The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU (Russian: Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a public research university located in Tomsk, Russia. The university, which opened in 1888, was the first university in the Asian part of Russia and, in practice, the first Russian university East of the Volga.

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National Research Tomsk State University
(TSU)

Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т (ТГУ)
Former names	The Siberian Imperial University (1878–1888) Tomsk University (1888–1934) Tomsk State University named after Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev (1934–1991) Tomsk State University (1991–2010)
Motto	Mens Mundo Aperiens
Type	Public
Established	1878
Endowment	₽ 33 million (2018)[1]
President	Dr. Georgiy V. Mayer
Rector	Dr. Eduard V. Galazhinsky
Students	23,000
Address	36 Lenin Ave. , Tomsk , Tomsk Oblast , 634050 , Russia
Campus	Urban
Language	Russian, English
Newspaper	Alma Mater
Awards
Website	en.tsu.ru
Building details
Location within Tomsk Oblast
General information
Location	Tomsk, Russia
Coordinates	56°28′10″N 84°56′51″E

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There are 23 Faculties and Institutes with 151 Departments and about 23,000 students.^{[citation needed]} In 2022, the university was ranked #272 by QS World University Rankings, #601 by World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, and #901 by Academic Ranking of World Universities.

In 2022, the university was ranked #272 by QS World University Rankings, #601 by World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, and #901 by Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.^[12] As of 2017, National Research Tomsk State University was the overall third best classical university in Russia according to RIA Novosti—outperformed only by Moscow State University and Ural Federal University.^[11]

The Research Library and Tomsk State University were opened in the same year, 1888. The founder of the library was Vasily Florinskiy – physician and writer, organizer of Tomsk University.^{[citation needed]}

• Alexei Didenko – Graduate of Tomsk University law faculty (2005), deputy of Tomsk Oblast duma, and regional coordinator of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
• Alexandre Dogiel - Histologist, neuroscientist
• Nikolay Aleksandrovich Gezehus – First rector of Tomsk University (1888-89), professor and founder of physics research at the university.
• Nikolay Feofanovich Kaschenko – Professor and founder of the school of vertebrate zoology at Tomsk University, member of Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences, rector of Tomsk University (1893-95), and professor of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
• Aleksey Aleksandrovich Kulyabko – Graduated as a doctor of medicine from Tomsk University in 1893, professor at Tomsk University from 1903-24, founder of the School of Physiology.
• Pyotr Lyashchenko - Economist, served as rector of the university.
• Ioaniky Malinovsky - Jurist and historian of law, opponent of the death penalty, taught at Tomsk University 1898-1911
• Fritz Noether - German mathematician and former professor; executed by the Stalinist NKVD.
• Antonina Polozhy – Graduated Tomsk in 1939, became a professor at the university in the botanical field.
• Sergey Psakhie – Graduate and former professor of Tomsk University, Chairman of the Presidium of the Tomsk Scientific Centre of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Mikhail Reisner - Lawyer, jurist, historian of law.
• Grigory Shajn - Graduate and astronomer.
• Mikhail Usanovich - Professor and physical chemist, known for his generalized acid-base theory.