Open University of Taras Shevchenko National University was established for the first time in the year 1833, and it was called Imperial University of Saint Volodymyr. The first rector was 30-year-old Professor Mykhallo Makymovych who qualified in folklore and botany.

1. The History Behind
Open University of
Taras Shevchenko
National University

2. Open University of Taras Shevchenko National University was established for
the first time in the year 1833, and it was called Imperial University of Saint
Volodymyr. The first rector was 30-year-old Professor Mykhallo Makymovych
who qualified in folklore and botany.

3. He had been appointed by Emperor Nicholas I at 18th of October in the year
1834. There were two departments that were working in 1834 and in 1935.
They were mathematics and physics with Department of Linguistics and
history. There was also Faculty Philosophy.

4. In the year 1837, architecture professor called Vincenti Beretti, from St
Petersburg Academy of Arts finished the design of University Building and its
building started afterward. The building came to be known as the central
building of the entire university, and it is still there up to now.

5. The botanical garden of the university was developed under the supervision of
Professor Trautfetter and it was added to the grounds, and it is still the feature
of the current university. The charter of the university got adopted in the year
1842, and the growth of this university is not something to dispute about.
There were 37 departments of the University.

6. Thought to be an outpost of the Russian autocracy, today’s government was
not expected to have an aggressive approach towards the students and teachers
of this facility. The university was put at a center of democratic movement
since 1830 until 1860. This is where Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood was
established since 1845 until 1847. Kostomarov, is a historian of the distinction
and it is the head of Russian History department who was the author of the
Brotherhood credo.

7. Taras Schevchenko, a brilliant poet who got employed in the art of the school
like a teacher, he had a temporary position as an archeography commission, and
they were working on ancient documents, and he was the intellectual inspiration
behind members of Cyril and Methodius Society.

8. Liberal reforms with the new charter in the year 1963, it saw the revival of
scientific and educational activity at the university with the autonomously status
which had extended. The list of the department increased to reach to 52 by the
addition of over 15 departments.

9. European lecturers with the Russian lecturers got invited so that they can join
other staff of this university and it reached to 90 new educators. The
departments started to choose only talented and skilled students to join its
research and academic teams.

10. By the year 1883, there were 1700 students who were already enrolled at this
university. Most of the students were Ukrainians and Russians; it was opposed
to the enrolment of 1830 until 1840, which was mostly Polish.

11. In 1913, over 5000 students were learning at this university, and at least 160
were conducting the lecturers there. The university had 2 libraries, it had 2
observatories both astronomical and meteorological, it had 4 faculty clinics, 9
laboratories, 2 clinical departments, 3 hospitals with anatomy theater and a
botanical garden or other facilities.

12. The university became active globally, and its academics started to travel around
the world to do research trips to different countries, and they were a
collaboration with well-known scientists around the world while publishing the
papers in journals on an international level.

13. Contact
Academic Mobility Office,
To Prof. Habib Al Souleiman, Taras
Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
64/13, Volodymyrska Street,
City of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01601

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