Chechen-Ingush University

(full name, L. N. Tolstoy Chechen-Ingush University), a university in Groznyi, founded in 1972 on the basis of a pedagogical institute established in 1938. The university has (1977) nine departments: physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry, geography, history, philology, Romance and German philology, economics, and physical education. It also has evening, correspondence, and preparatory divisions, as well as a graduate program and 34 subdepartments. The library houses a collection of 467,000 volumes. During the 1977–78 academic year, the university had 5,790 students of 30 nationalities; the teaching staff numbered 325, including 13 doctors of sciences and professors and 125 candidates of sciences and docents. The university publishes Uchenye zapiski. In the period 1973–77, the university awarded degrees to 4,370 specialists.