Culture and heritage

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...

Exchange students share their experience of studying in Kazan and Beijing

Complex Data Analysis in Geosciences, the Institute's master's program in English, includes an exchange agreement between Kazan Federal University and China University of Petroleum signed in 2019. This year, three students from each side moved to another country for a semester. CUP student Zhou Ling talks about her life in Kazan, "It was difficult in the beginning,...

Shtukenberg Geological Museum opens exhibition commemorating Professor Ivan Penkov

The exhibition commemorates his 100th anniversary.   From a school bench to the war fronts Ivan Penkov (1923 - 2021) is warmly remembered as a prominent geologist, teacher, mentor, avid skier, gymnast, enthusiast fisher, and an overall good-hearted optimist. Penkov's descendants and relatives The future geologist was born in 1923 in the village of Sokolovka, Nikolskoe District, Penza Oblast. He...