Sumy State University

Sumy State University (Ukrainian: Сумський державний університет, SumDU) is a state university in Sumy, north-eastern Ukraine, founded in 1948 as an engineering training centre attached to a machine-building plant, and it is now the largest university in Sumy Oblast.苏梅州立大学（乌克兰文：Сумський державний університет，简称 SumDU）是乌克兰东北部苏梅市的一所国立大学，1948 年以一家机械制造厂附属的工程培训中心起步，如今已是苏梅州规模最大的大学。

It enrols about 12,000 students in 55 majors across 23 fields of study, including roughly 1,900 international students from almost 50 countries.该校在 23 个学科领域的 55 个专业中招收了约 12000 名学生，其中包括来自近 50 个国家的约 1900 名国际学生。

The university sits in the 1201-1400 band of both the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and it does not appear in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table or the 2026 ShanghaiRanking main list.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中均位列 1201-1400 区间，但未进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

History

• In February 1948 a joint directive of the Soviet ministries of higher education, machine building and instrument making authorised a training and consulting centre inside the Sumy Machine-Building Plant named after M. V. Frunze.1948 年 2 月，苏联高等教育部、机械制造部与仪器制造部联合下令，在苏梅的伏龙芝机械制造厂内设立一所培训与咨询中心。
• The plant issued the formal order on 30 July 1948, the first intake enrolled in August 1948, and the centre was led by V. I. Popov, a war veteran and former teachers' institute graduate who also worked in the plant's personnel department.工厂于 1948 年 7 月 30 日正式下达命令，1948 年 8 月迎来首批学员，中心由战争老兵、师范院校毕业生瓦西里·波波夫（V. I. Popov）领导，他同时在企业人事部门任职。
• The centre was attached to the Moscow Correspondence Institute of Small-Scale Industry, later renamed the All-Union Correspondence Machine-Building Institute, and it taught engineers and managers who had entered industry with only secondary specialist qualifications.该中心隶属于莫斯科小工业函授学院（后更名为全联盟函授机械制造学院），为那些仅具中等专业学历便进入工业界的工程师与管理人员提供进修。
• During the 1958 reorganisation that created the Ukrainian Distant Polytechnic Institute, the Sumy centre was folded into the new institute as one of its constituent units.1958 年乌克兰函授工学院组建时，苏梅中心被并入这所新学院，成为其组成单位之一。
• In May 1960 the Sumy General Technical Faculty of the Ukrainian Distant Polytechnic Institute was established on the base of the centre, which gave the city its first permanent higher-education faculty.1960 年 5 月，乌克兰函授工学院苏梅普通技术系在中心的基础上成立，苏梅市由此拥有了第一个常设的高等教育院系。
• In 1966 the faculty was transformed into the Sumy Department of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, with O. H. Inozemtseva appointed as its first director.1966 年，该系改制为哈尔科夫工学院苏梅分部，奥·格·伊诺泽姆采娃（O. H. Inozemtseva）被任命为首任主任。
• Through the 1970s and 1980s the department expanded with the city's machine-building, chemical and pump industries, adding evening and correspondence courses for working engineers.在 1970 与 1980 年代，该分部随着苏梅的机械制造、化工与泵类工业一同扩张，为在职工程师增设夜校与函授课程。
• Ukraine's independence in 1991 turned a branch of a Kharkiv institute into a regional institution in its own right, teaching in Ukrainian and building its own academic council.1991 年乌克兰独立，使这所哈尔科夫工学院的分部转变为一所独立的地区性院校，改用乌克兰语教学并建立自己的学术委员会。
