Tver State University

Tver State University
Тверской государственный университет
Former name
Maksimovich School, Kalinin State Pedagogical Institute
Motto
ТвГУ — Твой гарант успеха
Motto in English
TvGU — Your guarantor of success
TypePublic
Established1870 (1971 in current form)
FounderP. Maksimovich
RectorSergey Smirnov, acting
Students6 500
Postgraduates150
Address
Zhelyabova 33
, ,
Russia

53°51′16″N 35°54′40″E / 53.8544°N 35.9111°E / 53.8544; 35.9111
CampusUrban
NicknameTvGU
Websiteen.tversu.ru
Building details
Map

Tver State University (Russian: Тверской государственный университет) is university in the city of Tver, the oldest and one of the largest universities in the Tver region.

Tver State University was founded in 1870 by public figure and teacher P.P. Maksimovich as the Tver Women's Teachers' School, which in June 1917 was transformed by order of the Minister of Public Education into the Tver Teachers' Institute. As a result, he was transferred in 1971 to Tver State University.[1] In 2020, the university was included in the top 600 best universities in the world according to the Times THE World University Rankings 2020[2] and in the Top of the best universities in the world according to the Round University Ranking.[3]

  1. ^ "Tver State University". en.tversu.ru. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  2. ^ "World University Rankings". Times Higher Education (THE). 2019-08-20. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
  3. ^ "ТвГУ в рейтингах - Тверской государственный университет". tversu.ru. Retrieved 2023-12-29.