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Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko (I. Franko Leningrad National University)
Main building of Lviv University (former building of the Galician Sejm)
Original title	Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko
International name	Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Former names	Lviv University named after Jan Casimir
Motto	Рatriae deсori сіvibus еduсandis
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Legal address	Ukraine Ukraine, 79000, Lviv, st. Universitetskaya 1
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Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko(ukr. Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko listen)) is one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe and the oldest university in Ukraine. In the past it was called Lviv University named after Jan Casimir.

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The founding date of the University is considered to be January 20, 1661, when the decree of the Polish King John II Casimir awarded the status of an academy and the “title of university” to the Jesuit college. Formal confirmation of the rights of the academy and the university followed in -.

Architecture of the main building

The current building of the main building of Lviv University on 1 Universitetskaya Street was built in -1881 (architect J. Hochberger). Initially, it housed the Regional Sejm of Galicia and Lodomeria. The facade is decorated with a majestic portico with columns and a loggia, sculptural allegorical groups “Work” and “Education” at the entrance, “Galicia, Vistula and Dniester” - on the attic (sculptor T. Rieger). In 1920, the building was transferred to the Jan Casimir University of Lviv.

Modernity

In the 1997/1998 academic year, 11,649 students studied full-time, including 2,980 on the basis of full reimbursement of tuition costs; 3,680 students studied part-time, of which 2,543 were paying students. The full course of study lasted 5 years. The University has 112 departments, four of which were opened in 2001. The main form of training of scientific personnel is graduate school; for the 1997/1998 academic year, it trained specialists in 89 specialties in the humanities and natural sciences; 505 people studied full-time in graduate school, and 206 part-time students.

Faculties

• Biological
• Geographical
• Geological
• Economic
• Electronics
• Pre-university training
• Journalism
• Foreign languages
• Historical
• Culture and arts
• International relations
• Mechanics and mathematics
• Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
• Physical
• Philological
• Philosophical
• Chemical
• Legal

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Famous teachers

See also

• Astronomical Observatory of Ivan Franko Lviv National University

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An excerpt characterizing Ivan Franko Lviv National University

