- Kharkiv University
Infobox University
name=Karazin Kharkiv National University
native_name=Харківський національний університет імені Каразіна
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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 inUkraine , and earlier in theRussian Empire andSoviet Union . It was founded in1805 through the efforts ofVasyl Karazin , (after whom the university is now named), becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after theUniversity 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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