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This year Uman National University of Horticulture will celebrate the 175th anniversary of its establishment. Nowadays thanks to the joint work of the great family of the university, it is a renowned agricultural educational institution with rich traditions, unique history and a desire to conquer new heights and to be one of the best agricultural higher educational institutions of the country. Its history goes back to 1844, when the only in the Russian Empire Main School of Gardening was founded. Since the establishment of the educational institution the agriculture has received more than 40 thousand highly qualified specialists, including 32 academicians, 700 Doctors of Sciences and more than two thousand Candidates of Sciences. Among them 23 were awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of Socialist Labor, and O.N. Parubok and L.Y. Shlifer were honored with this award twice, the Hero of the Soviet Union Y.K Glibko, Heroes of Ukraine O.S. Maselskyy and L.G. Yakovyshyn, Deputies of the Supreme Council of Ukraine, many well-known statesmen, business executives and professionals. Now more than 6000 students are studying at six faculties. There are 13 under-graduate degree programs and 19 specialties. 350 members of the teaching staff, including 32 Doctors, Professors and 235 Candidates of Sciences, 150 Associate Professors, provide the learning process. The Institute for Post-diploma Education and Consulting provides retraining of specialists and consultation services to agricultural producers. In order to improve the quality of training specialists for agriculture on the basis of our university the Regional University Center was founded. It combines seven educational establishments of I-II levels of accreditation in Cherkassy region. Now over 13 thousand students are studying at the Center. The university has a post-graduate course (18 majors) and the institution for doctoral candidacy (7 majors), two specialized academic councils for doctoral and candidate’s thesis defence. On the bases of the University are published: Collection of scientific papers of uman NUH, Bulletin of Uman NUH, collections of scientific papers of young scientists and students' scientific papers, materials of conferences, journal ' Horticultural News', and others. There is a modern scientific library with reading rooms for 220 seats and book depository of 500 thousand volumes of educational, scientific and literary works.