Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI (KNRTU-KAI, full name in Russian: Казанский национальный исследовательский технический университет имени А. Н. Туполева-КАИ, or Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev-KAI; Tatar: А.Н. Туполев исемендәге Казан илкүләм тикшеренү техник университеты, romanized: A.N. Tupolev isemendäge Qazan ilküläm tikşerenü texnik universitetı ) was established in 1932. Until recently, it was known as Kazan Aviation Institute (Казанский авиационный институт; Tatar: Казан авиация институты, romanized: Qazan aviatsiyä institutı). In 1973, the institute was named after Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev, Russian and later Soviet aeronautical engineer and designer. In 1992, it got the status of State Technical University. In 2009, it got the status of National Research University. KNRTU-KAI teaches about 15,000 students on 65 majors in Engineering, Business, and Humanities by the university faculty body of 1,000 persons, including 150 Full Professors & Doctor of Science degree holders, 600 Associate Professors & Ph.D. degree holders.
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Education
The university includes the following institutes and faculties:
Institute of Aviation, Land Transport & Power Engineerings
Institute of Automation & Electronic Instrumentation
Institute of Computer Technologies & Information Protection
Institute of Radioelectronics, Photonics & Digital Technologies
Institute of Engineering Economics & Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Mathematics & Physics
Higher School of Applied Information Technologies
Higher School of Technology and Management
Sino-Russian Engineering Institute
Russian-Belarusian Institute of Advanced Technologies
KNRTU-KAI includes 4 associated branch institutes outside Kazan in the towns of Almetyevsk, Chistopol, Leninogorsk, Naberezhnye Chelny.
On September 2, 2014, German-Russian Institute of Advanced Technologies (GRIAT) opened as a result of cooperation between the KNRTU-KAI and two universities in Germany - The Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau) and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in Magdeburg.
Educational buildings
The university is housed in eight buildings. It has six student dormitories and a hostel. A sports complex includes five indoor sports halls. The university also has a sports camp near to the Volga river, 40 km from Kazan.
Activities
The sport complex includes 5 indoor sports halls.
Notable alumni
Mikhail Simonov (1929 – 2011), Russian aircraft designer
Ivan Silayev (1930 – 2023), Soviet and Russian politician, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union in 1991