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Odessa National University
Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова
Odessa National University logo
TypePublic
Established1865
RectorIgor Koval
Location,
Websitewww.onu.edu.ua

The I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University (Ukrainian: Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова, Russian: Одесский национальный университет имени И.И. Мечникова), located in Odessa, Ukraine, is one of the country's major universities. It was founded in 1865, by an edict of Czar Alexander II of Russia, reorganizing the Richelieu Lyceum of Odessa into the new Imperial Novorossiya University. In the Soviet period, the University had the name I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University.

Organization

The university is divided into a number of faculties. These faculties are directly administered by the university.

Education

Science

  • 11 Scientific research laboratories
  • Botanic garden of ONU
  • Scientific-Research Institute of Physics (director – Doctor of physics and mathematics Professor A.V. Tyurin)
  • Astronomic Observatory