Казанский национальный исследовательский технический университет имени А. Н. Туполева (КНИТУ-КАИ) | |
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| Established | 1932 |
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| President | Gennadiy Lukich Degtyarev |
| Rector | acting Alibaev Timur Lazovich |
Administrative staff | 2,200 |
| Students | 12,000 |
| Location | , Russia 55°47′50″N 49°06′51″E / 55.7971°N 49.1141°E |
| Campus | Urban. Also 11 branch institutes outside of the city. |
| Alumni | Over 80,000 graduated students |
| Website | http://www.kai.ru/ |
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| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[1] | 168 (2022) |
The Kazan National Research Technical University (KNRTU-KAI, full name in Russian: Казанский национальный исследовательский технический университет имени А. Н. Туполева, or Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev) was established in 1932. Until recently, it was known as Kazan Aviation Institute (Казанский авиационный институт). In 1973, the institute was named after Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, the aircraft designer. In 1992, it got the status of State Technical University. The Kazan National Research Technical University teaches about 25,000 students on 65 majors in Engineering, Business and Humanitarian Sciences by the university faculty body of 1,800 persons, including 150 Full Professors & Doctor of Science degree holders, 600 Associate Professors & Ph.D. degree holders.
The university includes the following institutes and faculties:
KNRTU-KAI includes 11 associated branch institutes outside Kazan in the towns of Almetyevsk, Chistopol, Leninogorsk, Naberezhnye Chelny, and Zelenodolsk.
On September 2, 2014, German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT) opened as a result of cooperation between the KNRTU-KAI and two universities in Germany - The Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau) and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Magdeburg.[2]
The university is housed in eight buildings. It has six student dormitories and a hostel. A sports complex includes five indoor sports halls. The university also has a sports camp near to the Volga river, 40 km from Kazan.
The sport complex includes 5 indoor sports halls.
