Kazan State Agricultural University

Kazan State Agricultural University (Russian: Казанский государственный аграрный университет), or formally, the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Kazan State Agrarian University" (Russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования «Казанский государственный аграрный университет») is a higher educational institution in the system of training, retraining and advanced training of employees of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, located in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia.

Kazan State Agricultural University
Казанский государственный аграрный университет (Russian)
TypePublic research
Established22 May 1922
Location
65 Karl Marx Street, Kazan
,
Russia

54°43′02″N 49°09′53″E / 54.71722°N 49.16472°E / 54.71722; 49.16472
CampusUrban
Websitekazgau.ru

History

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On 22 May 1922, the Kazan Institute of Agriculture and Forestry was established through the merger of the agricultural faculty of the Polytechnic Institute and the forest faculty of Kazan University. Over the past years, the structure of the institute has repeatedly changed. In different periods, training was conducted at the zootechnical faculty, fruit and vegetable, agroforestry.[1]

Rectors

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  • Nikolai Nikolaevich Parfentiev (1922-1924)
  • Andrey Konstantinovich Vershinin (1941-1943)
  • Nikolay Semyonovich Katkov (1971-1985)
  • Mirsazyan Tagirzyanovich Shabaev (1985-1996)
  • Jaudat Ibrahimovich Fayzrakhmanov (1996-2018)[2]
  • Airat Rasimovich Valiev (from 2018)[3]

Awards

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  • Order of Merit for the Republic of Tatarstan, for particularly outstanding achievements of the university staff in the development of science, a great contribution to the training of highly qualified specialists for the agro-industrial complex of the republic (2022)[4]

References

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  1. ^ "История Казанского государственного аграрного университета". Официальный сайт Казанского государственного аграрного университета. Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  2. ^ "«Ученик должен превзойти учителя»: в КГАУ сменился ректор, правивший 22 года". www.business-gazeta.ru. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  3. ^ "Ректором Казанского аграрного университета назначен экс-проректор вуза Айрат Валиев". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2018-11-16. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  4. ^ "Указ Президента Республики Татарстан № УП-351 от 20 мая 2022 года «О награждении орденом „За заслуги перед Республикой Татарстан"»" (PDF) (in Russian). 2022-05-20.