Kievsky National University named after Taras Shevchenko (abbreviated KNU) (ukr. Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko) - the leading and one of the largest universities in Ukraine in Kyiv, the national center of science and culture, one of the oldest universities in the country. In 2008-2009 he received the status of research and autonomous.
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Training and retraining of specialists in the field of fundamental and applied disciplines is carried out in 70 natural and social-humanitarian specialties and 153 specializations. As of the summer of 2011, students are admitted to study at the educational and qualification levels of bachelor, specialist and master. More than 2,000 scientific and pedagogical and 1,000 scientific workers work at the university, and more than 80% have academic degrees. teaching staff, and 24% are doctors of sciences.
The university is developing dynamically. Thus, by the decree of the President of Ukraine "On measures to improve the status of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv" dated May 5, 2008, the university was given the status of a research university, which reflects the recognition high level scientific research, serving as a base for 48 scientific schools.
Faculties
- Geographical;
- Biological;
- Economic;
- Information Technology (exists since 2013);
- Historical;
- Cybernetics;
- Mechanics and Mathematics;
- Preparatory;
- Psychology (exists since 2008);
- Faculty of Radiophysics, Electronics and Computer Systems ( ex. Faculty of Radiophysics, founded in 1952);
- Sociology (exists since 2008);
- Physical (formed in 1940 from the Department of Physics and Mathematics established in 1864);
- Philosophical;
- Chemical (formed in 1933 from the department established in 1901);
- Legal.
Training institutes
- Military Institute;
- Kyiv Institute of Regional Management, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Management and Tourism (founded in 2005);
- Institute of Geology
- Institute of High Technologies;
- Institute of Journalism;
- Educational and Scientific Center "Institute of Biology";
- Institute of Postgraduate Education (founded in 1949);
- Institute of Philology.
Subdivisions
The university has:
- Information and Computing Center;
- Research part;
- Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Innovative Technologies;
- Center for Ukrainian Studies;
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum;
- Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum;
- Primary trade union organization;
- Primary trade union organization of students;
- Health-improving and sports complex;
- Museum of the History of Kiev University;
- Zoo museum;
- Linguistic Museum;
- Center for Underwater Archeology;
- Student Parliament;
- Chair physical education and sports;
- Scientific Society of Students and Postgraduates;
- Department of targeted training;
- Publishing and printing center "Kyiv University".
Institute international relations, or Kyiv Institute of International Relations, officially the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ukr. Institute of International Studies of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) is a structural subdivision of the Kiev National University. In 1995, the institute was identified as the main educational and methodological center for training specialists for work in the field of international relations and foreign policy Ukraine.
History of the Institute of International Relations
Faculty of International Relations and International Law
Based on the order of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR dated October 18, 1944, the Faculty of International Relations was opened at Kiev University with the aim of training practical workers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Headed the faculty for the first post-war years I. A. Vasilenko and M. P. Ovcharenko. The first head of the department of the history of international relations was Professor Alexander Kasimenko, director. After him, it was headed by V. A. Zhebokritsky, Vasily Tarasenko, a diplomat who had previously worked at the Soviet embassy in Washington. In 1962, a department of international law was established at the Faculty of Law and Economics. Provide educational process at the department, the Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation was called up, headed by Doctor of Law I. I. Lukashuk.
Since 1971, the training of international specialists was resumed at the restored Faculty of International Relations and International Law. Structurally, the faculty included the Department of the History of International Relations and Foreign Policy, the Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation and the Department of the Russian Language for Foreigners, which had previously been a university-wide department. The deans of the faculty at that time were the founders of scientific schools on international relations and international law, Professor G. M. Tsvetkov, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anatoly Chukhno, associate professor O. K. Eremenko, professors Konstantin Zabigailo, Anton Filipenko, Vladimir Butkevich.
In 1972, the specialty "international economic relations" was opened at the faculty. Soon, a corresponding department was created - international economic relations (heads - professors Viktor Budkin and Anton Filipenko). in 1975 on the basis of the faculty opened extramural advanced training of international lecturers with a two-year term of study, which was headed by Associate Professor A. I. Ganusets. Citizens of Ukraine with higher education who were engaged in lecture, teaching and research work.
In 1976 the department was created foreign languages as a structural subdivision of the faculty, which provided training for domestic students to work as referents-translators, taking into account the specialty of international specialists. The first head was Associate Professor I. I. Borisenko. During the period of its functioning (until 1990), the faculty has trained more than 3,500 international specialists (mostly from among foreigners). Graduates of the faculty formed the basis of a small (at that time) diplomatic corps in Ukraine, laid the foundations of pedagogical and scientific schools in the field of international relations and international law.
