1GREAT OPENINGS. GREAT NAMES

Alexander ButlerovNikolay LobachevskyEugene ZavoiskyRector of Kazan Federal University, Theory of the chemical Electron paramagneticStructure
Founder of Non-Euclidean
resonance (1944)
oforganic
substances
geometry (1829)(1858)

1804
Foundation ofthe University

Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin
studied at Kazan
University

Leo Tolstoy
studied at Kazan
University

Jan Baudouin de
CourtenayTheory of the phoneme
andphonetic alternations,founder of experimental
phonetics
7 Nobel laureates workedat Kazan University2

KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
merging for achieving ambitious aims since 20102010Republic of
Tatarstan Academyof Civil Services
staff-998
2011
Tatar State
HumanitarianPedagogicalUniversity
staff- 1389
students -9063
2011
Elabuga State
Pedagogical University
staff – 460
students - 4108
2012
Kama State Academy ofEngineering and Economics
staff – 1403
students - 12184

2012
Kazan State Finance andEconomics Institute664- staff
5652- students
2013
Nikolay
Lobachevsky
Lyceum2012
IT-Lyceum
2015
Kazan Institute(branch) of
Plekhanov Russian
University ofEconomics
1296- people
2016
Medical Institutions

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FACTS AND FIGURES KFU
42 778students

299 bachelor program
19 specialist program
262 master program,
101 post-graduate program

3 321
Academic staff

5 650
Internationalstudents

10 278staff

885 000 m²
726 buildings
100 landplots (245 ha)

33 035 bachelor degree students,
6 275 master degree students,
2 232 specialist degree students,
1 236 post-graduate students

14 institutes,
1 faculty,
2 Higher schools,
2 Lyceums,
University Clinic

45
small
innovative
enterprises
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UNIVERSITY MODEL TRANSFORMATION

Innovations

Digitization
Innovations

Education

Digitization

ScienceInnovations

ScienceОбразован
Education
ие

Digitization
Innovations

Education

2030
University – 4.0

Innovations

Science2017
University – 3.0

Innovations

2011
University – 2.0

Innovations
Digitization

Innovations

Technology transfer groundOil test
sites

University Clinic

Pilot
production
centers

Lyceums

Engineering
centers

Teacher retraining
center…
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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE:
state-of-the-art facilities

6CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE/RESEARCH PROJECTSTRANSLATIONAL MEDICINERegenerative Medicine
Director: Prof. А. Rizvanov
Research supervisor:
Prof. А. Kiyasov(Director of the Institute ofFundamental Medicine and Biology,
KFU)

Neurotechnologies
Director: Dr. R. Khazipov(head of Inserm-U901 research);
Scientific adviser:Prof. E. E. Nikolsky(academician of the RAS)

Chemistry of Living Systems
Director: Prof. V. Galkin
Scientific adviser: Dr. I. Antipin

X-Ray computed tomographylaboratory

Center for simulation andsimulation training

Personalized Medicine
Director: Dr. О. Ilyinskaya
Research supervisor:
Prof. Yoshihide Hayashizaki(Director of the Program for Innovationsin Preventive Medicine and Diagnostics,
RIKEN)

Biomedical Physics
Director: Dr. М. Yusupov(IGBMC,Strasbourg, France)

Industrial catalysis laboratory

Additive technologies in medicine

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CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE/RESEARCH PROJECTSECOOIL
Search and Prospecting of CarbonBearing Resources
Director: Dr. D. Nurgaliev(Vice-Rector for Research)

High-Performance Catalyst
Development for Oil Production
Director: Prof. А. Lamberov

Biotechnologies for Oil Polluted Sites
Remediation and Oil Recovery
Enhancement
Director: Dr. S. Selivanovskaya(Director of the Institute ofEnvironmental Sciences)

700 MHz NMR spectrometer

Rheological and Thermochemical
Researchlaboratory

Development of New Technologies ofthe 3rd Generation for Cost-Effective
Production of Hard-to-Recover
Hydrocarbon Reserves
Director: Dr. М. Varfolomeev

Center for advanced training, quality
management and marketing
Director: Dr. I. Chukmarov

Research laboratory Biocontrol

3D GEO center8CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE/RESEARCH PROJECTSASTROCHALLENGE
Center for Astrophysicsand Cosmology
Director: Dr. S. Sushkov

Center for Space
Exploration andTechnologies
Director: Dr. О. Sherstyukov

Optical and X-Ray
Astronomy
Director: Prof. N.
Sakhibullin

Applying the Results ofSpace Activities in the
National Economy
Director: Prof. О.
Ermolaev

