On November 5 (17), 1804, Emperor Alexander I signed the Letter of Approval and the Charter of the Kazan Imperial University, one of the oldest universities in Russia.

In the first years of the reign of Emperor Alexander I, in the course of reforms in the field of education, new principles for organizing the system of public education and new types of educational institutions were developed. In 1802, the Ministry of Public Education was created in Russia, and in 1803 preliminary rules for public education were issued. In November 1804, the Russian emperor approved first General University Charter, charters of Moscow, Kharkov and Kazan universities, as well as the charter of educational institutions subordinate to universities.

Kazan University has been the easternmost higher educational institution in Russia for many years. The educational district, headed by Kazan University, included the Volga region, Penza and Tambov province, Prikamye and Urals, Siberia and the Caucasus. In the very first decades of its existence, the university became a major center of education and science. Here a series of scientific directions and schools: mathematical, chemical, medical, linguistic, geological, geobotanical and others.

According to the charter of 1804, the university was supposed to open 28 departments in four departments: moral and political sciences, physical and mathematical sciences, medical or medical sciences, verbal sciences with the Department of Oriental Languages.

Initially, the university occupied part of the building of the First Imperial Gymnasium. But soon there was a need for the reconstruction of existing and construction of new educational buildings. In 1822-1842. the university complex was built: the main building, the observatory, the anatomical theater, the library, chemical laboratory with a physical office, a clinic, ancillary services buildings. The work was supervised by N. I. Lobachevsky, who occupied in 1827-1846. post of university rector.

In 1835, the University Charter of Emperor Nicholas I was introduced, which established three faculties in the educational institution: philosophy (verbal and physical and mathematical departments), legal and medical. With the introduction of the University Charter of Alexander II in 1863, they were transformed into four faculties: history and philology, physics and mathematics, law and medicine.

Since 1834, the university began to publish Scientific Notes. Various scientific societies that formed at Kazan University also played an important role in the development of sciences: in 1839 the Kazan Economic Society was created, in 1878 - the Society of Archeology, History and Ethnography. In 1875 -1883. The Kazan Linguistic School was formed at the University. In 1892, on the initiative of V. M. Bekhterev, the Neurological Society was organized. Outstanding scientists worked within the walls of Kazan University, who made important scientific discoveries and became the founders of scientific schools. Among them are A. M. Butlerov, A. V. Vishnevsky, E. K. Zavoisky, N. N. Zinin, K. E. Klaus, N. I. Lobachevsky, V. A. Engelhardt and many others.

On June 29, 1925, by the decision of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, the university was named after V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin. During the years of Soviet power, several new universities were opened on the basis of the faculties of Kazan University: the Faculty of Medicine was allocated to the Kazan State Medical Institute, the Faculty of Chemistry became the basis for the creation of the Kazan Chemical Institute, the Faculty of Economics was transformed into the Kazan State Financial and Economic Institute, the Faculty of Law became the Institute Soviet law. In 1932, on the basis of the aerodynamic department of Kazan State University, the Kazan aviation institute. In April 1945, the Kazan branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences was established on the basis of the university and academic departments of the university.

Scientific Library University named after N. I. Lobachevsky and is one of the largest and oldest libraries in Russia. Its fund contains approx. 5 million volumes, of which more than 150 thousand units. ridge are bookmarks.

In 1955, Kazan University was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1979 - the Order of Lenin. In 1996, by the Decree of the President of Russia, the university was included in the State Code of Especially Valuable Objects cultural heritage peoples Russian Federation. In 2010, the name Kazansky (Privolzhsky) was assigned to the university federal university.

At present, the educational departments of Kazan (Volga Region) University include 14 faculties, the A. M. Butlerov Chemical Institute, the Institute of Oriental Studies, the Institute of Language, the Institute of Continuing Education, as well as 2 branches (in Naberezhnye Chelny and Zelenodolsk).

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Documents and photographs related to the Kazan period of Ilyich's life are carefully stored in the room-museum of V. I. Lenin of Kazan State University. The exhibits are located in the former room number 7, where Vladimir Ilyich listened to lectures on the history of Russian law. They tell us about the arrival of 17-year-old Ulyanov in August 1887 in Kazan with the aim of entering the university. But the leadership of this educational institution treated the young Vladimir Ulyanov, as a member of the Ulyanov family, very wary. At the request of Vladimir Ilyich to enroll him in the Faculty of Law, the rector of the university imposed a resolution: "Delay until a reference is received."

And only after a positive response has been received. Vladimir Ilyich was accepted as a student. ^

The museum room contains the original list of "Students of the Imperial Kazan University", which indicates. that Ulyanov Vladimir entered the university on August 13, 1887.

From the first days of his stay at the university, Vladimir Ilyich became an active participant in the student movement, quickly gaining authority among students. He takes an active part in the work of the Simbirsk-Samara community, which, along with other communities, was an illegal student organization.

