The history of higher education in Yakutia was begun by the first Director of the Institute LP. Zhegusov, organizers of the educa- tional and scientific process LA. Melnikov, S. F. Popov, social sci- ence teachers PM. Kornilov, LK. Fedorov, V. A. Tsvetkov, mathe- maticians 1. Sharapov and S. V. Rodionov, physicists Y. G. Schafer, A. S. Kovalevsky, M. A. Alekseev, philologists V. V. Yakovlev, N. S. Grigoriev, K. F. Pasyutin and others.

Professor G. P. Basharin explained the important role the Yakut University played in lives of the people. "The University is the most important and the most precious thing that the Yakut people got in the 20th century _I am happy to say that our university will be a long lasting torch of civilization and the temple of science in the North-East of the Great Asian Continent. The third millennium generations will understand the importance of our university much deeper than we do. And at the same time they will be very grateful to us, the generation of the 20th century for the establishment of the University" he said.

YAKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY (YSU) WAS AWARDED THE ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP OF PEOPLES BY THE ORDER OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR ON 28 APRIL 1984.

On February 6, 1993, according to the Decree of the President of. the Republic of Salcha (Yakutia) M. E. Nikolayev, Yakutsk State University was given the status of the head university of the Re- public, which is responsible for the organization and the quality of humanitarian, social and economic, pedagogical and scientif- ic training of experts

Higher Professional Education of the Republic enters a new stage in its development.

IN 2006, YSU INCLUDED 7 INSTITUTES, 9 FACULTIES, 134 DEPARTMENTS (99 OF WHICH ARE ADMINISTERING SUB-DEPARTMENTS) AND 2 BRANCHES IN NERYUNGRI AND MIRNY. IN 2005, THERE WERE 13,720 FULL TIME STUDENTS AND 8,253 PART-TIME STUDENTS. IN ADDITION, THE UNIVERSITY HAD TWO RESEARCH INSTITUTES, THE REPUBLICAN INTERUNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARY, 19 RESEARCH LABORATORIES, 13 CEN- TERS, EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, ADMINISTRA- TIVE AND ECONOMIC UNITS AND DENTAL CLINIC.

On the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation made the draft Decree. On October 14, 2009, at a meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Andrey Fursenko presented the resuits of work and proposals for the establishment of new federal universities. The Northern (Arctic) Federal University would be established on the basic of the Arkhangelsk State Technical University; the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University on the basis of the Kazan State University named after V. I. Ulyanov Lenin; the Ural Federal University on the basis of the Ural State Technical University - UPI named after the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, the Far Eastern Federal University on the basis of the Far Eastern State University: North-Eastern Federal University on the basis of M. K. Ammosov Yakutsk State University.

On November 17, 2009, YSU Academic Council adopted a resolution on the creation of the Federal Autonomous Institution of Higher Professional Education "North-Eastern Federal University"

ACCORDING TO THE ORDER № 499-P OF 2 APRIL 2010, THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION EXERCISES THE POWERS OF THE FOUNDER. ALL THE UNIVERSITY PROPERTY IS VESTED IN THE AU TONOMOUS EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.