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((Short description|Public university in Kyiv, Ukraine))
((redirect|Kyiv University))
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((Infobox university
 | name                   = Taras Shevchenko<br>National University of Kyiv
 | native_name            = Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка
 | image                  = Universidad Roja de Kiev.jpg
 | image_size             = 220px
 | latin_name             = Universitas Kioviensis
 | motto                  = ''"Utilitas honor et gloria"'' ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = Utility Honor and Glory
 | established            = ((start date and age|1833|11|8))
 | type                   = [[Public university|Public]]
 | administrative_staff   = 
 | rector                 = ((Ill|Volodymyr Bugrov|uk|Бугров Володимир Анатолійович))<ref name="Ope">((cite web |title=Структура Власності Компанії: Київський Національний Університет Імені Тараса Шевченка |url=https://opendatabot.ua/c/02070944 |website=Opendatabot |access-date=16 February 2023 |page=|trans-title=Company Ownership Structure: Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko |language=uk))</ref>
 | students               = <30,000<ref name="wwwtopuniversitiesshevchenko">((Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/taras-shevchenko-national-university-kyiv|title = Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv))</ref>
 | city                   = [[Kyiv]]
 | country                = [[Ukraine]]
 | campus                 = [[urban area|urban]]
 | affiliations           = [[International Association of Universities|IAU]], [[European University Association|EUA]]
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))

The '''Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv''' (((lang-uk|Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка)); also known as '''Kyiv University''', '''Shevchenko University''', or '''KNU''') is a [[public university]] in [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]].  

The university is the third oldest university in Ukraine after the [[University of Lviv]] and the [[University of Kharkiv]]. Its structure consists of 15 faculties and five institutes. The university was founded in 1834 by [[Nicholas I of Russia]]<ref>((Cite web|title=To the University's 175th Anniversary|url=http://www.univ.kiev.ua/en/geninf/175|access-date=2022-02-13|website=www.univ.kiev.ua))</ref> as the '''Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev''';  it has since changed its name several times. During the [[Soviet Union]] era, Kiev State University was one of the top-three universities in the [[Soviet Union|USSR]], along with [[Moscow State University]] and [[Leningrad State University]]. It is ranked as the best university in Ukraine in many rankings. Its [[alumni]] include [[Mykola Lysenko]], [[Nikolay Bunge]], [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]], [[Mykhailo Hrushevskyi]], [[Nikolai Berdyaev]], [[Mikhail Bulgakov]], [[Ivan Schmalhausen]], [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]], [[Viacheslav Chornovil]], and [[Leonid Kravchuk]]. The university is named after [[Taras Shevchenko]], who was banned from educational activities for political reasons, but worked for the university as a field researcher. 

==The university today==
Taras Shevchenko University is named after [[Taras Shevchenko]], a major figure in Ukrainian literature and art. The [[university]] trains specialists in many fields of knowledge and carries out research. It is considered the most prestigious university in Ukraine<ref>((cite news|title=200 of the best higher education schools in Ukraine|url=http://www.dt.ua/projects/top200/59129/|work=[[Zerkalo Nedeli|Dzerkalo Tyzhnia]]|date=March 30, 2007|access-date=2008-08-09|language=uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070622122211/http://www.dt.ua/projects/top200/59129/|archive-date=June 22, 2007))</ref> and a major centre of advanced learning and progressive thinking.<ref name="president">((cite web|url=http://www.univ.kiev.ua/ua/geninf/ukaz/#2|title=Decree of the President of Ukraine about Taras Shevchenko University|publisher=Press office of Taras Shevchenko University|date=2008-05-05))</ref> It consists of more faculties and departments, and trains specialists in a greater number of academic fields, than any other Ukrainian educational institution.((Citation needed|date=May 2015))

The university is a major centre of learning and research and an important cultural centre. Student numbers total about 30,000 students.<ref name="wwwtopuniversitiesshevchenko"/>

==History==
===Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kyiv===
((more citations needed section|date=June 2023))
[[File:Kiev Universitet Sv Vladimira SHCH.jpg|thumb|An early 20th-century Russian postcard picturing Saint Vladimir University in Kyiv.]]
Saint Vladimir Imperial University of Kyiv was [[List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)|founded in 1834]] by [[Nicholas I of Russia]] (r. 1825((ndash))1855), and was named after [[Vladimir the Great]], the 10/11th century ruler of [[Kievan Rus']]. The university's name was chosen by the authorities of the [[Russian Empire]], where the role of [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox Christianity]] was immense; the choice of name was a reflection of Kyiv as the cradle of Eastern Christianity for the Empire.

