KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

KAZAN UNIIVERSITY: FROM IMPERIAL TO FEDERAL

UNIVERSITY

Vladimir Lenin

Yevgeny Zavoisky

Leo Tolstoy

Karl Klaus Ivan Simonov

Nikolay Zinin Alexander Butlerov

Semen Altshuler

Boris Kozyrev

Alexander Samoylov

Ivan Baudouin de Courtenay

Sergey Aksakov

Velimir Khlebnikov

Miliy Balakirev Valery Jacobi

Alexander Arbuzov

Nikolay Lobachevsky

EPR

Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology

Institute of Physics

Institute of Environmental Sciences

Alexander Butlerov Institute of Chemistry

Institute of Geology and Petroleum

Technologies

University Clinic

NATURAL SCIENCES

MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING, IT

SCIENTIFIC AND ACADEMIC STRUCTURE OF KFU:

INSTITUTES AND STRATEGIC ACADEMIC UNITS

SOCIAL SCIENCES, HUMANITIES

Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies

Faculty of Law

Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication

Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications

Institute of Psychology and Education

Institute of Management, Economics and Finance

Higher School of Public Administration

Higher School of Business

Faculty of Advanced

Training and Staff

Retraining

BRANCHES Naberezhnye Chelny Institute

(engineering profile)

Elabuga Institute (humanitarian profile)

LYCEUMS

Nikolay Lobachevsky Lyceum

IT Lyceum

Nikolay Lobachevsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics

Institute of Computer Mathematics and Information Technologies

Higher School of Information Technologies and Information Systems

Institute of

Engineering

LABORATORY FACILITIES

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UNIVERSITY CLINIC KAZAN

DEPARTMENTS:

• INTERNAL MEDICINE

• SURGERY

• GYNECOLOGY

• DIAGNOSTICS

• POLYCLINIC

400+ qualified doctors

30,000 patients examined monthly

2,500,000 diagnostic services per year

836 beds

Genetic laboratory

Cryobank

Cell Laboratory

Organ transplantation

70 years of service to government employees

KFU LYCEUMS

Nikolay Lobachevsky Lyceum In-depth study of natural sciences and enhanced academic

programs in mathematics for secondary schoolers.

TOP-500 of the best schools of Russia Number 48 of the TOP-200 in the RAEX rankings

IT-Lyceum – KFU’s Boarding School Specialized IT programs for secondary schoolers. Teachers

apply modern Singaporean and European methodologies of school education. Special attention is given to students’ preparation for competitions and their participation in

forums and conferences.

TOP-500 of the best schools of Russia

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FACTS AND FIGURES KFU 2017

3,964 academic staff

Over 43,000 students of all

levels

3,638 Master’s degree and

PhD students

5,573 international

students

415 laboratories

272 000 m2 of dorms

885,000 m² of premises 726 buildings

100 land plots (245 ha)

10,561 total staff

45 small

innovative enterprises

Over 600 academic programs

18 institutes, 2 lyceums, University Clinic

KFU ACHIEVEMENTS 2017

66

Linguistics 101-150 Archaeology 151-200 Communication&Media Studies 151-200 English Language & Literature 251-300 Education & Training 251-300 Economics & Econometrics 301-350 Arts & Humanities 356 Physics & Astronomy 351-400 Chemistry 401-450

Business & Economics 176-200 Arts & Humanities 201-250 Social Sciences 201-250 Physical Sciences 301-400 Life Sciences 401-500

59 BRICS

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

Over 300 agreements on collaboration and mobility with international partners from 60 countries

TOP-300 in QS and THE rankings

Strategic partners

Main industrial partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

RIKEN, Japan

Hunan Normal University, China

Agreement on educational, scientific and cultural cooperation

•Student Mobility Program

•Long-term academic staff exchange

•Confucius Institute

2008

1990

University of Strasbourg, France

Joint laboratories :

•Laboratory "Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modeling", opened in 2012

•Research laboratory "Structural Biology" (since 2014) within the framework of Federal Target Program "Pharma-2020“

Opening of the first Master's degree in Russia in "Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modeling" in 2013.

Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Student exchange , research and academic staff exchange (with the support of DAAD)

•OpenLab «Pathogenesis Markers»

•"Bilingualism and Multilingualism between Intensification and Conflict Resolution. Ethnolinguistic conflicts, language policy and contacts in post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia "(2016-2019).

