KFU celebrates 215th anniversary with growth of its own revenues
29.11.2019
KFU celebrates 215th anniversary with growth of its own revenues
Rustam Minnikhanov has awarded the Kazan Federal University the order ‘For Merit to the Republic of Tatarstan’
The Imperial hall of the Kazan Federal University held a solemn meeting of the academic council on 27 November, summing up the anniversary year: the university has turned 215. The meeting was attended by President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who is the chairperson of the board of trustees and supervisory boards of the Kazan Federal University.
Rustam Minnikhanov: “The university can always count on the full support and understanding of the republic”
Rustam Minnikhanov, the chairperson of the board of trustees and supervisory boards of the Kazan Federal University, began his congratulations by listing the glorious names of the great scientists of the past who worked here once: Lobachevsky, Nuzhin, Zinin, Butlerov, Zavoysky, Altschuler. He reminded that never, not for a day, the university suspended the education process and the work of scientific schools: neither during the revolution nor during the war — First World War, Civil War and the Great Patriotic War or during the postwar reconstruction. And today's older generation of faculty and technical staff of the гniversity are those people who have done everything to organize the work during the economic transformations of the end of the last — the beginning of this century.
Ilshat Gafurov: “Today we are 50% self-supported”
The session in the Imperial hall — the university's holy of holies — began with the traditional Gaudeamus performed by the university chapel.
Then rector Ilshat Gafurov made a welcoming speech. He thanked the audience and briefly outlined the results of the anniversary celebrations: he told that throughout the year the university has held a variety of events dedicated to the day of its foundation. These were scientific educational forums, creative evenings, educational projects, museum expositions, innovation and industrial exhibitions, and joint actions with public organizations.
The rector separately stressed that today the university is one of the largest and fastest growing universities in Russia, while the model of its development takes into account global trends, the interests of the Russian Federation, and the priorities of the Republic of Tatarstan. Today, the university has more than 50,000 students, 20% of whom are foreigners from 106 countries. Over the past decade, the university has created new specialized institutes from scratch, equipped more than 200 laboratories.
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