Al-Farabi University

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Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Kazakh: Əл Фараби атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті/Äl Farabi atındağı Qazaq Ülttık Universïteti), often shortened to Al-Farabi University, is a university in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is the country's primary and largest university.

The University was founded on January 15, 1934 as the S.M. Kirov State University, after revolutionary Sergey Kirov. One year after Kazakhstan's 1990 declaration of independence, the name was changed to Al-Farabi University. In 2001, the government classified it as a "national" university. As of 2005 it has approximately 16,000 students and over 1000 professors spread over 105 departments. Like other universities founded under the Soviet system, it is highly centralized.

1 Location
2 Partner universities
3 Notable alumni
4 External links

[edit] Location

The University has its own campus, the so called "Kazgugrad", located on the land between Timiryazev Street, Al-Farabi Avenue, the river "Yessentai" ("Vesnovka"), and the Botanical Garden. The main building is 13 floors high, and hosts the administration, and also History, Economics, Law, Philology, and Journalism departments.

There are also 10 dormitories on campus, and 3 more faculties: Geography, Biology and International Relations

[edit] Partner universities

Ching Yun University, Taiwan

[edit] Notable alumni

Gulzhana Karagusova, Kazakhstan's Minister of Social Justice
Baurzhan Mukhamedjanov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Internal Affairs
German Kim, head of the Department of Korean Studies and one of the leading internationally-recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram
Zhanseit Tuimebayev, Kazakhstan's Minister of Education and former ambassador to Russia