In the booth into which Pierre entered and in which he stayed for four weeks, there were twenty-three captured soldiers, three officers and two officials.
All of them then appeared to Pierre as if in a fog, but Platon Karataev remained forever in Pierre’s soul as the strongest and dearest memory and personification of everything Russian, kind and round. When the next day, at dawn, Pierre saw his neighbor, the first impression of something round was completely confirmed: the whole figure of Plato in his French overcoat belted with a rope, in a cap and bast shoes, was round, his head was completely round, his back, chest, shoulders, even the hands that he carried, as if always about to hug something, were round; a pleasant smile and large brown gentle eyes were round.
Platon Karataev must have been over fifty years old, judging by his stories about the campaigns in which he participated as a long-time soldier. He himself did not know and could not determine in any way how old he was; but his teeth, bright white and strong, which kept rolling out in their two semicircles when he laughed (which he often did), were all good and intact; There was not a single gray hair in his beard or hair, and his whole body had the appearance of flexibility and especially of hardness and endurance.
His face, despite the small round wrinkles, had an expression of innocence and youth; his voice was pleasant and melodious. But the main feature of his speech was its spontaneity and argument. He apparently never thought about what he said and what he would say; and because of this, the speed and fidelity of his intonations had a special irresistible persuasiveness.
His physical strength and agility were such at first during his captivity that he seemed not to understand what fatigue and illness were. Every day, in the morning and in the evening, when he lay down, he said: “Lord, lay it down like a pebble, lift it up into a ball”; in the morning, getting up, always shrugging his shoulders in the same way, he said: “I lay down and curled up, got up and shook myself.” And indeed, as soon as he lay down, he immediately fell asleep like a stone, and as soon as he shook himself, in order to immediately, without a second of delay, take up some task, like children, getting up, taking up their toys. He knew how to do everything, not very well, but not badly either. He baked, steamed, sewed, planed, and made boots. He was always busy and only at night allowed himself conversations, which he loved, and songs. He sang songs, not as songwriters sing, who know that they are being listened to, but he sang like birds sing, obviously because he needed to make these sounds just as it is necessary to stretch or disperse; and these sounds were always subtle, gentle, almost feminine, mournful, and at the same time his face was very serious.
Having been captured and grown a beard, he apparently threw away everything alien and soldierly that had been imposed on him and involuntarily returned to his former, peasant, folk mindset.
“A soldier on leave is a shirt made from trousers,” he used to say. He was reluctant to talk about his time as a soldier, although he did not complain, and often repeated that throughout his service he was never beaten. When he spoke, he mainly spoke from his old and, apparently, dear memories of “Christian”, as he pronounced it, peasant life. The sayings that filled his speech were not those, for the most part, indecent and glib sayings that soldiers say, but they were those folk sayings that seem so insignificant, taken in isolation, and which suddenly take on the meaning of deep wisdom when they are spoken opportunely.
Often he said the exact opposite of what he had said before, but both were true. He loved to talk and spoke well, decorating his speech with endearments and proverbs, which, it seemed to Pierre, he himself was inventing; but the main charm of his stories was that in his speech the simplest events, sometimes the very ones that Pierre saw without noticing them, took on the character of solemn beauty. He loved to listen to fairy tales that one soldier told in the evenings (all the same ones), but most of all he loved to listen to stories about real life. He smiled joyfully as he listened to such stories, inserting words and making questions that tended to clarify for himself the beauty of what was being told to him. Karataev had no attachments, friendship, love, as Pierre understood them; but he loved and lived lovingly with everything that life brought him to, and especially with a person - not with some famous person, but with those people who were before his eyes. He loved his mongrel, he loved his comrades, the French, he loved Pierre, who was his neighbor; but Pierre felt that Karataev, despite all his affectionate tenderness towards him (with which he involuntarily paid tribute to Pierre’s spiritual life), would not for a minute be upset by separation from him. And Pierre began to feel the same feeling towards Karataev.
Platon Karataev was for all the other prisoners the most ordinary soldier; his name was Falcon or Platosha, they mocked him good-naturedly and sent him for parcels. But for Pierre, as he appeared on the first night, an incomprehensible, round and eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth, that is how he remained forever.
Platon Karataev knew nothing by heart except his prayer. When he gave his speeches, he, starting them, seemed not to know how he would end them.
When Pierre, sometimes amazed at the meaning of his speech, asked him to repeat what he had said, Plato could not remember what he had said a minute ago - just as he could not tell Pierre his favorite song in words. It said: “darling, little birch and I feel sick,” but the words didn’t make any sense. He did not understand and could not understand the meaning of words taken separately from speech. His every word and every action was a manifestation of an activity unknown to him, which was his life. But his life, as he himself looked at it, had no meaning as a separate life. She made sense only as a part of the whole, which he constantly felt. His words and actions poured out of him as uniformly, necessarily, and directly as a scent is released from a flower. He could not understand either the price or the meaning of a single action or word.

Ivan Franko Lviv National University is one of the oldest universities in Ukraine; January 20, 2011 marked 350 years since its founding.

It all started with a fraternal school, which was reorganized into a Jesuit college, to which King John II Casimir on January 20, 1661 granted “the dignity of an academy and the title of a university” with the right to teach all the then university disciplines, awarding academic degrees of bachelor, licentiate, master and doctor.

After the dissolution of the Jesuit Order in 1773, Lviv University was closed. However, soon a number of divisions of the Jesuit academy became the basis of the Josephine University in Lviv, with the entry of Galicia into the Austrian Empire. The highest governing body of the university was the senate (consistory). It consisted of the rector, deans and seniors (the oldest professors in terms of age and experience). The Senate decided the most important issues relating to the general management of the university. All other matters were decided by the deans, who were also the directors of the faculties. From 1787 to 1806, the studium Ruthenum functioned at the theological faculty - Ukrainian (“Russian”) courses with two-year training in the Ukrainian language.

During the second half of the 19th century. The struggle continued for the right of women to attend university studios. In 1897, women were allowed to study at the Faculty of Philosophy, and in 1900 at the Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Pharmacy. Women repeatedly demanded to be allowed to study at the Faculty of Law, but the government did not meet them halfway.

1917, then Galician Seym

Education at the university for the vast majority of students was paid. The students of the Faculty of Theology did not pay tuition at all. In secular faculties, only a portion of students enjoyed such benefits (students who submitted a certificate of poverty and successfully completed semester colloquiums). In addition to tuition fees, students paid a fee for immatriculation (ceremonial acceptance as a student), paid for exams, colloquiums, seminars, for the right to use the library, etc. There were also student scholarships. The scholarship fund consisted primarily of donations from individuals. The most famous were scholarship funds named after Karol Ludwik, J. Słowacki, Tsalevich, Gaecki, etc. Students had dormitories, but the number of places in them was limited.

