I. N. Ulianov Chuvash State University is a public university located in Cheboksary, the capital of the Chuvash Republic, Russia. The university is one of the leading institutions of higher learning in Russia and is the scientific, educational and cultural center of the Privolsky Federal Region of the Russian Federation.
Chuvash State University has over 10,000 students and 3,865 faculty, including 150 Professors (Dr. Habil.) and 600 Docents (Ph.D.). The rector is Andrey Aleksandrov.
History
In 1920 the revolutionary committee and decided to create a university Cheboksary. The question about the creation of the Chuvash State University was raised again in 1958–19, but even then it could not be done because of many problems connected with the absence of the material base and lack of scientific staff in the republic.
The university was formed on 17 August 1967 through a merger of the Volga Branch of the Order of Lenin Moscow Energy Institute and the Historical-Philological Department of the I. Ya. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute. It was named after Ilya Nikolaevich Ulianov, an educator. Opened already in 1930 the part of historically philological faculty of the Chuvash Pedagogical Institute joined the university.
Faculties
The university has 15 faculties:
Faculty of Informatics and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Information Technology
Faculty of Radio Electronics and Automation
Faculty of Civil Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Energy and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Management and Social Technologies
Faculty of History and Geography
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Foreign Languages
Faculty of Russian and Chuvash Philology and Journalism
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Arts
These are further subdivided into 88 departments.