• By the mid-1990s the institution had become Sumy State University, a standalone university with faculties of engineering, economics and the humanities rather than a single technical department.到 1990 年代中期，该校已成为苏梅州立大学，不再是单一的技术分部，而是拥有工程、经济与人文学科的独立大学。
• Anatoliy Vasylyev became rector in 2004 and led the university until 2021, a period in which its international partnerships and research output grew sharply.阿纳托利·瓦西里耶夫（Anatoliy Vasylyev）于 2004 年出任校长并领导学校至 2021 年，其间该校的国际合作与科研产出显著增长。
• On 23 December 2015 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine resolved to merge the Ukrainian Academy of Banking into Sumy State University, adding finance and banking to its portfolio.2015 年 12 月 23 日，乌克兰内阁通过决议，将乌克兰银行学院并入苏梅州立大学，使其学科版图增加了金融与银行业。
• Between 2016 and 2018 the university moved into the leading group of Ukrainian institutions in the QS, Times Higher Education and Shanghai rankings, largely on the strength of its publication record.2016 至 2018 年间，该校凭论文产出跻身乌克兰高校在 QS、泰晤士高等教育与软科排名中的领先梯队。
• Vasyl D. Karpusha became rector in 2021, inheriting a university that had already reorganised its institutes around medical, legal, economic and business-technology clusters.瓦西里·卡尔普沙（Vasyl D. Karpusha）于 2021 年就任校长，接手的是已按医学、法学、经济与商业技术等集群重组过学院的大学。
• When Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022, Sumy was among the first Ukrainian cities attacked, and the university found itself inside a contested area with about 1,700 international students still in the city.2022 年 2 月 24 日俄罗斯发动全面入侵时，苏梅是最早遭受攻击的乌克兰城市之一，大学所在区域陷入交战地带，校内仍有约 1700 名国际学生未能撤离。
• On 4 March 2022 a large explosion struck close to a university building, and on 12 March enemy aircraft dropped five bombs near the campus, damaging more than 100 windows without injuring those in the shelters.2022 年 3 月 4 日，一枚大规模爆炸物在大学建筑附近炸响；3 月 12 日敌机又在校园附近投下五枚炸弹，震坏一百多扇窗户，但避入掩体的人员无一受伤。
• The first agreed green corridor left Sumy on 8 March 2022, and all 1,700 international students were evacuated through Poltava to western Ukraine before leaving the country with embassy help.2022 年 3 月 8 日，首条商定的绿色通道从苏梅开通，1700 名国际学生全部经波尔塔瓦撤往乌克兰西部，随后在各国使馆协助下离境。
• During the siege the university opened its bomb shelters to residents of nearby districts, baked bread for the city's territorial defence, installed standby generators when power, water and heating were cut, and kept teaching wherever electricity and connectivity allowed.围城期间，该校把防空洞向附近居民开放，为城市领土防卫部队烤制面包，在电力、供水与供暖中断时安装备用发电机，并在电力与网络允许的条件下坚持教学。
• On 3 September 2024 a Russian strike partially destroyed one university building, and on 13 April 2025 missiles hit the congress hall and the building housing the assembly hall.2024 年 9 月 3 日，一次俄方袭击使该校一栋建筑部分损毁；2025 年 4 月 13 日，导弹击中了会议厅以及设有大礼堂的那栋楼。
• On the night of 18 August 2025 a drone attack destroyed another building, and the last two strikes together burned about 60,000 books held in university collections.2025 年 8 月 18 日夜间，无人机袭击又摧毁了一栋建筑，最近两次袭击合计烧毁了馆藏中约 6 万册图书。
• From a factory classroom for working engineers to a university under missile attack, Sumy State University has kept its teaching running through war, evacuation and the loss of its buildings.从为在职工程师开设的工厂教室，到在导弹袭击下坚持办学的大学，苏梅州立大学在战争、撤离与校舍损毁之中始终维持着教学。

