M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eight ...
and the most prestigious university in the country.
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
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
and other governments. As of 2019, 13
Nobel laureates
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, six
Fields Medal
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winners, and one
Turing Award
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winner had been affiliated with the university.
The university was ranked 18th by ''
The Three University Missions Ranking
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'' in 2022, and 76th by the ''
QS World University Rankings
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'' in 2022, #293 in the world by the global ''
Times Higher World University Rankings
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'', and #326 by ''
U.S. News & World Report'' in 2022.
It was the highest-ranking Russian educational institution by QS in 2020, and according to the
Nature Index The Nature Index is a database that tracks institutions and countries and their scientific output since its introduction in November, 2014. Each year, Nature Index ranks the leading institutions (which can be companies, universities, government agen ...
in 2019 the highest ranked Russian university for research output. Moscow State University is generally accepted as the leading higher educational institution in the
former Soviet Union
The post-Soviet states, also known as the former Soviet Union (FSU), the former Soviet Republics and in Russia as the near abroad (russian: links=no, ближнее зарубежье, blizhneye zarubezhye), are the 15 sovereign states that wer ...
.
History
Imperial Moscow University
Ivan Shuvalov
Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov (russian: link=no, Ива́н Ива́нович Шува́лов; 1 November 172714 November 1797) was called the Maecenas of the Russian Enlightenment and the first Russian Minister of Education. Russia's first theatre ...
and
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; russian: Михаил (Михайло) Васильевич Ломоносов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ , a=Ru-Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov.ogg; – ) was a Russian polymath, scientist and wri ...
promoted the idea of a university in Moscow, and
Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its establishment on .
The first lectures were given on .
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
Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...
.
MSU originally occupied the
Principal Medicine Store on
Red Square
Red Square ( rus, Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad', ˈkrasnəjə ˈploɕːətʲ) is one of the oldest and largest squares in Moscow, the capital of Russia. Owing to its historical significance and the adjacent historical build ...
from 1755 to 1787.
Catherine the Great
, en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes
, house =
, father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
, mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp
, birth_date =
, birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anha ...
transferred the university to a building on the other side of Mokhovaya Street, constructed between 1782 and 1793, to a design by
Matvei Kazakov
Matvey Fyodorovich Kazakov (russian: Матве́й Фёдорович Казако́в, 1738 – 7 November 1812) was a Russian Neoclassical architect. Kazakov was one of the most influential Muscovite architects during the reign of Catherine ...
, and rebuilt by
Domenico Giliardi
Domenico Gilardi (Доменико Жилярди, 1785–1845), was a Swiss architect who worked primarily in Moscow, Russia in Neoclassicist style. He was one of key architects charged with rebuilding the city after the Fire of 1812. Gilardi� ...
after
fire consumed much of Moscow in 1812.
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,
Mikhail Kheraskov
Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov (russian: Михаи́л Матве́евич Хера́сков; – ) was Russian poet and playwright. A leading figure of the Russian Enlightenment, Kheraskov was regarded as the most important Russian poet by ...
founded a boarding school for noblemen (Благородный пансион) which in 1830 became a
gymnasium for
Russian nobility
The Russian nobility (russian: дворянство ''dvoryanstvo'') originated in the 14th century. In 1914 it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members (about 1.1% of the population) in the Russian Empire.
Up until the February Revolution ...
. The
university press
A university press is an academic publishing house specializing in monographs and scholarly journals. Most are nonprofit organizations and an integral component of a large research university. They publish work that has been reviewed by scholars i ...
, run by
Nikolay Novikov
Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Новико́в) (, Moscow Governorate – . Moscow Governorate) was a Russian writer and philanthropist most representative of his country's Enlightenment. Frequently con ...
in the 1780s, published the newspaper in Imperial Russia: ''
Moskovskie Vedomosti
''Moskovskiye Vedomosti'' ( rus, Моско́вские ве́домости, p=mɐˈskofskʲɪje ˈvʲedəməsʲtʲɪ; ''Moscow News'') was Russia's largest newspaper by circulation before it was overtaken by Saint Petersburg dailies in the ...
''.
In 1804, medical education split into clinical (therapy), surgical, and
obstetrics
Obstetrics is the field of study concentrated on pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. As a medical specialty, obstetrics is combined with gynecology under the discipline known as obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), which is a surgi ...
faculties. During 1884–97, the Department of Medicine built a medical campus in
Devichye Pole
Devichye Pole (russian: links=no, Девичье поле, , Maidens' Field) is a historical medical campus, built between 1887 and 1897 in Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia, to the master plan of Konstantin Bykovski. It is located between the ...
