National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, NaUKMA (Ukrainian: Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія», Natsional'nyi universytet "Kyyevo-Mohylians'ka akademiya", НаУКМА), located in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine is one of the country's leading national schools of higher education.
NaUKMA in its current form was established in 1992 shortly after Ukraine gained its independence upon the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union.
However, the historic predecessor of the NaUKMA, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kiev-Mogila Academy), was one of the oldest and the most distinguished academic and theological schools in Eastern Europe. It was established in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1632 by Petro Mohyla (Peter Mogila), a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia. It played an important role in transmitting Renaissance ideals from Western Europe through Poland to Ukraine and Russia.[1]
The present-day university occupies the historical compound of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Podil neighborhood, which contains some 17th century buildings.
The Academy teaches several courses in English, and also opperates profitable business teaching English to the general public, in partnership with Grant MacEwan College of Edmonton, Canada.[2]
[edit] Famous alumni
- Hryhori Skovoroda
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Ivan Mazepa
- Pylyp Orlyk
- Kirill Razumovsky
- Feofan Prokopovich
- Nikolai Gogol
[edit] External links
- (English) NAUKMA History
- Oficial Web Page of NaUKMA
- (Ukrainian) Bonet - a Student Portal of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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