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Kazan (Volga region) Federal University
(
Russian
:
Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
,
Kazanskiy (Privolzhskiy) federalnyy universitet
;
Tatar
:
Cyrillic
Казан (Идел буе) федераль университеты
,
Latin
Qazan (?del buye) federal' universitetı
) is a
university
in
Kazan
,
Tatarstan
,
Russia
. It was founded in 1804. The famous Russian
mathematician
Lobachevsky
was its
headmaster
from 1827 till 1846. The post is now being held by
Myakzyum Salakhov
(Ma?zum Salaxev).
Kazan University is also known as "the birthplace of organic chemistry" because of the works of
Aleksandr Butlerov
,
Vladimir Markovnikov
,
Aleksandr Arbuzov
, and others.