The Chuvash State University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Russia

Chuvash State University is a Russian State Classical University in the city of Cheboksary in Chuvash Republic of Russian Federation. Chuvash State University was established in 1967 with the faculties of History and Philology, medical, general technical, chemistry, economics, electrical engineering, electrification and the construction industry.

Chuvash State University is the largest scientific center of the Chuvash Republic where training of students is conducted in 104 departments under the pedagogical staff of 1,100 teachers, including 140 doctors and 569 candidates of science. Chuvash State University has 12 research and teaching schools. At present Chuvash State University has 8600 students, among them 2400 students from 37 different countries. Since its foundation Chuvash State University has trained approximately 56000 students.
In 1920 the revolutionary committee and the first congress of Councils of the Chuvash Autonomous district decided to create a university Cheboksary.

The question about the creation of the Chuvash State University was raised again in 1958-1959, but even then it could not be done because of many problems connected with the absence of the material base and lack of scientific staff in the republic.

The university was formed on 17 August 1967 through a merger of the Volga Branch of the Order of Lenin Moscow Energy Institute and the Historical-Philological Department of the I. Ya. Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute. It was named after Ilya Nikolaevich Ulianov, an educator.

Opened already in 1930 the part of historically philological faculty of the Chuvash Pedagogical Institute joined the university. By the time of the university creation there had been about 900 students (including 350 full-time students) and highly qualified scientifically pedagogical staff, 3 professors and 30 senior lecturers among them. The historically philological faculty got wide popularity and many traditions during its existence.

In 1968/69 they opened the 8th faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the university.