National University of Uzbekistan

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National University of Uzbekistan Mirza Ulugh Beg
founding 1918
place Tashkent
country UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan
management Avazjon Raximovich Maraximov
Website nuu.uz

The National University of Uzbekistan Mirza Ulugh Beg ( Uzbek : Mirzo Ulug'bek nomidagi O'zbekiston Milliy Universiteti , Russian Национальный университет Узбекистана имени Мирзо Улугбека Nazionalnyj Uniwersitet Usbekistana imeni Mirso Ulugbeka ) is the oldest and largest university in Uzbekistan . It was the first Soviet university in Central Asia and Kazakhstan . The university, founded in 1918 and named today after the Timurid prince and astronomer Mirza Ulugh Beg (1394–1449), is located in the Uzbek capital Tashkent . Its rector is Avazjon Raximovich Maraximov.

History, name changes

The university was opened in 1918 as the People's University of Turkestan on the former site of the military academy and the former palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich of Russia with 1200 students. Its first rector was Gleb Nikanorowitsch Cherdanzew (1885-1958).

Photograph of the “Scientists Train” (February 1920) with the first teachers for the newly founded first state university in Central Asia in Tashkent

In 1920 it was reorganized as the State University of Turkestan (Russian Туркестанский государственный университет ).

In July 1923 it was renamed the First Central Asian State University (Russian Perwy Sredneasijatski Gossudarstwenny Uniwersitet / Первый Среднеазиатский Государственный Университет ). She kept this name in the late 1950s.

In 1960 the name was changed to Tashkent State University VI Lenin (Russian Ташкентский государственный университет им В. И. Ленина ).

After the independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan after the collapse of the Soviet Union , it eventually became the National University of Uzbekistan .

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In the 1920s (especially from Moscow , the capital of the new Soviet Union), many academics from the western USSR came to Central Asia , and during the Second World War , many scientists were evacuated to Central Asia . The presence of a significant number of Russian-speaking Soviet citizens developed in Tashkent city and in Alma-Ata an infrastructure in the European style.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. See also Ulug Beg's observatory .
  2. cf. Palace of Grand Duke Nikolai (Tashkent) (French)
  3. Глеб Никанорович Черданцев (Russian)
  4. See also the list of lecturers and staff at the establishment of the Tashkent University - Преподаватели-основатели Ташкентского университета (Russian)
  5. List of universities in Tajikistan (English)

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Coordinates: 41 ° 21 ′ 4 ″  N , 69 ° 12 ′ 18 ″  E

National University of Uzbekistan (alternative names of the lemma)
National University of Uzbekistan; National University of Uzbekistan