Kharkiv University

Kharkiv University

Infobox University
name=Karazin Kharkiv National University
native_name=Харківський національний університет імені Каразіна


latin_name=
motto=
established=1804
type=Public
staff=1,500
rector=Vil S. Bakirov
faculty=16
students=12,400
city=Kharkiv
country=Ukraine
campus=
affiliations= IAU
website= [http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/ www.univer.kharkov.ua/]

Kharkiv National University (also known as Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukrainian: Харківський національний університет імені Каразіна), in the city of Kharkiv, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1805 through the efforts of Vasyl Karazin, (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 prize winners:
* Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Medicine, 1908)
* Lev Davidovich Landau (Physics, 1962)
* Simon Kuznets (Economics, 1971)

Organization

Kharkiv National University is organized into 18 Schools:

External links

* [http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/ Kharkiv University Website] uk icon en icon


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