The university is one of the leading institutions of higher learning in Russia and is the scientific, educational and cultural center of the Privolsky Federal Region of the Russian Federation.

[1] Chuvash State University has over 10,000 students and 3,865 faculty, including 150 Professors (Dr.

The question about the creation of the Chuvash State University was raised again in 1958–19, but even then it could not be done because of many problems connected with the absence of the material base and lack of scientific staff in the republic.

The university was formed on 17 August 1967 through a merger of the Volga Branch of the Order of Lenin Moscow Energy Institute and the Historical-Philological Department of the I.

Opened already in 1930 the part of historically philological faculty of the Chuvash Pedagogical Institute joined the university.