Institute of International Relations
On May 4, 1988, the Faculty of International Relations and International Law was reorganized into the Institute of International Relations and International Law, which in December 1990 was renamed the Institute of International Relations.
Buildings and campuses
Red Corps
The main building of the university, located at st. Vladimirskaya, 60, is the oldest of the university buildings. The building was built in the style of Russian classicism by architects V. I. and A. V. Beretti by order of Nicholas I and is an architectural monument of national importance. The hull is painted in the colors of the Order of St. Vladimir - red and black. On the facade of the building there are memorial plaques to T. G. Shevchenko, whose name the university bears, to students and teachers who fell in the Great Patriotic war, and the headquarters of the fighter battalion, formed in the summer of 1941 from teachers and students of Kiev University.
yellow building
The building of the University's Humanitarian Building, known as the Yellow Building, is located at 14 Shevchenko Boulevard. The building was built in 1850-1852 in the classicist style, designed by architect Alexander Beretti for the First Kiev Gymnasium. In 1959 the building was transferred to the university.
Library of Maksimovich
Scientific library named after M. Maksimovich. The library building is located next to the main building of the university (Vladimirskaya st., 58). Together with the building of the university and the building of branch No. 1 of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky (Vladimirskaya St., 62), they form a single architectural ensemble.
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden named after Academician A.V. Fomin, located at st. Petliura, 1. It was founded in 1939. At present, the area of the garden is 22.5 hectares. The garden is located behind the main building of the university.
astronomical observatory
The observatory is located at St. Observatory, 3. Founded in 1845. At first it was planned to place the observatory in the main building of the university, but later it was decided that it needed a separate building, which was built in 1841-1845 according to the design of Vincent Beretti.
Kanevsky Nature Reserve
Other divisions
- Rectorate, st. Vladimirskaya, 64/13.
- Sports complex, ave. Academician Glushkov, 2b.
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, ave. Academician Glushkov, 6.
- campus
Ratings and reputation
According to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities KNU is the only Ukrainian university included in the 100 best universities Central and of Eastern Europe(97th place) according to the criterion of the number of references to it on the Internet, and also ranked 1613 among 6000 universities in the world according to the same criterion.
In 2008 ranked 228 Ukrainian universities compiled by charitable Fund "Development of Ukraine" Rinat Akhmetov, KNU shared first place with the National Law Academy named after. Yaroslav the Wise.
Story
Base
The university was founded by decree of Nicholas I on November 8, 1833 as Imperial Kyiv University Saint Vladimir, on the basis of closed after Vilna University and Kremenets Lyceum. He also approved the temporary charter and staffing. According to this charter, the institution was subordinate not only to the Minister public education, but also to the trustee of the Kiev educational district. The council of the university annually elected the deans of the faculties, and they were approved by the minister.
It was the third university on the territory of modern Ukraine after Lviv and Kharkiv Universities, and the sixth university in the Russian Empire.
Initially, one of the main tasks set before the university was the fight against the Polonized Kiev intelligentsia, which was persecuted after the defeat of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. The appeal to Prince Vladimir I, who baptized Russia according to the Eastern rite, was supposed to symbolize just such an orientation of the university's activities.
The first classes at the university and its grand opening took place on July 15, the day of St. Vladimir. A divine liturgy was served in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, after which those present returned to the house rented for study in Pechersk.
According to the charter, a four-year term of study was established. Students took exams at the end of each course, and before graduating from the university, gold and silver medals were given to especially able ones.
The faculties of law and medicine were the most populous in the 19th century at Kiev University. In 1859 there were 540 physicians, three times as many as lawyers; since the 1960s, the number of lawyers has been growing rapidly, while the number of physicians has been falling; in the city there are twice as many lawyers as physicians; in the city they are almost equal, then the number of doctors exceeds lawyers in the city by almost 5 times (785 and 175). The influx of doctors at that time was so great that it was necessary to install a set for 1 course. Despite this, by the year there were 1014 physicians.
Increased rapidly in late XIX century and the number of lawyers (in 1894 - 932). The number of philologists before the introduction of the charter of 1884 was about 1 ⁄ 9 of all students (in 1883 - 162), then quickly began to fall, and in 1894 there were only 69.
At the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics until 1868 she was 1 ⁄ 4 total number students, in the city this number decreased to 1 ⁄ 8 , and in 1894 there were 312 of them, that is, about 1 ⁄ 7 , moreover, there are 1½ times more natural scientists than mathematicians, whereas before mathematicians prevailed.
