Editing Kirov, Kirov Oblast (section)

==Education==
Currently, there are 13 state universities and their branches operating in the city, in which more than several tens of thousands of students study in total. In addition, there are 11 non—state universities and their branches in the city, as well as one church – Vyatka Theological School.

Kirov is the home of [[Vyatka State University]], which was established in 1914. As of 2022, 18 thousand students were studying at the university. The University ranked 39th in the National Ranking of Universities in the "Education" parameter, 44th among Russian universities according to the global ranking of scientific institutions SCImago Institutions Rankings-2021.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://new.vyatsu.ru/admission/|title=Почему нужно выбрать ВятГУ|author=ВятГУ|access-date=2022-10-14|archive-date=2022-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014010504/https://new.vyatsu.ru/admission/}}</ref>

[[Kirov State Medical University]] is the largest scientific, educational and medical complex of the Kirov region and the Volga Region. The university annually attracts many students from various regions of Russia and other countries. The university has opened an Anatomical Museum, which presents more than 1,000 exhibits. According to the results of monitoring the quality of educational activities of universities conducted by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the university entered the Top 10 best universities in the country, taking a place on the first lines of the rating.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kirovgma.ru/ob-academii/information/history|title=История Кировского государственного медицинского университета|author=КГМА|access-date=2022-10-14|archive-date=2022-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014010504/https://kirovgma.ru/ob-academii/information/history}}</ref> The medical University has established well-known scientific schools in the country: rheumatology (Professor B. F. Nemtsov), surgery (Professors V. A. Zhuravlev and V. A. Bakhtin), pediatrics (Professor Ya. Yu. Illek), obstetrics and gynecology (Professor S. A. Dvoryansky), social medicine, medical ecology and hygiene (Professor B. A. Petrov), neurology and neurosurgery (Professor B. N. Bein).

Volga-Vyatka Branch of the [[Moscow State Law University]] – is one of the best specialized law universities in the [[Volga Federal District|Volga region]]. Currently, the Institute has more than 1,600 students.
During the existence of the Institute, more than ten thousand lawyers with higher education have been trained to work in courts, prosecutor's offices, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, state and municipal authorities, notaries, lawyers, legal services of enterprises, organizations and institutions.
The Institute has opened a specialized forensic laboratory, a department of labor law
Teachers provide advisory assistance to local authorities in their law-making and law enforcement work. The Institute has a student law clinic – a center for free legal aid for socially vulnerable segments of the population.

There is also an Vyatka Agrotechnological university in Kirov, the first mention of which dates back to 1872.

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