The university benefited from assets transferred from [[Vilnius University]], which was closed in the aftermath of the [[November Uprising]] of 1831.<ref name=yla>((cite journal| first=Stasys |last=Yla |title=The Clash of Nationalities at the University of Vilnius |url=http://www.lituanus.org/1981_2/81_2_03.htm | journal=[[Lituanus]] |volume=1 |issue=27 |date=Summer 1981 |issn=0024-5089))</ref> The first 62 students started their studies at the university in 1834, in its one faculty, the Faculty of Philosophy, which had two departments: the Department of History and Philology and the Department of Physics and Mathematics. There were new additions to the original department in 1835 and 1847: the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Medicine. Later on, the original Faculty of Philosophy was divided into two separate units: the Faculty of History and Philology and the Faculty of Natural Sciences. There were no more additions to the number of departments until the 1920s.

The walls of the main building are painted in red while the tops and bottoms of its columns are painted black. [[List of Ukrainian composers|Ukrainian composer]] [[Mykola Leontovych]]'s [[Shchedryk (song)|Shchedryk]] was premiered at the Kyiv University on December 26, 1916, by the university's choir directed by [[Oleksandr Koshyts]].<ref name="Tulchyn">[http://tulchlb.vn.ua/files/pub_4(4).pdf Monthly Newsletter of the Tylchyn Centralized Library System] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831135333/http://tulchlb.vn.ua/files/pub_4%284%29.pdf |date=2011-08-31 )) ((in lang|uk))</ref>

===Mykhailo Drahomanov University (1920–1932)===

In 1920, Saint Vladimir University was renamed as [[Mykhailo Drahomanov]] University.

===Taras Shevchenko University (from 1939)===
[[File:Taras Shevchenko selfportrait oil 1840-2.jpg|upright|thumbnail|Taras Shevchenko's self portrait, 1840/1841]]
In 1939, Saint Vladimir University was renamed after Ukrainian national bard Taras Shevchenko, who had also been briefly employed by the university between 1845 and 1846.

During the [[Eastern Front (World War II)|German-Soviet war]], the university was evacuated to the city of Kizilord in [[Kazakhstan]], where it merged with the [[National University of Kharkiv]] to form the United Ukrainian State University. After the liberation of Kyiv in 1943, the university returned to Kyiv. Students and lecturers rebuilt the Humanities and Chemistry buildings and by 15 January 1944, classes resumed for senior undergraduates and for first-years on 1 February.<ref name="KNU">((cite web |title=KNU-history - Open University of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv |url=https://knu.edu.eu/knu-history |website=knu.edu.eu |access-date=17 May 2022))</ref>

Since 1960, when the first international students were admitted, over 20,000 highly qualified specialists have been trained at Taras Shevchenko University for 120 countries. The first foreign students of the Taras Shevchenko University came from Cuba, Guinea, Indonesia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Benin, Zanzibar, Yemen, Algeria, and Afghanistan. They continued on to become doctors, engineers, agriculturists, diplomats, economists, and statesmen in their respective countries.<ref>[http://www.pfku.univ.kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=118&lang=en. The history of Preparatory Faculty <!-- Bot generated title -->] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120175431/http://www.pfku.univ.kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=118&lang=en. |date=2011-11-20 ))</ref>

During the Soviet period, the Taras Shevchenko University received one [[Order of Lenin]] (1959) and one [[Order of the October Revolution]] (1984). Additionally, in 2002 the asteroid [[4868 Knushevia]] was named in honour of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University.

