Donetsk National University

Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University

Донецький національний університет імені Василя Стуса Донецкий национальный университет имени Васыля Стуса
Type	National university
Established	1937
Rector	Roman Grynyuk (Professor; DonNU Rector since November 2012)
Location	Vinnytsia (until 2014: Donetsk),  Ukraine
Website	donnu.edu.ua

Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University (Vasyl' Stus DonNU) (Russian: Донецкий национальный университет имени Васыля Стуса Ukrainian: Донецький національний університет імені Василя Стуса, Donets’kyi Natsional’nyi Universytet) one of the leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine. The University's history starts in 1937 from the moment of creation of a pedagogical institute in Donetsk (then Stalino). In 1965, the Institute was transformed into Donetsk State University. It was accorded the National status in 2000.

In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University was evacuated to Vinnytsia.

On July 15, 1937, a decree from the Ukrainian SSR established the Stalin State Pedagogical Institute in the city of Stalino (Donetsk). Its first director was Oleksandr Yevdokymenko, who was arrested in 1938 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Originally the institute consisted of two departments, History and Philology, and had five chairs.

Serhiy Ksenofontov became its head in 1940 and added the Physics-Mathematical Faculty in 1941. Due to Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, in 1941 the institute was evacuated first to Kungur and soon thereafter to Molotov, where it was liquidated. It was reestablished in 1943, following the liberation of Donetsk, by a decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR.

The school's Student Scientific Association, composed of two divisions – historical-philological and physical-mathematical – was established in 1951. In 1961, Mykola Khoroshailov took over from Ksenofontov as the head of the institute and its name was changed to Donetsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1964, the institute was subordinated to Kharkiv State University and became a Donetsk branch of Kharkiv State University named after Maksim Gorky.

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