In the same 1887 in Kazan, with the active participation of Vladimir Ilyich, a revolutionary circle of students from the university and the veterinary institute was created, which formed the leading core, which held the famous student gathering-demonstration on December 4 (16), 1887.

In the secret report of the trustee of the Kazan educational district to the department of public education, a photocopy of which is stored in the museum room, we read that V. I. Ulyanov “two days before the meeting gave reason to suspect him of preparing something bad, ... in the smoking room. talking with the most suspicious students, he went home and returned again, brought something at the request of others and ... behaved very strangely. December 4 rushed to the assembly hall. ... waving his hands, as if wishing to inspire others with this ... ".

Kazan University, at the request of the authorities, was closed for two months, and students expelled from the university for participating in the meeting were immediately expelled from the city.

Vladimir Ilyich was also expelled from the university for his active participation in the meeting. arrested on the night of December 4-5, 1887 in his apartment (now Komleva street, house number 15). imprisoned, and then sentenced to exile in the village of Kokushkino (now Lenino, Pestrechinsky district) under the covert supervision of the police.

The Kazan governor, in his secret order of January 27, 1888, to the Dantev Laishevsky police officer, orders: “Immediately, upon receipt of this, establish the strictest secret surveillance of the mentioned Ulyanov, and it is necessary to keep in mind not only him, but also the persons visiting him, as well as always have accurate and detailed information - with whom he is and will be in correspondence ... ".

So, being a 17-18-year-old boy. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin firmly chose the path of revolutionary struggle for himself and received his first revolutionary baptism at Kazan University.

Kazan State University acquired a painting by a young Kazan artist Ismagil Khaliulov - "The first arrest of V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin)", which vividly shows this event. In the center of the picture is young Vladimir Pliich. His face is spiritualized by a deep consciousness of his just cause. The look of a man who has chosen his own is clear and firm. life path revolutionary in the name of the liberation of the working people from the yoke of capitalism.

Other exhibits of the room-museum of Kazan State University say that Vladimir Ilyich. while in exile, he continued to study seriously. During the same period, Vladimir Ilyich got acquainted with the activities of Plekhanov's "Labor Emancipation Group".

In October 1888, V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin received permission to return to Kazan, where his mother lived with her younger children.

V. I. Lenin is drawn to knowledge, repeatedly tries to resume interrupted studies, but, as we read in the documents, a laconic answer is put on all his petitions: “reject”.

Vladimir Pliich deeply studies the works of Marx and Engels. including - the main work of Marx "Capital"

A painting by Kazan artist A. Golubev is hung in the museum room, in which we see a young Ulyanov-Lenin, deeply thinking about the opened volume of Capital by K. Marx.

"Capital" by K. Marx made an indelible impression on the young man Vladimir Ulyanov. “He is with great fervor and enthusiasm,” recalls A.P. Ulyanova-Yelizarova. - told me about the foundations of Marx's theory and about the new horizons that it opened up ... ".

With excitement, visitors enter Kazan University, into the room-museum of V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin. They listen with deep interest to the story of VI Lenin's stay in Kazan, about the beginning of his revolutionary activity. Up to 10,000 visitors visit the Lenin Room every year.

Students of Kazan State University sacredly honor the memory of V. N. Ulyanov-Lenin. Every year, on Lenin Days, they make a traditional ski trip along the Kazan-Lenivo-Kazan route, and talk about V. I. Lenin in nearby collective farms.

With a special feeling of excitement and pride in their university, first-year students enter here. They carefully and deeply get acquainted with the materials of the museum. Many of them showed good knowledge at seminars on the basics of Marxism-Leninism when studying the topic: "The beginning of the revolutionary activity of V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin."

The students are proud of it. that they study within the walls of Kazan University, where the great leader of all workers V. I. Lenin began his revolutionary activity. So, on December 16, 1952, students of the 17th group of the Geological Faculty of the first year wrote in the book of otayvs:

“... visiting the room-museum of V. I. Lenin

we once again recalled in our memory the days of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's stay in

the walls of the university. The image of a courageous fighter for the bright future of the oppressed peoples has again risen before our eyes. We are proud that we are students of the university where Lenin studied, we walk along those corridors along which he walked. We will make every effort to justify the title of students of the university bearing the name of V. I. Lenin.”

“Our long-awaited dream is to visit the places where the great Lenin studied. — came true. A visit to the room-museum of V. I. Ulyanov-Lenin made an indelible impression on us. For the rest of our lives we will remember those unforgettable moments that we spent within these walls.

The university becomes even closer and dearer to us from the realization that the founder of the world's first socialist state, the genius of mankind, studied here.

