East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University

Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University (SNU) (Ukrainian: Східноукраїнський національний університет імені Володимира Даля) is one of the leading establishments of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1920, and in 1991 it was named after Vladimir Dal.[2] It was the first higher educational establishment in which specialists in machine-building were trained. During World War II the institute was evacuated to Omsk (Russia). There it became the basis for the foundation of Omsk State Technical University.[1]

Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
Східноукраїнський національний університет імені Володимира Даля
TypeNational university[1]
Established1920
RectorRector Olha Porkuian
Administrative staff
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Students34,000 (pre-conflict numbers)
Location
Luhansk and Sievierodonetsk
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Ukraine
AffiliationsIAU
Websitesnu.edu.ua
East Ukraine University First building

Besides branches in Luhansk the university has branches in other Ukrainian cities (Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Krasnodon, Antratsyt, Livadiya, Feodosiya, Yevpatoriya, Skadovsk).

Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 24 faculties and nearly 1,083 professors, 742 of them PhD's. The university owns 55 buildings in east and south (Crimea) Ukraine[3] University has about 34,000 Ukrainian (and about 260 foreign[3]) students and offers 124 majors. It used to be the largest machine-building institute in the former USSR.[4]

In 2001, the university was named after Vladimir Dal (who is called Volodymyr Dahl in Ukrainian).[1]

Since September 2014, two institutions claim to represent this university: one, that remains in Luhansk, and the other that says that university was evacuated from Luhansk to Sievierodonetsk due to the War in Donbass.[5][6]

Structure

Some of the 24 faculties of the university include:[7]

  • Construction Engineering
  • Automobiles
  • Accounting and Auditing
  • Electromechanics
  • Railway Transport
  • Internal Combustion Engines
  • Computer Sciences
  • Labour Safety and Life Security
  • Archival Studies
  • Journalism
  • Politology
  • Sociology
  • Physical Education
  • Administration
  • Management
  • Foreign-Economic Activity Management
  • Metal Cutting Machine-Tools and Instruments
  • Chair of Electronic Industry Equipment
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Economic Cybernetics
  • Marketing
  • Personnel Management and Economics Theory
  • Foreign Languages
  • Pedagogics
  • Foreign Language Skills Development
  • Human Problems and Philosophy of Health
  • Psychology
  • Religions
  • Banking
  • Taxation
  • World History
  • History of Ukraine

References
  1. "official website - History section". Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  2. "Cхідноукраїнський національний університет імені Володимира Даля (East Ukrainian National University named after Volodymyr Dahl)". Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
  3. "Development dynamics of the East-Ukrainian National University named after Volodymyr Dahl - official website". Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  4. "Rector speech on official website". Archived from the original on 2009-04-19. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
  5. ""Через дискримінацію російської": в окупованому "виші" остаточно скасували українську" [“Due to Russian discrimination”: in the occupied “higher education” the Ukrainian was finally abolished] (in Ukrainian). Radio Free Europe. March 11, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  6. http://espreso.tv/article/2014/11/05/z_ponad_pivsotni_vyshiv_donbasu_z_okupovanoyi_terytoriyi_pereyikhaly_lyshe_9
  7. "Educational units - official website". Archived from the original on 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2009-01-28.

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