== Rankings and partnerships ==

=== University rankings ===
((Infobox university rankings
| THE_W = 1001+
| THE_W_ref =<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/taras-shevchenko-national-university-kyiv|title = Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv|date = 10 August 2021))</ref>
| QS_W = 601-650
| QS_W_ref = <ref name="wwwtopuniversitiesshevchenko"/>
| QS_EECA =35 | QS_EECA_year =2022 | QS_EECA_ref =<ref name="QS World University Rankings 2022">((Cite web |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/eeca-rankings/2022 |title=QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia |access-date=15 January 2023))</ref>
))

Between 2014 and 2017 the university was ranked within top 650 universities in the world according to [[QS World University Rankings]].<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/taras-shevchenko-national-university-kyiv#wurs|title=Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv))</ref>
In 2009, ''Delovoy'' magazine ranked Taras Shevchenko University as the best university in Ukraine, being nationally the strongest in the greatest number of academic fields.<ref name="Delovoy2009">((cite web|url=http://www.dengi.ua/clauses/47005.html|title=Delovoy from 26.03.2009. University ranking 2009|access-date=2010-05-06|language=ru|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803141022/http://www.dengi.ua/clauses/47005.html|archive-date=2009-08-03))</ref> According to the independent ranking of 228 universities in Ukraine performed by ''Compas'', Taras Shevchenko University was ranked the first best position in Ukraine regarding the adequacy of alumni to the labor market of Ukraine.<ref name="RankCompas">((cite web| title = Ranking by Compas| url = http://www.yourcompass.org/ratings/all.php| archive-url = https://archive.today/20121228085933/http://www.yourcompass.org/ratings/all.php| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2012-12-28| access-date = 2010-05-06| language = ru))</ref> 
According to [[Scopus]] (2009), Taras Shevchenko University has the highest research paper output of any Ukrainian university, and is also the top research producer (as assessed by total paper citation count).<ref name="Ranking by Scopus">((cite web | title = Ranking by Scopus | url =http://api.ning.com/files/1sh4va--u0AZgLr4sm-UKb8mWCTprY7OTz0wg0GoyE1-ktX8*wNEXfk-sZHGtKrxgWAfh3*or7l2qxmDGsnAGXGuCL9JeRtQ/RankingUA_Scopus.pdf | access-date =2010-05-06|language=uk))</ref><ref>((cite web| url=http://uascientist.ning.com/profiles/blogs/novina-tizhnya-rejting-vischih| script-title=uk:Новина тижня: Рейтинг Вищих навчальних закладів України та установ НАНУ| date=February 4, 2009| author=Yuriy Khalavka| publisher=Ukrainian Scientists Worldwide| language=uk| access-date=2010-05-06| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206193355/http://uascientist.ning.com/profiles/blogs/novina-tizhnya-rejting-vischih| archive-date=2009-02-06| url-status=dead))</ref>
The university features in the [[Webometrics Ranking of World Universities]] (2010) at 1,110 out of 8,000 in the world,<ref>[http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=ua Top 6000 Universities // Webometrics Ranking of World Universities] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426015904/http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=ua |date=2010-04-26 ))</ref> at 63 out of top 100 universities of the Central and [[Eastern Europe]],<ref>((cite web |title=Top Eastern Europe |website=Ranking Web of World Universities |url=http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=E_Europe |access-date=2010-05-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508050101/http://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp?cont=E_Europe |archive-date=2010-05-08 ))</ref> and a leading academic institution in [[Ukraine]].<ref>[http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=ua University Ranking in Ukraine // Webometrics Ranking of World Universities] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426015904/http://www.webometrics.info/rank_by_country.asp?country=ua |date=2010-04-26 ))</ref>

===Foreign partner universities===
The university has over 400 partner universities, currently maintains relations and, in some cases, student exchange programs with universities of forty countries;<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.pfku.univ.kiev.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=44&Itemid=114&lang=ru|title=Подготовительное отделение|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> 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.

