Kazan Federal University
Казанский федеральный университет Казан федераль университеты Qazan Federal Universitetı Kazan Federal University |
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founding | 1804 (opened in 1805) |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Kazan , Russia |
Rector ( Ректор ) | Ilschat Gafurow (Ильшат Гафуров) |
Students | 44,000 |
Employee | 2300 |
including professors | 400 |
Networks | IAU |
Website | kpfu.ru |
The Kazan Federal University ( Russian Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет , Tatar Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты - Qazan Federal Universiteti ) is the second oldest university in Russia and is based in Kazan , Tatarstan . Over the years it has become an important educational institution in Russia, and an educational institution especially for students from the Volga region , Siberia and the Caucasus .
history
The university was opened on November 5th jul. / November 17, 1804 greg. on adoption of the Tsar Alexander I established. Already in the first decades of its existence it became an important center of education and science. A variety of scientific directions and schools emerged, including mathematics , chemistry , physics , medicine , linguistics, and geology .
In 1814, the university began operating completely with four departments - the departments of moral and political sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, medical sciences and literary studies. The first faculties were created from these departments in 1835. More were added over time. In the first decades of the university, German professors played a prominent role. a. Johann Bartels , Johann Friedrich Erdmann , Christian Frähn . The German professor and university rector Karl Fuchs founded the Kazan Medical School and was the first European to research Tatar history and culture. In 1844 the German-Baltic professor at the Kazan University Karl Ernst Claus discovered the chemical element ruthenium . Today the university houses 15 faculties and a. a chemical institute, a physical institute, an institute of oriental studies , a language institute and two branches of the university. Over 35,000 students are currently studying here.
University personalities
In alphabetic order
- Gabdulchaj Achatow (1927–1986), Soviet linguist and Turkologist
- Bruno Fridrichowitsch Adler (1874–1942), Russian-German ethnologist and anthropologist
- Walter Anderson (1885–1962), German folklorist
- Mili Balakirew (1837-1910), Russian composer
- Nikolai Beketov (1827–1911), Russian chemist
- Wassili Wassiljewitsch Berwi (1829–1918), Russian economist and sociologist
- Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921), Russian writer
- Alexander Butlerow (1828–1886), Russian chemist
- Karl Ernst Claus (1796–1864), German-Russian pharmacist and chemist
- Jan Ignacy Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), Polish linguist and Slavist
- Franz von Erdmann (1793–1862), German orientalist
- Johann Friedrich Erdmann (1778–1846), German physician
- Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794–1860), German zoologist
- Christian Martin Joachim Frähn (1782–1851), German orientalist
- Karl Friedrich Fuchs (1776–1846), German-Russian physician
- Jewgenija Ginsburg (1904–1977), Russian historian and writer
- Vladimir Karawajew (1811-1892), Russian-Ukrainian surgeon and ophthalmologist
- Alexander Kassimowitsch Kasembek (1802-1870), Azerbaijani-Russian orientalist
- Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Soviet politician
- Karl Lindemann (zoologist) (1847–1929), Russian zoologist, entomologist and representative of the interests of Russian Germans
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856), Russian mathematician
- Vladimir Markovnikov (1837–1904), Russian chemist
- Konstantin Mereschkowski (1855–1921), Russian botanist
- Afanassi Shchapov (1830–1876), Russian historian
- Alexander Saizew (1841–1910), professor of organic chemistry
- Nikolai Sinin (1812–1880), Russian chemist
- Michael Minsky (Spirin) (1918–1988), Russian singer
- Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer
- Georg von Wrangel (1783–1841), Russian lawyer
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Page of the Rector
- ↑ a b c kpfu.ru
- ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 14, 2019 .
Coordinates: 55 ° 47 '26.7 " N , 49 ° 7' 18.88" E