Pavlodar State University celebrated the Day of Knowledge and the beginning of a new academic year September 2. This year, about three thousand students became first-year students.

Opening the solemn event, acting. rector of S.Toraighyrov PSU Yerzhanov N.T. congratulated all those present: "From today you have the proud title of a student of Pavlodar State University. PSU is a world of unlimited educational opportunities, where, in addition to science, all conditions for the development of your creative potential are created".

Sincerely greeted the first-year students a Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the University, Candidate of Technical Sciences Bari Zhanakhutdinov and first-year master's student Arnagul Burkut. "The Day of Knowledge is a festival of darings and creative creations. I wish you creative mood, huge heights in the space of knowledge and science!", A. Burkut said.

Students was congratulated by the concert program, in which creative teams and soloists of the University Philharmonic took part.

During the holiday, under the sounds of the Gaudeamus anthem, a solemn  university flag raising and the flower-laying ceremony to the bust of Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov took place.