阿爾法拉比哈薩克國立大學（，）、哈薩克國立大學、KazGU、KazNU是哈薩克阿拉木圖的大學。

 Kazakhstan. Named after the Eastern philosopher and scholar al-Farabi, it is one of the country's largest universities.

KazNU is the oldest classical university of the Republic established by a Decree of the Kazakh Regional Committee (KRC) office dated November 13, 1933. One year after Kazakhstan's 1990 declaration of independence, the name was changed to Al-Farabi Kazakh State University. According to the QS World University Rankings KazNU takes 207th place in the rating of the best universities of the world.

In 2001, the government classified it as a "national" university. More than 20,000 students, post-graduates and PhD students study at KazNU, and there are more than 2500 faculty members working at KazNU, including 400 doctors of science, professors and more than 800 candidates of science and associate professors. Like other universities founded under the Soviet system, it is highly centralized.

In 2021, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was named as one of the Top 500 Universities in the World.

Campus 
The university has its own campus, so-called "Kazgugrad", on land between Timiryazev Street, Al-Farabi Avenue, the "Yessentai" ("Vesnovka") river, and the Botanical Garden. The main building (GUK) is 15 stories tall and hosts the university administration as well as the History, Economics, Law, Philology and Journalism departments.

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University has the largest campus in Kazakhstan with an area of 100 hectares, in one of the most beautiful areas of Almaty. The education infrastructure of the campus consists of 13 education buildings with a total area of 165,000 m² and scientific laboratories with a total area of 18,940 m².

There are seventeen dormitories on campus and four more departments: Philosophy and Political Science, Oriental Studies, Preparatory and International Relations in the second, smaller campus located at the intersection of Karasay Batyr - Masanchi streets.

The departments of Physics, Mechanics-Mathematics, and Chemistry were formerly in the second campus; in 2011 they moved to newly constructed buildings on the first.

History 
January 15, 1934, is the day of the official opening of Kazakh State University, which was established at the basis of the Pedagogical Institute by the decree of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars of USSR and VKPb Kazakh regional committee. On December 2 of the same year KazSU was named after the famous Soviet party and state leader S.M. Kirov.

In January 1934, the first entrance exams at the faculties of Biology, Physics and Mathematics were held; in September they were held at the Faculty of Chemistry. In 1937, the first Faculty of Humanities – the Faculty of Foreign Languages was established; a year later, the Faculty of Philology. In May 1941, as a result of joining with the University of the Kazakh Communist Institute of Journalism, the Faculty of Journalism was established.

After the severe years of war, new faculties began to open. In August 1947, the Faculty of Geography was established and, in 1949, the faculties of Philosophy and Economics. As a result of the joining with the Alma-Ata Institute of Law in 1955, the Faculty of Law was established.

During the same period, a strong scientific educational and methodological base emerged at the university. By the mid-1980s there were 98 departments, 43 scientific research laboratories and 9 scientific research groups at KazSU. The faculty staff consisted of 1180 people; among the faculty staff there were 30 academicians and AS KazSSR correspondent members, more than 100 doctors, professors, more than 600 science candidates, lecturers. Human resources were trained on 21 specialties and 74 specializations.

Faculties 
 Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics 
 Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology
 Faculty of Physics and Technologies
 Faculty of Informational Technology 
 Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
 Faculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences
 Faculty of History, Archeology and Ethnology
 Faculty of Philology and World Languages
 Faculty of Journalism
 Faculty of International Relations
 Oriental Studies Faculty
 Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science
 High School of Economics and Business 
 Law Faculty
 Preparatory Faculty for Foreign Students
 Higher School of Medicine

Research Institutes 
The university also has research institutes:
 Institute of State and Law
 Research Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Physics (RI of ETF)
 Research Institute of New Chemical Technologies and Materials (RI of NCTM)
 Center of Physical and Chemical Methods of Research and Analysis (CPCMA)
 Research Institute of Biology and Biotechnology (RI of BB)
 Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)
 Confucius Institute
 Science and Technology Park (Technopark)
 National Open Nanotechnology Laboratory (NONL)

Rankings 

In 2009, the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was included in the list of the best higher institutions in the world according to the prestigious Times University ranking. It entered the list of 600 best universities out of a total of 16,000 participants. At the time of entering the rating, more than 20 thousand students from various countries of the near and far abroad studied at the university.

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University was ranked 18th among countries of the emerging Europe and central Asia region in QS EECA University Rankings of 2020 and 207th worldwide according to the QS World University Rankings in 2020.

Partner universities 
  Dongguk University, Republic of Korea
  Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
  Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
  Soongsil University, Republic of Korea
  Catholic University of Daegu, Republic of Korea
  Ching Yun University, Taiwan
  Open International University for Complementary Medicines

Notable alumni 
 Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Foreign Affairs
 Murat Aitkhozhin, President of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
 Yerik Asanbayev, former Vice-President of Kazakhstan
 Kanat Auyesbay, Kazakh newsreader
 Oralkhan Bokeev, Kazakh writer
 Gulzhana Karagusova, Kazakhstan's Minister of Social Justice
 Abish Kekilbayev, Chairman of the Republic of Kazakhstan Supreme Soviet, and Secretary of State of Kazakhstan
 Aigul Kemelbayeva, Kazakh writer
 German Kim, head of the Department of Korean Studies and one of the leading internationally recognised scholars of the Koryo-saram
 Michał Łabenda, Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mongolia and Egypt
 Mukhtar Magauin, Kazakh writer and publicist
 Fuat Mansurov, Kazakh mathematician and conductor
 Gulzhan Moldazhanova, Kazakh businesswoman
 Maksut Narikbaev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan
 Oleg Novachuk, Kazakh businessman, currently Chief Executive of Kazakhmys
 Abdizhamil Nurpeisov, Kazakh poet and writer
 Gulnara Sarsenova, Kazakh film producer
 Kanat Saudabayev, Kazakhstan's former Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs
 Olzhas Suleimenov, former Speaker of Kazakhstan's parliament and poet
 Yessengaly Raushanov, Kazakh writer and poet.
 Igor Rogov, head of the Constitutional Council
 Tauman Torekhanov, Kazakh journalist, editor and writer
 Zhanseit Tuimebayev, Kazakhstan's former Minister of Education and former ambassador to Russia
 Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov, Kazakhstan's Minister of Education

参见 
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