In whose house from 1851 to 1920 there was Lviv University, and also the Faculty of Biology

After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Galicia was captured by Poland. The Ministry of Religions and Education of Poland already on November 18, 1918, by a special order, announced that it was taking Lviv University under its guardianship, and named it after the Polish king John Casimir. The only language of instruction in the educational institution was Polish; only at the Faculty of Theology were certain disciplines taught in Latin. Departments teaching in Ukrainian were closed. Within two to three years, all professors and associate professors of Ukrainian nationality were fired from their jobs, and Ukrainian youth were limited in their access to university education.

According to the articles of the secret protocol to the agreement between the USSR and Germany of August 23, 1939, Western Ukraine fell into the zone of influence of the Soviet Union. On September 22, Soviet troops entered Lviv. On October 26, 1939, the puppet People's Assembly of Western Ukraine met in Lvov, which proclaimed the introduction of Soviet power. During this period, Lviv University also underwent radical changes. According to the Charter of the USSR Higher School, a radical organizational restructuring of the university was carried out as a higher educational institution with free and open education for all citizens. The theological faculty was liquidated, and the medical department with the pharmaceutical department was reorganized into a medical institute. In October 1939, new departments were created: history of Marxism-Leninism, dialectical and historical materialism, political economy, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian literature, Russian language, Russian literature, history of the USSR, history of Ukraine, physical education. Along with ensuring high professional training of specialists, they had to educate young people on the basis of Marxist-Leninist ideology and a materialist worldview.

By decree of January 8, 1940, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR named Lviv State University after the outstanding Ukrainian writer and thinker Ivan Franko, who studied at the Faculty of Philosophy in the 70s of the 19th century.

The work of the university was stopped with the German attack on the Soviet Union and the June 30, 1941 invasion of Lviv by Nazi troops. In the first days, 70 famous scientists from the university, polytechnic and medical institutes were arrested, and after beatings and abuse they were shot in the area of ​​​​what is now Sakharov Street. In 1942, the German occupation authorities closed universities in Ukraine. The occupiers robbed and destroyed university property. The equipment of the classrooms and laboratories of the faculties of physics, mathematics and chemistry, as well as the library of the department of folklore and ethnography, which numbered 15 thousand volumes, were exported to Germany. From the university's scientific library, in which the main reading room was destroyed, 20 thousand volumes of the most valuable books, about 5 thousand early printed and incunabula, and 500 valuable manuscripts were taken away.

The restoration of the university's activities began immediately after the liberation of Lvov from Nazi troops. On July 30, 1944, a meeting was held at the university, the participants of which - 127 teachers and technical workers - appealed to the intelligentsia to take an active part in the restoration of the economy, educational, cultural and educational institutions of Lvov. During 1944 - 1945, mainly by students and teachers, the premises on the street were organized. Shcherbakova (now Grushevsky), 4 (biological faculty), on the street. Lomonosov (now Cyril and Methodius), 6 and 8 (chemical and physical buildings), the scientific library and hostel on the street were renovated. Herzen, 7, an astronomical observatory and a botanical garden were partially rebuilt. After a break of more than three years, the University welcomed students again on October 15, 1944.

The declaration of independence of Ukraine is a new page in the history of the University. In 1990, the University was headed by Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Vakarchuk. The opening of new faculties and departments is the implementation of a large-scale program of reforms in the organization of studies at Lviv University. The Faculty of International Relations, the Faculty of Philosophy, the Faculty of Pre-University Training, and the Institute of Historical Research were founded, headed by Doctor of Historical Sciences J. Gritsak. On October 11, 1999, by Decree of the President of Ukraine, Ivan Franko Lviv State University was awarded the status of “national”.

On the pediment of the main building of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University there is a slogan: “Patriae decori civibus educandis” (“Educated citizens are the adornment of the Motherland”). The University team is working hard to realize this idea.

Reading room of the scientific library named after. M. Dragomanova.

Rector of the University, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ivan Vakarchuk welcomes the first-year students.

Graduates

Solemn initiation into students.

Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the University

And these are the teachers of the Ukrainian language department))))))))) I remember you, my dear teachers))))))))

The students presented Ivan Franko with a robe...

Students dancing...

Dear friends! Come study at Ivan Franko Lviv National State University!

