National University of Uzbekistan (NUUz) () is a public university located in

Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous ...

. NUUz is the oldest and largest university in

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

. National University of Uzbekistan is named after

Mirzo Ulugbek Mirzo Ulugbek ( uz, Mirzo Ulugʻbek tumani, russian: Мирзо-Улугбекский район, Mirzo-Ulugbeksky rayon) is one of 12 districts (''tuman'') of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It was named after the astronomer, mathematicia ...

. NUUz professors and teaching staff work with modern materials and science and have relationships with the world's distinguished scientific schools.

History

Higher educational institutions originated in eastern Iran in the 10th century CE and spread to major urban centers throughout the

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by the late 11th century. Simultaneously, universities were established in the West. In the beginning of the 20th century,

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s tried to establish universities with the collaboration of Russian democrats. Muslim People University was headed by a council consisting of 45 people. It aimed to offer higher, secondary and primary education. In autumn, Muslim People University and its founders were the first victims of repression from

communists Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

. The government of the Soviet Union, headed by

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, founded Turkestan People's University in 1918 with 1,200 students. It was renamed to Turkestan State University in 1920, then renamed to First Central Asian State University in 1923 and renamed again to Tashkent State University, named after Lenin in 1961 and finally named National University of Uzbekistan after Uzbekistan's independence. In 1961-1969, NUUz won the first place among institutions in Central Asia in the contemporary system of education and became one of the most prestigious higher institutions of the Soviet Union. Many

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national universities were established on the basis of the NUUz, including Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (1925), High Pedagogy Institute of Tajikistan (1932) and the Institute of Agriculture of Tajikistan (1931). During

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, many academics relocated from cities in the western USSR to

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the fo ...

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of 2 ...

and

Alma-Ata Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1936 as an autonomous republic as part of t ...

, which were favored for their European-style infrastructure and the presence of a significant number of Russian speakers. In the spring of 2008, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan,

Islam Karimov Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov ( uz, Islom Abdugʻaniyevich Karimov / Ислом Абдуғаниевич Каримов, italics=no; russian: link=no, Ислам Абдуганиевич Каримов; 30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was t ...

, signed the resolution of the 90th anniversary from the date of foundation of the university in September 1918. In September 2018, two joint faculties with Kazan Federal University and Holonsky Israeli Technical Institute began to function.

Organization

The 15 faculties and 74 departments include:
Applied mathematics and intellectual technologiesMathematics
*Physics *Geology and geoinformation systems *Geography and natural resources *Chemistry *Biology *Social sciences *History *Economics *Foreign Philology *Journalism *Taekwondo and sport studies *Uzbek-Israel joint faculty of Mathematical engineering and computer science An academic lyceum named after S. H. Sirojiddinov operates under NUU. It was founded in 1970 as a boarding school of young physicists and mathematicians. Over 100 PhD professors and over 200 PhD associate professors are among the lyceum's graduates.

Campuses and museums

There are 9 hostels on the “Yoshlik” campus, in which over 3200 undergraduate and graduate students live. Internet service, computer classes, international and trunk calls, a student's clinic, a sports and recreation facility, dry cleaning, dressmakers and shoemakers, training and cultural centers, libraries, dining halls, a market and shops are at the disposal of the students. Rooms for spirituality and enlightenment and also living rooms in each hostel for teachers who continue the training process with the students after classes.

Museums

NUUz has 5 museums.

History of the University Museum

This museum is designed to demonstrate the contribution of NUUz in the spread of scientific knowledge throughout Central Asia.

Rare Manuscripts Museum

Founded on March 31, 2006, this museum contains manuscripts dated to the 16th-20th centuries in the Uzbek, Tajik, Persian, Turkish and

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languages. These manuscripts have been kept in the University's Information and Resource Centre for 80 years. This collection began to be compiled in 1920. One of the most valuable literary pieces is ''Zafarnoma'' by Sharafiddin Ali Yazdi, created in 1454 and illustrated 12 years after its creation by a calligrapher Kamoliddin Bekhzod. Another copy of ''Zafarnoma'' is in the library of Paris University. It also holds a copy of the

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made during the reign of the Moguls in the 16th century. In addition, works of A.N Avoi (Khamsa), Z.M.Babur's (''Baburnoma, The Deeds of Tamerlane'', ''Iskandarnoma)'' and other similar precious manuscripts are archived.

Archaeology and Ethnology Museum

Incorporating archaeological finds collected in Uzbekistan and

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the s ...

. Educational archaeological expeditions of the members of the sub-department “The Archaeology of Central Asia” have filled the museum expositions.

Zoology Museum

The

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collection exhibits the largest scientific compilation in the country, gathered and maintained for over 100 years, encompassing 23,500 specimens. It includes 560 species of birds, a collection of vertebrates, rare and endangered species, as well as the exhibits of 129 kinds of unique and unprotected mammals.

Geology Museum

1400 exhibits of petrified plants and animals from the paleolithic age are displayed.

Degrees

The Bachelor's degree (4 years) has 46 programs. The Master's degree (2 years after Bachelor's) has 76 programs. The PhD (3 years after Master's) has 68 programs. A D.Sc. (2–3 years after PhD) is offered.

Notable alumni

Tamara Abaeva Tamara Grigorievna Abaeva (Тамара Григорьевна АБАЕВА) (born July 1927) was a Soviet historian. She was born in Khiva and studied at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent (then known as SAGU or САГУ). She obt ...

, historian *

Elyor Karimov Elyor E. Karimov ( uz, Elyor Erikovich Karimov, russian: Эльёр Эрикович Каримов, Karimov, Ė. Ė. (Ėlʹër Ėrikovich); born ) is an Uzbekistani orientalist and scholar of Islamic, Central Eurasian Studies and Diplomatics. A ...

Rashid Kadyrov , birth_date = , birth_place = Andijan, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , nationality = Uzbek , residence = Andijan , death_date = , death_place = , order = Prosecutor General in the Government of Uzbekistan , term_start = April 25, ...

Maimul Ahsan Khan Maimul Ahsan Khan ( bn, মাইমুল আহসান খান; born December 22, 1954) is a Bangladeshi scholar of jurisprudence and comparative law and a former professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka. His expertise enc ...

* Bakhadyr Khoussainov, mathematician,

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

winner * Jahangir Mamatov *

Vladimir Vapnik Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the support-vector machin ...

, developer of

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s * Abdulla Aripov, awarded the title Hero of Uzbekistan * Zamira Ismailovna Usmanova, archaeologist and first woman graduated at the National University of Uzbekistan *

Ruslan Medzhitov Ruslan Maksutovich Medzhitov (born March 12, 1966) is a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, a member of Yale Cancer Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His research focuses on the analysis of the innate i ...

* Erkin Vakhidov * Ozod Sharafuddinov *

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* Tashmukhammad Sarimsakov * Obid Sadikov * Sadik Azimov * Ubay Oripov * Habib Abdullaev * Gulam Karimov * Ibrakhim Muminov * Prof.Eduard Yakubov * Victoria Vladimirovna Belaga
Shavkat Ayupov

References

External links

Mirzo Ulugbek & Science
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