National I.-I.-Mechnikov University of Odessa
National I.-I.-Mechnikov University of Odessa | |
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founding | 1865 |
place | Odessa |
country | Ukraine |
Rector | Igor Kowal |
Students | approx. 14,000 |
Website | www.onu.edu.ua |
The National I.-I. Mechnikov University Odessa ( Russian Одесский национальный университет имени И. И. Мечникова , Ukrainian Одеський національний університет імені І.І. Мечникова ) is a university in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa . Today it is named after the Russian zoologist and anatomist Ilja I. Metschnikow .
The university is one of the oldest and most important universities in Ukraine . It consists of 10 faculties and four institutes and, in addition to several locations in Odessa itself, also has facilities in the Odessa suburb of Chornomorsk and in the city of Mykolaiv . The university also includes the Odessa observatory and one of the largest scientific libraries in Ukraine.
The university was founded in 1865 by an edict of Tsar Alexander II and was initially called Imperatorskij Novorossijskij Universitet ( Imperial New Russian University ). It originated from the former Lycée Richelieu in Odessa.
Well-known lecturers and students
- Nikolai Andrusov , geologist and paleontologist
- Mikhail Nesturch , anthropologist, primate researcher, and author
- Oleksandr Bejderman , philologist and writer
- Valtazar Bogišić , lawyer and pioneer in sociology
- Alexander Brückner , historian
- Stanisław Car , lawyer and politician
- Gregor Fichtenholz , mathematician
- Georgi Florowski , Orthodox theologian
- Anne Friedrich , classical philologist
- Oleksandr Hruschewskyj , historian
- Weniamin Kagan , mathematician
- Igor Lopatin , biologist and zoologist
- Mark Kerin , mathematician
- Yuri Olescha , writer
- Alexander Orlov , astronomer
- Nariman Narimanov , politician
- Ernst von Stern , ancient historian
- Ivan Tymoshenko , mathematician and mathematician historian
- Natasha Yarovenko , actress
- Gleb Pawlowski , political scientist
- Moses Schönfinkel , mathematician and logician
- Witold Schmulian , mathematician
- Theodor Seliwanoff , chemist
- Nikolai Selinsky , chemist
- Wilen Strutinski , nuclear physicist
- Sergei Witte , entrepreneur and statesman
- Mariusz Zaruski , General
Web links
- Official website (Russian, Ukrainian, English)