At first, most of the students were children of the nobility (88%), but in 1883 the nobility made up only 50%. In the 60-70s of the XIX century. democratization of the student body. Raznochintsy gradually ousted the nobles. The advanced democratic students of Kiev University actively participated in the revolutionary movement. According to official data, among the persons brought to trial for participating in the revolutionary struggle against tsarism in -1877, students and students of secondary educational institutions were 50 percent.
Simultaneously with their studies, the struggle continued: Kiev students took part in the All-Russian student strike 1899 to protest against police repressions at St. Petersburg University.
Kyiv University in the XX century
In 1900, students protested against the exclusion from the university of participants in a student rally, as a result of which 183 students were sent to the soldiers.
In November 1910, stormy worker-student demonstrations took place in Kyiv in connection with the death of Leo Tolstoy. Among the 107 demonstrators arrested are about a hundred students. In February 1911, an all-Russian student strike took place again.
The First World War put Kyiv University in a very difficult position. The military command, not wanting to have in the rear of the army of rebellious students [ ], gave the order to evacuate Kiev University to the "left bank of the Dnieper", ultimately to Saratov. The evacuation significantly worsened the situation of the students. Due to the relocations, laboratories and offices, museum collections suffered great losses. In the autumn of 1916 the university returned to Kyiv.
the day before October revolution In 1917, about 5,300 students studied at Kiev University.
In 1918, the university was closed and reopened only on March 29, 1919. On April 23, 1919, it became officially known as Kiev University. In 1920, the university was disbanded, and on its basis was created Higher Institute public education named after Mikhail Petrovich Dragomanov (since 1926 - the Kyiv Institute of Public Education), as well as institutes social education, vocational education and physical-chemical-mathematical.
By the decision of the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR dated January 1, 1933, state universities were restored in Ukraine, among which was Kyiv State University, which included 7 faculties. In March 1939, by decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces, he was named after T. G. Shevchenko (in honor of the 125th anniversary of the latter). The following year, a new academic building was built, which housed the humanities faculties.
Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, KSU was the third largest university in the USSR (after Moscow and Leningrad). During the war, the university was evacuated first to
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (abbreviated KNU) (ukr. Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko) - one of the largest universities in Ukraine in Kyiv, the national center of science and culture, one of the oldest universities in the country. In 2008-2009 he received the status of research and autonomous.
Title history
Training and retraining of specialists in the field of fundamental and applied disciplines is carried out in 70 natural and social-humanitarian specialties and 153 specializations. As of the summer of 2011, students are admitted to study at the educational and qualification levels of bachelor, specialist and master. More than 2,000 scientific and pedagogical and 1,000 scientific workers work at the university, more than 80% of the teaching staff have academic degrees, and 24% are doctors of science.
The university is developing dynamically. Thus, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine "On measures to improve the status of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv" dated May 5, 2008, the university was given the status of a research university, which reflects the recognition of the high level of scientific research, which serves as the basis for 48 scientific schools.
In the world ranking of universities of higher education Times - s Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko turned out to be higher than other Ukrainian universities - in the chart between the 800th and 1000th positions, and others behind the 1001st step
During the introductory campaign in 2017, the most popular among applicants was KNU. Taras Shevchenko. Thus, 58,851 applications from 27,112 applicants were submitted to KNU.
Faculties
- Geographical;
- Biological;
- Economic;
- Information Technology (exists since 2013);
- Historical;
- Computer Science and Cybernetics;
- Mechanics and Mathematics;
- Preparatory;
- Psychology (exists since 2008);
- Faculty of Radiophysics, Electronics and Computer Systems ( ex. Faculty of Radiophysics, founded in 1952);
- Sociology (exists since 2008);
- Physical (formed in 1940 from the Department of Physics and Mathematics established in 1864);
- Philosophical;
- Chemical (formed in 1933 from the department established in 1901);
- Legal.
Training institutes
- Military Institute;
- Kyiv Institute of Regional Management, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Management and Tourism (founded in 2005);
- Institute of Geology
- Institute of High Technologies;
- Institute of Journalism;
- Institute of International Relations (KIMO);
- Institute of Postgraduate Education (founded in 1949);
- Institute of Philology.
Subdivisions
The university has:
- Information and Computing Center;
- Research part;
- Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Innovative Technologies;
- Center for Ukrainian Studies;
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum;
- Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum;
- Primary trade union organization;
- Primary trade union organization of students;
- Health-improving and sports complex;
- Museum of the History of Kiev University;
- Zoo museum;
- Linguistic Museum;
- Center for Underwater Archeology;
- Student Parliament;
- Department of Physical Education and Sports;
- Scientific Society of Students and Postgraduates;
- Department of targeted training;
- Publishing and printing center "Kyiv University".
