Belarusian State University (BSU) (Belarusian: Белару́скі Дзяржа́ўны Унівeрсiтэ́т; Russian: Белору́сский Госуда́рственный Университе́т), Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921.
The BSU is the major Belarusian university. In 2006 it had 15 Schools (Faculties) with 148 Departments, 5 R&D; institutes, 24 Research Centres, 114 R&D; laboratories. The University employs over 2,400 academic staff and 1,100 research associates; about 2,000 of th...
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Belarusian State University (BSU) (Belarusian: Белару́скі Дзяржа́ўны Унівeрсiтэ́т; Russian: Белору́сский Госуда́рственный Университе́т), Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921.
The BSU is the major Belarusian university. In 2006 it had 15 Schools (Faculties) with 148 Departments, 5 R&D; institutes, 24 Research Centres, 114 R&D; laboratories. The University employs over 2,400 academic staff and 1,100 research associates; about 2,000 of these hold Ph.D. or Sc.D. degrees. There are 16,500 undergraduate students at the university, as well as over 1000 Ph.D. and Master students.
Decision to establish Belarusian State University, as a first national university of Belarus, was made on 25 February 1919 by the government of the Byelorussian SSR. However, Minsk was occupied by the Polish army at the time, and the university was actually established in 1921 in Minsk.
Uładzimier Pičeta, historian and Slavonic languages expert, became first rector of the BSU. The university staff was...
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