National University of Uzbekistan (NUUz; ) is a

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located in

Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

. NUUz is the oldest and largest university in

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. The National University of Uzbekistan is named after Mirzo Ulugbek. NUUz professors and teaching staff work with modern materials and science and have relationships with the world's most distinguished scientific schools.

History

The government of the Soviet Union, headed by

Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...

, 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 independent . 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

Central Asian Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

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

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, many academics relocated from cities in the western USSR to

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

Tashkent Tashkent (), also known as Toshkent, is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uzbekistan, largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of more than 3 million people as of April 1, 2024. I ...

and

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, 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 (30 January 1938 – 2 September 2016) was an Uzbek politician who served as the first president of Uzbekistan, from the country's independence in 1991 until his death in 2016. He was the last First Secretary of the ...

, 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

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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,

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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

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. It also holds a copy of the

Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...

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 is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

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

Zoology Museum

The

zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

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

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age are displayed.

Degrees

NUUz has 93 programs for 4-year bachelor degrees, 81 programs for 2-year master's degree, and 98 doctoral degree specialties.

Notable alumni

* Abdulla A'zamov * Tamara Abaeva, historian * Elyor Karimov *

Rashid Kadyrov Rashitjon (Rashid) Hamidovich Qodirov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Рашиджон (Рашид) Ҳамидович Қодиров, Russian: Рашид (Рашитжон) Хамидович Кадиров; born 24 February 1952) – former prosecutor general o ...

* Maimul Ahsan Khan * Bakhadyr Khoussainov, mathematician,

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of ...

winner * Jahangir Mamatov *

Vladimir Vapnik Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (; born 6 December 1936) is a statistician, researcher, and academic. He is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning and the co-inventor of the support-vector machine method ...

, developer of

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s *

Abdulla Aripov Abdulla Nigmatovich Aripov (; , born 24 May 1962) is an Uzbek politician who serves as the prime minister of Uzbekistan, in office since 14 December 2016. Aripov is a member of the Uzbekistan Liberal Democratic Party. He was deputy prime min ...

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

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

* Erkin Vakhidov * Ozod Sharafuddinov * Sadi Sirajitdinov * 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

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Mirzo Ulugbek & Science
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