{| class="wikitable" 
|- 
!Country !! University !! Country !! University
|-
|((flag|Armenia))
|[[Yerevan State University]]
|((flag|Greece))
|[[National and Kapodistrian University of Athens]]
[[Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]]
|-
|((flag|Azerbaijan))
|[[Baku State University]]
|((flag|Italy))
|[[University of Florence]]
[[University of Macerata]]
|-
|((flag|Belarus))
|[[Belarusian State University]]
|((flag|Japan))
|[[Ryukoku University]] 
[[Aoyama Gakuin University]]
|-
|((flag|Belgium))
|[[University of Liège]]
|((flag|Korea))
|[[Wonkwang University]]
|-
|((flag|Canada))
|[[University of Manitoba]]
|((flag|Poland))
|[[University of Warsaw]]
|-
|((flag|China))
|[[Peking University]]
[[Wuhan University]]
|((flag|Russia))
|[[Moscow State University]]
|-
|((flag|Czech Republic))
|[[Charles University in Prague]]
[[Masaryk University]]
|((flag|Spain))
|[[University of Valencia]]
|-
|((flag|France))
|[[Panthéon-Assas University]]
|((flag|UK))
|[[University of Leeds]]
|-
|((flag|Germany))
|[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]
[[Free University of Berlin]]
|((flag|United States))
|[[Rutgers University]]
[[University of Pittsburgh]]
|}
And others like Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, [[Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences]], [[Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences]], [[ADA University]] etc...

==Organisation and administration==

===Schools / Faculties===
These are the 14 faculties and 6 institutes into which the university is divided:

((columns-list|colwidth=30em|
* Faculty of Chemistry
* Faculty of Computer Science and Cybernetics
* Faculty of Geography
* Institute of Geology
* Faculty of Economics
* Faculty of Information Technologies
* Faculty of History
* Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
* Faculty of Philosophy
* Faculty of Physics
* [[University of Kyiv Faculty of Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems|Faculty of Radio Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems]]
* Faculty of Psychology
* Faculty of Sociology
* Preparation Faculty
* Institute of Law<ref>((Cite web|url=http://law.knu.ua/ua/pro-iurydychnyi-fakultet-statti/215-zaochne-viddilennia/prosto-oholoshennia/4534-stvoreno-instytut-prava|title = Створено Інститут права))</ref>
* Institute of Philology
* Institute of Journalism
* Institute of International Relations
* Military Institute
* Institute of Postgraduate Education
* Institute of High Technologies
* Institute of Biology and Medicine
))

===Other institutes===
[[File:Cybernectics faculty of Kyiv University.JPG|right|thumb|The cybernetics faculty of KNU, located at the Vystavkovyi Tsentr.]]
* Astronomical Observatory of the Taras Shevchenko University<ref name="Observatory named">((cite web|url=http://www.observ.univ.kiev.ua/|script-title=uk:Астрономічна обсерваторія Київського національного університету ім. Тараса Шевченка - Main |language=uk |title=Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv National University named after Taras Shevchenko |access-date=7 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302085857/http://www.observ.univ.kiev.ua/mainu.htm |archive-date=2012-03-02))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* [[Ukrainian Humanitarian Lyceum]]<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.uhl-edu.kiev.ua/|title=Український гуманітарний ліцей|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* Center of Ukrainian Studies<ref>((cite web|url=http://uaznavstvo.univ.kiev.ua/eng/index.html|title=ЦЕНТР УКРАИНОВЕДЕНИЯ|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> 
* Information & Computer Centre of the Taras Shevchenko University<ref>((cite web|url=http://icc.univ.kiev.ua/|title=ICC|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* Kaniv Natural Reserved Park of the Taras Shevchenko University<ref>((cite web|url=http://kanivbiosfera.at.ua/|title=Канівський природний заповідник|author=Канівський природний заповідник|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* KNU Open University – Online study programs <ref>((cite web|url=http://univ.kiev.ua/news/8688/|title=KNU OU|author=www.univ.kiev.ua|access-date=7 April 2017))</ref>
* Maksymovych Scientific Library<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.library.univ.kiev.ua/eng/title4.php3|title=Maksymovych Scientific Library|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> 
* Regional Cisco Networking Academy<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.netacad.kiev.ua/|title=Мережева Академія Cisco :: Новини|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* Science Park Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv<ref>((cite web|url=http://scp.univ.kiev.ua/en|title=Science Park Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref>
* Scientific and Research Department of the Taras Shevchenko University<ref>((cite web|url=http://science.univ.kiev.ua/|title=Науково-дослідна частина Київського університету|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* Ukrainian Physico-Mathematical Lyceum<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.upml.univ.kiev.ua/|title=Український фізико-математичний ліцей КНУ ім. Т. Шевченка|access-date=7 July 2015))</ref> ((in lang|uk))
* University Botanic Garden named after Academic O. Fomin
* [[Dnipro Choir]]