Today, there are more than 800 universities in Ukraine, among which a special place is occupied by one of the oldest higher educational institutions in Eastern Europe - Ivan Franko Lviv National University.

General information

According to data for 2014, almost 14 thousand students are studying at LNU, of which just over 10 thousand are full-time students and about 3.5 thousand are part-time students. In addition, 812 graduate students are preparing to defend their dissertations. As for the scientific teaching staff, out of 1,500 teachers, 536 are associate professors, 157 are professors, 612 are candidates of science and 131 are doctors of science.

Lviv Ivan Franko: how to get there

The main building of LNU is located in the building in which the Regional Galician Sejm met in the last quarter of the 19th century. the building in the style of classicism is plastered in a light yellow color and decorated with columns, and on its pediment and portico you can see allegorical sculptural compositions “Work”, “Education”, etc. Also on its facade one cannot help but notice the ancient motto of Lviv University in Latin, which translated as “Educated citizens are the adornment of the Motherland.” Address of the main building of LNU: st. Sichovykh Riflemen, 14, and the legal address of the university is Universitetskaya Street, 1. In addition, the Faculty of Electronics is located on Drahomanov Street, at 50. To get to the street you can use trams running on routes 1 and 9, or minibuses number 29 and number 29a.

Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko: history

LNU has such an interesting and eventful history that even a brief summary of it would require more than one page. Suffice it to say that it was founded on the basis of the Jesuit college, operating in Lviv since 1608. In 1661, King John II Casimir signed an act granting university rights to this educational institution. Thus, until 1773, Lviv University was under the leadership of the Jesuits, and the main subjects were theology, philosophy and Latin. After Galicia became part of the Habsburg Empire, the activities of the Jesuit society, like other Catholic orders, were discontinued, and teaching began to be conducted in Ukrainian. A century later, the famous writer and political figure Ivan Franko studied within the walls of Lviv University, whose name was given to LNU (then Leningrad State University) in 1940. In the last decades of the 20th century, as part of the modernization of the university, modern departments were introduced here and several new departments were opened, which cannot but please teachers and students.

Faculties of Lviv University

At LNU named after. Ivan Franko has 17 faculties, including biology, geology, geography, applied mathematics and computer science, economics, electronics, journalism, history, foreign languages, culture and art, international relations, physics, philosophy, law, chemistry, philology and mechanics and mathematics. They include 112 departments, and some of them have museums. For example, as part of the Faculty of Biology there is a Zoological Museum, based on a cabinet of natural history, opened in 1784, and at the Faculty of History there is an Archaeological Museum, which is considered one of the famous attractions of the city of Lviv.

Scientific and educational institutions operating at LNU

In addition to those mentioned above, Ivan Franko Lviv National University includes a number of scientific institutions. For example, it operates: a botanical garden, an astronomical observatory, a university history museum, centers for information technology in the Nordic countries and humanities research, scientific institutes for French studies, Slavic studies, European integration and many others. Among the educational institutions of LNU, the Pedagogical and Law Colleges, the Italian Language Center and the Classical Gymnasium deserve special mention.

Rules for admission to LNU

Ivan Franko Lviv National University accepts applicants for undergraduate studies. To do this, it is necessary to submit to the university educational certificates in 3 subjects, determined by the conditions for admission in 2014, depending on the specific specialty chosen by the applicant. Moreover, since Lviv National University, named after I. Franko, is classified as a research university, it has the right to independently determine the list of competitive subjects.

International cooperation and training of foreign citizens

LNU named after I. Franko has been actively involved in teaching and training for more than one year. Every year, more than a hundred students attend lectures on a wide range of disciplines in foreign universities. Moreover, students of the history and geography departments undergo practical training at universities in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic, and employees of the philological, mechanical and mathematical, chemical departments, the faculty of international relations, as well as the faculties of applied mathematics and computer science are trained in educational institutions. establishments in Poland, France, Colombia, Switzerland and Austria. As for foreign students, a summer school is held annually (under a grant from the United States government and with the assistance of the University of Kansas) for students from the United States who undergo a six-week internship at LNU in the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language.

