page_title: Yaroslavl State University
section_title: University of 1918
hierarchical_section_title: Yaroslavl State University / History / University of 1918
caption_attribution_description: English: Gymnasium of P. Antipova. In 1918 the university was placed here. Postcard. 1916. Русский: Ярославль. Женская гимназия П.Д.Антиповой. Открытка. 1916 год. Из коллекции Ярославского государственного историко-архитектурного и художественного музея-заповедника. Здание гимназии - памятник архитектуры начала двадцатого века, находится по адресу: Революционная ул., 7. В 1918 году в нем находился Ярославский университет.
context_page_description: The Yaroslavl Demidov State University is an institution of higher education in Yaroslavl, Russia. In 1918, Yaroslavl Demidov State University became a successor university to the Demidov Lyceum, which was founded in 1803.
context_section_description: On August 7, 1918, Vladimir Lenin signed a decree to change the Demidov Juridical Lyceum into a University. The university had 29 departments, including Agronomic, Pedagogical, Medical and Law faculties, and an evening school. In 1924, after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the university was closed.
  In accordance with the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of January 21, 1919, signed by Lenin, the Demidov Judicial Lyceum was transformed into Yaroslavl State University. In 1922 its organisation included the Yaroslavl Institute of Education which existed to train teachers, and the Yaroslavl branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute, which prepared the critics, historians and archaeologists. The university then also had faculties for the social sciences, medicine, agronomy, teaching, and technical education. The university's rectors, during its existence, were Valerian Nikolaevich Shiryaev (1918–1922) and Vasily Potemkin (1922–1924).
  In 1924, the State University of Yaroslavl was closed due to reorganisation of the new-born USSR's education system, all of which was caused by financial difficulties in the country. The institution's Faculty of Education once again became an independent institution, and for over ten years remained the only institute of higher education in the province - Yaroslavl State Pedagogical Institute. The main building of the Lyceum was set alight and burned on the night of 7 July 1918 (lasting until the next day) during the Yaroslavl Uprising and was finally demolished in 1929 . In 1931, the Demidov pillar was also dismantled.
caption: Girls' school of Praskovya Antipova. The building which first housed the Yaroslavl State University.
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