L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University

Гумилёв атындағы Еуразия ұлттық университеті (ЕҰУ), Russian: Евразийский национальный университет имени Л.Н.

Гумилёва (ЕНУ)), is a Kazakh national research university, and the largest higher education institution in Astana.

The co-founders of the nomadic Eurasian civilization of Turkic peoples in history have suggested the idea of "Eternal Ale".

In 2004, Nataliya Gumileva, Lev Gumilev's wife, bequeathed to the Eurasian National University the Moscow Office of the scientist: a desktop, a printing machine where the scientist published his works (“Continental”), an arm-chair, a bookcase, books, photographs and various memorial objects (sculptures, vases, bottles).

The foundation of the study-museum contains personal records and books from the personal library of Lev Gumilev, books that he authored (a treatise «Этногенез и биосфера Земли» (“Ethnogenesis and the biosphere of the Earth”), «Степная Трилогия» (“Steppe Trilogy”), «Древняя Русь и Великая степь» (“Ancient Rus and Great steppe”), «Открытие Хазарии» (“Discovery of Hazariya”), «Тысячелетие вокруг Каспия» (“Millennium around the Caspian Sea”), «Арабески истории» (“Arabesque of history”, etc.

The study-museum is attended annually by dozens of foreign delegations, hundreds of thousands of statesmen, scientists, students, young researchers.

On October 1, 2012, the university is going to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the scientist, the author of the theory of passionarism Lev Gumilev.

ENU main building
Lev Gumilev statue at ENU