Kryvyi Rih National University

Kryvyi Rih National University, colloquially known as KNU is located in Kryvyi Rih, one of the main industrial cities of Ukraine. Currently, its structure consists of seven faculties (academic departments) and five institutes. It was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet Union era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University, State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy (a branch of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine at that moment). It is ranked as one of the best universities in Ukraine in many rankings (see below). History In 1929 the college was converted into an evening working institution, and from 1931 to the Kryvyi Rihv Mining Institute. The following year in Kryvyi Rih, the Institute of Vocational Training was founded. It was reorganized as the Pedagogical Institute. In the prewar period, the institute trained about 1,000 teachers. In 1999, the basis of the State Pedagogical Institute was established as Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. During World War II, having been evacuated from 20 September 1941 to August 1944, the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute relocated to Nizhny Tagil, Russia. In September 1944 the Institute resumed classes for the students in its original location. It increased the number of specialties, which prepared the engineering staff. Five of its academics have been honored with the Lenin or State Prizes. In 1994 the institute became a charter technical university.