Institute of International Relations, or Kyiv Institute of International Relations, officially the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ukr. Institute of International Studies of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) is a structural subdivision of the Kiev National University. In 1995, the institute was designated as the main educational and methodological center for training specialists to work in the field of international relations and foreign policy of Ukraine.
History of the Institute of International Relations
Faculty of International Relations and International Law
On the basis of the order of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR dated October 18, 1944, the Faculty of International Relations was opened at Kiev University in order to train practical workers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The faculty was headed in the first post-war years by I. A. Vasilenko and M. P. Ovcharenko. The first head of the Department of History of International Relations was Professor Alexander Kasimenko , Director . After him it was headed V. A. Zhebokritsky, Vasily Tarasenko is a diplomat who previously worked at the Soviet embassy in Washington. In 1962, a department of international law was established at the Faculty of Law and Economics. The Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation, headed by Doctor of Law I. I. Lukashuk, was called to ensure the educational process at the department.
Since 1971, the training of international specialists was resumed at the restored Faculty of International Relations and International Law. Structurally, the faculty included the Department of the History of International Relations and Foreign Policy, the Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation and the Department of the Russian Language for Foreigners, which had previously been a university-wide department. The deans of the faculty at that time were the founders of scientific schools on international relations and international law, Professor G. N. Tsvetkov, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anatoly Chukhno, associate professor O. K. Eremenko, professors Konstantin Zabigailo, Anton Filipenko, Vladimir Butkevich .
In 1972, the specialty "international economic relations" was opened at the faculty. Soon, a corresponding department was created - international economic relations (heads - professors Victor Budkin and Anton Filipenko). in 1975, on the basis of the faculty, a correspondence department for advanced training of international lecturers with a two-year term of study was opened, which was headed by associate professor A. I. Ganusets. The department enrolled citizens of Ukraine with higher education, who were engaged in lecturing, teaching and research work.
In 1976, the Department of Foreign Languages was created as a structural subdivision of the faculty, which provided training for domestic students to work as referents-translators, taking into account the specialty of international specialists. The first head was Associate Professor I. I. Borisenko. During the period of its functioning (until 1990), the faculty has trained more than 3,500 international specialists (mostly from among foreigners). Graduates of the faculty formed the basis of a small (at that time) diplomatic corps in Ukraine, laid the foundations of pedagogical and scientific schools in the field of international relations and international law.
Institute of International Relations
On May 4, 1988, the Faculty of International Relations and International Law was reorganized into the Institute of International Relations and International Law, which in December 1990 was renamed the Institute of International Relations.
Buildings and structures
Red Corps
The main building of the university, located at st. Vladimirskaya, 60, is the oldest of the university buildings. The building was built in the style of Russian classicism by architects V. I. and A. V. Beretti by order of Nicholas I and is an architectural monument of national importance. The hull is painted in the colors of the Order of St. Vladimir - red and black. On the facade of the building there are memorial plaques to T. G. Shevchenko, whose name the university bears, to students and teachers who fell in the Great Patriotic War, and to the headquarters of the fighter battalion, formed in the summer of 1941 from teachers and students of Kiev University.
yellow building
The building of the University's Humanitarian Building, known as the Yellow Building, is located at 14 Shevchenko Boulevard. The building was built in 1850-1852 in the classicist style, designed by architect Alexander Beretti for the First Kiev Gymnasium. In 1959 the building was transferred to the university.
Library of Maksimovich
Scientific library named after M. Maksimovich. The library building is located next to the main building of the university (Vladimirskaya st., 58). Together with the building of the university and the building of branch No. 1 of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky (Vladimirskaya St., 62) they form a single architectural ensemble.
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden named after Academician A.V. Fomin, located at st. Petliura, 1. It was founded in 1939. At present, the area of the garden is 22.5 hectares. The garden is located behind the main building of the university.
astronomical observatory
The observatory is located at St. Observatory, 3. Founded in 1845. At first it was planned to place the observatory in the main building of the university, but later it was decided that it needed a separate building, which was built in 1841-1845 according to the design of Vincent Beretti.
Kanevsky Nature Reserve
Other divisions
- Rectorate, st. Vladimirskaya, 64/13.
- Sports complex, ave. Academician Glushkov, 2b.
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, ave. Academician Glushkov, 6.
- campus
- Faculty of training of reserve officers
Ratings and reputation
According to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities KNU is the only Ukrainian university in the top 100 universities in Central and Eastern Europe (97th place) in terms of the number of references to it on the Internet, and also ranked 1613 among 6000 universities in the world according to the same criterion.
