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Two of Odessa's universities
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Odessa
State University (Одесский Государственный университет)
Dvoryanskaya 2 (Дворянская)
Between Shchepkina (Щепкина) and Pastera (Пастера)
www.osu.odessa.ua
Tel: 23-52-54
History
The building was constructed between 1852-1857 for the Richelieu
institute (originally
at Deribasovskaya 16 (Дерибасовская)). The architect
Alexander Shashin planned the building. Before the Soviet
revolution it was known as the Novorossisk (New Russian)
University.
In 1865, the
famous Russian surgeon Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov, at the
time one of the members of the Board of Education, encouraged
that it was upgraded into a university.
(For
more on Pirogov see the Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov page)
Vladmir Havkin
graduated from Odessa State University. He was a bacteriologist
who developed cholera and plague vaccines.
The
university is also known as Menchikov University. Illya
Menchikov helped build the first center for the studies
of rabies in Ukraine and Russia. In 1908 he won a Nobel
Peace Prize for his work.
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In
1975, on the 30th anniversary of the end of World
War Two, a monument was unveiled as a memorial to
the university staff and students who died in the
war.
The
memorial states:
1941-1945
People! While your hearts are beating - remember!
What price we paid for (conquered) our happiness -
remember!
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The university
has six institutes and eight faculties. The university has
over 13,000 students, 500 which are foreign citizens from
25 countries of the world.
The university
also has 17 independent research laboratories, a botanical
garden, a paleontology, zoological, and hydro-mineralogical
museum.
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Left
of the entrance, the five memorial plaques on the wall
state:
In this building, prominent physicist,
astrophysicist,
cosmologist of XX century Georgy Antonovich Gamov
studied in 1921-1922 (1904 -1968)
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In
this building, outstanding psychologist,
Professor David Genrikhovich Elkin worked from 1930
to 1976 |
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In
this building, prominent zoologist,
University Rector,
Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Honoured Scientist, Professor Mykola Opanasovich Savchuk
studied and worked from 1927 to 1976
(1899 -1976) |
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In
Odessa University, prominent microbiologist
and epidemiologist, President of the
Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,
Academician Danilo Kirilovich Zabolotny
studied and worked in 1885-1891. |
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In
this building, great Russian physiologist
Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov
worked from 1871 to 1876 |
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Refrigeration
Academy (Академия холода)
Dvoryanskaya 1/3 (Дворянская)
Between Shchepkina (Щепкина) and Pastera (Пастера)
Across
the courtyard from Odessa State Univerity is a large
gray building, the Refrigeration Academy. It was built
from 1936-1940 and designed by architect Adolph Minskus.
High above the entryway are four broad chested men
in different poses, another excellent example of Soviet
era art.
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The memorial
next to the entrance states:
In
this building, prominent Soviet scientist,
University Rector,
Professor Vladimir Sergeyevich Martynovsky
worked from 1948 to 1973
(1906 -1973)
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