Voronezh State University is one of the main universities

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 in Central Russia.

The university was founded in 1918, when some staff, students and property from the University of Tartu

University of Tartu

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 were transferred by the Soviet government because of the German occupation of Estonia

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The University

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 has 17 departments and an enrollment of 21,000 students from Russia

Russia

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, Europe

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, Africa

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, the Americas

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 and Asia

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Faculties

• Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences and Mechanics
• Mathematics
• Computer Sciences
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Pharmaceutics
• Biology
• Economics
• Geography and Ecology
• Geology
• History
• Institute of International Education
• International Relations
• Journalism
• Law
• Philology
• Philosophy and Psychology
• Romance and Germanic Philology

Fundamental research

Among the University research units there are 5 research institutes, 10 research centres, 14 joint laboratories with Russian Academy of Sciences, Botanical Gardens and a nature reserve Galichya Gora. The University also has a technology transfer centre, aimed at providing researchers with support in launching their innovative technologies.

research centres

• Wave Processes in Inhomogeneous and Non-Linear Media ( Director: Prof. Aleksandr S. Sidorkin http://www.rec.vsu.ru/eng/)
• Innovative Technologies (Director: Prof. Boris A. Zon )
• Spacecraft and Rocket Engineering (Co-Director: Prof. Sergey A. Zapryagayev )
• Radio Engineering and Electronics (Co-Director: Prof. Ivan I. Borisov )
• Scientific and technological cooperation with the EU ( Director: Prof. Igor N. Zornikov )
• Shared use of research equipment ( Director: Dr. Mikhail V. Lesovoy )
• Technology Transfer ( Director: Dr. Igor V. Aristov )
• Geography, Land use and Geo-ecology( Co-Director: Prof. Vladimir I. Fedotov )
• Geology ( Co-Director: Prof. Sergey A. Zapryagayev )
• Human ecology ( Co-Director: Prof. Semyon A. Kurolap )
• Biology ("Venevitino")
• Chemical Physics ( Co-Director: Prof. Ivan I. Borisov )

research laboratories

• Wave Processes (Co-Director: Prof. Boris A. Zon http://www.vsu.ru/english/depts/research/labs/waveproc.html )
• X-ray Crystallography (Co-Director: Dr. Kseniya B. Aleynikova )
• Electron Spectroscopy for Solid-State Physics (Academic Director: Prof. Evelina P.Domashevskaya Administrative Director: Dr. S.V. Ryabtsev http://www.vsu.ru/english/depts/research/labs/spectroscopy.html)
• Mathematical Simulation of Complex Nonlinear Processes and Structures (Co-Director: Prof. V.V. Obukhovskiy http://www.vsu.ru/english/depts/research/labs/mathsim.html)
• Theoretical Physics (Director: Kopitin I.V. )
• Biodiversity and Ecosystems Monitoring
• Conjugated Processes in Electrochemistry and Corrosion
• Economics and Management
• Ellipsometric Materials Research
• Geodynamics and Seismic Monitoring Academic
• Geology and Minerals
• History of Archaeological Research and Records in Eurasia ( Co-Director: Prof. Anatoly D. Pryakhin)
• Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geo-Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Voronezh Branch ( Director: Prof. Nikolay M. Chernyshov )
• Ion Exchange and Chromatography
• Photostimulated Processes in Crystals (Co-Director: Prof. Anatoly N. Latyshev )
• Physics and Chemistry of Nanoscale Structured Systems ( Co-Director: Prof. Irina Ya. Mittova )
• Systematics and Ecology of Insects ( Co-Director: Prof. Oleg P. Negrobov )

research institutes

• Chemistry and Pharmacy
• Geology
• Mathematics (Director: Prof. Victor G. Zvyagin
• Physics
• Social Sciences

Alumni

• Pavel Cherenkov, a Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
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   winner
• Mark Krasnosel'skii, Soviet mathematician
• Lev Pavlovich Rapoport Soviet (russian) theoretician physicist

External links

• Voronezh State University homepage