Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University started its development on March 27, 1920 as the first institution of Luhansk to prepare engineers machine-building enterprises. It had two faculties (machine-building and electrotechnical) with 20 teachers and 132 students. During the World War II (1941-1945), the HEI was evacuated to Omsk. It became the basis for the present Omsk Technical University. After returning to Luhansk, the HEI renewed almost from scratch. By 1960, it had been reorganized several times by joining other educational institutions, enlarging and renaming, and that year it received the pre-war name Luhansk Machine-Building Institute.
Volodymyr Dahl EUNU was one of the first universities in Ukraine, which in 2004 joined The Magna Charta of European Universities in Bologna. The next year Ukraine joined the Bologna process. In 2010, V. Dahl EUNU was granted the highest status in Ukraine for outstanding scientific activities – self-governing (autonomous) research university. There are only 14 such universities in Ukraine. The University was one of the largest educational institutions in the country in terms of number of students (more than 35 thousand), teaching staff (more than 900 doctors and professors) and material and technical resources (57 buildings).
The structure of Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University included 8 institutes, 17 departments, colleges, technical schools in nine cities of Ukraine, including three cities in the Crimea.
There were 110 branches of departments in industries, Centre for Retraining Managerial Staff for Entrepreneurship, Research Institutes for Applied Ecology and Control Systems, 40 research laboratories, 7 educational, and scientific and industrial complexes, 18 educational complexes, a publishing house with a printing office, a television studio, a business centre, etc. The unique scientific library had more than one million copies. Repository consisting of 3000 publications was registered in the international registry of free access resources. It occupied a rightful place in the international Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. It took the 9th place among 39 Ukrainian repositories.
The powerful material and technical base was located in 57 academic and laboratory buildings with the total area of 230 thousand sq. m. During the educational process, students used about 3200 modern computers. The University also had a health and recreation resort with 100 places, recreation centres in five cities of Ukraine, most of which were in the Crimea (Yevpatoria, Feodosia and Yalta, Skadovsk) and on the Seversky Donets River 8 dormitories with 4000 seats, 6 canteens with 824 seats, 12 coffee bars with 452 seats, medical posts. The University had stadiums, sports buildings, summer sports facilities, etc. for sports and physical education classes. Women’s University team “Nika-VDEUNU” won the Cup of Ukraine 16 times, and was the silver medallist of the European Cup.
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