Academics

• SumDU is organised into institutes rather than traditional faculties at the top level, with the Medical Institute, the Oleg Balatskyi Academic and Research Institute of Finance, Economics and Management, the Academic and Research Institute of Law and the Academic and Research Institute of Business Technologies UAB.苏梅州立大学在顶层以「学院（研究所）」而非传统系部组织，设有医学学院、奥列格·巴拉茨基金融经济与管理学术研究学院、法学学术研究学院以及 UAB 商业技术学术研究学院。
• Three faculties complete the academic map, covering electronics and information technologies, foreign philology and social communications, and technical systems and energy-efficient technologies.另有三个系部补全学术版图，分别覆盖电子与信息技术、外国语言文学与社会传播、以及技术系统与节能技术。
• The Medical Institute has its own campus on Sanatorna Street and trains physicians, nurses and public-health specialists, and it became one of the university's largest units after 2015.医学学院在萨纳托尔纳街拥有独立校区，培养医师、护士与公共卫生专业人员，2015 年之后成为该校规模最大的单位之一。
• The Oleg Balatskyi institute runs economics, finance, management and public-administration degrees, and it absorbed much of the banking academy's teaching staff after the 2015 merger.巴拉茨基学院开设经济、金融、管理与公共管理等学位项目，2015 年合并后接收了银行学院的大部分师资。
• The institute of business technologies, known as UAB, occupies three academic buildings on Petropavlivska Street and concentrates on management, marketing and applied information systems.商业技术学院简称 UAB，在彼得罗巴甫利夫斯卡街拥有三栋教学楼，教学集中于管理、市场营销与应用信息系统。
• Two regional institutes extend the university beyond Sumy, the Konotop Institute and the Shostka Institute, each with its own college or technical school attached.两所地区学院把大学延伸到苏梅以外，分别是科诺托普学院与绍斯特卡学院，各自附设一所学院或技术学校。
• Undergraduate provision spans 55 majors in 23 fields, from medicine and engineering to philology, law, economics, journalism and physical education.本科教育覆盖 23 个领域的 55 个专业，从医学、工程一直延伸到语言学、法学、经济学、新闻学与体育。
• About 12,000 students are enrolled across pre-university, bachelor's, specialist and master's levels, and roughly 1,900 of them come from almost 50 countries.该校在预科、本科、专家与硕士各层次共招收约 12000 名学生，其中约 1900 人来自近 50 个国家。
• The university employs more than 3,000 staff, including about 150 doctors of sciences and professors, and counts corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine among its researchers.全校有 3000 余名教职工，其中包括约 150 名科学博士与教授，研究人员中还有乌克兰国家科学院的通讯院士。
• Postgraduate and post-doctoral programmes run in 24 majors, and the degree-awarding academic councils supervise more than 700 PhD candidates at any one time.研究生与博士后项目覆盖 24 个专业，具有学位授予权的学术委员会同时在培的博士生超过 700 名。
• The library holds more than 3 million items and has won the national Library of the Year competition, and it also runs the university's digital repository.图书馆藏书逾 300 万册，曾获全国「年度图书馆」竞赛奖项，并负责运营学校的机构知识库。
• Five journals are published in-house, including the Journal of Engineering Sciences, the Journal of Nano- and Electronic Physics, the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medical Researches and the philological journal Philological Treatises.学校自办五种期刊，包括《工程科学杂志》《纳米与电子物理杂志》《临床与实验医学研究杂志》以及语文学期刊《语言学论集》。
• A TOEFL centre and corporate training centres run by Microsoft, Cisco, Siemens, SAS, Netcracker, Delcam, PortaOne, 1C and MindK operate on campus, giving students vendor certifications alongside degrees.校内设有托福考试中心，以及微软、思科、西门子、SAS、Netcracker、Delcam、PortaOne、1C 与 MindK 等企业培训中心，学生可在学位之外取得厂商认证。
• International cooperation is organised through more than 280 partner institutions in 50 countries, with projects funded by Erasmus+, Horizon 2020, the UN Development Programme, NATO, DAAD, the British Council and the World Bank.国际合作通过 50 个国家的 280 多个伙伴机构开展，项目资金来自 Erasmus+、地平线 2020、联合国开发计划署、北约、DAAD、英国文化协会与世界银行等。
• The university reports more than 300 grant projects a year, and its international research income grew roughly twentyfold over the five years before the 2022 invasion.该校每年报告超过 300 个资助项目，2022 年战争爆发前五年间，其国际科研经费增长了约二十倍。
• Teaching is conducted in Ukrainian for domestic students, with English-language tracks in medicine and business technology that carry most of the international enrolment.本国学生以乌克兰语授课，医学与商业技术设有英文授课轨道，承担了大部分国际学生的教学。
• A centre for part-time, distance and evening study, a centre for postgraduate education and a linguistic training centre extend the university's teaching to working adults and foreign applicants across the region.学校设有非全日制与远程及夜校教学中心、研究生教育中心与语言培训中心，把教学延伸到全州在职成年人与外国申请者。

