New training laboratory complex of the Chemical Institute of KFU opened in Kazan

(Kazan City KZN.RU, September 4). Today a new training and laboratory building of the A.M.Butlerov Chemical Institute of KFU opened in Kazan. The opening ceremony was attended by the Acting President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Education and Science of RT Engel Fattakhov.

As the portal of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan says, an 8-storey building will house 37 large laboratories. They will conduct research in organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, petro chemistry, as well as in the field of fine chemicals and catalysis. This powerful research complex will be an essential element of the petrochemical cluster of the republic.

Recall the ceremony of laying of the symbolic stone for the construction of the new building took place on 21 September 2011 in the framework of the Butlerov International Congress on organic chemistry. The construction site was deployed behind the old building housing of the chemical faculty (it was built in the 40's - early 50-ies).

Summary

Kazan (Volga) Federal University is one of the oldest universities in Russia, in 2014 it celebrated the 210-year anniversary. Currently KFU is one of the best universities in the country participating in the program to increase the competitiveness of the leading universities of the Russian Federation at the global level (the project "5-100"). The priority areas of its activity: medicine and pharmaceuticals, oil production and refining, aerospace and information technology, advanced materials.