Today in Russia there are more than 1,100 universities. However, not every one of them can boast of a hundred-year history, active scientific and practical activities, innovative developments and achievements. National Research University named after N.I. Lobachevsky in Nizhny Novgorod belongs to this category.
University Business Card
The People's University was opened in January 1916. Two years later, he received the status of a state and became the first Soviet university. In the mid-twentieth century, he was named after the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.
Today NNSU them. Lobavchevsky is in the top 800 of the best world universities.
In addition to educational faculties and institutes, its structure includes:
- 4 research institutes;
- biomedical cluster;
- supercomputer center;
- business incubator;
- several internet centers;
- nanotechnology center;
- museum complex, library, publishing house.
The university is the base university of the regional center of the Academy of Sciences.
Today, more than 26 thousand students from around the world and about 900 doctoral and postgraduate students study here. Students annually become winners of international and All-Russian Olympiads. A high level of education is provided by more than 1300 teachers, including 330 doctors of sciences and 19 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The University is the winner of a number of competitions and a participant in many targeted and grant educational programs.
The official address of UNN them. Lobachevsky: Nizhny Novgorod, Gagarin Avenue, 23.
Structure: institutes and faculties
Today, the university has 18 structural educational units. Among them:
- Seven faculties: physical; legal; radiophysical; chemical; social sciences; sports and physical education; retraining and advanced training;
- Nine institutions: human health and rehabilitation; military education; world history and international relations; entrepreneurship and economics; philology and journalism; biomedicine and biology; mathematics, mechanics, information technology; open education; Graduate and doctoral studies.
Also on the lists of UNN them. Lobachevsky includes the Small Academy of Public Administration and the Higher School of Applied and General Physics.
Specialty
The university has bachelor's, specialty and master's programs, full-time and part-time departments are provided. All in NNGU them. Lobachevsky represented more than 80 areas of specialties. For some of them, programs in English are open:
- information technology and informatics;
- economy;
- international relations (undergraduate);
- neurobiology;
- computer science and mathematics;
- management (magistracy).
Additional entrance tests in a number of specialties are a feature of NNSU named after Lobachevsky. The selection committee promptly informs applicants about all conditions of admission.
Research institute of the university
The experimental and scientific work at the university is given great attention. The structure of the Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod University has six successfully operating research institutes:
- neuroscience;
- physical and technical;
- radiophysical;
- supercomputer technology;
- chemistry;
- mechanics.
An important mission was assigned to employees of the Institute of Supercomputer Technologies, because in 2014 the Lobachevsky computing cluster was launched at the university. It takes 24th place in the list of the most powerful supercomputers in universities in the world.
Branches of the Nizhny Novgorod State University Lobachevsky
The university has a fairly wide network of regional offices. Currently, it consists of 7 branches:
- Balakhinsky.
- Arzamas.
- Vyksa.
- Borsky.
- Dzerzhinsky.
- Pavlovsky.
- Shakhunsky.
The active process of creating branches of the university was launched in 2004. The main task was to ensure the availability of quality higher education for residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The main emphasis is on undergraduate programs.
Innovation and science
The applied nature of research conducted by employees of the centers of the Nizhny Novgorod State University Lobachevsky, ensures the active implementation of their results in the technological and production process. Currently valid:
- Youth Innovation Center.
- Technology Commercialization Center.
- Innovation and Technology Center.
- Center for the Development of Medical Acquisition.
The tasks of the commercialization center include the presentation and implementation of innovative university developments in the domestic and international market, the organization of participation in support programs for high-tech entrepreneurship.
Innovation and technology center provides optimization of the inventive process, the formation of patent strategies, advises business entities on the implementation of innovative developments.
The activities of the youth center are aimed at finding international partners, accelerating business ideas, and selecting youth project teams.
Three years ago, the third in a row SPF vivarium in Russia was launched, which is engaged in research in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy.
In 2017, a center for the development of medical instrumentation was opened, providing the entire cycle of development and market introduction of high-tech products.
University creative life
In addition to the main areas of work, the leadership of UNN them. Lobachevsky pays great attention to the organization of an active and eventful extracurricular life of students.
The university has a student council, student squad and volunteer organizations, creative teams, and sports sections. Among the latter are associations in several sports: swimming, volleyball, football, basketball, bullet shooting, karting, parachuting, athletics, skiing, rhythmic gymnastics, radio sports, orienteering, etc.
Among the creative teams, the university choir should be noted first of all. He recently celebrated his 65th birthday. The choir regularly participates in tours to cities in Russia and abroad. Over the years of fruitful creative activity, he was awarded the title of folk team, laureate and diploma winner of a huge number of contests and festivals. Since 1983, participates in the organization of the festival of student choirs "Young Voices" in Nizhny Novgorod.
The museum of the university is actively working, which has long acquired the status of a city, while providing an educational and scientific base for students of humanitarian specialties. In addition to the constantly updated exposition, visiting exhibitions are held, ethnographic and archaeological expeditions are organized. Museum staff conduct training consultations and seminars.