The History Behind Open University of Taras Shevchenko National University

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The History Behind Open University of Taras
Shevchenko National University
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• Open University of Taras Shevchenko National
  University was established for the first time in
  the year 1833, and it was called Imperial
  University of Saint Volodymyr. The first rector
  was 30-year-old Professor Mykhallo Makymovych who
  qualified in folklore and botany.

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• He had been appointed by Emperor Nicholas I at
  18th of October in the year 1834. There were two
  departments that were working in 1834 and in
  1935. They were mathematics and physics with
  Department of Linguistics and history. There was
  also Faculty Philosophy.

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• In the year 1837, architecture professor called
  Vincenti Beretti, from St Petersburg Academy of
  Arts finished the design of University Building
  and its building started afterward. The building
  came to be known as the central building of the
  entire university, and it is still there up to
  now.

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• The botanical garden of the university was
  developed under the supervision of Professor
  Trautfetter and it was added to the grounds, and
  it is still the feature of the current
  university. The charter of the university got
  adopted in the year 1842, and the growth of this
  university is not something to dispute about.
  There were 37 departments of the University.

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• Thought to be an outpost of the Russian
  autocracy, todays government was not expected to
  have an aggressive approach towards the students
  and teachers of this facility. The university was
  put at a center of democratic movement since 1830
  until 1860. This is where Cyril and Methodius
  Brotherhood was established since 1845 until
  1847. Kostomarov, is a historian of the
  distinction and it is the head of Russian History
  department who was the author of the Brotherhood
  credo.

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• Taras Schevchenko, a brilliant poet who got
  employed in the art of the school like a teacher,
  he had a temporary position as an archeography
  commission, and they were working on ancient
  documents, and he was the intellectual
  inspiration behind members of Cyril and Methodius
  Society.

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• Liberal reforms with the new charter in the year
  1963, it saw the revival of scientific and
  educational activity at the university with the
  autonomously status which had extended. The list
  of the department increased to reach to 52 by the
  addition of over 15 departments.

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• European lecturers with the Russian lecturers got
  invited so that they can join other staff of this
  university and it reached to 90 new educators.
  The departments started to choose only talented
  and skilled students to join its research and
  academic teams.

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• By the year 1883, there were 1700 students who
  were already enrolled at this university. Most of
  the students were Ukrainians and Russians it was
  opposed to the enrolment of 1830 until 1840,
  which was mostly Polish.

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• In 1913, over 5000 students were learning at this
  university, and at least 160 were conducting the
  lecturers there. The university had 2 libraries,
  it had 2 observatories both astronomical and
  meteorological, it had 4 faculty clinics, 9
  laboratories, 2 clinical departments, 3
  hospitals with anatomy theater and a botanical
  garden or other facilities.

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• The university became active globally, and its
  academics started to travel around the world to
  do research trips to different countries, and
  they were a collaboration with well-known
  scientists around the world while publishing the
  papers in journals on an international level.

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Contact

• Academic Mobility Office,
• To Prof. Habib Al Souleiman, Taras
• Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
• 64/13, Volodymyrska Street,
• City of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601

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