Ivanovo State University

Ivanovo State University was founded on 21 December 1918 as Ivanovo-Voznesensk Institute of National Education. On 12 July 1923 it was transformed into a teacher training college which in its turn served as a basis for creating a teacher training institute in August 1932. That institute was named after Dmitry Furmanov. Ivanovo State University received its new name in 1974.

IvSU has 9 academic buildings and three residence halls. The university has a library, sports facility, health centre, zoological and archaeological museums, the museum "Writers of Ivanovo Region", and a botanical garden and a vivarium.

IvSU offers 23 Bachelor's degree programs, 17 Master's degree programs, ten PhD programs, and a specialist's degree in fundamental and applied chemistry.

IvSU has established partnerships with educational and scientific institutions in Bulgaria, Belarus, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Finland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Denmark, China, and Uzbekistan.

The acting agreements give IvSU students and faculty an opportunity to improve their professional knowledge and language skills, to be more familiar with the cultures of various countries, and to gain experience of cross-cultural communication through exchange education, participation in languages, scientific internships, educational tours, and other forms of exchange education.

Ivanovo State University offers foreign students a wide range of opportunities for developing their creative abilities and for enriching their cultural knowledge. At the annual interuniversity scientific and practical conference "A World without Borders", issues related to intercultural dialogue and interethnic tolerance will be discussed. There is an active participation of foreign students in this conference.

A main objective of the center is to help undergraduate and graduate students at IvSU adapt to the present-day labor market and provide them with career guidance.

IvSU students take an active part in a number of all-Russian forums and workshops such as "Students' Russia", contests "Student of the Year" and "Univervision", all-Russian "Student Forum", "Territory of Meanings", "XXI century leader" workshops etc.

Ivanovo State University carries out fundamental and applied research in 19 scientific fields in the natural and engineering sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences.

IvSU publishes a number of journals, including 'Liquid Crystals and Their Application', 'Woman in Russian Society',[1] and 'Intelligentsia and the World'.

'Liquid Crystals and Their Application' is included in international citation databases Web of Science and Scopus.

About 3,000 of students are engaged in physical education in the university. Sports clubs are available for students interested in aerobics, badminton, basketball, football, gymnastics, kayaking, kickboxing, powerlifting, sambo, skiing, table tennis, volleyball, and wushu.

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