Kazan State University

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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 (Volga region) Federal University
Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Kazan University in the early 1830s.
Former names
Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin Kazan State University, Kazan Imperial University
TypePublic/Federal university
Established5 (new style: 17) November 1804
RectorIlshat Ghafurov
Academic staff
~ 4026
Students~ 43700
Address
18 Ulitsa Kremlevskaya, Kazan 420008, Tatarstan, Russia
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55°47′27″N 49°07′19″E / 55.7907°N 49.1219°E / 55.7907; 49.1219
CampusBoth urban and suburban
LanguageRussian, English
ColoursBlue and grey
Website[http://www.kpfu.ru/main_page?p_sub=16 eng.kpfu.ru

Kazan University is also known as "the birthplace of organic chemistry" because of the works of Aleksandr Butlerov, Vladimir Markovnikov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and others.

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