North-Eastern Federal University

The Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, NEFU, (in Russian: Северо-Восточный федеральный университет имени Максима Кировича Аммосова; in Sakha: М. К. Аммуоhап аатынан Хотугулуу-Илиҥҥи федеральнай университет) previously known as Yakutsk State University (in Russian: Якутский государственный университет имени Максима Кировича Аммосова), is one of Russia's ten federal universities. NEFU's main campus is in Yakutsk (Sakha Republic), and it has two other campuses in Sakha (one in Mirny and one in Neryungri) as well as one in Anadyr in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The official name is Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education.

Type

Federal university

Founded

1934

Students

19,077

Also known as

Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, NEFU, Yakutsk state university