Campus

• The main campus runs along Rymskoho-Korsakova Street in central Sumy and includes the central building, the main building, the new building, the electronics and technology building and the library and information centre.主校区沿苏梅市中心的里姆斯科-科尔萨科夫街展开，包括中央楼、主楼、新楼、电子技术楼以及图书信息中心。
• The Medical Institute occupies a separate campus on Sanatorna Street, and the Machine Building College sits on Taras Shevchenko Avenue.医学学院占用萨纳托尔纳街的独立校区，机械制造学院则位于塔拉斯·舍甫琴科大道。
• The Konotop Institute is based at 24 Myru Avenue in Konotop and the Shostka Institute at 1 Institutska Street in Shostka, both towns in Sumy Oblast.科诺托普学院位于科诺托普市和平大道 24 号，绍斯特卡学院位于绍斯特卡市学院街 1 号，两座城镇均属苏梅州。
• The business technologies institute spreads across three academic buildings at 57 Petropavlivska Street, close to the main campus and the city's commercial centre.商业技术学院分布在彼得罗巴甫利夫斯卡街 57 号的三栋教学楼内，靠近主校区与城市商业中心。
• The library and information centre anchors the campus, combining reading rooms, the digital repository and the university's journal offices in one building.图书信息中心是校园的核心建筑，把阅览室、机构知识库与校办期刊编辑部集中在一栋楼内。
• Sumy itself lies on the Psel River and was founded in 1652 as a fortress, and its machine-building and chemical plants shaped the university's engineering curriculum.苏梅城位于普肖尔河畔，1652 年作为要塞建立，其机械制造与化工企业塑造了这所大学的工程课程。
• Since 2022 the basements and designated shelters of the campus buildings have been kept ready for students and neighbouring residents during air raids.2022 年以来，校园建筑的地下室与指定掩体一直保持可用状态，以供空袭时学生与周边居民避险。
• War damage has closed or restricted several buildings, and the university has moved classes between surviving rooms and online platforms as repairs proceed.战争破坏使若干建筑关闭或限制使用，学校在修复推进的同时，把课程在尚可使用的教室与线上平台之间转移。

Reputation

• QS places Sumy State University in the 1201-1400 band for 2027, the shared bracket for institutions outside the global top 1200.QS 将苏梅州立大学列入 2027 年 1201-1400 区间，这是全球 1200 名之外院校共用的并列区间。
• Times Higher Education likewise lists the university in the 1201-1400 band in its 2027 world ranking, its first appearance in that bracket after several years of rising scores.泰晤士高等教育在 2027 年世界大学排名中同样把该校列入 1201-1400 区间，这是其评分连年上升后首次进入该档。
• The university does not enter the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking, and it is absent from the 2026 ShanghaiRanking academic ranking of world universities main list.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学榜单，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• OpenAlex indexes 14,376 works and 279,581 citations for SumDU, a record concentrated in physics, materials science, engineering, medicine and economics, with its nano-electronics group among the most cited teams.OpenAlex 为该校收录 14376 项成果与 279581 次引用，记录集中于物理、材料科学、工程、医学与经济学，其中纳米电子学研究组属于引用最多的团队之列。
• Within Ukraine the university is consistently grouped among the country's leading technical and medical institutions, and its Scopus publication counts place it near the top of national tables.在乌克兰国内，该校长期被归入领先的理工与医学类院校之列，其 Scopus 论文数量在国内榜单中位居前列。
• It is a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum and the Talloires Declaration and a member of the International Association of Universities and the European University Association.该校是《大学宪章》与《塔卢瓦尔宣言》的签署方，也是国际大学协会与欧洲大学协会的成员。
• The university also belongs to the Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region and to the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence.该校还加入东南欧与黑海地区经济大学协会，以及国际排名专家观察站（IREG）。
• Its medical and engineering faculties carry most of its international reputation, and the 2015 banking merger added a finance school with its own national profile.其医学与工程学科承载了大部分国际声誉，2015 年的银行学院合并又增添了具有全国影响力的金融学科。
• Since 2022 the university's wartime record, from sheltering civilians to evacuating 1,700 foreign students, has become part of how it presents itself abroad.2022 年以来，从向平民开放掩体到撤离 1700 名外国学生，这段战时经历已成为该校对外讲述自身的一部分。