In 2009, according to the monitoring of scientific and higher educational institutions according to the international citation index Scopus KNU received 1st place among all Ukrainian higher educational institutions.
In 2008, in the ranking of 228 Ukrainian universities, compiled by the charitable Fund "Development of Ukraine" Rinat Akhmetov, KNU shared first place with the National Law Academy. Yaroslav the Wise.
Story
Base
Nicholas I
The university was founded by decree of Nicholas I on November 8, 1833 as Imperial Kyiv University of Saint Vladimir, on the basis of the Vilna University and the Kremenets Lyceum, closed after the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. He also approved the temporary charter and staffing. According to this charter, the institution was subordinate not only to the Minister of Public Education, but also to the trustee of the Kiev Educational District. The university council annually elected the deans of the faculties, and they were approved by the minister.
It was the third university on the territory of modern Ukraine after Lviv and Kharkov universities, and the sixth university in the Russian Empire.
Initially, one of the main tasks set before the university was the fight against the Polonized Kiev intelligentsia, which was persecuted after the defeat of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. The appeal to Prince Vladimir I, who baptized Russia according to the Eastern rite, was supposed to symbolize just such an orientation of the university's activities.
Imperial University of St. Vladimir
The first classes at the university and its grand opening took place on July 15, the day of St. Vladimir. A divine liturgy was served in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, after which those present returned to the house rented for study in Pechersk.
According to the charter, a four-year term of study was established. Students took exams at the end of each course, and before graduating from the university, gold and silver medals were given to especially able ones.
The faculties of law and medicine were the most populous in the 19th century at Kiev University. In 1859 there were 540 physicians, three times as many as lawyers; since the 1860s, the number of lawyers has risen rapidly, while the number of physicians has fallen; in a year there are twice as many lawyers as physicians; in a year they are almost equal, then the number of physicians exceeds lawyers in a year by almost 5 times (785 and 175). The influx of doctors at that time was so great that it was necessary to install a set for 1 course. Despite this, by 1894 there were 1014 doctors.
The number of lawyers also increased rapidly at the end of the 19th century (in 1894 - 932). The number of philologists before the introduction of the charter of 1884 was about 1 ⁄ 9 of all students (in 1883 - 162), then quickly began to fall, and in 1894 there were only 69.
At the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics until 1868 was 1 ⁄ 4 the total number of students, in a year this number decreased to 1 ⁄ 8 , and in 1894 there were 312 people, that is, about 1 ⁄ 7 , moreover, there are one and a half times more naturalists than mathematicians, whereas before mathematicians prevailed.
At first, most of the students were children of the nobility (88%), but in 1883 the nobility made up only 50%. In the 1860s and 1870s, the democratization of the student body took place. Raznochintsy gradually ousted the nobles. The advanced democratic students of Kiev University actively participated in the revolutionary movement. According to official data, of those brought to trial for participating in the revolutionary struggle against tsarism in 1877, students and students of secondary educational institutions accounted for 50 percent.
In 1884, the government responded with cruel repressions to the speech of students demanding that they be given the right to create mutual aid funds, libraries, canteens, elect a student court, and convene a student meeting. The university was closed for six months, 140 students were expelled, and those who had no parents in Kyiv were expelled. 34 students were brought to court by the gendarme department on charges of distributing political proclamations and appeals and participating in mutinies.
In the late 1880s, there were 45 educational and auxiliary institutions at the university: 2 libraries (scientific and student), 2 observatories (astronomical and meteorological), a botanical garden, 4 faculty clinics, 3 hospital clinics, 2 clinical departments at the city hospital, an anatomical theater, 9 laboratories and 21 offices.
In 1859-1870, an amateur theater operated at the university (it included M. P. Staritsky, N. V. Lysenko, P. P. Chubinsky); in 2009, the 3rd archaeological congress was held in the building of the university, in which famous domestic and foreign scientists took part.
In 1861-1919, the Universitetskiye Izvestiya were published monthly, ten learned societies: researchers of nature, physical and mathematical, physical and chemical, surgical, historical Nestor the chronicler, legal, etc.
Simultaneously with their studies, the struggle continued: Kiev students took part in the All-Russian student strike of 1899 in protest against police repressions at St. Petersburg University.
Kyiv University in the XX century
Yellow building of the Kiev National University
In 1900, students protested against the exclusion from the university of participants in a student rally, as a result of which 183 students were sent to the soldiers.
