in each group.
Pupils came from various regions of Belarus: Postavsky, Disnensky, Volozhinsky, Sharkovshchinsky, Rodoshkovichsky, Mjadelsky, Shklovsky, Gluboksky, Smorgonsky, Plissky, Dokshitsky, Miorsky.

National structure of pupils: 142 -  Belorusian, 7 - Russian, 1 -  Ukrainian.

Among the first pupilsthere were not only young men, but also some girls.

The age structure of pupils was different: young men born in 1936-1939 and older generation - 1920, 1023, 1931, 1933.

The first graduation of students took place in March, 28th, 1956. Pupils received such professions as a tractor operator and a mechanic of 3rd category. 85 graduates were directed  to work to the Pavlodar regional management of agriculture, Akmolinsky area, the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The others started working at  Postavy MTS, Molodechensky regional management of agriculture.

Behind all these figures and orders there is a huge work of the first engineering-pedagogical  structure.

In 1962 in November the Vocational school  was renamed into Rural technical training college № 2.

More than 40 graduates of those years for an honest work had high government awards. Training term was 2 years, and  those who wished  to receive secondary education, visited evening schools.

Since 1963 Zhavrid Edward Stepanovich was the director of the college.

He was born in 1932 in July, 11th in Kopyl, Minsk area. In 1950 he has finished Kopylsky high school and has arrived to Belarus polytechnical institute.  After graduation he received a speciality of a mechanical engineer and was directed to work in Brest area Zhlobinsky region, Rogoznensky MTS, as a the a chief engineer. 

Then he began to work in Slutsk school № 9 as a teacher. In 1960 he was the deputy director on industrial work in Drujsky THAT № 11.

In 1963 he was appointed  the director of the school. As a director he worked 21 year.

                                Pedagogical staff SPTU № 2

Director Zhavrid E.S.  (the bottom row, the second on the right)

Under its management the pedagogical staff  prepared over 10 thousand experts for collective farms and state farms. Pupils not only received theoretical education, but widely applied their knowledge in practical life.

With the help of students there had been constructed a club on 350 seats, industrial classes and laboratories. In 1979 the hostel on 395 places had been built, and pupils from villages began to live in a hostel. Since 1979  three-year term of training was introduced.

The material base became stronger, conditions for development of interests and abilities of the youth were created.

In August, 1980 the school celebrated the 25-th anniversary. Many teachers were awarded with honorable awards and  presents.

Since 1984 till 1998 the pedagogical staff was headed by director Derevjanko Alexander Aleksandrovich.

During the period  from 1989 to 1998 PTC-165 prepared  2036 specialists.

The college is proud of its graduates who successfully work in the economic area of our region.

In 1998 Kurto Peter Leonidovich became director of PTC-165.

Kurto Peter Leonidovich was born in August, 26th, 1961 in Vitebsk area, Postavy region, in the family of a collective farmer. He  finished school  №2 in Postavy in 1978, in 1979 he studied at  Postavy college  and received such professions: «Tractor operator-machinist of a wide profile».

In 1984 he graduated from Velikoluksky agricultural institute as a  mechanic-engineer.

In 1998 - director  PTC-165.

Thanks to the hard work of the administration the PTC-165  was renamed into Postavy state lyceem  in 2000  and soon, in 2003, the lyceem was reorganised into the EE "Postavy state professional-technical college of  agricultural production".

In 2004 Kurto Peter Leonidovich was appointed  the first deputy of Postavy regional executive committee chief.

Since 2005 the director of EE " Postavsky state professional -technical college of  agricultural production"  has been Lysenok Nikolay Nikolaevich.

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