Kazan State University

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
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 , Kazan , Tatarstan , Russia 55°47′27″N 49°07′19″E
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

• Aleksandr Arbuzov
• Mily Balakirev
• Aleksandr Butlerov
• Vladimir Lenin (expelled)
• Nikolay Lobachevski
• Vladimir Markovnikov
• Leo Tolstoy
• Nikolay Beketov
• Afanasy Shchapov
• Vladimir Galkin
• Michael Minsky (Spirin)

Other websites

• List of Kazan State University's rectors
• Kazan State University Official Site Archived 2005-04-18 at the Wayback Machine