Kazan National Research Technical University
Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI was established in 1932. Until recently, it was known as Kazan Aviation Institute. In 1973, the institute was named after Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer and designer. In 1992, it got the status of State Technical University. In 2009, it got the status of National Research University. KNRTU-KAI teaches about 15,000 students on 65 majors in Engineering, Business, and Humanities by the university faculty body of 1,000 persons, including 150 Full Professors & Doctor of Science degree holders, 600 Associate Professors & Ph.D. degree holders.
Education
The university includes the following institutes and faculties:- Institute of Aviation, Land Transport & Power Engineerings
- Institute of Automation & Electronic Instrumentation
- Institute of Computer Technologies & Information Protection
- Institute of Radioelectronics, Photonics & Digital Technologies
- Institute of Engineering Economics & Entrepreneurship
- Faculty of Mathematics & Physics
- Higher School of Applied Information Technologies
- Higher School of Technology and Management
- Sino-Russian Engineering Institute
- Russian-Belarusian Institute of Advanced Technologies
On September 2, 2014, German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT) opened as a result of cooperation between the KNRTU-KAI and two universities in Germany - The Technische Universität Ilmenau and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Magdeburg.
Educational buildings
The university is housed in eight buildings. It has six student dormitories and a hostel. A sports complex includes five indoor sports halls. The university also has a sports camp near to the Volga river, 40 km from Kazan.Activities
The sport complex includes 5 indoor sports halls.Notable alumni
- Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer
- Ivan Silayev, Soviet and Russian politician, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union in 1991