Kryvyi Rih National University

Public university in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine

Kryvyi Rih National University

Криворізький національний університет

Type| Public
Established| 2011 (1922 as Technic University)
President| Yuriy Vilkul
Rector| Mykola Stupnik[1]

Academic staff

| 900
Students| 20,000
Location|

Kryvyi Rih

Ukraine

Campus| urban
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Affiliations| Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
Website| knu.edu.ua/en#.VGEeL_msV8E

The Kryvyi Rih National University (Ukrainian: Криворізький національний університет, romanized: Kryvorizkyi natsionalnyi universytet), colloquially known as KNU (КНУ), is located in Kryvyi Rih, one of the main industrial cities of Ukraine. Currently, its structure consists of seven faculties (academic departments) and five institutes. It was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet Union era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University,[2] State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy (a branch of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine at that moment).

## History

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In 1929 the college was converted into an evening working institution, and from 1931 to the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute.[citation needed]

The following year in Kryvyi Rih, the Institute of Vocational Training was founded.[citation needed] It was reorganized as the Pedagogical Institute. In the prewar period, the institute trained about 1,000 teachers.[citation needed] In 1999, the basis of the State Pedagogical Institute was established as Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University.[citation needed]

During World War II, having been evacuated from 20 September 1941 to August 1944, the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute relocated to Nizhny Tagil, Russia.[citation needed] In September 1944 the Institute resumed classes for the students in its original location. It increased the number of specialties, which prepared the engineering staff.[citation needed] Five of its academics have been honored with the Lenin or State Prizes[citation needed]. In 1994 the institute became a charter technical university.[citation needed]

The proclamation of the independence of Ukraine in 1991 brought about radical changes in every sphere of university life. In 2011 the Ukrainian government founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting the Mining Institute, Pedagogical University, Economic Institute of Kyiv National Economic University and the Department of the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine.[citation needed]

## Organisation and administration

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### Schools / Faculties

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These are the 7[3] faculties into which the university is divided:

* Mining Faculty,
* Geological and Environmental Faculty,
* Information Technologies Faculty,
* Mechanical Engineering Faculty,
* Building Faculty,
* Electrical Engineering Faculty,
* Transportation Faculty.

### Institutes

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* Research Mining Institute,
* Research Institute of Ecology and safety in the mining and metallurgical industry.

### Other institutes

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* Industrial College,
* Polytechnic College,
* Ingulets College,
* Kryvyi Rih Mining College,
* Mining Electromechanical College,
* Motor Transport Technical College.

## Academics

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KNU main campus building.

### Foreign Partner Universities

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The University currently maintains relations and, in some cases, student exchange programs with universities of forty countries;[4] a figure which includes a number of former republics of the Soviet Union and other countries which Ukraine traditionally, over the past 70 years prior to independence in 1991, did not have official bilateral relations with. A small selection of partner universities is displayed below.

Country | University | Country | University

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Belarus | Belarus State University |  Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
Morocco | University of Hassan II Casablanca |  Germany | Ruhr University Bochum
Germany | Dresden University of Technology |  Poland | Silesian University of Technology
Russia | Moscow State Mining University |  Poland | Rzeszów University

## Campus

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University's original building

### Library

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The library of KNU originated in 1922. The library holds over 1.7 million physical volumes, and more than 7,000 of these books are referred as rare and valuable. Library staff are making great efforts to promote reading. Regularly held book exhibitions, literature reviews, readers' conferences, thematic and literary evenings, book presentations, meetings with famous people in the city, including writers and journalists.

More than 500,000 readers visit the library each year, and it loans more than 1 million books annually. Digital access to library started to work on 2005.

## Notable alumni and faculty

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* Mykhailo Korolenko
* Oleksandr Vilkul
* Petro Dyminskyi
* Olena Zelenska

## See also

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List of universities in Ukraine

## References

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1. ^ Owners and beneficiaries of КНУ. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
2. ^ "Історія КНУ". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
3. ^ компанія Реактор (10 May 2015). "Криворізький національний університет (КТУ)". Retrieved 17 July 2015.
4. ^ "Department of International Relations". Retrieved 17 July 2015.

## External links

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Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF
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National|

* United States
* 2
* 3
* Czech Republic

Other|

* Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine
* Yale LUX

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Universities in Ukraine

Universities|

* Alfred Nobel University
* Cherkasy National University
* Chernivtsi University
* Classic Private University
* Donetsk State University of Management
* Donetsk University
* East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University
* Interregional Academy of Personnel Management
* International Solomon University
* Kharkiv University
* Kharkiv National University of Economics
* Kherson State University
* Kryvyi Rih National University
* Kyiv National Linguistic University
* Kyiv International University
* Lviv University
* National Defence University of Ukraine
* National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
* National University Ostroh Academy
* Odesa University
* Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
* Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education
* Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University
* Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
* Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University
* Transcarpathian State University
* Ukrainian Catholic University
* Uzhhorod National University
* West Ukrainian National University
* Zaporizhzhia National University

Technical
universities|

* Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding
* Chernihiv Polytechnic National University
* Dnipro Polytechnic
* Donetsk National Technical University
* Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
* Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics
* Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
* Kryvyi Rih National University
* Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
* Kyiv National Economic University
* Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
* Lviv Polytechnic
* National Aviation University
* National University of Food Technologies
* Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (Dnipro Institute of Infrastructure and Transport · Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture · National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine)
* Vinnytsia National Technical University
* Zaporizhzhia National Technical University

Medical
universities|

* Bogomolets National Medical University
* Bukovinian State Medical University
* Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
* Dnipro State Medical University
* Donetsk State Medical University
* Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University
* Kharkiv National Medical University
* Luhansk State Medical University
* Odesa National Medical University
* Poltava State Medical and Dental University
* Vinnytsia National Medical University. N. I. Pirogov
* Zaporizhzhia State Medical University

Pedagogical
universities|

* Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University
* Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University of Oleksandr Dovzhenko
* Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University
* National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
* Nizhyn Pedagogical University
* H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
* Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University
* K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University
* Vasyl Stefanyk Prycarpathian National University
* Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University
* Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education

Defunct|

* Donbas State Technical University
* International Christian University – Kyiv
* Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University
* Medical Academy named after S.I. Georgievsky of Vernadsky CFU

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Universities|

* Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs
* Alfred Nobel University
* Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
* Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education
* Dnipro National University of Rail Transport
* Dnipro Polytechnic
* Dnipro State Medical University
* Kryvyi Rih National University
* Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical University
* Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology

Academies|

* National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine
* Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Institutes|

* Dnipro Medical Institute of Conventional and Alternative Medicine

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