V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in the city of
KharkivKharkiv , also spelled Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine.It was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, now the administrative centre of the Kharkiv Oblast , as well as the administrative centre of the surrounding Kharkivskyi Raion within the oblast. The city is located in the northeast...
, is one of the major universities in
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, and earlier in the
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and
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
. It was founded in 1805 through the efforts of
Vasyl KarazinVasiliy Nazarovych Karazin was a Russian-Ukrainian Enlightenment intellectual, inventor, and scientific publisher in Imperial Russia. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name...
(after whom the university is now named) becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv.
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V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in the city of
KharkivKharkiv , also spelled Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine.It was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, now the administrative centre of the Kharkiv Oblast , as well as the administrative centre of the surrounding Kharkivskyi Raion within the oblast. The city is located in the northeast...
, is one of the major universities in
UkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...
, and earlier in the
Russian EmpireThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia, and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
and
Soviet UnionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...
. It was founded in 1805 through the efforts of
Vasyl KarazinVasiliy Nazarovych Karazin was a Russian-Ukrainian Enlightenment intellectual, inventor, and scientific publisher in Imperial Russia. He is the founder of Kharkiv University, which now bears his name...
(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 prizeThe Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901...
winners:
- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was a Russian microbiologist best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system...
(Medicine, 1908)
- Lev Davidovich Landau (Physics, 1962)
- Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets was a Russian American economist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who won the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and...
(Economics, 1971)
Units
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Ecology
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of International Economic Relations and Tourist Industry
- Faculty of Foreign Languages
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Geology and Geography
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering http://www-mechmath.univer.kharkov.ua
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Professional Re-Training
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Radio Physics
- Faculty of Sociology
- The International Students Education Centre
- Electronic Kharkiv National University Institutional Repository http://dspace.univer.kharkov.ua
Institute of High Tech
External links
- Kharkiv University in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
The Encyclopedia of Ukraine is an English language, free, online encyclopedia covering wide range of issueson Ukraine, including its history, people, geography, economy, culture etc....
.