The National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod was established on January 31, 1916, as one of the public universities in Soviet Russia and was the first higher education institution in Nizhny Novgorod.

In 1945, our university established the country’s first Faculty of Radiophysics, followed by the creation of its own Research Institute of Radiophysics in 1956. That same year, the university was named in honor of Nikolai Lobachevsky, the renowned Russian mathematician born in Nizhny Novgorod. The first Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics in the country was founded at Lobachevsky University in 1963, which was subsequently followed by the establishment of the Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics a year later.

In 2009, Lobachevsky University was granted the prestigious status of a national research university.

In 2012, the university established a complex interdisciplinary research institute known as the “Institute of Living Systems.”

In 2013, alongside 14 other Russian universities, Lobachevsky University was selected by the Russian government as a participant in the 5-100 project (the 5-100 initiative), aimed at enhancing the global competitiveness of universities.

In 2014, the university launched its powerful supercomputer named Lobachevsky at the Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, achieving a peak performance of 570 teraflops, making it the third most powerful supercomputer.