National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Lobachevsky University, UNN)

National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Lobachevsky University, UNN) was founded in 1916. After the Bolshevik Revolution, it became the first restored university of Soviet Russia. In 1956, because of its outstanding scientific results, the university was named after Nicholas Lobachevsky, famous Russian mathematician. The university always was a pioneer of the Soviet science: the first Faculty of Radio Physics (est.1945) and Faculty of Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics (est. 1963) were open at UNN. 3 Nobel laureates (A.A. Abrikosov, V.L. Ginzburg, J. Mourou) did research at the university. In the middle of the XX century the development of cutting-edge scientific school in physics and the setup of powerful research infrastructure at UNN led to the formation in Nizhny Novgorod a center for research and development in the field of physics (Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federal Nuclear Center of Rosatom, Radioelectronic Industrial Cluster) and chemistry (Institute of Chemistry of High-Purity Substances and Institute of Organometallic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Science, Dzerzhinsky Industrial Cluster).
Lobachevsky University includes 18 educational institutes & faculties with more than 26 000 students & PhD students from 105 countries of the world. The university offers more than 300 accredited vocational, undergraduate (Bachelor & Specialist) and postgraduate (Master, PhD and Residency) programmes, and a number of them is taught in English

Contacts

Address

23 Prospekt Gagarina (Gagarin Avenue) BLDG 2, 2nd floor

Phone

+7 (831) 462-30-03,+7 (831) 462-30-90,+7 (831) 462-32-00,+7 (831) 462-37-71,+7 (831) 462-35-18,+7 (831) 462-30-85

E-mail

international@unn.ru

Internet

https://unn.ru

Social networks

Laboratories \ equipment supporting education

The research infrastructure of UNN includes:

6 research institutes;
“Lobachevsky” supercomputer;
unique diagnostic complex “Multifunctional complex for near-Earth and space research (SURA facility)”;
unique scientific facility “Technologies of deep processing of organic raw materials”;
world-class laboratories (including the Laboratory of Extreme Light Fields (Elsa Lab), the Electron microscopy laboratory, the Laboratory of X-ray phase analysis, the Laboratory of ceramics technology, Materials diagnostics laboratory, the Laboratory for metal physics, the Laboratory of additive technologies and engineering materials, the Laboratory “Chemistry of natural compounds and their synthetic analogues”, the Laboratory of Engineering Chemistry, the Laboratory “Biomedical technologies, medical instrumentation and acoustic diagnostics”);
research and education centre "Physics of solid-state nanostructures";
international-class research centre “Centre for Photonics”»;
research and education mathematics centre “Mathematics for future technologies”;
advanced engineering school "Space communications, radar and navigation";
Botanical Garden;
centre for genetic collections of laboratory animals (SPF-vivarium);
Science Park; Career Centre;
Media-centre etc.

Academic and research staff

Academic and research staff of the university: total number of people, including degree holders, academics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign scientific and pedagogical staff
The academic and research staff of the university consists 1945 pers., including:

Employees with academic degrees (Ph.D., candidates and doctors of science) - 1404 pers..
Academics of Russian Academy of Sciences - 2 pers.
Foreign scientific and pedagogical staff - 12 pers.

Staff professional development and training in nuclear area

The advanced training of academic staff is carried out on the basis of the Faculty of Advanced Studies and Professional Training of UNN, as well as in cooperation with industrial partners of UNN. Detailed information about the Faculty and available programs:

Available academic programs

Information for students is available http://www.unn.ru/site/education/informatsiya-priemnoj-komissii

Network Academic Programs with international partner universities

UNN implements a number of network programs with foreign universities:

Joint postgraduate training program in the field of radiophysics with the University of Palermo (Italy)
Network training program "Russian-Italian University" with the University of Calabria (Italy);
Joint Bachelor's and Master's degree program in Economics and Law with Turan University (Kazakhstan);
Bachelor's Degree program in International Economic Law with Tashkent State Law University (Uzbekistan);
Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Economics and management with the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France);
Master's degree program in Sports Psychology with the Vasil Levski National Academy (Bulgaria);
Joint Bachelor's degree program "General Biology" with MSU-PPI University in Shenzhen (China).

International projects in nuclear area

Joint educational projects of UNN in the field of NBICS technologies together with the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and Indian Institute of Technology Ropar. In particular, within the framework of projects supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (PFBR), it’s possible to create a narrow-band ultraviolet (UV) radiation photodetector based on indium oxide nanocrystals embedded in a thin aluminum oxide film. The developed device is promising for a number of practical applications, including narrow-band spectral-selective photodetectors, and the design of the device based on ion-synthesized nanocrystals provides a new approach to the implementation of photodetectors that are transparent in the visible region of the spectrum.Joint Bachelor's degree program "General Biology" with MSU-PPI University in Shenzhen (China).

Outstanding Alumni

Likhachev, Alexei Evgenievich - Russian statesman. General Director of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (since 2016).
Sergeev, Alexander Mikhailovich - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017). Soviet and Russian physicist, specialist in the field of plasma physics, femtosecond optics, nonlinear dynamics of optical systems and highly sensitive optical measurements.
Vorobyov, Vadim Nikolaevich– Interim President of PJSC Lukoil.
Gaponov-Grekhov , Andrey Viktorovich - Soviet and Russian physicist, Acting member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1991 - Acting member of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Founder and first director of the Institute of Applied Physics in Nizhny Novgorod. Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of two State Prizes of the USSR and the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Kirillov, Gennady Alekseevich - Soviet scientist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor. First director of the Institute of Laser Physics Research of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.
Litvak, Alexander Grigoryevich - Soviet and Russian physicist, Acting member and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director and scientific director of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.
Nemtsov, Boris Nikolaevich - the first governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a Russian statesman.