Tyumen State University
| Тюменский государственный университет (ТюмГУ) |
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Former names
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Tyumen Pedagogical Institute |
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| Established | 1930 |
| Rector | Valery N. Falkov |
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Academic staff
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1,200 |
| Students | 27,000 |
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Tyumen, Russia Coordinates: 56°28′10″N 84°56′51″E / 56.4694°N 84.9475°E |
| Website | https://www.utmn.ru/en/ |
Tyumen State University is university in Tyumen, Russia. The University of Tyumen was the first university in Tyumen Oblast. It was founded in 1930. Nowadays the UT consists of 12 institutes. The total number of students at the university is more than 27,000 people, including 1,900 international students. The total number of faculty is more than 2,000. Today the UT trains qualified specialists in 175 fields. The UT offers various forms of study: full-time, part-time, evening, distance education, master's degree, undergraduate education, graduate, doctorate, advanced training, and second degree. The University is one of the participants of the Project 5-100 – the program of improving international competitiveness of the Russian institutions of higher education among the world’s leading research and education centers. Since 2013 Valery Falkov has been the rector of the UT.
The development of universal primary education formed a desperate need in professional teaching staff, therefore in 1930 was founded the first Tyumen higher educational institution. Students of the Agricultural and Pedagogical Institute of Tyumen studied agriculture, chemistry, biology and physics.
The second half of 1930s is a start of academic research. In 1935 was created an experimental plot. Scientific expeditions to the north of Altai, studies of indigenous northern language and folklore and regional teaching courses for locals took place in 1936-1940s.
Everything changed with the start of the World War II. During the first year more than a hundred of students, professors and other staff members went to the front. Nevertheless, the Institute still worked. In February 1942 it hosted an academic conference, where 20 of math, chemistry, geography, psychology, literature, Russian language and anti-fascism papers were presented. Among the participants were scientists from Boris Zbarsky’s laboratory, who came to Tyumen as an escort to evacuated Lenin’s body. The head of the department of natural sciences was a senior research fellow of the laboratory Ilya Zbarsky.
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