Izhevsk State Technical University (Ижевский Государственный Технический Университет) is a university in Izhevsk, Russia. The university can be abbreviated as IzhSTU (ИжГТУ). It was founded in 1952 in the period of intensive industrial development when there was an increasing demand in highly qualified engineers, capable of managing production processes. On the date of its 60th anniversary it was named after the legendary small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov.