Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited a branch of the Kazan Federal University in the city of Jizzakh.

This university is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Russia and covers a large number of areas of study. Its Jizzakh branch opened last year and currently has 325 students. In general, the institution is designed for 1,088 students.

It trains specialists in 11 such areas as general medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, medical biochemistry, journalism, economics, geology, linguistics, software engineering, information systems and technologies, technological processes and production automation.

The head of our state instructed to allocate an additional building to the institution and expand its material and technical capabilities.