The Kyiv Slavic University (Ukrainian: Київський славістичний університет) is a private higher education institution in Ukraine at IV level of accreditation, founded in 1993 under the Academy of Sciences as the Kyiv Institute "Slavic University".
[1][2] On 9 November 1993,[3] the constituent meeting of the founding members of the non-governmental organization Kyiv Slavic University was held in the premises of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
On November 25, 1993, the Ministry of Justice issued a law on the state registration of the Kyiv Slavic University (the date of its official foundation).
The purpose of the university was to train highly qualified specialists in a wide range of fields and specialties and to conduct research on Slavic studies.
The first lecture for the students of preparatory university education and secondary school students of Kyiv schools was delivered by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Ukraine Robert Harenchar.