Complex sentence: It is named in honor of the Russian poet and statesman, Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, was formed in 1917 and reorgonized in 1994 when the Tambov State Pedagogical Institute and Tambov State Institute of Culture were merged into a single institution.
Split into simpler sentences: It is named in honor of the Russian poet and statesman, Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin. University was formed in 1917 and reorgonized in 1994 when the Tambov State Pedagogical Institute and Tambov State Institute of Culture were merged into a single institution.