Kazan State University
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Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет | |
 Kazan University in the early 1830s. | |
Former names | Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin Kazan State University, Kazan Imperial University |
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| Type | Public/Federal university |
| Established | 5 (new style: 17) November 1804 |
| Rector | Ilshat Ghafurov |
Academic staff | ~ 4026 |
| Students | ~ 43700 |
| Address | 18 Ulitsa Kremlevskaya, Kazan 420008, Tatarstan, Russia , , , |
| Campus | Both urban and suburban |
| Language | Russian, English |
| Colours | Blue and grey |
| Website | [http://www.kpfu.ru/main_page?p_sub=16 eng.kpfu.ru] |
Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (Russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, Kazanskiy (Privolzhskiy) federalnyy universitet; Tatar: Cyrillic Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты, Latin Qazan (İdel buye) federal' universitetı) is a university in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It was founded in 1804. The famous Russian mathematician Lobachevsky was its headmaster from 1827 till 1846. The post is now being held by Myakzyum Salakhov (Mäğzüm Säläxev).
Kazan University is also known as "the birthplace of organic chemistry" because of the works of Aleksandr Butlerov, Vladimir Markovnikov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and others.
Notable graduates
Kazan State University Media
Russian Emperor Alexander I is credited with the university's foundation.
Lenin as he appeared in 1887.
The university's name appeared in Arabic-script Tatar on the main building before that script's abolition in 1928.
The Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of Nikolai Lobachevsky Scientific Library
Commemorative coin - The Millennium of Founding the City of Kazan
1954 postage stamp depicting Lenin at Kazan University
Annual celebration of the birthday of Nikolay Lobachevsky by participants of Volga's Mathematical Olympiad of students
Kazan University on a 2004 postage stamp.
Other websites
- List of Kazan State University's rectors
- Kazan State University Official Site Archived 2005-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
