SchChat - School | Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

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The first attempt to establish the University in Katerynoslav (former name of Dnipro city) was made at the end of the XIX century, when a tsar’s decree was issued. But practically this idea was embodied only in August of 1918 owing to persevering efforts of domestic intellectuals and support of famous Ukrainian scientists V. Vernads’kyi, D. Bagalii, M. Vasylenko, L. Pysarzhevs’kyi, according to the application of whom the decision about opening of the University was adopted within the frames of four faculties: historical-philological, juridical, medical and physical-mathematical. Therefore, in the autumn of 2008 the University has solemnly celebrated the ninetieth anniversary from the time of its foundation. The official status of the national educational establishment is given to the University by the decree of the president of Ukraine in 2000, and on the 25th of June, 2008 according to the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine N 884-p, the University is named after the famous Ukrainian writer, scientist, public figure – Oles Terentiovych Honchar. The University is proud of the pleiad of the prominent scientists-academicians and the corresponding member of national academies of sciences of Ukraine, Russia and other countries, professors who have enriched the potential of native science, acquired national and international recognition with the help of their own original ideas and researches. They are such scientists as G.V. Kurdyumov, V.I. Danylov, I.Ye. Ogievets’kyi, S.M. Nikol’skyi, D.O. Svirenko, O.M. Dynnyk, L.V. Pysarzhevs’kyi, D.I. Yavornyts’kyi, V.S. Budnyk, T.F. Herasyuta, V.I. Mossakovs’kyi, O.L. Bel’gard, A.P. Travleyev, I.F. Koval’ova, V.P. Motornyi and many others. Owing to the efforts of the leading scientists and all personnel of professors and teachers, well-known scientific schools in the sphere of mathematics, mechanics, radio physics and radio electronics, rocket-space technics, neurocybernetics, biotechnologies, inorganic chemistry, historiography and source study, history of Ukraine, archaeology, Germanic studies, study of literature and linguistics etc. were established and are successfully developing. Achievements of the University scientists are marked with numerous national and branch awards, prizes, grants of foreign scientific-educational establishments. Altogether, over 120000 specialists graduated from the University during the time of its existence, without whom any sphere of our social life would be hardly imaginable.