An entry by a first-year student of the Faculty of Law, Margarita Zykova, made on September 3, 1952, reads:

“My dream was to see the audience where I studied greatest man the globe V. I. Lenin. This dream has come true. How much pride for my people, for my leader Comrade Stalin, I experienced. when I went into the auditorium where Lenin studied.

Here, in front of the portrait of Vladimir Ilyich, I give my word to carry everything in my heart with honor. what was so dear to Lenin and what became so dear to me ..

Many thanks to the Party and to Comrade Stalin for the fact that I study at the university. Where did Vladimir Ilyich study?

Tourists from Moscow, Leningrad, Central Asia, Georgia, almost all cities of the Volga region, from Bashkiria, Khabarovsk, Sakhalin visited the Lenin room. Ural, Buryat-Mongolia. Stavropol and other parts of the Soviet Union.

Comrade V. Khvaragadze, a teacher at the Tbilisi 31st Women's School, writes:

“I am a native of the mountains. Gori Georgian SSR. with her daughter examined the Kazansky State University where the great leader and teacher V. I. Lenin studied. We are infinitely glad and happy. I will work with even greater strength and energy to educate the younger generation—the future builders of communist society.”

The notes of laureates speak about the feeling of deep excitement associated with visiting the room-museum of V. I. Lenin Stalin Prizes. Stakhanovists Lidia Korabelnikova and Fyodor Kuznetsv, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, champion of the International Olympic Games Udodov. women's basketball team of the voluntary sports society "Stroitel", which is the champion of Europe. students of the Uzbek University. Alisher Navoi, Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute. Moscow Higher technical school them. Bauman, students of the Gorky Pedagogical Institute, participants of the Second Interregional Scientific Student Conference. workers, employees, school students, etc.

Visitors, leaving the museum room, take with them the bright image of the leader, whose example they vow to follow.

N. ALEKSEEVA.

Head of the room-museum of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin of Kazan State University

Kazan (Privolzhsky) Federal University is one of eight Russian federal universities. The oldest university in Russia, after Moscow. It is an object of cultural heritage of R.F.

From the moment of its formation by Alexander I in 1804 until the revolution of 1917, it was called the "Imperial Kazan University". The building of the First Imperial Gymnasium was transformed into a university, and the street was called Pokrovskaya. The building was built in 1789, designed by the architect F. Emelyanov, the customer was the landowner Molostov. IN AND. Ulyanov-Lenin.

Decree of the President of Russia D.A. Medvedev in 2009, on the basis of the university, the main university of the Volga Federal District - "Privolzhsky Federal University" was created. As a result of the protests of students and teachers related to the renaming of the university, the presidents of Russia and Tatarstan decided to keep the historical name "Kazan University". In 2010, the Chairman of the Government of Russia issued an order to assign the official name to the university - Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University.

The main educational buildings of the university are located on the campus in the center of Kazan. The university accepted its first students in February 1805. In 1814, the university had 4 departments of physical and mathematical sciences, medical sciences, verbal sciences and moral and political sciences.

In 1825 the main university building was rebuilt. By 1830, the university had the buildings of a library, an anatomical theater, a chemical laboratory, an astronomical observatory, a clinic, etc. The university became one of the centers of education and science in Russia.

The names of many famous scientists who taught or studied at the university are associated with the university: the astronomer Simonov, the founder of non-Euclidean geometry Lobachevsky, K. Klaus, who discovered ruthenium, Butlerov, Gromeka, Zavoisky, Altshuler and many other scientists known in their fields.

Among the university students were: L.N. Tolstoy, Melnikov-Pechersky, V.I. Ulyanov, A.I. Rykov, M.A. Balakirev, S. Aksakov, V. Khlebnikov, G. Derzhavin, V. Panaev, I. Shishkin, A. Arbuzov and others.

At present, Kazan Federal University is a multidisciplinary university of the classical type. Here specialists of various specialties are trained for various areas activities. It includes 15 faculties. The university includes research institutes, laboratories, two astronomical observatories, publishing house, center information technologies. Scientific Library. Lobachevsky has rich funds. Its funds included the collections of Grigory Potemkin and Vasily Polyansky. It contains the most valuable manuscripts, manuscripts and ancient books. It has about five million books and eleven reading rooms. K(P)FU has extensive international connections with more than 40 universities around the world.

Kazan University is one of the oldest universities in Russia. Many scientific schools that have received worldwide recognition were founded here. Kazan University is included in the list of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation, its ensemble is historical, cultural and architectural monument Russia.

Kazan University - from history

It was founded in 1804 and initially it had four faculties - historical-philological and physical-mathematical, medical and legal. Great Russian scientists studied here, among them - the creator of non-Euclidean geometry N. I. Lobachevsky, who from 1827 to 1846 was the rector of the university, astronomers I. M. Simonov and M. A. Kovalsky, chemists A. M. Butlerov, K. K. Klaus and N. N. Zinin, V. V. Markovnikov and A. M. Zaitsev, biologists and physicians V. M. Bekhterev and P. F. Lesgaft and many others. Among the pupils of the educational institution are famous historians and revolutionaries, artists and composers.