1989

2012

Main fields of cooperation: Physics, chemistry, biology, medical research, engineering and computer technologies. Joint research laboratories (femtosecond spectroscopy; physics of strongly correlated electron systems; synthesis and analysis of thin-filmed systems; biofunctional chemistry) Joint unit “Translational Genomics” in RIKEN, International project INFLAMMATION-FANTOM Staff exchange, internships, etc.

Russian-German project of the X-ray orbiter observatory "Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma". Launch in 2018. The RTT-150 telescope (KFU) will provide optical identification of new X-ray sources. An X-ray map of the visible Universe will be created. 100,000 clusters and groups of galaxies, 3 million active nuclei of galaxies and quasars to be found.

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AND

PROJECTS

20.02.2018

International platform on Thermal Methods for Enhanced Oil Recovery of Unconventional Resources. More than 300 professionals from 47 companies and universities of 12 countries. It’s become a place for generation and dissemination of revolutionary "green" technologies of “in-situ oil refining”.

The only in Russia Cochrane Center – part of international organization Cochrane Collaboration developing the principles of evidence-based medicine. Part of the global network that includes 37,000 members from over 130 countries. About 90% of recommendations by the World Health Organization contain Cochrane evidence.

Global scientific consortium (includes 48 research organizations from over 20 countries). Aimed to create an atlas of gene expression in cells and tissues of human body. Since 2017 KFU has upgraded its status in this collaboration: from an ordinary member to the initiator of new project “FANTOM: Muscles”.

SRG 6 Thermal

EOR + FANTOM: Muscles

INTERNATIONAL GRANTS AND DEVELOPMENTS

Mega-Grant High-speed calorimetry methods development for the studies of polymers, composition and biological materials University of Rostock, Germany 2017-2020

Development of dehydration catalysts for polymer production Haldor Topsoe A/S, Denmark 2016-2017

Code Modernization, 2015-2017, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Method for measuring mass and radius of neutron stars (in cooperation with University of Tubingen (Germany), University of Turku (Finland))

ММТ (Mini Mega TORTORA) computer-aided system for optical sky monitoring

Rehabilitative game for people with neurological diseases

KFU PUBLICATIONS IN TOP JOURNALS

384 519

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1272

1816

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

PUBLICATIONS IN WOS

536 832

1755

2431

2806

3200*

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

PUBLICATIONS IN SCOPUS

370% growth 420% growth

SHARE OF QUARTILE PUBLICATIONS IN SCOPUS SHARE OF QUARTILE PUBLICATIONS IN WOS

Publication in «Nature»

MAJOR INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

The Third International Conference on Human-Centered Computing 8-12 June, 2017

The Fifth CESS Regional Conference (CESS) 2-4 June, 2016

The 25th NISPAcee Annual Conference 18-20 May, 2017

Kazan International Forum “Islam in a Multicultural World” 09-11 November, 2017

IOI 2016 - International Olympiad in Informatics 12-18 August, 2016

2017

Nikolay Lobachevsky Year

2018

Leo Tolstoy Year

Kazan University has revived a tradition of awarding the Nikolay Lobachevsky Medal and Prize which dates back to 1893. The first prize was awarded to Dr. Richard Schoen (UC Irvine, USA) on 1st December 2017.

The jury of the newly established Leo Tolstoy Medal and Prize will be headed by Adviser to the President of Russia – Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Russian Language Vladimir Tolstoy, a descendant of the writer and a renowned museum professional.

PRESERVING THE BEST, SHAPING THE FUTURE

East and Southeast Asia - 861

South and Southwest Asia - 342

Middle East and North Africa - 263

Africa - 157

Latin America - 109

North America - 7

Europe - 98

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

468 533 923 1010

1411 2106

3216

4252

5479

320 379 478 520 776 842

1303 1463 1769

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Services: - informational - social - cultural - linguistic

ADAPTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Meetings of representatives of the Federal Migration Service of Russia with international students

Festival of the Friendship of Peoples

KFU Student Ambassadors Initiative

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The Universiade Village is a student campus

for 13 thousand people built for the 2013

Universiade

Guest House for foreign specialists

11 sports

facilities

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