Kazan State University

Kazan (Volga region) Federal University (Russian: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет, Kazanskiy (Privolzhskiy) federalnyy universitet; Tatar: Cyrillic Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты, Latin Qazan (İdel buye) federal' universitetı) is a university in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. It was founded in 1804. The famous Russian mathematician Lobachevsky was its headmaster from 1827 till 1846. The post is now being held by Myakzyum Salakhov (Mäğzüm Säläxev). Kazan University is also known as "the birthplace of organic chemistry" because of the works of Aleksandr Butlerov, Vladimir Markovnikov, Aleksandr Arbuzov, and others. Notable graduates Aleksandr Arbuzov Mily Balakirev Aleksandr Butlerov Vladimir Lenin (expelled) Nikolay Lobachevski Vladimir Markovnikov Leo Tolstoy Nikolay Beketov Afanasy Shchapov Vladimir Galkin Michael Minsky (Spirin) Other websites Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) Kazan List of Kazan State University's rectors Kazan State University Official Site Archived 2005-04-18 at the Wayback Machine