Donetsk National University

**Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University**
Донецький національний університет імені Василя Стуса Донецкий национальный университет имени Васыля Стуса

Type	National university
Established	1937
Rector	Roman Grynyuk (Professor; DonNU Rector since November 2012)
Location	Vinnytsia (until 2014: Donetsk), Ukraine
Website	donnu.edu.ua

Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University (Vasyl' Stus DonNU) (Russian: Донецкий национальный университет имени Васыля Стуса Ukrainian: Донецький національний університет імені Василя Стуса, Donets’kyi Natsional’nyi Universytet) one of the leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine. The University's history starts in 1937 from the moment of creation of a pedagogical institute in Donetsk (then Stalino). In 1965, the Institute was transformed into Donetsk State University. It was accorded the National status in 2000.

In 2014, due to the War in Donbass, Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University was evacuated to Vinnytsia.

History

1937 to 1945

On July 15, 1937, a decree from the Ukrainian SSR established the Stalin State Pedagogical Institute in the city of Stalino (Donetsk). Its first director was Oleksandr Yevdokymenko, who was arrested in 1938 and sentenced to ten years imprisonment during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. Originally the institute consisted of two departments, History and Philology, and had five chairs.

Serhiy Ksenofontov became its head in 1940 and added the Physics-Mathematical Faculty in 1941. Due to Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, in 1941 the institute was evacuated first to Kungur and soon thereafter to Molotov, where it was liquidated. It was reestablished in 1943, following the liberation of Donetsk, by a decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR.

After World War II

The school's Student Scientific Association, composed of two divisions – historical-philological and physical-mathematical – was established in 1951. In 1961, Mykola Khoroshailov took over from Ksenofontov as the head of the institute and its name was changed to Donetsk State Pedagogical Institute. In 1964, the institute was subordinated to Kharkiv State University and became a Donetsk branch of Kharkiv State University named after Maksim Gorky.

On May 28, 1965, the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR enacted a decree on organising the Donetsk State University (DonSU) based at the Donetsk branch of Kharkiv State University. Professor Leonid Lytvynenko became the first rector of the university (1965–1968). 1965 saw the launch of post-graduate studies (with an initial enrollment of 16 students), the addition of the faculties of biology and physics, and the construction of the students' campus.

Appointed the second rector of the University, Professor Yuriy Shevlyakov managed the institution from 1968 to 1970, during which the main 12-storey building was constructed. Professor Hryhoriy Tymoshenko was the third University rector (1970–1975). In 1972, the University's history museum was opened in the main building. Professor Hryhoriy Ponomarenko became the rector in 1975, followed by Professor Volodymyr Shevchenko in 1986. On September 11, 2000 the university was accorded national status by a decree of the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma.

War in Donbass and move to Vinnytsia

During the war in Donbass, pro-Russian gunmen began using the campus as one of their bases, turned dormitories into barracks, and stole at least 17 vehicles.^[1]^[2] As a result, the university relocated to Vinnytsia.^[2] In June 2016, 75 out of 105 staff members voted in favour of naming the university after one of its alumni, the poet Vasyl Stus.^[3]

Infrastructure

Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University unites educational and research centers forming a complex that includes: 9 Faculties; 2 regional Training and Retraining Centers; Department of International Education, the UNESCO Department for Ecology in the Technogenous Region; Business Centre; Youth Centre for Legal Studies; the Laboratory for International Scientific and Technical Cooperation; Consulting Centres of the British, German and French Councils; Postgraduate Courses and Doctoral Studies etc.

Notable alumni

Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet, Soviet dissident
Hryhoriy Nemyria, Ukrainian politician, vice prime minister in the Second Tymoshenko Government
Ivan Dziuba, Ukrainian academician, minister of culture, literary critic, author of "Internationalism or Russification?", Holodomor survivor, co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine

Notes and references

↑ Goncharova, Olena (November 13, 2014). "Donetsk National University finds refuge, no cash". Kyiv Post.
1 2 Haring, Melinda (August 26, 2016). "How One University Defied Putin and His Armed Mob". Atlantic Council.
↑ Coynash, Halya (20 June 2016). "Donetsk University Finally Named After Great Ukrainian Poet Vasyl Stus". Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.

This article incorporates text from "History of the University" at the Official Web Site of the University, whose republication is expressely allowed if referenced to www.donnu.edu.ua.

Higher education in Donetsk

Universities	Donetsk National University Donetsk National Technical University Maxim Gorky State Medical University of Donetsk Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky National University of Economics and Trade of Donetsk Donetsk State University of Management Donetsk Christian University

Academies	Donetsk Academy of Automobile Transport

Institutes	Donetsk Railway Transport Institute Institute of information technology and artificial intelligence (DonNTU) Donetsk Institute of Tourism Business Donetsk Institute in Organizational Planning of Mine Construction, Enterprises of Construction Industry and Production Bases Donetsk Design Technology Institute Vladimir Gusak Institute of Emergency and Reconstructive Surgery Institute of Geological and Ecological Problems of Donbas College of Olympic Reserve

Research institutes	Coal Forensics Mining Mechanics Donbas Medical and Ecological Problems and Coal Industry Design and Engineering of Industry Refractories Gaz Transportation Engineering and Design

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	Oleksandr Halkin Physical-Technical Institute of Donetsk Institute of Industry Economics Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics Leonid Lytvynenko Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry

Universities in Ukraine

Universities	Chernivtsi University Alfred Nobel University, Dnipropetrovs'k, Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk National University Donetsk State University of Management Donetsk University East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University Kharkiv University Kharkiv National University of Economics Kherson State University Kyiv National Linguistic University Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv International University Kryvyi Rih National University Lviv University Tavrida National V.I. Vernadsky University National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Odessa National University National University Ostroh Academy Ukrainian Catholic University Zaporizhzhya National University Classic Private University Uzhhorod National University Transcarpathian State University Interregional Academy of Personnel Management Ternopil National Economic University International Solomon University International Christian University – Kiev

Technical universities	National Mining University Dnipropetrovsk National University of Railway Transport Chemical Technology University of Ukraine Donetsk National Technical University Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Kyiv National Economic University Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture Lviv Polytechnic National Aviation University National University of Food Technologies National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine Vinnytsia National Technical University Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding Zaporizhzhya National Technical University Donbas State Technical University

Medical universities	Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Bukovinian State Medical University Donetsk State Medical University Bogomolets National Medical University Crimea State Medical University named after S. I. Georgievsky Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University Odessa State Medical University National Pirogov Memorial Medical University Kharkiv National Medical University Lugansk State Medical University Zaporizhia State Medical University

Pedagogical universities	Classic Private University Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University Nizhyn Pedagogical University Hlukhiv National Pedagogical University of Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kryvyi Rih Pedagogical University Vasyl Stefanyk Prycarpathian National University

Coordinates: 48°00′15″N 37°47′51″E / 48.0041°N 37.7975°E / 48.0041; 37.7975

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.