Moscow State University
Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова | |
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Website | msu.ru |
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Building details | |
Главное здание МГУ (ГЗ МГУ) | |
General information | |
Location | Moscow, Russia |
Coordinates | 55°42′14″N 37°31′43″E / 55.7039°N 37.5286°E |
Completed | 1953 |
Height | |
Architectural | 240 m (787 ft) |
Top floor | 214 m (702 ft)[1] |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 42 |
Floor area | 1,000,000 m2 (10,763,910.417 sq ft) |
Moscow State University (MSU; Russian: Московский государственный университет, romanized: Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia.[2]
The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches (including five foreign ones in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries). Alumni of the university include past leaders of the Soviet Union and other governments. As of 2019, 13 Nobel laureates, six Fields Medal winners, and one Turing Award winner were affiliated with the university.
The full official name is M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; Russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова, romanized: Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni M. V. Lomonosova)
History
Imperial Moscow University
Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov promoted the idea of a university in Moscow, and Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its establishment on 23 January [O.S. 12 January] 1755.
The first lectures were given on 7 May [O.S. 26 April]. Saint Petersburg State University and MSU each claim to be Russia's oldest university. Though Moscow State University was founded in 1755, St. Petersburg which has had a continuous existence as a "university" since 1819 sees itself as the successor of an academy established on in 1724, by a decree of Peter the Great.[citation needed]
MSU originally occupied the
In the 18th century, the university had three departments: philosophy, medicine, and law. A preparatory college was affiliated with the university until its abolition in 1812. In 1779,
In 1804, medical education split into clinical (therapy), surgical, and
The roots of student unrest in the university reach deep into the nineteenth century. In 1905, a social-democratic organization emerged at the university and called for the overthrow of the Czarist government and the establishment of a republic in Russia. The
Moscow State University
1917–49
After the October Revolution of 1917, the institution began to admit children of the proletariat and peasantry. In 1919, the university abolished tuition fees, and established a preparatory facility to help working-class children prepare for entrance examinations. During the implementation of Joseph Stalin's first five-year plan (1928–32), prisoners from the Gulag were forced to construct parts of the newly expanded university.[citation needed]
1950–99
In 1970, the university imposed a 2% quota on Jewish students.[3] A 2014 article entitled "Math as a tool of anti-semitism" in The Mathematics Enthusiast discussed antisemitism in the Moscow State University's Department of Mathematics during the 1970s and 1980s.[4][5][6]
In the mid-1980s, the Dean of MSU's law faculty was dismissed for taking bribes.[7] After 1991, nine new faculties were established. The following year, the university gained a unique status: it is funded directly from the state budget (bypassing the Ministry of Education).[citation needed]
On 6 September 1997, French electronic musician
2000–2020
In 2007, MSU Rector
On 19 March 2008, Russia's most powerful
In November 2012, Mikhail Basharatyan, Deputy Dean of the MSU World Economy Department, was fired for taking a bribe from a pupil.
2020–present
Sanctions
In March 2022, Victor Sadovnichy, rector of Moscow State University and president of the Russian Union of Rectors, was the lead signature in a public statement endorsing the
Campus
Since 1953, most of the faculties have been situated on Sparrow Hills, in southwest Moscow. In the post-war era, Joseph Stalin ordered seven tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city. It was built using Gulag labour, as were many of Stalin's Great Construction Projects in Russia.[25][26][27] The MSU main building was the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high.[citation needed]
Along with the university administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and faculties of Mechanics and Mathematics, Geology, Geography, and Fine and Performing Arts are in the main building. The building on Mokhovaya Street houses the Faculty of Journalism, the Faculty of Psychology, and Institute of Asian and African Countries. A number of faculty buildings are located near Manege Square in the centre of Moscow and a number of campuses abroad in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.[citation needed] The Ulyanovsk branch of MSU was reorganized into Ulyanovsk State University in 1996.[28]
Faculties
As of 2009, the university had 39 faculties and 15 research centres. A number of small faculties opened, such as Faculty of Physics and Chemistry and Higher School of Television. The full list of faculties is as follows:[29]
- Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
- Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Materials Science
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
- Faculty of Soil Science