, between the
Garden Ring
The Garden Ring, also known as the "B" Ring (russian: Садо́вое кольцо́, кольцо́ "Б"; transliteration: ''Sadovoye Koltso''), is a circular ring road avenue around central Moscow, its course corresponding to what used to b ...
and
Novodevichy Convent
Novodevichy Convent, also known as Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery (russian: Новоде́вичий монасты́рь, Богоро́дице-Смоле́нский монасты́рь), is probably the best-known clois ...
; designed by
Konstantin Bykovsky, with university doctors like
Nikolay Sklifosovskiy
Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (; — ) was a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Moldavian origin. He was born near the town of Dubasari, which is now in Transnistria. Sklifosovsky was a professor of medicine in Saint Petersburg, Kiev, ...
and Fyodor Erismann acting as consultants. The campus, and medical education in general, were separated from Moscow University in 1930. Devichye Pole was operated by the independent
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
First Moscow State Medical University (MSMU, officially I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, informally Moscow Medical Academy or Sechenov University; russian: Первый Московский государственный � ...
and by various other state and private institutions.
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
imperial
Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism.
Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
Places
United States
* Imperial, California
* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texas
...
government repeatedly threatened to close the university. In 1911, in a protest over the introduction of troops onto the campus and mistreatment of certain professors, 130 scientists and professors resigned ''en masse'', including
Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy
Nikolay Dmitriyevich Zelinsky (; 6 February 1861 – 31 July 1953) was a Russian and Soviet chemist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929).
Zelinsky studied at the University of Odessa and at the universities of Leipz ...
,
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (; 24 February 1866 – 1 March 1912) was a Russian physicist. His name was also transliterated as Peter Lebedew and Peter Lebedev.
Lebedev was a creator of first scientific school in Russia.
Career
Lebedev made his ...
, and
Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Чаплы́гин; 5 April 1869 – 8 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathe ...
; thousands of students were expelled.
Moscow State University
1917-49
After the
October Revolution
The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...
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
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet Union, Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as Ge ...
's
first five-year plan (1928–32), prisoners from the
Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...
were forced to construct parts of the newly expanded university.
1950-99
In 1970, the university imposed a 2% quota on Jewish students. A 2014 article entitled "Math as a tool of anti-semitism" in ''
The Mathematics Enthusiast
''The Mathematics Enthusiast'' is a triannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering undergraduate mathematics, mathematics education, including historical, philosophical, and cross-cultural perspectives on mathematics. It is hosted by ...
'' discussed
antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism.
Antis ...
in the Moscow State University’s Department of Mathematics during the 1970s and 1980s.
In the mid-1980s, the Dean of MSU's law faculty was dismissed for taking bribes. 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).
On 6 September 1997, French electronic musician
Jean Michel Jarre used the front of the university as the backdrop for a
concert
A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir, or band. Concerts are held in a wide variety ...
. The concert attracted a paying crowd of half a million people.
2000-present
In 2007, MSU Rector
Viktor Sadovnichy
Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy (russian: Виктор Антонович Садовничий; born 3 April 1939) is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 the rector of Moscow State University. One of the ...
said that corruption in Russia's education system was a "systemic illness," and that he had seen an ad guaranteeing a perfect score on entrance exams to MSU, for a significant fee.
On 19 March 2008, Russia's most powerful
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
to date, the SKIF MSU (russian: СКИФ МГУ; ''skif'' means "
Scythian
The Scythians or Scyths, and sometimes also referred to as the Classical Scythians and the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern
* : "In modern scholarship the name 'Sakas' is reserved for the ancient tribes of northern and eastern Centra ...
" in Russian) was launched at the university. Its peak performance of 60
TFLOPS
In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate mea ...
(
LINPACK - 47.170 TFLOPS) made it the fastest supercomputer in the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
In November 2012, Mikhail Basharatyan, Deputy Dean of the MSU World Economy Department, was fired for taking a bribe from a pupil. In February 2013, Andrei Andriyanov resigned as head of the
Kolmogorov Special Educational and Scientific Center of the university, after an investigation concluded that he had included fake references in his doctoral thesis.
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
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
. In reaction,
Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences.
The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
, a pan-European academy, suspended the membership of Sadovnichy. In response to the Russian invasion, that same month
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the worl ...
, the
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
The Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg) is a higher education and applied research institution located in Hamburg, Germany. Formerly known as ''Fachhochschule Hamburg,'' the ''Hamburg ...
,
University of Potsdam
The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...
, and
HKU Business School suspended their longstanding relationships with the university, and the
University of St Andrews
(Aien aristeuein)
, motto_lang = grc
, mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best
, established =
, type = Public research university
Ancient university
, endowment ...
suspended a joint master’s degree programme with the university.
