Irkutsk State University

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QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia	251-300 (2022)

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
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.

History

Russian scientists, statesmen, patrons of art and science, such as Nikolai Yadrintsev,Afanasy Shchapov, P.A. Slovtsov, S.S. Shchukin, Grigory Potanin and others were founders of Irkutsk State University, while many of them are advocates of Siberian regionalism. The University was opened on October 27, 1918.

Faculties and Institutes

At present, the University consists of 11 faculties and 8 educational institutions. Over 14500 thousand students, including 880 foreign students from 23 countries, and more than 1155 lecturers (142 Dr. Sc. and 625 Cand. Sc. professors) work there.^[3]

Irkutsk State University Faculty of History

International Institute of Economics and Linguistics
Institute of Mathematics and Information Technologies
Institute of Social Sciences
Continuing Education Institute
Pedagogical Institute
Law Institute
Baikal International Business School
Law Institute
Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages and Media Communication
Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies
Faculty of Business and Management
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of Geology
Faculty of History
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Business-Communications and Computer Science
Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Citizens
Siberian-American Faculty of Management ^[4]

Notable faculty members

Semyon Novgorodov, creator of a Yakut alphabet
Ivan Naumovich Yazev, astronomer and head of the university's astronomical observatory from 1948 to 1955^[5]