Perm State University

Perm State University
Motto	Vivat, Crescat, Floreat
Type	Public
Established	14 October 1916
President	Dr. Vladimir Malanin
Rector	Dr. Igor Y. Makarikhin
Academic staff	1,800
Undergraduates	18,000
Location	Perm, Perm Krai, Russia
Campus	Urban
Website	Official site

Perm State University (now Perm State National Research University; Russian: Пермский университет, Пермский государственный университет, Пермский государственный национальный исследовательский университет, romanised: Permskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet, Permskiy gosudarstvennyy natsionalynyy issledovatelskyy universitet) or PSU, PSNRU, (Russian: ПГУ, ПГНИУ, romanised: PGU, PGNIU ) is located in the city of Perm, Perm Krai, Russia . Founded in 1916, it claims to be one of the oldest universities in the Ural and eastern territories of Russia. Its current rector is Igor Makarikhin.

History

Perm State University was founded on 14 October 1916. Its origins lie in the opening of a branch of St. Petersburg University in the city of Perm. This decision of the Russian government was in tune with the strategy of the cultural and geopolitical development of the Urals economic region. The idea of a center of higher education in the Urals was supported by D.I. Mendeleev, A.S.Popov, D.N.Mamin-Sibiryak, A.G.Denisov-Uralsky and other outstanding public figures.

Faculties

As of 2008, the university has 12 faculties:

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Geology
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of History and Politology
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
Faculty of General Medicine

Institutions and research centres

Partner universities

University of Oxford^[1]

Famous alumni and faculty

Vladimir Nikolayevich Beklemishev, Soviet zoologist and entomologist
Nikita Belykh, Russian politician, former leader of the Union of Right Forces, currently governor of Kirov Oblast
Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (Besikovitch) (1891–1970) was a Russia n - Jewish mathematician, who worked mainly in England . He was appointed professor at the University of Perm in 1917.
Leonid Brekhovskikh, Soviet-Russian oceanographist
Georgi Burkov, Soviet film actor
Sergei Chernikov, Russian mathematician
Georgii Frederiks, Russian geologist
Alexander Friedmann, Russian mathematician and cosmologist
Nina Gorlanova, Russian novelist
Boris Grekov, Soviet historian
Alexander-Paul Henckel, Russian biologist. Founder of Perm State University Botanical gardens. Author of Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
Zulya Kamalova, Tatar singer currently residing in Australia
Vladimir Porfiriev, Soviet geologist
Victor Pavlovich Protopopov, Russian-Soviet psychiatrist
Boris Schwanwitsch, Russian-Soviet entomologist
Grigory Abramovich Shajn, Russian-Soviet astronomer
Nikolay Shaklein, Russian politician, former governor of Kirov Oblast
Valentin Stepankov, the first prosecutor general of the Russian Federation
Jacob Tamarkin, Russian-American mathematician
Mariya Vasperov, Fashion Model and Activist
George Vernadsky, Russian-American historian
Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian-Soviet mathematician
Augustinas Voldemaras, first Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1918
Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian writer
Mark Zakharov, Soviet-Russian theatrical and film director