Imperial Kazan University as a leading center in the study of Eastern languages.

The University of Kazan is one of the oldest and first non-regional universities in Russia. The founding date is 5 (17) November 1804, when Emperor Alexander I signed the Affirmative Document. At the same time, the Charter of the Imperial Kazan University was signed, which provided the university with a wide self-government - the election of professors, deans, rector.

According to the Charter, the University was to have four departments: moral and political sciences, physical and mathematical, medical and verbal sciences with the Department of Eastern Languages, as well as 28 professors, 12 adjunct lecturers, 3 lecturers and 3 teachers of «pleasant arts».

In addition to the world-famous one of the two main Russian chemical, mathematical and linguistic schools, the pride of Kazan University was the Eastern Category, which became in the first half of the 19th century the largest center of oriental studies in Europe (in 1854, the Eastern Degree of the Kazan University was transferred to the Petersburg University).

In the first decades of its existence, Kazan University (together with the first Kazan gymnasium) was a leading center for the study of eastern languages.