Kharkiv National University (also known as Kharkov State University or Karazin Kharkiv National University), in the city of Kharkiv, is one of the major universities in Ukraine, in the former Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of V. N. Karazin, after whom the University is named, becoming the second oldest university in Ukraine after the University of Lviv. Kharkiv Gosprom Building Kharkiv (ukr. ... Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of Russian history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start... The building of the University. ...

Among the scholars associated with the university there are three Nobel prize winners: Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ...

• Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Medicine, 1908)
• Lev Davidovich Landau (Physics, 1962)
• Simon Kuznets (Economics, 1971)

Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Илья Ильич Мечников, also known as Eli Metchnikoff, May 16, 1845, Ukraine – July 16, 1916, Paris) was a Russian microbiologist best remembered for his pioneering research into the immune system. ... Lev Davidovich Landau (Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics whose broad field of work included the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics and particle physics. ... Simon Kuznets Simon Smith Kuznets (April 30, 1901 – July 8/9, 1985) was an economist who won the 1971 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic...

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