==Campus==
((unreferenced section|date=June 2023))
After its initial establishment the university was located in private rooms in [[Pechersk, Kyiv|Pechersk]], and was named for St. Vladimir. Now the main building (built 1837–42 by architect V I Beretti) can be found at 60 [[Volodymyrska Street]], whilst a number of humanities departments are located at 14 Shevchenko Boulevard 14 (formerly the First Kyiv Gymnasium). Furthermore, there are departments located on Akademika Hlushkova Avenue (building 6, built 1954–70) and Vasylkivska Street (Library is located in building No. 90, built in 1939). The university's administration is housed in buildings 58–64 on Volodymyrska Street.

===Red University Building===
((Main|Red University Building))

It was constructed from 1837 to 1843 and was built in the late Russian [[Classicism]] style, by a Russian architect of Italian descent, Vincent I. Beretti. The building forms an enormous square enclosing a [[courtyard]]; the length of the main façade is 145.68m. The walls of the building are painted blood red and the capitals and bases of the portico's columns are painted black, corresponding to the colours of the ribbon of the Order of St. Vladimir (founded in 1782), as Kyiv University used to bear the name of this Order. The motto of the Order, "Benefit, honor and glory" ''(Pol'za Chest' i Slava)'' also, subsequently, became the motto of Kyiv University. Local tour guides sometime state that Tsar Nicholas I ordered the entire main building painted red in response to student conscription protests during World War I to remind students of blood spilled by Ukrainian soldiers. The legend does not reflect the historical fact, as the building was [[:ru:Красный корпус Киевского национального университета|painted red]] before World War I, in 1842. [[Nicholas I of Russia|Nicholas I]] of Russia (1825–1855) died long before [[World War I]] (1914–1918). Built at the top of a hill, this building has significantly influenced Kyiv's architectural layout in the 19th century.

===Botanical Gardens===
[[File:KlimatronAlexanderFomin.jpg|right|thumb|The botanical garden's greenhouse.]]
The university's [[A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden]] (named after Academician [[Aleksandr Vasiljevich Fomin|Aleksandr V. Fomin]], 1869–1935) was founded in 1839 and planned by architect V. Beretti and botanist R. E. Trautfetterom. The total area covered by the garden is around 5.22 hectares; it has a collection of over 10 000 species, forms and varieties of plants.
The garden's [[greenhouse]]'s height, after reconstruction in 1977, is about 33 meters and is the largest in the world. The university's first [[orangerie]] was built in 1846-49 for its collection of tropical and subtropical plants; a collection which has now over two thousand items and is one of the largest in Europe. The gardens are located at the city centre campus, to the rear of the red building; the nearest metro station is [[Universytet (Kyiv Metro)|Universytet]].

===Yellow Building and Maksymovych Library===
[[File:Biblioteca de la Universidad de Kiev (8152098924).jpg|right|thumb|The university library, part of the city centre campus]]
The Humanities Building or "Yellow" building of the university is located at 14 Shevchenko boulevard. Built in 1850–1852, it was designed in the classical style by the architect Alexander Vikentiyovych Beretti (1816–95), son of V. Beretti, the architect of by the main ("red") building. The building initially belonged to the First Gymnasium (a grammar school, in which M. Berlin and M. Kostomarov taught, and where students included the artists Nikolai Ge and V. Levandovskyy, historian M. Zakrevskii, economist M. Bunge, poet M. Herbel, sculptor P. Isabella, writers [[Mikhail Bulgakov|Bulgakov]] and K. Paustovsky, and future academics E. Tarle, [[Alexander A. Bogomolets|A. Bogomolets]], and [[Anatoly Lunacharsky|A. Lunacharsky]]). In 1919 the academic [[Vladimir Vernadsky|Vernadsky]], first president of [[National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine|the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]], took up residence in part of the building. Since 1959, the building has been part of the Kyiv National University.

