Kharkiv University
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Karazin Kharkiv National University |
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| Established | 1804 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Vil S. Bakirov |
| Faculty | 16 |
| Staff | 1,500 |
| Students | 12,400 |
| Location | Kharkiv, Ukraine |
| Website | www.univer.kharkov.ua/ |
Kharkiv National University (also known as Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukrainian: Харківський національний університет імені Каразіна), in the city of Kharkiv, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasyl Karazin, (after whom the university is now named), becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv.
Among the scholars associated with the university there are three Nobel prize winners:
- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Medicine, 1908)
- Lev Davidovich Landau (Physics, 1962)
- Simon Kuznets (Economics, 1971)
[edit] Organization
These are the 16 schools in which the university is divided into:
- School of Biology
- School of Geology and Geography
- School of Economics
- School of Foreign Languages
- School of History
- School of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering
- School of Radio Physics
- School of Sociology
- School of Physics and Technology
- School of Physics
- School of Philology
- School of Fundamental Medicine
- School of Chemistry
- School of Professional Re-Training
- The International Students Education Center
- School of Psychology
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Kharkiv University Website (Ukrainian) (English)
