Akaki Tsereteli State University ( ka, აკაკი წერეთლის სახელობის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr), also known as Kutaisi University ( ka, ქუთაისის უნივერსიტეტი, tr), is a

university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

established in July 1930 in

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

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, and now located in

Kutaisi Kutaisi (, ka, ქუთაისი ) is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third-most populous city in Georgia, traditionally, second in importance, after the capital city of Tbilisi. Situated west of Tbilis ...

History

The university was established on the basis of

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

. Tbilisi State University had been founded under guidance of Georgian historian

Ivane Javakhishvili Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; 23 April 1876 – 18 November 1940) was a Georgian historian and linguist whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history ...

in 1918. In July 1930, when Georgia had already fallen under Soviet rule, the authorities abolished Tbilisi State University, creating four independent institutions in its place. State Pedagogical Institute was one of those universities. On January 8, 1933, Tbilisi State University was re-established and State Pedagogical Institute moved to

. Now named Kutaisi University and located in the center of the city, it started functioning from February 13, 1933. Up to 700 students moved to Kutaisi from Tbilisi to continue their studies at the university. In 1990, the university was transformed into Akaki Tsereteli State University, being named after Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure

Akaki Tsereteli Count Akaki Tsereteli ( ka, აკაკი წერეთელი) (1840–1915), often mononymously known as Akaki,Sometimes mistakenly rendered in Russian as Akakiy. Georgian spelling Akaki and Russian spelling Akakiy are both derived from th ...

. On February 23, 2006, the authorities merged the university with Kutaisi N. Muskhelishvili Polytechnic Institute which was founded on September 1, 1974, enhancing its faculty and curriculum on technical subjects.

Faculties

As of 2019, the Akaki Tsereteli State University operated the following faculties:Faculties
/ref> * Faculty of Humanitarian * Faculty of Pedagogics * Faculty of Exact and Natural sciences * Faculty of Business, Law and Social sciences * Faculty of Medicine * Faculty of Technical Engineering * Faculty of Technological Engineering * Faculty of Agriculture * Faculty of Maritime-transportation

Alumni

Lado Asatiani Vladimir (Lado) Asatiani ( ka, ვლადიმერ ��ადოასათიანი) (14 January 1917 – 23 June 1943) was a Georgian poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as suc ...

References

External links

Official website of Akaki Tsereteli State University
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History

Faculties

Alumni

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