- Faculty of Geology
- Faculty of Geography
- Faculty of Fundamental Medicine
- Faculty of Space Research
- Faculty of History
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Journalism
- Faculty of Psychology
- Institute of Asian and African Countries
- Faculty of Sociology
- Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies
- Faculty of Public Administration
- Faculty of World Politics
- Faculty of Political Science
- Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts
- Faculty of Global Studies
- Faculty of Education
- Graduate School of Business Administration
- Faculty of Physics and Chemistry
- Moscow School of Economics
- Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation
- Graduate School of Public Administration
- Graduate School of Public Audit
- Graduate School of Administration and Innovations
- Graduate School of Innovative Business Administration
- Graduate School of Contemporary Social Sciences
- Graduate School of Television
- Center of Military Training
Institutions and research centers
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
- Institute of Mechanics
- Sternberg Astronomical Institute
- A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology
- Research Computing Center
- N.N. BogolyubovInstitute for Theoretical Problems of Microphysics
- White Sea Biological Station
- Moscow University Herbarium
Academic reputation
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
ARWU World[30] | 101–150 (2022) |
QS World[31] | 75 (2023) |
THE World[32][33] | 296 (2022) |
USNWR Global[34] | 355 (2023) |
Regional – Overall | |
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[35] | 1 (2022) |
In world rankings, MSU was ranked 101st–150th by the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022,[36] #75 by QS World University Rankings 2023,[37] and #355 by U.S. News & World Report 2023.[34]
According to the some international rankings MSU is the highest-ranked Russian university (with the nearest Russian competitor being
The university has contacts with universities throughout the world, exchanging students and lecturers. It houses the UNESCO International Demography Courses and Hydrology Courses. In 1991 the French University College, the Russian-American University, and the Institute of German Science and Culture were opened.[citation needed]
The institution's academic reputation was severely undermined because of its support for the
2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |
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Academic Ranking of World Universities[40] | 87th | 86th | 84th | 79th | 80th | 77th | 74th | 78th | 70th | 77th | 70th | 68th |
QS World University Rankings[41] | 108th | 114th | 120th | 116th | 112th | 93rd | 101st | 183rd | 231st | 93rd | 93rd | |
Times Higher Education World University Rankings[42] | 161st | 196th | 226–250th | 201–225th | 214th | 296th | 237th | – | – | – | – | – |
Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings[43]
|
30th | 25th | 51–60th | 50th | – | 33rd | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Human Resources & Labor Review (Graduates performance)[40]
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– | 44th | 44th | 44th | 43rd | – | – | – | ||||
Academic Ranking of World Universities (Natural Sciences)[40] | 51–75th | 51–75th | 51–75th | 51–75th | 51–75th | 51–75th | 53–76th | 41st | – | – | – | |
QS World University Rankings (Natural Sciences)[43] | 60th | 34th | 84th | 44th | 38th | 29th | 30th | 29th | 27th | 44th | – |
Staff and students
The university employs more than 4,000 academics and 15,000 support staff.[citation needed] Approximately 5,000 researchers work at the university's research institutes and facilities.[44] More than 40,000 undergraduates and 7,000 advanced degree candidates are enrolled.[44] Annually, the university hosts approximately 2,000 students, graduate students, and researchers from around the world.[citation needed]
Notable people
Notable alumni of Moscow State University |
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As of 2017, 13 Nobel laureates, 6 Fields Medal winners and one Turing Award winner had been affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of writers Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Ivan Turgenev; politicians Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Suslov, and Ruslan Khasbulatov; and mathematicians and physicists Vladimir Arnold, Boris Demidovich, Vladimir Drinfeld, Vitaly Ginzburg, Andrey Kolmogorov, Grigory Margulis, Andrei Sakharov, and Yakov Sinai.
Moscow State University in philately
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1950 postage stamp:
the project of the 26-storey building of Moscow State University -
1955 postage stamp:
the old university building -
1955 postage stamp:
the new university building -
1957 postage stamp:
Moscow Festival of Youth and Students -
1958 postage stamp:
V Congress of the International Union of Architects -
1958 postage stamp:
X Congress of the International Astronomical Union in the new university building -
2002 postage stamp:
200th anniversary of theMinistry of Education of the Russian Federation -
2005 postage stamp:
250th anniversary of Moscow State University
See also
- Education in Russia
- List of early modern universities in Europe
- List of universities in Russia
- List of rectors of Moscow State University
- List of honorary professors of the Moscow State University
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