The department of Tourism and Sociocultural Services was founded in the department of Pedagogy and Social Work, which was opened in March 1997 as a structural unit of the Service and Light Industry faculty. On November 1st, 2006, it was renamed as the department of Tourism and Sociocultural Services.
The first graduation of specialists in the tourism major (100201.65) was in June 2009, specialists in service and tourism - 2000, and managers in domestic science - 2001.
The department’s teaching staff has published more than 300 academic and methodological texts including texts which have been published by central publishers and are recommended by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science or the Academic and Methodological Association of Universities in Tourism and Service.
