Uzhhorod National University

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Uzhhorod National University
Ужгородський національний університет


Motto:	The more we know, the more we can do!
Established:	1945
Type:	Public
Rector:	Prof. Mykola Vehesh, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Faculty:	17
Staff:	2,000
Students:	12,000
Location:	Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Campus:	Uzhhorod

The building housing the faculties of Physics, Biology and the Zoological Museum

Uzhhorod National University (also known as UzhNU, Ukrainian: Ужгородський національний університет (УжНУ)), in the city of Uzhhorod, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Soviet Union.

[edit] History

Uzhhorod State University was founded on October 18, 1945 in accordance with joint resolution of Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and Central Committee of Communist Party of Ukrainian SSR. The resolution stated the following: "due to considerable demand of cultural upbringing in Transcarpatian Ukraine and the solicitude of the Council of Transcarpatian Ukraine, Council of National Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and Central Committee of Ukrainian Communist Party decree: "to open in 1945 State University in Uzhhorod with the following faculties: history, philology, biology, medicine…". Preparatory courses were opened first. On February 1, 1946 the first 168 boys and girls from different towns and villages of Ukraine began their studies. The first faculties to open were: historical, philological, biological and medical. On July 1, 1946 there were 15 departments with 42 members of teaching staff. In 1946 the Council of Ministers of USSR proclaimed that Uzhhorod State University belongs to the first category of higher educational institutions and since then it has been administrated by the Ministry of Higher Education of the Soviet Union. Uzhhorod State University attained help from 50 biggest universities and academic institutions of Ukraine. Scientific, technical, political and science-fiction literature and text-books were sent to Uzhhorod from universities in Baku, Kazan, Tbilisi as well as other towns and cities of former Soviet Union. On October 19, 2000, Uzhhorod State University was renamed to Uzhhorod National University.

[edit] The university today

The university has 17 faculties: history, philology, law, Romano-Germanic philology, social sciences, economics, physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, medicine, stomatology, engineering, international relations, geography, physical education and sport, and postdiploma education.

The building housing the faculties of History, Engineering and International Relations

There are over 12,000 students enrolled at the university. Several scentific institutes and laboratories are housed at the university too, including the Institute for Solid State Physics and Chemistry, the Institute of Carpathian Studies, the Research Laboratory of Physical Electronics with the Space Exploration Laboratory, the Center for Hungarian studies, and the Research Laboratory of Ecosystem Conservation. The university operates a botanical garden and a mountainside biological research station. Its library collection has approx 1.5 million volumes ^[1].

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Universities	Chernivtsi University • Dnipropetrovsk National University • Donetsk University • Kharkiv University • Kharkiv National University of Economics • Kherson State University • Kiev University • Kyiv International University • Lviv University • National Tavria University • National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy • Odessa National University • Ostroh Academy • Ukrainian Catholic University • Vasil Stefanik Precarpathian National University • Zaporizhzhya National University • Uzhhorod National University • Transcarpathian State University • Interregional Academy of Personnel Management • Ternopil National Economic University • International Solomon University

Technical universities	National Mining University of Ukraine • Chemical Technology University of Ukraine • Donetsk National Technical University • Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas • Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics • Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute • Kiev Polytechnic Institute • Kyiv National Economic University • Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture • Lviv Polytechnic • National Aviation University • Vinnytsia National Technical University • Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding

Medical universities	Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University • Bukovinian State Medical University • Donetsk State Medical University • Bogomolets National Medical University Of Ukraine • Crimea State Medical University • Luhansk State Medical University • Odessa State Medical University • National Pirogov Memorial Medical University • Kharkiv National Medical University • Lugansk State Medical University • Zaporozhye State Medical University

Pedagogical universities	Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University