FSAEI HE KFU Kazan (Volga) Federal University

History

2023: Becoming one of the most popular universities among applicants - according to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko

The Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil Service (RANEPA), Kazan Federal University (KFU), Ural Federal University (UFU), Higher School of Economics (HSE) and the Financial University under the government have become the most popular universities in Russia. This was announced on September 4, 2023 by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko at a meeting with the head of government of the RFMikhail Mishustin. According to Chernyshenko, the most popular areas among applicants were: computer science and computing, pedagogy and economics, as well as jurisprudence and management. Read more here.

2022: Establishment of Intercollegiate SOC

Russia The Intercollegiate Student provider Services (cyber security MSSP) SOC is created on the basis of the Consortium of Supporting Universities of the Republic. Tatarstan The project is supported by the Civil Code Innostage together with technological partners, which the company announced on September 21, 2022. At the first stage, the university SOC will be created on the basis of three universities, including Kazansky the Federal University (KFU). More. here

2018: Opening of the laboratory of the project "IoT Academy Samsung"

On October 19, 2018, Samsung announced the opening of the laboratory of the IoT Samsung Academy project at the ITIS Higher School of Kazan Federal University.

Training of specialists in the industrial Internet of Things based on the IoT laboratory began in October 2018. In addition to the ITIS KFU Higher School, classes under the Samsung Academy IoT program will start in 10 higher educational institutions of Russia, including universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Yakutsk.

The opening ceremony of the laboratory was attended by Marat Safiullin, Vice-Rector for Economic and Strategic Development of Kazan Federal University, Bulat Ismagilov, Deputy Minister of Informatization and Communications of the Republic of Tatarstan, Airat Khasyanov, Director of the ITIS Higher School, as well as Sergey Pevnev, Director of the Department for Corporate Projects and Interaction with Government Bodies of Samsung Electronics, and Svetlana Yun, Head of the Ecosystem Solutions Development Group of the Samsung Research Center.

Samsung continues to create competence centers for the study of Internet of Things technologies in technical universities in the country, and KFU has become one of 10 universities that won the competitive selection among Russian universities. As part of the program, university students will be able to gain knowledge and practical skills in one of the most promising areas of IT in a specially equipped Samsung Academy IoT laboratory based on methodological materials developed by experts from the Samsung Research Center.

The educational project "IoT Academy Samsung" provides students of technical universities of the country with the opportunity to gain practical knowledge for free in one of the most popular areas of information technology. KFU students will be able to take an annual training course built on the study of real industrial cases for the implementation of the Internet of Things, and develop their own prototypes of IoT devices.

2017

Pilot laboratories of the Internet of Things and classes under the program have been launched at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Moscow Technological University (MIREA) since the fall of 2017.

2011

As of May 2011, the university has more than 16,000 students in 40 specialties and 7 areas and 615 graduate students. The university also offers a wide range of continuing education programs. The faculty is 1,137, including 208 professors and doctors of sciences, 585 associate professors and candidates of sciences. Over the past 80 years alone, more than 50 professors and pets of KSU have been elected to the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Kazan University is a modern model of a classical university, the most important principle of which is the synthesis of fundamental science and the latest training programs. The university actively supports innovative projects and ideas of students and employees, which have the ultimate goal of creating prototypes of products and technologies in various fields of activity and are competitive in the Russian and foreign markets. The innovative activity of the University contributes to attracting high-tech companies to work together with its structures. Small innovative enterprises of the University produce products and provide services in the following areas: biomedical technologies, chemical industry, new materials, information and telecommunication systems, the industry of nanosystems and materials, biotechnology for agriculture, ecology, rational environmental management.

2010

Kazan (Volga) Federal University was created on the basis of Kazan State University named after V.I. Ulyanova-Lenin by order of the government of the Russian Federation No. 500-r of April 2, 2010.