The Maksymovych Library (58 Volodymyrska Street), built in 1939–1940, is a neo-classical building designed by architects V. A. Osmaka and P. Alyoshin as the university's Humanities building. Currently the library holds around 3.5 million books, making it currently the largest research library in Ukraine. The Maksymovych library – along with the No.1 branch of the [[National Library of Ukraine]] (62 Volodymyrska Street), designed by the same architects in 1929–1930, and the main ("red") building of the university – forms part of an important and impressive architectural ensemble which is today considered one of Kyiv's key collective architectural monuments.

===Architecture===
In the 1960s it became imperative that the Kyiv National University acquire more space for its greatly expanded number of departments. It was with this in mind that the building of a complex of new buildings for the university started on the southwestern outskirts of Kyiv (opposite the [[Expocenter of Ukraine|National Exhibition Centre of Ukraine]]). The authors of the final project were architects V. I. Ladnyi, M. P. Budylovskyi, V. I. Kolomiets and engineer V. Y. Drizo. 

The Institute of International Relations and Institute of Journalism's joint building at 36 Melnikova Street, developed by Kyivproect architects O Nosenko, I Shpara, Yu Duhovichny, O Klishchuk and Y Vig, was awarded the [[State Prize of Ukraine in the Field of Architecture]] in 1995.<ref>[http://www.kyivproekt.com.ua/ua/vidzntanag.html Відзнаки та нагороди] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725154432/http://www.kyivproekt.com.ua/ua/vidzntanag.html |date=2011-07-25 )) // Веб-сайт АТ «Київпроект»</ref>

===Astronomical Observatory===
The astronomical observatory of Kyiv National University is located at 3 Observatorna Street; founded in 1845, it was initially planned to place an observatory in the Main Building of the university (as evidenced by existing architectural designs for the red building), however, it was later decided to build for a separate building to house the observatory. This task was again entrusted Vincenty Beretta, it was built in 1841–1845 and officially opened on February 7, 1845.<ref name="Observatory named" />

=== Accreditation Of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ===

* World Health Organization
* Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
* Medical Council of India