Kazan University was the center of advanced ideas and revolutionary struggle. In 1887, Vladimir Ulyanov entered the Faculty of Law. He took an active part in organizing a student gathering on December 4, 1917, for which he was expelled from the educational institution. However, despite, or maybe because of this fact, the University for many years bore the prefix "named after Ulyanov-Lenin."

On the basis of the educational institution, such universities of Kazan as medical and pedagogical, aviation and chemical-technological, agricultural, financial and economic were formed.

In 1925, Kazan University was awarded the title of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin. In 1955 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1979 - the Order of Lenin.

In accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev dated October 21, 2009, the Volga Federal University was to be created on the basis of KSU. At the same time, students and teachers of KSU supported the preservation historical name University and it was decided to give the reorganized university the name "Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University" - KFU.

In 2011, in the process of reorganization to educational institution Tatar State Humanitarian Pedagogical University, Kazan State Financial and Economic Faculty and Yelabuga State Pedagogical University were merged.

Kazan University - Architecture

The ensemble of Kazan University is a town-planning and architectural monument of Russia. The complex of buildings built in the classical style occupies a block along Kremlevskaya (formerly Voskresenskaya) street.

In 1796, the Kazan Imperial Gymnasium was opened in the house for the military governor at the beginning of Voskresenskaya Street. By order of Alexander I of November 5, 1804, the Letter of Approval and the Charter of Kazan University were signed, which was originally located in the same building as the gymnasium.

The construction of new buildings began in 1822 according to the project of the architect P.G. Pyatnitsky. A member of the construction committee, and later the rector of the university N.I. took a great part in the development of the project. Lobachevsky. A significant contribution to the creation of the university complex was made by the architects M.P. Korinfsky and I.P. Bezsonov, M.N. Litvinov and V. Bernhard.

The main building was erected in 1825. Its length was 160 meters. The building is decorated with three porticos with columns, statues of famous personalities in the vestibule. The main staircase led to the classically decorated auditorium and the church, decorated in the Doric style.

The building center in the university courtyard was the semicircular building of the anatomical theater, which is a quadrangle with eight Ionic columns. On the wing of the building you can see the inscription in Latin "Here is a place where death is glad to help life." On the sides of the building of the anatomical theater there is a physico-chemical building and a library. Previously, these buildings were connected to the anatomical theater by a lattice colonnade, which has not been preserved to date. At the same time, a clinic and an astronomical observatory were built.

In the 20th century, the university buildings go beyond the historic quarter. The Faculty of Geology was located in the building of the former theological seminary on Voznesenskaya Street, a building of the Faculty of Chemistry was erected on Lobachevsky Street, and in the late 60s two high-rise educational and laboratory buildings were built to the north and west of the main building of the educational institution.

Kazan University today

Currently, about 50 thousand students study at KSU, the area of ​​​​training and laboratory facilities is 52 thousand square meters. There are dormitories for 12,000 people. Branches of KSU are located in Naberezhnye Chelny and Zelenodolsk, Yelabuga and Chistopol.

The Board of Trustees is headed by the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov.

The educational complex of the university consists of five areas:

  • Physical and mathematical
  • natural science
  • Engineering
  • economic
  • Social and humanitarian.

Implemented big number scientific projects with the participation of scientists from Great Britain and the USA, France and Hungary, Turkey and the CIS countries, as well as the Balkan Peninsula.

Institutes and faculties of KFU

Kazan Federal University is a multidisciplinary university that trains specialists in various fields at institutes and faculties headed by directors. The composition of the KFU includes:

  • Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology
  • Institute of Ecology and Geography
  • Institute of Geology and Oil and Gas Technologies
  • Institute of International Relations
  • Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics. N.I. Lobachevsky
  • Institute of Physics
  • Chemical Institute. A.M. Butlerov
  • Faculty of Law
  • Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technology
  • Institute of Philology and Arts
  • Institute of Mass Communications and Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Philosophy
  • Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology
  • Institute physical education, sports and rehabilitation medicine
  • Graduate School of Information Technologies and Information Systems
  • Institute of Economics and Finance
  • Institute of Management and Territorial Development
  • Higher School of State and Municipal Administration
  • Language Institute
  • All-University Department of Physical Education and Sports
  • Graduate School of Management and Business
  • MBA program
  • Institute of Continuing Education
  • Faculty of advanced training
  • Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students
  • Institute for Comparative Studies of the Modernization of Societies
  • Engineering Institute

Kazan University has ten museums of various profiles, which are its real heritage. Museum exhibits and funds are used for scientific, cultural and educational purposes.