KFU Engineering Center

Development of Space
Navigation Support Systems
Director:Prof. Yu. Nefedyev

Radiophysical Monitoring ofMeteoritic Matter
Director: Dr. О. SherstyukovCenter for Astrophysics and Cosmology

Planetarium

Studies of Quick-Changing
Processes in the Universe
Director: Dr. V. Sasyuk

Integrated Theoretical Studiesof the Evolution and Structureof the Universe
Educational Center for SpaceTechnology Transfer

Center for Space Research andTechnology9CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE/RESEARCH PROJECTSTEACHER XXICenter of Excellence for IT andRobotics
Cyber Education
Director: Dr.Е. Magid

Regional scientific and educational
center for Mathematical Education
Director: Prof. V.L. Selivanov

Center of Excellence for PhysicalEducation
Director: Prof. D.Tayurskii

Center for development of themultilevel teacher education
model (Edu-Agile-center)

Ethno-cultural project “Psychom ”

Multimedia Designer"Educational Environment XXI +"Distance Learning Space"E-Teacher Education"

Simulator of the educational
environment of Smart School

The research project"Migrant-Pedagogy-Center"

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UNIVERSITY CLINIC KAZAN

868
beds

470
qualified doctors

40 000patients examined monthly

2 500 000
diagnostic services per year

Cryobank
DEPARTMENTS:• INTERNAL MEDICINE• SURGERY• GYNECOLOGY

Organtransplantation• DIAGNOSTICS• POLYCLINIC

Cell Laboratory

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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
313 agreements on collaboration and mobility with international partners from 60 countries

TOP-300 in QS and THE rankings

Strategic partners

Main industrial partners

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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPRIKEN, Japan- a complex of joint scientific laboratories in KFU- joint research unit "Translational genomics" in RIKEN

2008

Hunan Normal University, China• Student Mobility Program•Long-term academic staff exchange•Confucius Institute

University of Strasbourg, France1990• Laboratory "Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modeling", opened in 2012
• Research laboratory "Structural Biology" (since 2014) within the framework ofFederal Target Program "Pharma-2020“Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
••

2012

OpenLab «Pathogenesis Markers»"Bilingualism and Multilingualism between Intensification and Conflict Resolution.
Ethnolinguistic conflicts, language policy and contacts in post-Soviet Ukraine andRussia "(2016-2019).
1989
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INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS
441-500
Ranked 12th in the RF

59
401-500
Ranked 5th in the RF

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Linguistics
150
Communications and Media
200
Archaeology
200
Education
250
English Language and Literature
250
Economics and Econometrics
400
Physics and Astronomy
400
Chemistry
500
Modern languages
200
Mathematics

101151151201201-

Economics and BusinessSocial Sciences250
Art and Humanities
250
Physical Sciences
400
Life Sciences500

176-200
201201301401-

351351451151301-

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SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
The Universiade Village is a
campus for 13 thousandstudents
Built in 2013 for the Kazan
Summer Universiade
Guesthouse forinternational specialists

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COOPERATION OF KFU WITH RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CENTERS OF JAPANKEY PARTNERS:COMMON INTEREST AREAS:- RIKEN- University of Tsukuba- Juntendo University- Kanazawa University- Okayama University- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan- NARO (former National Institute of AgrobiologicalSciences)- Saitama University- Physics- Translational Medicine- Genomics and transcriptomics of livingorganisms- Organic Chemistry- Biology- Moon Studies- Linguistics

Center for Japanese Studies at KFUJoint research

Implementation of academicmobility programs

Training of researchstaff for KFU

Implementation of joint
academic programs

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Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN
RIKEN – KFU’s StrategicPartner
RectorProf. Ilshat Gafurov

President
Prof. Hiroshi Matsumoto2008 - the first agreement
between RIKEN and Kazan
University was signed (onimplementationofJoint
Graduate School Program)

Currently the following KFU units are interacting with RIKEN:- Institute of Physics (since 2008)- Alexander Butlerov Chemical Institute (since 2013)- Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology (since 2014)

Joint KFU-RIKEN Labs (before 2015):- Lab for Femtosecond Spectroscopy (2012 )- Lab for Physics of High-Correlated Systems (2012)- Lab for Synthesis and Analysis of Thin-film Systems (2012 )- Quantum Technologies Center (2013 )- Lab for Quantum Liquids and Quantum Gases (2014)- Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory (2014)- Extreme Biology (2014 )Prof. Ryōji Noyori,
Ex-President of RIKEN, Nobel
prize winner in chemistry(2001),
KFU’s Doctor Honoris
Causa,
MemberofInternational
AcademicCouncil

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN

07 May 2012
The joint research lab KFU-RIKEN was opened containing
labs for femtosecond spectroscopy, physics of highcorrelated systems, synthesis and analysis of thin-filmsystems