==Notable alumni==
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[[File:НДУ 8 Кожем'якін Андрій Анатолійович.jpg|thumb|[[Andriy Kozhemiakin]]]]
[[File:Vietnam's_Le_Thi_Tuyet_Mai_(sq_cropped).jpg|thumb|Vietnam's Le Thi Tuyet Mai ]]
* [[Iryna Bekeshkina]] (sociologist and policy scholar)
* [[Yurii Chekan]] (musicologist, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine)
* [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]] (Ukrainian-American [[geneticist]] and [[evolutionary biologist]])
* [[Lidiia Dunayevska]], folklorist, professor
* [[Tetiana Dziuba]], poet
* [[Olena Golub]] (born 1951), artist, art historian and writer
* [[Nataliya Gumenyuk]] (journalist, teacher)
* [[Halyna Hai]] (Ukrainian poet and writer)
* [[Wladimir Klitschko]] (former [[Heavyweight boxing]] world champion)
* [[Vitaly Klitschko]] (former [[Heavyweight boxing]] world champion)
* [[Igor V. Komarov|Igor Volodymyrovych Komarov]], director of the Institute of High Technologies of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
* [[Sonya Koshkina]] (born 1985), journalist, editor-in-chief
* [[Andriy Kozhemiakin]] (born 1965), politician and former security service officer
* [[Svitlana Kyrychenko]] (1935–2016), human rights activist
* [[Dmytro Kuleba]] (born 1981), Ukrainian Foreign Minister
* [[Le Thi Tuyet Mai]] (born 1967), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of [[Vietnam|Viet Nam]] to the [[United Nations Office at Geneva|United Nations Office]] and the [[World Trade Organization]]
* [[Oleksandra Matviichuk]] (born 1983), human rights activist and lawyer
* [[Gennadi Milinevsky]] (born 1951), atmosphere scientist 
* [[Anastasiia Tsybuliak]] (born 1984), eco-activist, scientist
* [[Mikhail Morgulis]] ([[Russian language|Russian-language]] writer, editor and theologian)
* [[Igor Newerly]] ([[Polish language|Polish-language]] novelist and educator)
* [[Borys Oliynyk (poet)]] (Ukrainian poet, translator and political activist)
* [[Lyudmila Pavlichenko|Lyudmila Pavlychenko]] (served in the [[Red Army]] during [[World War II]], one of top snipers of all time
* [[Solomiia Pavlychko]] (1958-1999), literary critic, philosopher, feminist, translator
* [[Myroslav Popovych]] (1930-2018), philosopher
* [[Yuriy Rybchynskyi]] (born 1945), poet and playwright
* [[Oleksandr Tkachenko (journalist)|Oleksandr Tkachenko]], [[Ukraine]]'s [[Ministry of Culture (Ukraine)|Minister of Culture and Information Policy]]
* [[Maryna Viazovska]] (Ukrainian Mathematician who solved the sphere-packing problem in dimension 8)
* [[Iosif Vitebskiy]] (born 1938), épée fencer, Soviet Ukrainian Olympic medalist and world champion and fencing coach
* [[Leonid Vysheslavsky]] (1914–2002), poet, literary critic, translator
* [[Yuriy Mushketyk]] (1929–2019), writer and journalist
* [[Bolesław Woytowicz]] (Polish pianist and composer)
* [[Makarov Yuriy Volodymyrovych]] (born 1955), journalist, documentarian
* [[Tetiana Yakovenko]] (born 1954), poet, literary critic, teacher
* [[Valentyna Davydenko]] (born 1955), journalist, poet and artist
* [[Oksana Zabuzhko]] (born 1960), poet and novelist
* [[Zinaida Kubar]] (born 1975), artist and fashion designer

===Heads of state, government and international organisations===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!State/Government !! Name !! Office
|-
|((flag|Ukraine))
|[[Leonid Kravchuk]]
|First post-independence [[President of Ukraine]] (1991–1994)
|-

|((flag|Ukraine))
|[[Petro Poroshenko]]
|[[President of Ukraine]] (2014–2019)
|-
|((flag|Ukrainian People's Republic))
|[[Mykhailo Hrushevsky]]
|President of the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)
|-
|((flag|Ukrainian People's Republic))
|[[Volodymyr Vynnychenko]]
|First Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918) and first Chairman of the [[Directorate of Ukraine]] (1918–1919)
|-
|((flag|Georgia))
|[[Mikheil Saakashvili]]
|Twice [[President of Georgia]] (2004–2008 and 2008–2013) and [[Rose Revolution]] leader
|-
|((flag|Lithuania))
|[[Antanas Merkys]]
|Last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania (1939-1940)
|-
|((flag|Israel))
|[[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]]
|Second [[President of Israel]] (1952–1963)
|-
|((flag|Byelorussian SSR))
|[[Yakov Gamarnik]]
|First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Belorussia|Byelorussian Communist Party]] (1928–1929)
|-
|((flag|Ukrainian SSR))
|[[Valentyna Shevchenko (politician)|Valentyna Shevchenko]]
|Chairman of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (1985–1990)
|-
|((flag|UN))
|[[Hennadiy Udovenko]]
|[[President of the United Nations General Assembly]] (1997–1998)
|-
|((flag|Russian Empire))
|[[Nikolay Bunge]]
|[[Council of Ministers of Russia|Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers]] (1887–1895)
|-
|((flag|Kenya))
|[[Amina Mohamed]]
|Deputy Executive Director of the [[UNEP]], [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Kenya)|Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs]] of [[Kenya]] (2013–2018)
|}

==See also==
* [[4868 Knushevia]] – asteroid named after the university

==References==
((reflist|2))

==External links==
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((Higher education in Kyiv))
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