Saratov State Academy of Law

Saratov State Academy of Law (Russian: Саратовская государственная юридическая академия) is a Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education in the Saratov region of the Russian Federation.^[1]

The Saratov State Academy of Law was founded in 1931 as the Saratov Institute of Law.^[1] The academy was named in honor of Soviet Ukrainian statesman and jurist Dmitry Kursky. In 1995 the Saratov Institute of Law was transformed into Saratov State Academy of Law.^[1]

The academy has 19 faculties and 32 departments. It has eight academic buildings, the largest scientific and legal library, postgraduate and doctoral programs, and four dissertation councils.^[1] It enrolls 6,700 students, and has a staff of 590 educators.^[1]

Notable alumni

• Ratmir Aybazov (born 1955), politician
• Rinat Ayupov (born 1974), political figure
• Artyom Bichayev (born 1990), political figure
• Nikolai Bondarenko (born 1985), politician and blogger
• Boris Ebzeyev (born 1950), politician and judge
• Sergey Kabyshev (born 1963), political figure
• Konstantin Lokhanov (born 1998), junior world champion and Olympic sabre fencer living in the United States
• Vyacheslav Maltsev (born 1964), politician
• Natalia Pogonina (born 1985), chess player, Woman Grandmaster, two-time Russian Women's Champion

References

External links

• Education in Russia for foreigners
• Saratov State Academy of Law under the Ministry of education of the Russian Federation
• Saratov State Academy of Law