Chernivtsi National University
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, is a public university in the City of Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine. One of the leading Ukrainian institutions for higher education, it was founded in 1875 as the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz when Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) was the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina, a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary. Today the university is based at the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans building complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.
Since 2000, when the university was awarded National status, it operates under its current name, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University.
By decision of Session of Council of European University Association, held in Brussels on 15 January 2009, Yuriy Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University was granted a full individual membership in European University Association. On June 29, 2011, the 35th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to include the central building of the University – the former residence of the Metropolitan of Bukovina and Dalmatia, on the World Heritage List.
Institutes and Faculties
- Institute of Biology, Chemistry and Bioresources
- Institute of Physics, Engineering and Computer Studies
- Faculty of Geography
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Modern European Languages
- Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations
- Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
- Faculty of Pedagogics, Psychology and Social Activity
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Philosophy and Theology
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Physical Training and Health
- Faculty of Architecture, Construction, Arts and Crafts
In 2016, according to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Bukovyna State Financial and Economic University was affiliated to Chernivtsi National University.
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University consists of 17 buildings, with a total amount of 105 units. The total area is 110.8 thousand square meters, including training buildings – 66 square meters.
The architectural ensemble of the main campus of the university, the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans is included on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The university library was founded in 1852 as Krayova Library — the first public library in Bukovina. By 2004, its total book stock included 2,554,000 copies and among them 1,215,000 copies of scientific literature, 171,000 of textbooks and manuals, and 648,000 of fiction. The fund of foreign books contains 376,000 works in German, Romanian, English, Latin, Polish, Ancient Greek, French, Hebraic, Yiddish and other languages.
The scientific library includes 11 departments: collection, scientific processing, native fund preservation, foreign fund preservation, rare and valuable books, book borrowing, reading halls, branch, cultural work, information technologies and information-bibliographic.