Kharkiv National University is one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe, founded in 1804 on the initiative of the outstanding educator VN Karazin.
Kharkiv University is the only one in Ukraine where three Nobel Prize winners studied and worked - biologist I. Mechnikov, economist S. Kuznets, physicist L. Landau.
Over the years of its existence, more than 130,000 people have graduated from the university.
Modern Kharkiv University is a leading scientific and educational institution in Ukraine with over 200 years of history. It has 20 faculties and 127 departments. The university has 3 research institutes (astronomy, biology, chemistry), the Central Scientific Library, which has more t
han 3.5 million books, the Botanical Garden, the Museum of University History, the Museum of Nature, the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography.
Kharkiv is a city in northeast Ukraine, and with a million and a half people, the second largest city in the country. A main cultural, educational and industrial hub, Kharkiv once served as the nation’s capital briefly in the early 20th century. It features zoos, a history museum, and Sprawling Freedom Square, one of the widest squares in the world and home to the constructivist Derzhprom building. The city is also a center for Ukraine's fledgling IT industry, with an active rock-music scene and
a sprouting hipster culture. Large music and cinema festivals are hosted in Kharkiv almost every year.