Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University (TNU) is a public

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, coeducation

Coeducation

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al university

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 located in Simferopol

Simferopol

-Russian Empire and Civil War:The city was renamed Simferopol in 1784 after the annexation of the Crimean Khanate to the Russian Empire by Catherine II of Russia. The name Simferopol is derived from the Greek, Συμφερόπολις , translated as "the city of usefulness." In 1802, Simferopol became the...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

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. The university was founded in 1918 with active participation of the famous geologist Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a Russian/Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology. His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He also worked in Ukraine where he...

. The university now bears his name. The university has 16 departments and 20 academic institutes. The university has the status of national and is accredited to the fourth level by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.

Departments

• The Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
• The Faculty of Physics
• The Faculty of Biology
• The Faculty of Chemistry
• The Faculty of History
• The Faculty of Philosophy
• The Faculty of Geography
• The Faculty of Slavic Philology and Journalism
• The Faculty of Ukrainian Philology and Ukrainian Studies
• The Faculty of Foreign Philology
• The Faculty of Law
• The Faculty of Economics
• The Faculty of Management
• The Faculty of Physical Training and Sports
• The Faculty of Crimean Tartar and Oriental Philology
• The Economic-Humanitarian Faculty in Melitopol
• Kerch Economic-Humanitarian Institute
• Sevastopol Economic-Humanitarian Institute
• Sudak Faculty of Management and Economics

Notable professors

• Igor Tamm
  Igor Tamm
  Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet physicist and Nobel laureate who received most prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.-Biography:Tamm was born in Vladivostok, Russian Empire , in a...
  
  
• Vladimir Obruchev
  Vladimir Obruchev
  Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :...
  
  
• Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov
  Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov
  Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for works on interpolation, non-linear mechanics, and numerical methods for solving equations of mathematical physics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Abram Ioffe
  Abram Ioffe
  Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize , the Lenin Prize , and the Hero of Socialist Labor . Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity...
  
  
• Boris Grekov
  Boris Grekov
  Boris Dmitrievich Grekov was a Soviet historian noted for his comprehensive studies of Kievan Rus and the Golden Horde...
  
  
• Vladimir Vernadsky
  Vladimir Vernadsky
  Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky was a Russian/Ukrainian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology. His ideas of noosphere were an important contribution to Russian cosmism. He also worked in Ukraine where he...
  
  

External links

• University homepage