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What is Voronezh State University?

• 18 faculties
• International Education Institute
• Advanced Training Institute
• the Centre of Career Development of the VSU Department of Innovation and Business
• 6 research institutes:
  • Geology Research Institute
  • Mathematics Research Institute
  • Political and Social Research Institute
  • Interregional Institute of Social Sciences
  • Physics Research Institute
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Research Institute
• 10 academic, research, and production centres, in collaboration with the leading companies of the region
• 51 research laboratories
• Business School
• 2 corporate universities (Siemens IT Solutions and Services, EFKO), as well as a corporate master's programme (in collaboration with Sberbank of Russia)
• branch in Borisoglebsk
• the university library is one of the largest research libraries in Russia, housing about 3 000 000 books, periodicals, and manuscripts, in over 40 ancient and modern languages
• Military Training Centre
• a Publishing house
• an Internet centre
• a free wi-fi network for students and staff
• the first student TV network
• Students' Cultural Centre
• VSU Volunteer Club
• Venevitinovo sport and fitness complex
• 9 dormitories
• 11 museums
• a unique university-affiliated Galichya Gora nature reserve has been included in the Guinness book of records as the smallest one in the world
• Internship
• Postgraduate degree programme
• Postdoctoral degree programme (Dr. Habil.)
• Centre for Doctoral Training
• about 100 more professional education programmes for applicants, students, and other people.

VSU: Famous people

• Prof P.A. Cherenkov, Nobel Prize Winner in physics
• Prof V.M. Ievlev, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Prof N.M. Chernyshov, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• Prof I.F. Khitskov, full member of the Russian Academy of Agriculture
• I.V. Pereverzeva, Chairman of the European Council Institutional Committee of Local and Regional Authorities (Strasbourg)
• Yu.M. Danilov, former judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
• V.O. Luchin, theatre director
• V.I. Gusev, writer, literary critic
• A.A. Zhilyaev, distinguished painter

VSU: Numbers

• VSU has the largest number of students in Voronezh – over 21 thousand;
• VSU has the most buildings (10) and dormitories (9) among all the universities in Voronezh;
• VSU is engaged in collaboration with more than 120 international universities;
• VSU is one of the oldest universities in Voronezh – it is going to celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2018;
• at VSU, there are 8 creative associations aimed at developing the students' talents;
• at VSU, there are 42 clubs in 25 kinds of sports, including football, cross-country skiing, orienteering, wrestling, chess, wushu, karate-dō, rock climbing, dance sport, etc;
• there are 6 European languages, 5 Slavic languages, and 3 Oriental languages, taught at VSU.