Notable alumni and professors

Lviv National University named after. I. Franko, who will soon celebrate his 350th birthday, is the alma mother for hundreds of thousands of graduates. Among those who graduated from this university, there are many scientists, artists, politicians and businessmen who are known far beyond the borders of Ukraine. For example, in addition to Ivan Franko, it graduated from: the famous Ukrainian poet Bohdan Lepky, the creator of the first effective anti-typhoid vaccine Rudolf Weigl, the author of the term “genocide” - Raphael Lemkin, one of the pioneers of modern probability theory - Mark Katz and many others. The teaching staff of LNU is no less stellar. Over the years, the university taught: the outstanding mathematician Stefan Banach, the representative of Poland in the League of Nations - Shimon Ashkenazi, the famous linguist - Jerzy Kurilovich, the famous Polish physicist - Marian Smoluchowski and many others.

Lviv National University named after. I. Franko (LNU) - additional information about the higher education institution

General information

Ivan Franko Lviv National University is one of the leading higher education institutions in Ukraine and Europe.

The structure of Lviv National University includes 18 faculties, an Institute of Postgraduate Education, 3 colleges, 7 research institutes, an Astronomical Observatory, a Botanical Garden, a Scientific Library, and 6 museums. Specialists are trained in accordance with obtained licenses in 16 industries, 52 areas and 91 specialties.

Today, Lviv National University has 130 departments, three of which have been opened in recent years.

Lviv National University named after. Franko (LNU) has the following faculties:

• Biological,
• Geographical,
• Geological,
• Economic,
• Electronics,
• Pre-university training,
• Journalism,
• Foreign languages,
• Historical,
• Culture and arts,
• International relations,
• Mechanical-mathematical,
• Applied mathematics and computer science,
• Physical,
• Philological,
• Philosophical,
• Chemical,
• Legal.

Ivan Franko Lviv National University trains specialists according to educational and qualification levels " junior specialist", "bachelor", "specialist" And " master's degree".

Training is carried out at seventeen faculties in the following specialties:

• Microbiology and Virology
• Biology
• Biochemistry
• Biophysics
• Zoology
• Botany
• Genetics
• Physiology
• Geology
• Geochemistry and Mineralogy
• Ecology and environmental protection
• Geography
• Economic and social geography
• Organizational management
• Tourism
• Journalism
• Sociology
• Economic theory
• Economic cybernetics
• International economics
• Finance
• Banking
• Accounting and audit
• Enterprise Economics
• Economic statistics
• Taxation
• Story
• Ethnology
• Archival studies
• Archeology
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Mechanics
• International relations
• International law
• International economic relations
• International information
• Regional studies
• International business
• Informatics
• Applied Mathematics
• Social informatics
• System analysis and management
• Physics
• Astronomy
• Solid state physics
• Radiophysics and electronics
• Applied physics
• Physical and biomedical electronics
• Folkloristics
• Ukrainian language and literature
• Language and literature with language indication
• Russian language and literature
• Persian language and literature
• Czech language and literature
• Serbian language and literature
• Bulgarian language and literature
• Polish language and literature
• Croatian language and literature
• Slovak language and literature
• English language and literature
• German language and literature
• French language and literature
• Spanish language and literature
• Japanese language and literature
• Arabic language and literature
• Latin, Greek and Ancient Greek
• Applied linguistics
• Literary creativity
• Translation
• Book science, library science and bibliography
• Cultural studies
• Theater arts
• Philosophy
• Psychology
• Political science
• Chemistry
• Jurisprudence
• Information technology design

Ensuring the educational process at Lviv National University

The educational process is provided by 1,708 full-time scientific and pedagogical workers, including 166 doctors of science, professors, and 841 candidates of science, associate professor (quality - 59%).

Today Ivan Franko Lviv National University is a university of leading scientific schools with generally recognized international authority.

More than 20 scientific schools have been formed and are successfully functioning at Lviv National University, in particular in the following areas: physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, geography, economics, philology, law, history.

Along with traditional scientific schools, new ones are being formed, covering all areas of the academic life of Lviv National University. An example of the continuity of scientific traditions is that in 2008, at the World Programming Olympiad in Canada, LNU students won gold medals for the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, ahead of representatives of the famous universities of the world - Oxford and Princeton.

International relations of Lviv National University

Students of the Geography, History and International Relations departments undergo training in Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Employees of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Philology, Chemistry, the Faculty of International Relations and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science worked in higher educational institutions in Poland, Colombia, France, Switzerland, and Austria on teaching contracts. Many LNU graduates continue their studies at higher educational institutions in the USA, Poland, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, and France. Every year, with a grant from the American government and with the assistance of the University of Kansas, a Summer School is held for American students who undergo a six-week internship at LNU in the Ukrainian language and history of Ukraine.