Kazan Federal University

Kazan (Volga region) Federal University

Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Former names	Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin Kazan State University, Imperial Kazan University
Type	Public/Federal university
Established	November 17, 1804; 219 years ago (1804-11-17)[1]
Rector	Lenar Safin
Academic staff	~ 4400
Students	~ 50200
Address	18 Ulitsa Kremlevskaya , Kazan , Tatarstan , Russia 55°47′27″N 49°07′19″E / 55.7907°N 49.1219°E / 55.7907; 49.1219
Campus	Both urban and suburban
Language	Russian, English, Tatar
Colours	Blue and white
Affiliations	EUA IAU EURAS AMBA
Website	eng.kpfu.ru

Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (Russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, Tatar: Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты) is a public research university located in Kazan, Russia.

The university was founded in 1804 as Imperial Kazan University, which makes it the second oldest continuously existing tertiary education institution in Russia. Founder of non-Euclidean geometry Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky served there as the rector from 1827 until 1846. In 1925, the university was renamed in honour of its student Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). The university is known as the birthplace of organic chemistry due to works by Aleksandr Butlerov, Vladimir Markovnikov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and the birthplace of electron spin resonance discovered by Evgeny Zavoisky.

In 2011, Kazan University received a federal status. It is also one of 18 Russian universities that were initially selected to participate in the Project 5-100, coordinated by the Government of the Russian Federation and aimed to improve their international competitiveness among the world's leading research and educational centers.^[2] In 2021, KFU joined Priority 2030, Russia's new academic excellence project.^[3]

As of early 2023, the university comprised 20 primary educational units, 3 of which were territorial branches, including one overseas branch in Uzbekistan.^[4] More than 52,000 students were enrolled in over 600 degree programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level (including doctoral and double-degree programs with partner universities); the number of international students was about 11,500 from 101 countries.^[5] Current research priorities are biomedicine, materials science, hydrocarbon industry, new energy sources, IT and cyber-physical systems, and comprehensive development of human potential.^[6]