During World War II the institute was evacuated to Omsk (Russia).

[1] Besides branches in Luhansk the university has branches in other Ukrainian cities (Sievierodonetsk, Rubizhne, Krasnodon, Antratsyt, Livadiya in Luhansk Oblast, Feodosiya, Yevpatoriya in Crimea and Skadovsk in Kherson Oblast).

Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 24 faculties and nearly 1,083 professors, 742 of them PhD's.

[4] In 2001, the university was named after Vladimir Dal (who is called Volodymyr Dahl in Ukrainian).

[5][6] After the start of Russian occupation of Sievierodonetsk, this university was relocated to Kyiv.