Culture and heritage

Shtukenberg Geological Museum celebrating 220th anniversary

The first room of geological rarities, officially the Cabinet of Natural History, was founded with the University itself. Museum Curator, Associate Professor of the Department of Paleontology and Stratigraphy Milyausha Urazaeva told about the history and collections of one of the richest natural science university museums in Russia with more than 430,000 storage items. “In 1804, in...

Scientific Regiment: Alexander Vasilyev’s letter from the frontline

Kazan Federal University continues to publish a series of materials as part of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science’s Scientific Regiment campaign. Before the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory, we tell about the courage and heroism of the university’s students and teachers during the Great Patriotic War. AlexanderVasilyev went to the front...

Russia-Cuba Friendship Society celebrated 60th anniversary

The ceremony took place on 14 November 2024 at the Central House of Scientists in Moscow. Ildus Chukmarov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies for Advanced Training and Industrial Partnerships, Chairman of the Tatarstan Regional Branch of the Russia-Cuba Friendship Society. The participants were welcomed by Alexei Lavrov, President of RCFS, Julio Garmendia Peña,...

Distinguished Geologist of Russia Renat Muslimov celebrates 90th birthday at the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences Danis Nurgaliev was among the many visitors who congratulated Dr Muslimov, who, among other duties, worked at KFU's Department of Oil and Gas Geology in 1994 - 2019. As the Vice-Rector noted, Renat Muslimov was among the first to train development geologists in the contemporary sense of the term. “At Kazan University we...

Director of KFU’s Magnetic Observatory Mikhail Cherzor celebrates 85th birthday

One of the most senior employees of Kazan Federal University has been warmly congratulated by his many colleagues and students. Mr Cherzor was born in Kazan, where after graduating from school with a silver medal he enrolled in Kazan State University (now Kazan Federal University). “It is noteworthy that I could have graduated with a gold medal,...

Georgy Yaroslavtsev, war hero and prominent geologist

We continue sharing stories about KFU students and employees who contributed to the victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941 - 1945). Georgy Antonovich Yaroslavtsev was born on August 16, 1916 in the village of Yugo-Kamsky, Okha District, Perm Oblast. In 1933, he entered the first course of the evening preparatory faculty at Kazan University. In...

Amine Khelkhal: “Russia is the best country in the world for me”

Senior Research Associate of the Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery and the Laboratory of Catalytic Aquathermolysis gave an interview to Open Talk about Russia, a popular YouTube channel featuring conversations with persons who have immigrated to Russia from various countries and found their calling here. Amine shares that he didn’t initially think about Russia when he graduated from the...