Team leaders

Kimitoshi Kono

Dmitrii Tayurskii

Chief Scientist
RIKEN

Professor
KFU

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN

List of equipment
Optical Floating Zone Furnace FZ-T-4000-H-VI-VPO-PC
Physical Property Measurement System (9 T)
X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD) D8 ADVANCE
Molecular beam epitaxy based on SPECS Surface
Femtosecond laser system
Cryo-free dilution refrigerator BlueFors

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN
17 June 2014
Memorandum of Understanding to foster international
cooperation in education and research in the field ofOrganic Chemistry; Joint Research Laboratory KFU - RIKEN
Biofunctional Chemistry Laboratory
Team leaders

Katsunori Tanaka
Chief Scientist
RIKEN

Almira Kurbangalieva
Associated Professor
KFU

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN

Financial support
2014 -2016

18 000 000 rub.

Attracted funds
2014 -2016

19 000 000 rub.

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN
27 October 2014
Trilateral agreement between KFU, PMI RIKEN and TCC forcooperation in the area of preventive and diagnostic medicine

21 October 2015
Comprehensive triangle agreement was made among KFU, RIKEN andJuntendo University
1. Hospital IT to support Clinical
2.. Development of Point of Care Testing System to support dairy clinicalactivities in hospitals based on Pharmaco Genetics Information
3. Research for Breast cancer gene variants and their diagnosis forprophylactic surgery

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN
January 2016
The joint KFU-RIKEN laboratory of biomedical research(“Extreme biology”/Functional and applied genomics)

Team leaders

Yoshihide Hayashizaki
Program Director
RIKEN

Oleg Gusev
Principal Investigator
KFU

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN
Joint Research Laboratory KFU – RIKEN (2016.1-)
Functional and Applied Genomics Laboratory••••••

Scientific internships of KFU employees in Japan with theaim of mastering new genomic analysis techniques
Coordination of the development of diagnostic solutions forthe needs of the KFU clinic
Projects to create new types of biosensors and approaches
to storage of biomaterials in biobanks
International Consortium MUSCLE-FANTOM: Creation ofatlas of promoters and enhancers of RNA transcription inhuman and animal muscles in normal and pathologicalconditions; Research of enhancers regulating atrophy anddystrophy of muscles
International project INFLAMATION-FANTOM atlas ofregulation of the pathogenesis of infectious and oncologicaldiseases at the level of RNA transcription in the cells of theimmune system (Together with the University ofKanazawa)
Joint development of new methods for analyzing nascent
RNA in individual mammalian and insect cells.

Cooperation of KFU with RIKEN

11 May 2016
General agreement between RIKEN and Kazan Federal
University

August 2016
KFU-RIKEN joint Unit ”Translational Genomics”(supported by RIKEN, KFU and the Government of Tatarstan Republic
In 2016, the initiative to create "mirror" RussianJapanese laboratories was noted by the Cabinet ofMinisters of Japan, as one of the most significant joint
Russian-Japanese projects. * We are Tomodachi *Cooperation of KFU with RIKENKFU and President R. Minnihanov Office kindly supplied theirbudget to RIKEN to cover all of the cost – 40 mln.yen before
Spring 2018.

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Collection and supply of clinical samples andclinical information

surgery•Research for ethnic difference of gene typing•Bioinformatic analysis••

Training young students in KFU

Clinical supporting system based on
pharmacogenetics and POCT DNA typingsystem•

Evaluation of DNA typing kit•

Investigation of DNY typing and prophylactic

KFU

Cooperation of KFU with other research andacademic centers of Japan
University of TsukubaParticipation in“Ge-NIS” program

KFU

Kanazawa University

KFU

National Astronomical
Observatory of JapanKFU

Okayama University

Research of invertebrates and biology ofstress response of plants

KFU

NIAS

Joint research of ametabolic states of livingorganisms

Joint research in low temperature physics,
Van Vleck paramagnet, nuclear magnetic
ordering and physics of quantum fluids
Mapping distribution of gravitational fields
and gravitational anomalies on the far sideof the Moon

Cooperation of KFU with Kanazawa University
August 2017
Approved grant for Student Exchange Program for Training Future Leaders ofJapan-Russo Cooperation

KFU-Kanazawa University-RIKEN 2017

Fast and highly sensitive detection of extracellular RNA
and DNA in blood plasma of cancer patients. Ethnic
oncogenomics (in collaboration with the Kanazawa
University and RCCD RT).
International project INFLAMATION-FANTOM: Atlas of
the regulation of pathogenesis of infectious andoncological diseases at the level of RNA transcription incells of the immune system (in collaboration withKanazawa University)

