National University of Kharkiv

Kharkiv University or Karazin University or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin becoming the second oldest university in modern-day Ukraine after the University of Lviv.

National University of Kharkiv's most influential alumni faculty include professors and professionals in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, and Earth Sciences. National University of Kharkiv’s most academically influential people include Lev Landau, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and Simon Kuznets.