Lobachevsky University

National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod was founded on January 31, 1916 as one of the People’s Universities of Soviet Russia and was the first higher education institution in Nizhny Novgorod.

In 1945, our university was the first in the country to establish its Faculty of Radiophysics, and in 1956,  Research Institute for Radiophysics. The same year, the University was named after Nikolai Lobachevsky, a great Russian mathematician born in Nizhny Novgorod. The country’s first Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics was founded at Lobachevsky University in 1963. It was followed by the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics one year later. 

In 2009, Lobachevsky University was awarded a prestigious status of a National Research University.

In 2012,  Lobachevsky University created a complex interdisciplinary research institute, named “Institute of Living Systems”.

In 2013, together with 14 Russian universities, Lobachevsky University was chosen by the Russian government to be a participant in the 5-100 Project (5-100 Initiative) aimed at supporting the universities’ global competitiveness enhancement programmes.

In 2014, the University launched its powerful supercomputer named Lobachevsky at the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics. The peak performance of Lobachevsky is 570 Tflops: this makes it the third most powerful supercomputer in Russian universities and brings it to the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Being the participant of a Federal target programme for the development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry, in 2017 the University established its Center for Innovative Development of Medical Instrument Engineering.  

The year 2019 marked a new stage in the development of Lobachevsky University’s international campus when a new dormitory was opened with 8 floors of living accommodation, a gym, a student canteen, a first-aid post and rooms for individual studying.

Lobachevsky University has strong international partnership ties with more than 140 agreements. Among its partner universities are University of Ghent, Ca’Foscari University, University of Verona, University of Bologna, University of Turin, High School of Management of Renn-1, Turku University, Huelva University, Masaryk University, etc.

Lobachevsky University actively participates in cooperation with European higher education institutions within the Erasmus+ programme and offers 20 dual degree programmes with 9 partner universities: Oviedo University, Macquarie University, University of Rennes-1, University of Rouen, University of Grenoble-Alpes, University of Calabria, University of Siena, University of Palermo, Turan University.

Lobachevsky University is also a consortium partner in the Erasmus Mundus IMCEERES Programme, which comprises three separate awards from the University of Tartu and the University of Glasgow plus one of the other degree-awarding partners according to the study pathway undertaken. 

Lobachevsky University is a host university to 11 projects carried out under the supervision of world-level leading scientists from University of Dusseldorf, University of Leicester, Extreme Light Fields Institute in Paris, etc.