Founded in 1804, the 200-year-old VN Karazin Kharkiv National University, often known as the Karazin University, is one of the oldest universities in not only Ukraine but also eastern Europe. The efforts of the prominent educator Vasily Karazin helped found this eminent institution, which now ranks among the best classical Ukrainian universities, and is well-known in countries across the world. VN Karazin Kharkiv National University campus is located in the north eastern city of Kharkiv – the second largest city in Ukraine. Since its foundation, the university and its alumni have played an important role in making the city a major hub of academia, industrial progress, science, as well as culture in Ukraine. Historically, the alumni of Kharkiv National University are notable, well-recognised educators, scholars, and researchers – including three Nobel prize laureates - the biologist I. Mechnikov, the economist S. Kuznets, and the physicist L. Landau. VN Karazin Kharkiv National University has 21 schools, which collectively offer 115 majors and minors, with a total enrolment of about 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 400 postgraduate students. Their 1500 faculty and research staff are well trained and extremely qualified, with 381 doctors of science, full professors, and almost 1060 PhD holders. Kharkiv National University is home to many of Ukraine’s finest facilities, from one of the country’s largest Research Centres for modern fundamental research, to their oldest Botanical Garden. The campus is also equipped with a massive Natural History museum, one of the oldest museums in the world, an Astronomical Observatory which has been one of Ukraine’s leading astronomy centres since 1808, and a Central Scientific Library. VN Karazin Kharkiv National University places second in Ukraine, in terms of number of publications and citations in the scientific database Scopus and the Hirsch Index. It also boasts the best academic results in two of its schools – Medicine and Biology. VN Karazin Kharkiv National University was ranked the best university in Ukraine, as well as the 410th university in the world according to the QS World University Rankings in 2019.