In November 1910, violent worker-student demonstrations took place in Kyiv in connection with the death of Leo Tolstoy. Among the 107 demonstrators arrested are about a hundred university students. In February 1911, an all-Russian student strike took place again.
The First World War put Kyiv University in a very difficult position. The military command, not wanting to have in the rear of the army of rebellious students [ ], gave the order to evacuate Kiev University to the "left bank of the Dnieper", ultimately to Saratov. The evacuation significantly worsened the situation of the students. Due to the relocations, laboratories and offices, museum collections suffered great losses. In autumn 1916 the university returned to Kyiv.
On the eve of the October Revolution of 1917, about 5,300 students studied at Kiev University.
In 1918 the university was closed and reopened only on March 29, 1919. On April 23, 1919, it became officially known as the Kiev University. In 1920, the university was disbanded, and on its basis the Higher Institute of Public Education named after Mikhail Petrovich Dragomanov (since 1926 - the Kyiv Institute of Public Education), as well as institutes of social education, vocational education and physics, chemistry and mathematics, was created.
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (abbreviated KNU) (ukr. Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko) - one of the largest universities in Ukraine in Kyiv, the national center of science and culture, one of the oldest universities in the country. In 2008-2009 he received the status of research and autonomous.
Title history
Training and retraining of specialists in the field of fundamental and applied disciplines is carried out in 70 natural and social-humanitarian specialties and 153 specializations. As of the summer of 2011, students are admitted to study at the educational and qualification levels of bachelor, specialist and master. More than 2,000 scientific and pedagogical and 1,000 scientific workers work at the university, more than 80% of the teaching staff have academic degrees, and 24% are doctors of science.
The university is developing dynamically. Thus, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine "On measures to improve the status of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv" dated May 5, 2008, the university was given the status of a research university, which reflects the recognition of the high level of scientific research, which serves as the basis for 48 scientific schools.
In the world ranking of universities of higher education Times - s Kyiv National University. T. Shevchenko turned out to be higher than other Ukrainian universities - in the chart between the 800th and 1000th positions, and others behind the 1001st step
During the introductory campaign in 2017, the most popular among applicants was KNU. Taras Shevchenko. Thus, 58,851 applications from 27,112 applicants were submitted to KNU.
Faculties
- Geographical;
- Biological;
- Economic;
- Information Technology (exists since 2013);
- Historical;
- Computer Science and Cybernetics;
- Mechanics and Mathematics;
- Preparatory;
- Psychology (exists since 2008);
- Faculty of Radiophysics, Electronics and Computer Systems ( ex. Faculty of Radiophysics, founded in 1952);
- Sociology (exists since 2008);
- Physical (formed in 1940 from the Department of Physics and Mathematics established in 1864);
- Philosophical;
- Chemical (formed in 1933 from the department established in 1901);
- Legal.
Training institutes
- Military Institute;
- Kyiv Institute of Regional Management, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Management and Tourism (founded in 2005);
- Institute of Geology
- Institute of High Technologies;
- Institute of Journalism;
- Institute of International Relations (KIMO);
- Institute of Postgraduate Education (founded in 1949);
- Institute of Philology.
Subdivisions
The university has:
- Information and Computing Center;
- Research part;
- Department of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Innovative Technologies;
- Center for Ukrainian Studies;
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum;
- Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum;
- Primary trade union organization;
- Primary trade union organization of students;
- Health-improving and sports complex;
- Museum of the History of Kiev University;
- Zoo museum;
- Linguistic Museum;
- Center for Underwater Archeology;
- Student Parliament;
- Department of Physical Education and Sports;
- Scientific Society of Students and Postgraduates;
- Department of targeted training;
- Publishing and printing center "Kyiv University".
Institute of International Relations, or Kyiv Institute of International Relations, officially the Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (ukr. Institute of International Studies of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University) is a structural subdivision of the Kiev National University. In 1995, the institute was designated as the main educational and methodological center for training specialists to work in the field of international relations and foreign policy of Ukraine.
History of the Institute of International Relations
Faculty of International Relations and International Law
On the basis of the order of the People's Commissar of Education of the Ukrainian SSR dated October 18, 1944, the Faculty of International Relations was opened at Kiev University in order to train practical workers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The faculty was headed in the first post-war years by I. A. Vasilenko and M. P. Ovcharenko. The first head of the Department of History of International Relations was Professor Alexander Kasimenko , Director . After him it was headed V. A. Zhebokritsky, Vasily Tarasenko is a diplomat who previously worked at the Soviet embassy in Washington. In 1962, a department of international law was established at the Faculty of Law and Economics. The Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation, headed by Doctor of Law I. I. Lukashuk, was called to ensure the educational process at the department.
