Kazan Federal University
Also known as Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kazan State University
Russian university
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Kazan Federal University is one of Russia's major research universities, located in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan. It is significant as a leading institution for education and scientific research in Russia, particularly in fields like engineering, medicine, and natural sciences.
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Key facts
- Former names
- Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin Kazan State University, Imperial Kazan University
- Type
- Public/Federal university
- Established
- November 17, 1804 ; 221 years ago ( 1804-11-17 )
- Affiliations
- EUA , IAU , EURAS , AMBA
- Rector
- Lenar Safin
- Academic staff
- ~ 4400
- Students
- ~ 50200
- Campus
- Both urban and suburban
- Language
- Russian, English, Tatar
- Colours
- Blue and white
- Website
- Official website (in Russian)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Article
Kazan Federal University (Russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет; Tatar: Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты, romanized: Qazan (İdel buyı) federal universitetı) is a public research university located in Kazan, Russia.
The university was founded in 1804 as Imperial Kazan University, which makes it the second oldest continuously existing tertiary education institution in Russia. Founder of non-Euclidean geometry Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky served there as the rector from 1827 until 1846. In 1925, the university was renamed in honour of its student Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). The university is known as the birthplace of organic chemistry due to works by Aleksandr Butlerov, Vladimir Markovnikov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and the birthplace of electron spin resonance discovered by Evgeny Zavoisky.