V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University-: The Karazin University or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the major universities in Ukraine, and earlier in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin becoming the second oldest university in modern-day Ukraine after the University of Lviv.

HISTORY-: On 29 January 1805, the Decree on the Opening of the Imperial University in Kharkiv came into force. The university became the second university in the south of the Russian Empire. In 1839, a veterinary school, which in 1851 became an independent institute, was established at the university. On 11 October 1999, Leonid Kuchma the President of Ukraine issued a decree, in which he, “taking into consideration considerable contribution that Kharkiv State University made to training qualified specialists and to development of science” granted the status of a national university and named it after its founder: Vasyl Nazarovych Karazin. In 2004, the university was given a twin building (the former Govorov Academy), opposite Svobody square. .

RANKING-: Kharkiv National University holds the second place in Ukraine in volume of publications and citations in scientific database Scopus and the Hirsch index. Holding the best academic results in School of Medicine and School of Biology. In 2019, according to QS World University Rankings, it is the best university in Ukraine and 410th university in the world.