The University is one of the initiators of Magna Charta Universitatum (Bologna, 1988), the member of the International Association of Universities and the European University Association, the associated member of the European Nuclear Education Network, the co-founder of the Eurasian Universities Association and Association of Russian and Ukrainian Higher-Education Institutions-partners.
Today the University has 20 schools, 3 research institutes, library, botanical garden, 3 museums. It provides teaching for 14,000 undergraduate students and 500 postgraduate students, employs more than 300 Full Professors (more than 90 % of them are Doctors of Sciences) and about 800 Associated Professors (more than 95 % of them are Candidates of Sciences that is the local equivalent of the PhD degree).
