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Odessa National University
Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова
Established	1865
Type	Public
Rector	Valentin A. Smyntyna
Staff	1800
Students	14,000
Location	Odessa, Ukraine
Website	www.onu.edu.ua

The I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University (Ukrainian: Одеський національний університет імені І. І. Мечникова, Russian: Одесский национальный университет имени И.И. Мечникова), located in Odessa, Ukraine, is one of the country's major universities. It was founded in 1865, by an edict of Czar Alexander II of Russia, reorganizing the Richelieu Lyceum of Odessa into the new Imperial Novorossiya University. In the Soviet period, the University had the name I. I. Mechnikov Odessa State University.

[edit] Organization

The university is divided into a number of faculties. These faculties are directly administered by the university.

[edit] Education

• Department of Biology
• Department of Chemistry
• Department of Cybernetics
• Department of Geology and Geography
• Department of Economics and Law
• Department of History
• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Physics
• Department of Philology
• Department of Roman–German Philology

• Institute of Mathematics, Economics and Mechanics
• Institute of Social Sciences
• Institute of innovation and postgraduate education

[edit] Science

• 11 Scientific research laboratories
• Botanic garden of ONU
• Scientific-Research Institute of Physics (director – Doctor of physics and mathematics Professor A.V. Tyurin)
• Astronomic Observatory

[edit] External links

• Odessa National I.I. Mechnikov University -- official site