Student life

• Students organise themselves into 16 clubs, including vocal and instrumental ensembles, jazz bands, rock groups, dance troupes, drama societies, a theatre of variety miniatures, folk ensembles and a literary workshop.学生自发组织了 16 个社团，包括声乐与器乐合奏团、爵士乐队、摇滚乐队、舞蹈团、戏剧社、小型综艺剧社、民乐合奏团与文学创作工坊。
• The university's performing groups rehearse in the campus arts rooms and appear at city events, and the folk ensembles draw on the Sumy region's Cossack musical traditions.校内表演团体在校园艺术教室排练并参加城市活动，民乐合奏团则取材于苏梅地区哥萨克音乐传统。
• Sport is organised through varsity teams whose athletes have competed at the Olympic Games and at world, European and Ukrainian championships.体育运动由校代表队组织，其运动员曾参加奥运会以及世界、欧洲与乌克兰各级锦标赛。
• International students, who number about 1,900, have their own support department, orientation programme and national associations that celebrate holidays from home.约 1900 名国际学生拥有专门的支持部门、迎新项目以及各自庆祝本国节日的同学会。
• Dormitories on and around the main campus house both Ukrainian and foreign students, and their basements double as shelters during air raids.主校区内外的宿舍同时住着乌克兰与国际学生，其地下室在空袭时兼作掩体。
• Student volunteers run blood-donation drives, first-aid webinars and psychological-resilience sessions, activities that expanded sharply after February 2022.学生志愿者组织献血活动、急救网络讲座与心理韧性课程，这些活动在 2022 年 2 月之后大幅扩展。
• The university podcast Higher Education in Ukraine explains programmes, research and international projects, with teachers, scientists and students as guests.学校播客《乌克兰的高等教育》介绍专业设置、科研与国际项目，嘉宾为教师、科研人员与学生。
• Wartime student life combines online classes, shelter drills and volunteer work, and the university has kept its student events running wherever safety allows.战时学生生活把线上课程、掩体演练与志愿工作结合在一起，学校在安全允许的范围内尽量维持学生活动。

Notable people

• Vasyl Ivanovych Popov, a war veteran and teachers' institute graduate, led the original training centre from 1948 to 1960 and is remembered as the founder of engineering education in Sumy.瓦西里·伊万诺维奇·波波夫（Vasyl Ivanovych Popov）是战争老兵、师范院校毕业生，1948 至 1960 年领导最初的培训中心，被视为苏梅工程教育的奠基人。
• Oleh Hnatovych Inozemtsev became the first director of the Sumy Department of Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1966 and shaped its early curriculum.奥列格·赫纳托维奇·伊诺泽姆采夫（Oleh Hnatovych Inozemtsev）于 1966 年出任哈尔科夫工学院苏梅分部首任主任，奠定了早期课程体系。
• Ihor Oleksandrovych Kovalev served as rector for more than three decades until 2004 and oversaw the institution's transformation into a university.伊霍尔·亚历山德罗维奇·科瓦列夫（Ihor Oleksandrovych Kovalev）担任校长三十余年直至 2004 年，主导了学校向大学的转型。
• Anatoliy Vasylyovych Vasylyev, rector from 2004 to 2021, pushed internationalisation and the research partnerships that lifted the university in global rankings.阿纳托利·瓦西里耶维奇·瓦西里耶夫（Anatoliy Vasylyovych Vasylyev）2004 至 2021 年任校长，推动国际化与科研合作，使学校在全球排名中上升。
• Vasyl D. Karpusha has been rector since 2021 and has led the university through the war, evacuation and the reconstruction of damaged buildings.瓦西里·德·卡尔普沙（Vasyl D. Karpusha）自 2021 年起任校长，带领学校经历战争、撤离与受损校舍的重建。
• The economist Oleg Balatskyi, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and a specialist in environmental economics, is commemorated in the name of the finance and economics institute.经济学家奥列格·巴拉茨基（Oleg Balatskyi）曾任乌克兰议会议员，专长于环境经济学，金融经济学院以他的名字命名。
• Medical graduates of the SumDU institute staff hospitals and emergency services across Sumy Oblast, and many serve in military medical units.苏梅州立大学医学学院的毕业生遍布苏梅州的医院与急救系统，其中不少人服役于军队医疗单位。
• Engineering alumni work in the city's pump, chemical and machine-building plants, and in the IT sector that grew around the university's corporate training centres.工程校友分布在苏梅的泵类、化工与机械制造企业，以及围绕学校企业培训中心成长起来的 IT 行业。
• International alumni from Asia, Africa and the Middle East have formed professional networks that keep the university's medical and engineering programmes visible abroad.来自亚洲、非洲与中东的国际校友形成了职业网络，使该校的医学与工程专业在海外保持能见度。
• Students and staff who stayed in Sumy through the siege, including the volunteers who ran the shelters and the bread kitchen, are now part of the university's public memory.围城期间留在苏梅的师生，包括维持掩体与面包房的志愿者，如今已成为这所大学公共记忆的一部分。