Since 1971, the training of international specialists was resumed at the restored Faculty of International Relations and International Law. Structurally, the faculty included the Department of the History of International Relations and Foreign Policy, the Department of International Law and Foreign Legislation and the Department of the Russian Language for Foreigners, which had previously been a university-wide department. The deans of the faculty at that time were the founders of scientific schools on international relations and international law, Professor G. N. Tsvetkov, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Anatoly Chukhno, associate professor O. K. Eremenko, professors Konstantin Zabigailo, Anton Filipenko, Vladimir Butkevich .
In 1972, the specialty "international economic relations" was opened at the faculty. Soon, a corresponding department was created - international economic relations (heads - professors Victor Budkin and Anton Filipenko). in 1975, on the basis of the faculty, a correspondence department for advanced training of international lecturers with a two-year term of study was opened, which was headed by associate professor A. I. Ganusets. The department enrolled citizens of Ukraine with higher education, who were engaged in lecturing, teaching and research work.
In 1976, the Department of Foreign Languages was created as a structural subdivision of the faculty, which provided training for domestic students to work as referents-translators, taking into account the specialty of international specialists. The first head was Associate Professor I. I. Borisenko. During the period of its functioning (until 1990), the faculty has trained more than 3,500 international specialists (mostly from among foreigners). Graduates of the faculty formed the basis of a small (at that time) diplomatic corps in Ukraine, laid the foundations of pedagogical and scientific schools in the field of international relations and international law.
Institute of International Relations
On May 4, 1988, the Faculty of International Relations and International Law was reorganized into the Institute of International Relations and International Law, which in December 1990 was renamed the Institute of International Relations.
Buildings and structures
Red Corps
The main building of the university, located at st. Vladimirskaya, 60, is the oldest of the university buildings. The building was built in the style of Russian classicism by architects V. I. and A. V. Beretti by order of Nicholas I and is an architectural monument of national importance. The hull is painted in the colors of the Order of St. Vladimir - red and black. On the facade of the building there are memorial plaques to T. G. Shevchenko, whose name the university bears, to students and teachers who fell in the Great Patriotic War, and to the headquarters of the fighter battalion, formed in the summer of 1941 from teachers and students of Kiev University.
yellow building
The building of the University's Humanitarian Building, known as the Yellow Building, is located at 14 Shevchenko Boulevard. The building was built in 1850-1852 in the classicist style, designed by architect Alexander Beretti for the First Kiev Gymnasium. In 1959 the building was transferred to the university.
Library of Maksimovich
Scientific library named after M. Maksimovich. The library building is located next to the main building of the university (Vladimirskaya st., 58). Together with the building of the university and the building of branch No. 1 of the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky (Vladimirskaya St., 62) they form a single architectural ensemble.
Botanical Garden
Botanical Garden named after Academician A.V. Fomin, located at st. Petliura, 1. It was founded in 1939. At present, the area of the garden is 22.5 hectares. The garden is located behind the main building of the university.
astronomical observatory
The observatory is located at St. Observatory, 3. Founded in 1845. At first it was planned to place the observatory in the main building of the university, but later it was decided that it needed a separate building, which was built in 1841-1845 according to the design of Vincent Beretti.
Kanevsky Nature Reserve
Other divisions
- Rectorate, st. Vladimirskaya, 64/13.
- Sports complex, ave. Academician Glushkov, 2b.
- Ukrainian Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, ave. Academician Glushkov, 6.
- campus
- Faculty of training of reserve officers
Ratings and reputation
According to Webometrics Ranking of World Universities KNU is the only Ukrainian university in the top 100 universities in Central and Eastern Europe (97th place) in terms of the number of references to it on the Internet, and also ranked 1613 among 6000 universities in the world according to the same criterion.
In 2009, according to the monitoring of scientific and higher educational institutions in accordance with the international citation index Scopus KNU received 1st place among all Ukrainian higher educational institutions.
In 2008, in the ranking of 228 Ukrainian universities, compiled by the charitable Fund "Development of Ukraine" Rinat Akhmetov, KNU shared first place with the National Law Academy. Yaroslav the Wise.
Story
Base
Nicholas I
The university was founded by decree of Nicholas I on November 8, 1833 as Imperial Kyiv University of Saint Vladimir, on the basis of the Vilna University and the Kremenets Lyceum, closed after the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. He also approved the temporary charter and staffing. According to this charter, the institution was subordinate not only to the Minister of Public Education, but also to the trustee of the Kiev Educational District. The university council annually elected the deans of the faculties, and they were approved by the minister.
