Start of Higher School in Crimea: Taurida University (1918–1920)
Journal: Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia
Year: 2019

October 14, 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the first university in Crimea, which initially, in 1918–1920, was called the Taurida University, and now is V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. In this regard, it is useful to recall the main stages of the history of the university. Of particular interest is the history of Taurida University in the years of the Civil War, when its teachers were the greatest scientists who fled from the Bolshevik terror from the universi