Kryvyi Rih National University (Ukrainian: Криворі́зький націона́льний університе́т), colloquially known as KNU (Ukrainian: КНУ) is located in Kryvyi Rih, one of the main industrial cities of Ukraine. Currently, its structure consists of seven faculties (academic departments) and five institutes. It was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet Union era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University,^[2] State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy (a branch of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine at that moment). It is ranked as one of the best universities in Ukraine in many rankings (see below).

History

In 1929 the college was converted into an evening working institution, and from 1931 to the Kryvyi Rihv Mining Institute.^{[citation needed]}

The following year in Kryvyi Rih, the Institute of Vocational Training was founded.^{[citation needed]} It was reorganized as the Pedagogical Institute. In the prewar period, the institute trained about 1,000 teachers.^{[citation needed]} In 1999, the basis of the State Pedagogical Institute was established as Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University.^{[citation needed]}

During World War II, having been evacuated from 20 September 1941 to August 1944, the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute relocated to Nizhny Tagil, Russia.^{[citation needed]} In September 1944 the Institute resumed classes for the students in its original location. It increased the number of specialties, which prepared the engineering staff.^{[citation needed]} Five of its academics have been honored with the Lenin or State Prizes^{[citation needed]}. In 1994 the institute became a charter technical university.^{[citation needed]}

The proclamation of the independence of Ukraine in 1991 brought about radical changes in every sphere of university life. In 2011 the Ukrainian government founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting the Mining Institute, Pedagogical University, Economic Institute of Kyiv National Economic University and the Department of the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine.^{[citation needed]}

Organisation and administration

Schools / Faculties

These are the 7^[3] faculties into which the university is divided:

Mining Faculty,
Geological and Environmental Faculty,
Information Technologies Faculty,
Mechanical Engineering Faculty,
Building Faculty,
Electrical Engineering Faculty,
Transportation Faculty.

Institutes

Research Mining Institute,
Research Institute of Ecology and safety in the mining and metallurgical industry.

Other institutes

Industrial College,
Polytechnic College,
Ingulets College,
Kryvyi Rih Mining College,
Mining Electromechanical College,
Motor Transport Technical College.

Academics

Foreign Partner Universities

The University currently maintains relations and, in some cases, student exchange programs with universities of forty countries;^[4] a figure which includes a number of former republics of the Soviet Union and other countries which Ukraine traditionally, over the past 70 years prior to independence in 1991, did not have official bilateral relations with. A small selection of partner universities is displayed below.

Country	University	Country	University
Belarus	Belarus State University	Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
Morocco	University of Hassan II Casablanca	Germany	Ruhr University Bochum
Germany	Dresden University of Technology	Poland	Silesian University of Technology
Russia	Moscow State Mining University	Poland	Rzeszów University

Campus

Library

The library of KNU originated in 1922. The library holds over 1.7 million physical volumes, and more than 7,000 of these books are referred as rare and valuable. Library staff are making great efforts to promote reading. Regularly held book exhibitions, literature reviews, readers' conferences, thematic and literary evenings, book presentations, meetings with famous people in the city, including writers and journalists.

More than 500,000 readers visit the library each year, and it loans more than 1 million books annually. Digital access to library started to work on 2005.

Notable alumni and faculty

References

External links

Authority control databases

Universities in Ukraine

Universities in Ukraine
Universities	Alfred Nobel University Cherkasy National University Chernivtsi University Classic Private University Donetsk State University of Management Donetsk University East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University Interregional Academy of Personnel Management International Solomon University International Christian University – Kyiv Kharkiv University Kharkiv National University of Economics Kherson State University Kryvyi Rih National University Kyiv National Linguistic University Kyiv International University Lviv University National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University Ostroh Academy Odesa University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University Ternopil National Economic University Transcarpathian State University Ukrainian Catholic University Zaporizhzhia National University Uzhhorod National University
Technical universities	Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding Chernihiv Polytechnic National University Dnipro Polytechnic Dnipro National University of Rail Transport Donetsk National Technical University Donbas State Technical University Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute Kryvyi Rih National University Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Kyiv National Economic University Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture Lviv Polytechnic National Aviation University National University of Food Technologies National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine Vinnytsia National Technical University Zaporizhzhia National Technical University
Medical universities	Bogomolets National Medical University Bukovinian State Medical University Cherkasy National University Crimea State Medical University named after S. I. Georgievsky Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Dnipro State Medical University Donetsk State Medical University Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University Kharkiv National Medical University Lugansk State Medical University Odesa National Medical University Poltava State Medical and Dental University Vinnytsia National Medical University. N. I. Pirogov Zaporizhzhia State Medical University
Pedagogical universities	Bogdan Khmelnitsky Melitopol state pedagogical university Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University National Pedagogical Dragomanov University Nizhyn Pedagogical University H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University K. D. Ushinsky South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University Vasyl Stefanyk Prycarpathian National University Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University

Higher education in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Higher education in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Universities	Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs Alfred Nobel University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Dnipro National University of Rail Transport Dnipro Polytechnic Dnipro State Medical University Kryvyi Rih National University Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical University Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology
Academies	National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Institutes	Dnipro Medical Institute of Conventional and Alternative Medicine

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International	VIAF 2
National	United States 2 3 Czech Republic
Other	Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine