Donbass State Technical University was formed on October 12, 1957. At that time it has the name Voroshylovskiy Mining-Metallurgical Institute. In 1964 due to changing the town’s name it possessed the name Kommunarsk Mining-Metallurgical Institute, and in 1992 – it became Donbass Mining-Metallurgical Institute. By the order of Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine №622 from 27.07.2004 Donbass Mining-Metallurgical Institute was reorganized into Donbass State Technical University (DonSTU).

The origin of our university was put by outstanding persons, brilliant leaders and famous scientists. Among them are Pyotr Gmyrya, the director of iron-and-steel plant; the first rectors of our University Ivan Koval and Yuriy Voyevodin.

DonSTU is the largest training center, a higher institution of the IV level of accreditation. It has the following departments: Mining, Metallurgical, Civil Engineering, Economics and Finances, Mechanical Engineering, Management, Automation and Electro-technical Systems, Foreign Student’s department, training-consulting center “Osvita”, institute of advanced study and advanced training courses for managers and leaders, a college, and a scientific library.

Our university has 8 separate departments in the regional cities Yenakiyevo, Krasny Luch, Rovenki, Lisichansk, Sverdlovsk, Pervomaisk, Rubezhnoye, Krasnodon, as well as two technical schools: industrial one in Alchevsk and mining one in Perevalsk.

DonSTU has in its structure the scientific-research department, scientific-research design institute “Parameter”, State Inter-institutional Center for Laser-Location Observation for manmade Earth satellites «ORION», having the status of National heritage of Ukraine, Donbass Department of East-Ukrainian branch of Archeology Institute of NASU, Alchevsk Branch of Institute of Physics of mining processes NASU and Ministry of education and science/ Scientific and technological activity of Donbass Sate Technical University is carrying out according to priority development trends in science and engineering in Ukraine.

Our University issues its own newspaper “IMPULSE”, which has become one of the best student’s newspapers and obtained the official recognition among youth’s mass media. University’s faculty is proud of its historical museum, as well as mining-mineralogical museum with its unique collection of minerals. DonSTU has its sanatorium-preventorium, sport-recreation camp “ALTAGIR” at Azov seacoast, culture and leisure centre «TALENT», art production centre “LADO”.

Training and advanced training of specialists is carrying out on multilevel system, adopted in Europe. During students’ training we use present-day technologies. Much attention is paid to practical training of our students. They have practical trainings at the largest industrial enterprises and companies of Ukraine.

DonSTU is one of the Ukrainian first institutions which put into teaching process the Bologna system and was recognized as the major institution leading in the implementation of new teaching methods.

Teaching process in the university helps to provide a high level of students’ training and their rapid adoption at the working places.

With Ukraine’s entering into European Studying Union foreign links of DonSTU has got the additional impulse.

The main partners in scientific and educational spheres are the universities in Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Turkey. We initiate starting cooperation with German and Chinese universities. Among the most successful recent projects are the following ones:

• training the group of 20 students of DonSTU in Dunaujvarosh Institute (Hungary) on specialty «Management in Metallurgical industry», which is organized through the support of «Industrial Union of Donbass» Corporation;
• successful accreditation of DonSTU with Higher Education Board of Turkish Republic (such accreditation in Turkey possessed only three Ukrainian universities) means, that our diploma will be validated in Turkey and allows Higher Educational Board of Turkey send their students for getting higher education in our university;
• international investigations of the ancient mines “KARTAMYSH”, holding the international conferences «Problems of mining archeology»;
• scientific research of ancient underground constructions on the territory of Ukraine and Poland, having performed by the scientists of DonSTU and Kracow Mining-Metallurgical Academy; preparation of joint book on the materials obtained and so on.

Wide and stable international relations of the university in the field of education and science promote spreading the students’ mental outlook and adoption process of their preparation to international requirements.