Kazan (Volga region) Federal University

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Kazan Federal University (Russian: Казанский федеральный университет, Tatar: Казан федераль университеты, Qazan Federal Universiteti ) is the second oldest university in Russia and has its headquarters in Kazan, Tatarstan. Over the years it became an important educational institution in Russia, and educational center, especially for students from the Volga region, Siberia and the Caucasus.

History

The Kazan University was on 5 Novemberjul. / November 17 1804greg. founded by the decree of Tsar Alexander I.. Already in the first decades of its existence it became a major center of education and science. There arose a variety of scientific directions and schools, including mathematics, chemistry, medicine, linguistics and geology.

The University took in 1814 with four departments - the Departments of moral and political sciences, the physical and mathematical sciences, medical sciences, and literature - the first complete their operation. For these departments in 1835, the first faculties were created. Over time were added further. In the first decades of the German university professors played a prominent role, as, among others, Johann Bartels, Johann Friedrich Erdmann, Christian Frähn. The German Professor and Rector of the University Karl Fuchs founded the Kazan medical school and explored the first Europeans, the Tatar history and culture. 1844 saw the German -Baltic professor of Kazan University Karl Ernst Claus the chemical element ruthenium. Today, the university is home to 15 faculties in addition to, inter alia, a Chemistry Institute, an institute of oriental studies, a language institute and two branches of the university. Currently, about 16,000 students study here.

Personalities from the University

In alphabetical order

  • Gabdulchaj Achatow (1927-1986), Soviet linguist and Turkologist
  • Walter Anderson (1885-1962), German folklorist
  • Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Russian composer
  • Nikolai Beketov (1827-1911), Russian chemist
  • Pyotr Boborykin (1836-1921), Russian writer
  • Alexander Butlerov (1828-1886), Russian chemist
  • Karl Ernst Claus (1796-1864), German - Russian pharmacist and chemist
  • Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay January Niecisław (1845-1929), Polish linguist and Slawist
  • Johann Friedrich Erdmann (1778-1846), German physician
  • Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904-1977), Russian historian and writer
  • Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Soviet politician
  • Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856), Russian mathematician
  • Vladimir Markovnikov (1837-1904), Russian chemist
  • Konstantin Merejkowski (1855-1921), Russian botanist
  • Afanassi Schtschapow (1830-1876), Russian historian
  • Alexander Zaitsev (1841-1910), Professor of Organic Chemistry
  • Nikolai Zinin (1812-1880), Russian chemist
  • Michael Minsky ( Spirin ) ( 1918-1988 ), Russian singers
  • Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian writer
Volga River Caucasus Mountains Johann Christian Martin Bartels Walter Anderson (folklorist) Afanasy Shchapov Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev Nikolay Zinin
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