Kazan National Research Technical University

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.

Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev-KAI
(KNRTU-KAI)

Казанский национальный исследовательский технический университет им. А.Н. Туполева-КАИ (КНИТУ-КАИ)
Established	1932
President	Yuryi Fedorovich Gortyshov
Rector	Kirill Germanovich Okhotkin
Academic staff	1,000
Administrative staff	2,000
Students	15,000
Location	Kazan , Russia 55°47′50″N 49°06′51″E
Campus	Urban. Also 11 branch institutes outside of the city.
Alumni	Over 110,000 graduated students
Website	http://www.kai.ru/

University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[1]	168 (2022)

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.^[2]

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.

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  View to the entrance of the 2nd KAI building
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  The 3rd KAI building
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  The 4th KAI building
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  The 5th KAI building
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  Tu-144 on the 6th KAI building campus
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  The main entrance to the 7th KAI building
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  The 8th KAI building (German-Russian institute of advanced technologies)

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