In 1931, on the basis of the Faculty of Economics of Kazan State University named after V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin, the Kazan State Financial and Economic Institute (KGFEI) was created. In 2009, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, KGFEI became part of the newly formed Kazan (Volga) Federal University.
For more than 100 years, the Institute of Economics and Finance of KFU (Faculty of Economics of KSU, Kazan State Financial and Economic Institute) has trained more than 50 thousand highly qualified specialists with higher education in finance, credit, accounting, analysis and audit, production economics, labor economics, management, marketing, personnel management, crisis management.