Cooperation of KFU with Kanazawa University

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Kazan Federal University
Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology

Integration of medicine and biology
Botany and Plant Physiology
Zoology and General Biology

Human and Animal Physiology
Morphology and General Pathology
Biochemistry and biotechnology
Microbiology

Genetics
Fundamental and Clinical Pharmaceutics
Bioecology, Hygiene and Public HealthPreservation of Human HealthFundamental Basics of Clinical Medicine
Dentistry and Implantology
Emergency Care and Simulation Medicine
Bioinformatics and Medical Cybernetics

Russian medium• Biology• Biochemistry and MolecularBiology• Genetics• Microbiology and Virology• Bioinformatics• Biotechnology• Bioresources and Biodiversity• Bioecology and Environmental
Protection• Applied Biology of Plants• Lanscape design• Neurobiology• Physiology of man and animals(Network program)• Physiological basis offunctional diagnostics• Pharmacology• Information Technology inPharmacology

English Medium
Master’s Programs• Biology• Pharmacology• Evidence-based
pharmacology andpharmacotherapy• 2 years training programs• Exams:• Biology (written test)• Interview according to
the direction of themaster's program

Medicine Programs• General Medicine(6 years)• Dentistry(5 years)• Еxams:• Chemistry• Biology• English

The Russian degrees inMedicine are globally recognizedand have got excellent ranking
by WHO and UNESCO.
The Institute of Fundamental
Medicine and Biology is includedin World Directory of Medicalschools.
MD (Doctor of Medicine) isawarded on completion of the 6years medical course, which isrecognized by the Medical
Council of India as equivalent toMBBS in India.

Modern education technologyMicroscopy Centre

High Level Equipped Laboratories

Priorities in researches:• Neurobiology• Genomics, Proteomics, Biotechnology• Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells
Pharmaceutics

Training Center for General Medicine• Model of real hospital• Medical robots of human bodies (newborn, child,man, pregnant woman)• The skills to care for the sick• First aid training• Training of simple and complex practical skills
before treatment of real patients• Team working

Training Center for General Medicine

Training Centre for DentristryUniversity Clinic•••••

Multidisciplinary Clinical Centre
Modern equipment
High quality doctors and staff
Integration of Medical Education,
Patients Treatment andBiomedical Science
Translation Medicine Centre (frombench to bed)

International students in KFU•Foreign citizens have been
trained since 1977•

About 1000 foreign citizens
have got KFU diplomas•

120 foreign citizens have been
conferred the academic degreeof Candidate of Science (PhD)Dormitories in the Universiade Village
Total – 7 454 places
Single-seated room – 1 500
Two seater room – 700
Three seater room – 1 518

Study at KFU:
Funding Source
Family orindividualsponsor

KFU Grant:
Master & PhD

How to apply?

Online Application form
http://kpfu.ru/eng

RussianGovernment
Scholarship

How toapply?
Ministry ofEducation andSkillsDevelopment(MoESD)

KFU: applying process
OnlineApplicationform
http://kpfu.ru/eng

NB!

1. Copy of the 1st page ofpassport
2. Notarized translation ofpassport into Russian
3. Education certificates andtranscripts
4. Translation of education
certificates andtranscripts into Russian
5. Financial guarantees

Necessary
documents

KFU: INVITATION AND VISA
Important steps of the visa process for an international student5) Obtaining multiple visa for theentire duration of study (no morethan a year)
4) Receiving a local
migration registration for theperiod of entry visa (within 3days upon your arrival inKazan)
3) Entry to Russia (no lessthan 20 days prior to the
expiry of your single-entry
student visa)
2) Applying for single-entry
study visa. Student Visa isissued for a period of nolonger than 90 days and isvalid for single entry only.
1) Receiving “Invitation toenter the RussianFederation” or/ and “VisaRequest Letter” from theuniversity (The processtakes 30-40 days)

Important !

Accommodation and Transfer
Housing
Application

ArrivalInformation

KFU: ADMISSIONS OFFICE
KAZAN(VOLGA REGION)FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Department of External Affairs,
Admissions Office
18 Kremlyovskaya St.,
Kazan, Russia 420008
Telephone and fax: +7 (843) 2927418
Telephone: +7 (843) 2927600, 2337027
e-mail: admission@kpfu.ru
General University Internet Address:www.kpfu.ru
R. 114 Admissions Office
R. 113 Office of Educational Services(enrollment, contract)
R. 217 Passport and visa services
R. 218 Office of International Services(housing, insurance)

WELCOME TOINSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTALMEDICINE & BIOLOGYOF KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY!