Odessa University

The main building of Odesa National University.

Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University is one of the oldest in Ukraine. It was founded in 1865, when by Edict of the Russian Tsar Alexander II the Richelieu Lyceum (Ukrainian: Рішельєвський ліцей, which had existed in Odesa since 1817) was reorganized into the Imperial Novorossiya (New Russia) University. All academic and scientific life of the university - from the day of its foundation - was directed by the Statute of 1863 that formed the liberal-democratic tradition of the Higher Institution which has been preserved in spite of all the disturbances in the social and political life of the country. From the very first years of its existence, the Imperial Novorossiya University became an important center of science and for training the scientific and educational cadres of the northern Black Sea coastal region.

World-famous teachers and scientists have worked at Imperial Novorossiya University during different times of its existence, including the Nobel Prize winner I. I. Mechnikov (after whom the university was later renamed), Professors I. M. Sechenov, A. A. Kovalevskiy, N. F. Gamaleya, N. Y. Zelinskiy, D. L. Mendeleyev, physicist G. A. Gamov,[2] mathematician A. M. Lyapunov, and others. Through their activities, the Imperial Novorossiya University quickly became one of the centers of the culture of the Ukrainian, Russian, and other peoples dwelling along the northern coast of the Black Sea, and the university began to play an important role in the development of science. The first Rector of the university was Professor I. Y. Sokolov. At different periods of time, the university was headed by Professors P. N. Lebedyev, A. I. Yurzhenko, A. V. Bogatskiy, V. V. Serdyuk, and I. P. Zelinskiy—all prominent specialists in different branches of knowledge.

In 2013, The Ukrainian Week stated that members of the university staff were openly Ukrainophobic.[3]

The university is situated in two parts of the city and occupies about 70 hectares. It is divided into a number of faculties that are directly administered by the university. The university consists of ten faculties, four institutes, one college, two "preparatory departments" for citizens of Ukraine and foreign countries, 15 scientific-research laboratories, five scientific institutes, administration departments, experimental training shops, and nine dormitories for students, post-graduates, and trainees. The university has a sports and health rehabilitation complex with its own stadium and rest-base for the students, personnel, and university guests in the village of Chernomorka. In all university locations there are cafeterias, cafes, bars, and medical sections.[4]

Odessa University has engaged in international cooperation at the regional and global levels for the past 150 years. The University is currently a member of the European University Association, the World Association of Universities, the Supervisory Board of Magna Charta, the Eurasian Association of Universities, the Black Sea Universities Network and the Danube Rectors Conference.[5]

• 7th in Ukraine and 1844th in World, Ranking Web of Universities[6]

Joshua L Goldberg

• Aleko Konstantinov – prominent Bulgarian intellectual who founded the tourist movement in Bulgaria
• Ali Mohamed Shein – 7th President of Zanzibar
• Ion Nistor – prominent Romanian historian and politician
• George Gamow – theoretical physicist and cosmologist – notably an early advocate and developer of Lemaître's Big Bang theory.
• Nikodim Kondakov – Russian historian, he founded modern method in Byzantine art history
• Mordechai Namir – Israeli minister
• Oksana Mas – Ukrainian artist
• Mariusz Zaruski – Brigadier-General in the Polish Army, a pioneer of Polish sports yachting
• Sergei Witte – first Prime Minister of the Russian Empire
• Ivan Sechenov – Russian physiologist
• Nikolai Chebotaryov – Russian and Soviet mathematician, best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem
• Krste Misirkov – philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer
• Joshua L. Goldberg – Belarusian-born American rabbi, who was the first rabbi to be commissioned as a U.S. Navy chaplain in World War II (and only the third to serve in the Navy in its history), the first to reach the rank of Navy Captain (the equivalent of Army Colonel), and the first to retire after a full active-duty career
• Kadish Luz – Israeli politician who served as Minister of Agriculture between 1955 and 1959 and Speaker of the Knesset from 1959 and 1969
• Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky – Ukrainian botanist; member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (in 1922—1928 — its President) and corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Botanical Gardens of Odessa University
• Gherman Pântea – Bessarabian-born soldier who served as Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic
• Alla Dzhioyeva – South Ossetian teacher turned politician, who served as the Education Minister in 2002–2008
• Streltsov Ievgen – Ukrainian professor
• Emmanuil Galitskiy – original staff member and head physics professor at the Bergen County Academies
• Volodymyr Kedrowsky – Ukrainian military leader, diplomat, author, and activist
• Pyotr Karyshkovsky – Ukrainian Soviet historian, numismatist, a scholar and lexicographer.

• List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

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