It was the third university on the territory of modern Ukraine after Lviv and Kharkov universities, and the sixth university in the Russian Empire.
Initially, one of the main tasks set before the university was the fight against the Polonized Kiev intelligentsia, which was persecuted after the defeat of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831. The appeal to Prince Vladimir I, who baptized Russia according to the Eastern rite, was supposed to symbolize just such an orientation of the university's activities.
Imperial University of St. Vladimir
The first classes at the university and its grand opening took place on July 15, the day of St. Vladimir. A divine liturgy was served in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, after which those present returned to the house rented for study in Pechersk.
According to the charter, a four-year term of study was established. Students took exams at the end of each course, and before graduating from the university, gold and silver medals were given to especially able ones.
The faculties of law and medicine were the most populous in the 19th century at Kiev University. In 1859 there were 540 physicians, three times as many as lawyers; since the 1860s, the number of lawyers has risen rapidly, while the number of physicians has fallen; in a year there are twice as many lawyers as physicians; in a year they are almost equal, then the number of physicians exceeds lawyers in a year by almost 5 times (785 and 175). The influx of doctors at that time was so great that it was necessary to install a set for 1 course. Despite this, by 1894 there were 1014 doctors.
The number of lawyers also increased rapidly at the end of the 19th century (in 1894 - 932). The number of philologists before the introduction of the charter of 1884 was about 1 ⁄ 9 of all students (in 1883 - 162), then quickly began to fall, and in 1894 there were only 69.
At the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics until 1868 was 1 ⁄ 4 the total number of students, in a year this number decreased to 1 ⁄ 8 , and in 1894 there were 312 people, that is, about 1 ⁄ 7 , moreover, there are one and a half times more naturalists than mathematicians, whereas before mathematicians prevailed.
At first, most of the students were children of the nobility (88%), but in 1883 the nobility made up only 50%. In the 1860s and 1870s, the democratization of the student body took place. Raznochintsy gradually ousted the nobles. The advanced democratic students of Kiev University actively participated in the revolutionary movement. According to official data, of those brought to trial for participating in the revolutionary struggle against tsarism in 1877, students and students of secondary educational institutions accounted for 50 percent.
In 1884, the government responded with cruel repressions to the speech of students demanding that they be given the right to create mutual aid funds, libraries, canteens, elect a student court, and convene a student meeting. The university was closed for six months, 140 students were expelled, and those who had no parents in Kyiv were expelled. 34 students were brought to court by the gendarme department on charges of distributing political proclamations and appeals and participating in mutinies.
In the late 1880s, there were 45 educational and auxiliary institutions at the university: 2 libraries (scientific and student), 2 observatories (astronomical and meteorological), a botanical garden, 4 faculty clinics, 3 hospital clinics, 2 clinical departments at the city hospital, an anatomical theater, 9 laboratories and 21 offices.
In 1859-1870, an amateur theater operated at the university (it included M. P. Staritsky, N. V. Lysenko, P. P. Chubinsky); in 2009, the 3rd archaeological congress was held in the building of the university, in which famous domestic and foreign scientists took part.
In 1861-1919, “University News” was published monthly, ten scientific societies functioned: nature researchers, physical and mathematical, physical and chemical, surgical, historical Nestor the chronicler, legal, etc.
Simultaneously with their studies, the struggle continued: Kiev students took part in the All-Russian student strike of 1899 in protest against police repressions at St. Petersburg University.
Kyiv University in the XX century
Yellow building of the Kiev National University
In 1900, students protested against the exclusion from the university of participants in a student rally, as a result of which 183 students were sent to the soldiers.
In November 1910, violent worker-student demonstrations took place in Kyiv in connection with the death of Leo Tolstoy. Among the 107 demonstrators arrested are about a hundred university students. In February 1911, an all-Russian student strike took place again.
The First World War put Kyiv University in a very difficult position. The military command, not wanting to have in the rear of the army of rebellious students [ ], gave the order to evacuate Kiev University to the "left bank of the Dnieper", ultimately to Saratov. The evacuation significantly worsened the situation of the students. Due to the relocations, laboratories and offices, museum collections suffered great losses. In autumn 1916 the university returned to Kyiv.
On the eve of the October Revolution of 1917, about 5,300 students studied at Kiev University.
In 1918 the university was closed and reopened only on March 29, 1919. On April 23, 1919, it became officially known as the Kiev University. In 1920, the university was disbanded, and on its basis the Higher Institute of Public Education named after Mikhail Petrovich Dragomanov (since 1926 - the Kyiv Institute of Public Education), as well as institutes of social education, vocational education and physics, chemistry and mathematics, was created.