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Type
  
Public

Students
  
22,261

Phone
  
+7 382 270-18-38

Founded
  
1896

Established
  
1896

Location
  
Tomsk, Russia

Total enrollment
  
20,664 (2014)

Rector
  
Petr S. Chubik

Tomsk Polytechnic University

Former names
  
Tomsk Technological Institute (1896-1925) Siberian Technological Institute (1925-1930) Siberian Institute of Mechanical Engineering (1930-1934) Tomsk Industrial Institute (1934-1944) Tomsk Polytechnic Institute (1944-1991) Tomsk Polytechnic University (1991-2009)

Motto in English
  
Knowledge, freedom, and prosperity

Address
  
Lenin Ave, 30, Tomsk, Tomskaya oblast', Russia, 634050

Motto
  
Scientia Libertas Prosperitas (Knowledge, freedom, and prosperity)

Notable alumni
  
Mikhail Usov, Nikolai Nikitin, Gennady Mesyats, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, Gennady Voronov

Similar
  
Peter the Great St Petersbur, Tomsk State University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk State Pedagogi, Tomsk State University

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Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Tomsk, Russia, is the oldest technical university in Russia east of the Urals. The university was founded in 1896 and opened in 1900 as the Tomsk Technological Institute. In 1925, the school was renamed the Siberian Technological Institute and in 1930, the institute was split into five divisions, three of which remained in Tomsk. In 1934, the three institutes in Tomsk reunited to form a new institute that would be named the Tomsk Polytechnic Institute. The university has more than 22,000 current students and has graduated more than 100,000 technical specialists. As of 2014 the rector was Petr S. Chubik.

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International relations

The university has a number of relationships with schools all over the world. It has set up several centers in cooperation with schools abroad such as Ohio State University, Michigan State University and Goethe-Institut. It is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network. The various centers include:

  • The Russian-American Centre
  • The Russian-German Centre
  • The Russian-French Centre
  • The Asian and Pacific Centre
  • The Central Asia Centre for Engineering Education (CACEE)
  • International Scientific Relations Department
  • The university also has representative offices in Karlsruhe, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic; and Nicosia, Cyprus.

    Alumni, students, and faculty

  • Mikhail Mil (did not graduate), helicopter designer, the founder of the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant.
  • Nikolay Kamov - famous helicopter designer
  • Alexander Kazantsev, science fiction writer.
  • Kanysh Satpayev, one of the founders of Soviet metallogeny.
  • Nikolay Urvantsev, geologist and Arctic explorer
  • Fritz Noether, German-born mathematician, faculty.
  • Category:Tomsk Polytechnic University alumni
  • Category:Tomsk Polytechnic University faculty
  • References

    Tomsk Polytechnic University Wikipedia