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Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т (ТГУ) | |
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| Motto | Mens Mundo Aperiens |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1878 |
| Endowment | ₽ 33 million (2018)[1] |
| President | Dr.Georgiy V. Mayer |
| Rector | Dr.Eduard V. Galazhinsky |
| Students | 23,000 |
| Address | 36 Lenin Ave. ,,,634050 ,Russia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Language | Russian,English |
| Newspaper | Alma Mater |
| Awards |   |
| Website | en.tsu.ru |
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  Location within Tomsk Oblast | |
| General information | |
| Location | Tomsk, Russia |
| Coordinates | 56°28′10″N84°56′51″E / 56.4694°N 84.9475°E /56.4694; 84.9475 |
TheNational Research Tomsk State University, TSU (Russian:Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a publicresearch university located inTomsk, Russia. The university, which opened in 1888,[2] was the first university in the Asian part of Russia and, in practice, the first Russian university East of theVolga.
TSU comprises 22 faculties and institutes with 152 departments, serving approximately 18,000 students.[3] As of 2025, the university ranked #499 in theQS World University Rankings[4] and #501 in theWorld University Rankings byTimes Higher Education.[5]
On May 16 (28N.S.), 1878, Emperor Alexander II signed a decree on the establishment of the first higher education institution between the RussianUrals and thePacific Ocean. The move was supported by major industrialist and businessmen, who contributed with private funds, as well as by local city councils in Siberia, but was opposed by conservative voices within theState Council, notablyKonstantin Pobedonostsev, who complained about the cost of the project and the fact that localTomsk society consisted of "all sorts of rabble".[6] Nevertheless, the project progressed, albeit slowly, and on September 1, 1888 the first faculty (medicine) of the Siberian Imperial University named after His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (Russian:Первый Сибирский Томский Императорский (имени Его Императорского Величества Александра III)) finally opened.[7] Classes to the first 72 students were handled by eight professors, aided by seven assistants and laboratory technicians. Professor Nikolai Gezekhus was appointed the first rector of the University. It would take a decade for the second faculty of the university (Law) to become operational.[8]
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Tomsk State University contractedT-Platforms to create ahigh-performance computing cluster. On February 16, 2007, the university announced the completion of a new supercomputer, "SKIF Cyberia".[9] In the June 2007TOP500 listing, the system ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the former Soviet Union and #105 globally.[10]
In 2013, the "Council on Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities" selectedTomsk State University forProject 5-100, a program started by theRussian Ministry of Education and Science to accelerate the development of Russian higher education, with the public goal of achieving top 100 university status for at least five of the selected participants.[11]
In March 2022, Eduard Vladimirovich Galazhinsky,Rector of the university, was suspended by theEuropean University Association (EUA) following support for the2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Union of Rectors (RUR), for being "diametrically opposed to theEuropean values that they committed to when joining EUA”.[12] ProfessorTerry Callaghan, who had helped establish 21 Russian environmental research stations in the Arctic, paused his professorship at Tomsk State University after the rectors’ statement.[13]
| Faculty of | Founded in |
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| Mechanics and Mathematics | 1948 |
| Physics | 1948 |
| Radiophysics | 1953 |
| Physics and Engineering | 1963 |
| Biological Institute | 1932 |
| Geology and Geography | 1933 |
| Chemistry | 1932 |
| History | 1917 |
| Philology | 1917 |
| Philosophy | 1987 |
| Journalism | 2004 |
| Foreign Languages | 1995 |
| Psychology | 1997 |
| Physical Education | 2005 |
| Innovative Technologies | 2009 |
| Institute of Law | 1897 |
| Institute of Economics and Management | 2016 |
| Institute of Arts and Culture | 1994 |
| Military Education | 1926 |
| Pre-courses Department | 2015 |
| Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science | 2017 |
| Higher IT School | 2017 |
| University rankings | |
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| Global – Overall | |
| QS World[14] | =499 (2026) |
| RUR World[15] | 240 (2018) |
| Regional – Overall | |
| QS BRICS[16] | 19 |
| QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[17] | 9 (2022) |
| THE Emerging Economies[18] | 70 |
| National – Overall | |
| Ria Novosti National[19] | 3 (2017) |
In 2022, the university was ranked #272 by QS World University Rankings, #601 byWorld University Rankings byTimes Higher Education, and #901 byAcademic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[20] As of 2017, National Research Tomsk State University was the overall third best classical university in Russia according to RIA Novosti—outperformed only byMoscow State University andUral Federal University.[19]
The Research Library and Tomsk State University were opened in the same year, 1888. The founder of the library was Vasily Florinskiy – physician and writer, organizer of Tomsk University.[citation needed]
The university is a member of theUniversity of the Arctic.[21] UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.[22] The collaboration has been paused after the beginning of theRusso-Ukrainian War in 2022.[23]
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