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Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University is one of eight Russian federal universities. The oldest university in Russia, after the Moscow one. It is an object of cultural heritage of R. F.
From the moment of its formation by Alexander I in 1804 and until the revolution of 1917, it was called the "Imperial Kazan University". The building of the First Imperial Gymnasium was transformed into a university, and the street was called Pokrovskaya. The building was built in 1789, designed by the architect F. Yemelyanov, the customer was the landowner Molostvov. After Lenin's death in 1924, it became known as “KSU im. IN AND. Ulyanov - Lenin ".
By the decree of the President of Russia D. A. Medvedev in 2009 on the basis of the university was created the main university of the Volga Federal District - "Volga Federal University". As a result of protests by students and teachers related to the renaming of the university, the presidents of Russia and Tatarstan decided to keep the historical name "Kazan University". In 2010, the Chairman of the Government of Russia issued an order to assign the official name of the university - "Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University".
The main educational buildings of the university are located on the university campus in the center of Kazan. The university accepted its first students in February 1805. In 1814, the university had 4 departments of physical and mathematical sciences, medical sciences, verbal sciences and moral and political sciences.
In 1825, the main university building was rebuilt. By 1830, the university had a library building, an anatomical theater, a chemical laboratory, an astronomical observatory, a clinic, etc. The university became one of the centers of education and science in Russia.
The names of many famous scientists who taught or studied at the university are associated with the university: the astronomer Simonov, the founder of non-Euclidean geometry Lobachevsky, K. Klaus, who discovered ruthenium, Butlerov, Gromeka, Zavoisky, Altshuler and many other scientists known in their fields.
Among the students of the university were: L. N. Tolstoy, Melnikov-Pechersky, V. I. Ulyanov, A. I. Rykov, M. A. Balakirev, S. Aksakov, V. Khlebnikov, G. Derzhavin, V. Panaev, I. Shishkin, A. Arbuzov and others.
At present, Kazan Federal University is a multidisciplinary university of the classical model. Specialists of various specialties for various fields of activity are trained here. It includes 15 faculties. The university includes research institutes, laboratories, two astronomical observatories, a publishing house, and an information technology center. Scientific library named after Lobachevsky has rich funds. Its funds include the collections of Grigory Potemkin and Vasily Polyansky. It contains the most valuable manuscripts, manuscripts and ancient books. It contains about five million books and eleven reading rooms. K (P) FU has extensive international connections with more than 40 universities around the world.
