Kazan State Technical University

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city = Kazan
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website = http://www.kai.ru/

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Kazan State Technical University (KSTU) was established in 1932. The history of the university is closely related to the progress of Russian aeronautics. Until the recent time, it was well known as Kazan Aviation Institute. In 1973, the Institute was named after Andrey N. Tupolev, the prominent aircraft designer. In 1992, it got the status of the State Technical University.

Today the University is one of the leading Russian institutions in aircraft engineering, engine and instrument production, computer science and radio and telecommunications engineering. KSTU is the largest technical university of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Volga region.

Kazan State Technical University teaches about 25,000 students on 65 majors in Engineering, Business and Humanitarian Sciences by the university faculty body of 1,800 persons, including 150 Full Professors & Doctor of Science degree holders, 600 Associate Professors & Ph.D. degree holders.

The University includes the following institutes and faculties:

* Institute of Aviation, Land Vehicles & Energetics
* Automation & Electronic Instrument-Making Faculty
* Technical Cybernetics & Informatics Faculty
* Institute of Radio-Engineering & Telecommunications
* Institute of Engineering & Economics
* Humanitarian Faculty
* Physics & Mathematics Faculty
* Economic Theory & Law Faculty
* Psychology & Personnel Management Faculty

KSTU includes 11 associated branch institutes outside Kazan in the towns of Almetevsk, Bugulma, Chistopol, Elabuga, Leninogorsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, Nizhnekamsk, Volzhsk, Vyatskie Polyany, Zainsk, and Zelenodolsk.

The University is housed in 7 buildings. It has 6 student's dormitories, and a hostel. A sport complex includes 5 well-equipped indoor sports halls. The University also has a sportive camp in the picturesque place on the Volga river, 40 km away from Kazan.