Irkutsk State University

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Irkutsk State University

Motto	Intelligence, Humanism and Uniqueness
Established	1918
Rector	Prof. Alexander Schmidt
Academic staff	1155
Students	18,000
Location	Irkutsk , Russia 52°16′36″N 104°16′41″E / 52.2767°N 104.278°E / 52.2767; 104.278
Website	http://www.isu.ru

Irkutsk State University (Russian: Ирку́тский госуда́рственный университе́т) was founded in October 1918 in Irkutsk, Siberia. Nowadays Irkutsk State University is a scientific and educational institution training students in humanities, natural, technical and applied sciences. ISU facilities include 8 educational institutions, 11 faculties, the scientific library that is one of the largest University libraries in Russia. ISU offers bachelor, master, post-graduate programs for more than 18,000 students that have opportunity to specialize under the supervision of world-known scientists.^[2]

For decades, Irkutsk University has trained more than 80 thousand specialists, including State Prize winners and writers V. Rasputin, A. Vampilov, and M. Sergeev.