The Baltic Federal University named after Immanuel Kant (Kantian, BFU named after I. Kant) is the highest educational institution in Kaliningrad, the oldest in the whole Kaliningrad region. The history of the university began almost at the same time as the history of the new region of Russia, which was formed on the land of the former East Prussia after its conquest in 1945 by the Red Army. Every year, a huge number of applicants seek to enter this educational institution, more than all other universities in Kaliningrad. This is not surprising, because today Kantiana is a leading university in the region, a member of the Club of Nine (nine federal universities of Russia), one of the centers of science and higher education in the North-West Federal District of the Russian Federation. Most of the city’s students dream of studying at the IKBFU. Kant: the medical faculty beckons those who decide to devote their lives to saving people; those who want to do business in the future dream of entering the economic system; lovers of chemistry and biology wish to receive a bioengineering education ... Yes, one can be proud of studying at such a university!
School History
Kant Baltic Federal University was created by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on the basis of the RSU named after Kant October 13, 2010. In general, the history of the university began in 1947, when the Kaliningrad State Pedagogical Institute was formed. Then in 1966 it was transformed into Kaliningrad State University, and in 2005 it was renamed to Russian State University. Kant.
Preserving Traditions
Kantiana, being one of the innovative universities in Russia, honors and enhances the academic traditions of its predecessor - Albertina (University of Koenigsberg). The history of this oldest educational institution in Europe totals 460 years. Over the years, in Albertina, gave lectures and taught Herder, Linderman, Helmholtz, Gaman, Jacobi, Gilbert, Bessel; there he studied theology of Donelaitis, the founder of Lithuanian literature; listened to lectures on Hoffmann's philosophy - composer and writer. However, in the history of Koenigsberg University, undoubtedly, the largest figure is Immanuel Kant, the greatest thinker, who for some time was a Russian subject. In his name, he forever linked Albertina to the history of the culture of mankind, which became the hallmark of Koenigsberg.
University Symbols
On the logo of the IKBFU Kant depicts a bridge and a sea wave. The wave symbolizes that the university has a seaside location, and also shows constant development, moving forward. An educational institution is an inexhaustible space of knowledge. The way of university life is aimed at sociocultural understanding in the Baltic Sea region - undoubtedly one of the most prosperous macro regions of the world, which includes countries with the highest rating in the field of global competitiveness.
The bridge symbolizes integration and connection; it is a sign of academic mobility and the promotion of innovative and educational Russian technologies abroad. This is possible on the basis of the development of higher national schools and familiarization with European educational traditions. At the same time, the bridge also symbolizes the understanding that even today the Baltic University is connected by invisible threads of history with the fate of Albertina, the once-famous Koenigsberg educational institution.
University mission
The task of the BFU them. Kant - to ensure the exclave of the Kaliningrad region long-term competitiveness surrounded by the European Union by forming a recognized European-level scientific and educational center in the Baltic Sea region. The goal of strategic development is to create a university that will be recognized and recognized among the leading world-class educational institutions in Russia and will set technological standards for the territory, as well as train highly qualified personnel with the prospect of building a career anywhere in the world. According to the strategic vision of the IKBFU Kant, by 2020 the university will be clearly positioned among the twenty leading universities in Russia in such areas as medical biotechnology, mathematical modeling, information technology, and functional materials. This should give him the opportunity to stand on a par with educational institutions with a recognizable brand, and ensure fame in the university space of Europe.
BFU them. Kant today
Currently, the university is the largest scientific, educational, enlightening, cultural center of the Kaliningrad region - the westernmost region of the Russian Federation. Over the past five years, the university has successfully implemented a program of vertical and horizontal diversification of major educational programs. The number of areas and specialties has doubled, and training programs for masters and bachelors are being implemented, which make up 6 and 30 percent of all applicable educational standards, respectively. In addition, training programs for specialists with secondary vocational education are open.
Kantiana in numbers
In total, about three hundred educational standards of higher / secondary / postgraduate / additional professional education are currently being implemented at the Baltic University. Over two thousand employees work here, and about sixteen thousand students, students and graduate students study. At the moment, BFU them. Kant has eleven institutes as faculties, a European business school, two higher schools (pedagogy and physical education and sports) and a college.
Scientific activity
The Baltic University conducts applied, fundamental scientific research in 40 laboratories and research centers and 65 departments, including the Russian Language Center, the Russian Culture Center in the South-East Baltic, the Center for New Information Technologies, the Marine Educational and Scientific Station, etc. The educational institution has established scientific schools for the study of Russian philosophy, landscape and territorial planning, cantology, ocean research, nuclear and quadrupole magnetic resonance, the study of the language mode research, the study of the Baltic region as a whole, the propagation of radio waves and geomagnetic processes, the physics of the ionosphere. The university actively participates in international research projects and programs, for example, Interreg and Tacis.
University buildings
Despite the fact that IKBFU them. Kant is considered the successor of Albertina, he actually uses only one building from the famous Koenigsberg University. This building, where the faculties of geoecology, bioecologists and geography are located, is located on Universitetskaya Street. The building, destroyed during the hostilities, was rebuilt in 1964 in a strongly rebuilt form (virtually all decorative elements were removed), and until 1967, when the building was finally transferred to Kaliningrad State University, school 32 functioned.
The campus, specially built for the educational institution, houses the buildings of the mathematical and physical-technical faculties, the service faculty, as well as the pool and administrative building. In the building of the former German technical school of Hippel and Kraus there are buildings of psychological, historical, economic faculties and the faculty of physical culture and sports. Next door, in another building, there are departments of international communication, linguistics, journalism and Slavic philology.
Now it is planned to recreate the University of Königsberg, which was functioning on the Kneiphof island (the so-called old university) in accordance with the Program for the reconstruction of the city center of Kaliningrad.
Additional Information
- The rector of the university is Andrey Klemeshev, who has been holding this position since 1998.
- Legal address of IKBFU Kant: Kaliningrad city, A. Nevsky street, 14.
- The University is among the ten Russian universities leading in international exchange. The greatest attention in this aspect is given to cooperation with Lithuanian and Polish educational institutions.
- In 2001, a branch of the IKBFU was opened. Kant in the city of Chernyakhovsk (Kaliningrad Oblast).
- In 2008, a representative office of the university was founded in the city of Riga (Latvia).
- Since 1977, the office-museum of I. Kant has been operating in the educational institution, in 1995 it was expanded and renamed the University Museum.