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
and
AMD
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufact ...
, the largest chip manufacturers in the world, whose processors are used in the Moscow State University
supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...
, as well as
NVIDIA
Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
, reacted by suspending deliveries of their processors to Russia.
Campus
Since 1953, most of the faculties have been situated on
Sparrow Hills
Sparrow Hills (russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, ), formerly known as Lenin Hills (, ) between 1935 and 1999, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of above the river ...
, in southwest Moscow. In the post-war era,
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet Union, Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as Ge ...
ordered
seven tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city. It was built using
Gulag
The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= was the government agency in ...
labour, as were many of Stalin's Great Construction Projects in Russia. The MSU main building was the
tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high.
Along with the university administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and faculties of
Mechanics and Mathematics, Geology,
Geography
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...
, 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
The Institute of Asian and African Countries () at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages and was renamed to the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1972. It is a Russian Centre for ...
. A number of faculty buildings are located near
Manege Square in the centre of Moscow and a number of campuses abroad in
Ukraine,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekis ...
,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
and
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...
. The
Ulyanovsk
Ulyanovsk, known until 1924 as Simbirsk, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Population:
The city, founded as Simbirsk (), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born ...
branch of MSU was reorganized into
Ulyanovsk State University
Ulyanovsk State University (russian: Ульяновский государственный университет, romanized: ''Ulyanovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet'') (USU) is a public, research university, located in Ulyanovsk, Russia. ...
in 1996.
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:
*
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 Geography
*
Faculty of Fundamental Medicine
*
Faculty of History
*
*
*
Faculty of Economics
*
*
Faculty of Journalism
*
Faculty of Psychology
*
Institute of Asian and African Countries
The Institute of Asian and African Countries () at Lomonosov Moscow State University was founded in 1956 as the Institute of Oriental Languages and was renamed to the Institute of Asian and African Countries in 1972. It is a Russian Centre for ...
*
*
*
*
*
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
*
Higher School of Translation and Interpretation
*
Higher School of Public Administration
*
Higher School of Public Audit
*
Higher School of Administration and Innovations
*
Higher School of Innovative Business Administration
*
Higher School of Contemporary Social Sciences
*
Higher School of Television
*
Faculty of Further Education
*
Faculty of Military Training
Institutions and research centers
*
Skobeltsyn
Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Скобельцын) (November 24, 1892 in Saint Petersburg – November 16, 1990) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1946), Hero ...
br>
Institute of Nuclear PhysicsInstitute of Mechanics*
Sternberg Astronomical Institute
The Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Государственный астрономический институт имени Штернберга in Russian), also known as GAISh (ГАИШ), is a research institution in Moscow, Russia, a divis ...
*
A.N. Belozersky Andrey Nikolayevich Belozersky (Андре́й Никола́евич Белозе́рский) ( 29 August, 1905 (Tashkent, Turkestan region, Russian Empire) – 31 December, 1972 (Moscow, Soviet Union)) was a Soviet
biologist and biochemi ...
br>
Institute of Physico-Chemical BiologyResearch Computing Center*
N.N. Bogolyubov
Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and theoretica ...
Institute for Theoretical Problems of Microphysics
*
White Sea Biological Station
The White Sea Biological Station (''WSBS'') (russian: Беломорская биологическая станция МГУ) named by A.N. Pertsov is an educational and research centre under the auspices of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow Sta ...
Moscow University Herbarium
Academic reputation
In world rankings, MSU was ranked 101st–150th by the
Academic Ranking of World Universities
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2022, #75 by ''
QS World University Rankings
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'' 2023'','' and #335 by ''
U.S. News & World Report'' 2023.
According to the some international rankings MSU is the highest-ranked Russian university (with the nearest Russian competitor being
Saint Petersburg State University), but it was consistently ranked outside the top 5 nationally in 2010–11 by ''
Forbes
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''
[Самые сильные университеты России. Таблица](_blank)
Forbes.ru.(2010) Retrieved on 2011-10-29. and
Ria Novosti
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/
HSE,
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RIA Novosti (2011-02-28). Retrieved on 2011-10-29. with both ratings based on data set collected by HSE from Russian
Unified State Exam
The Unified State Exam (russian: Единый государственный экзамен, ЕГЭ, ''Yediniy gosudarstvenniy ekzamen, EGE'') is an exam in the Russian Federation. It is a series of exams every student must pass after graduation fr ...
scores averaged per all students and faculties of university.
The university has contacts with universities in the world, exchanging students and lecturers. It houses the
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...
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.
Staff and students
The university employs more than 4,000 academics and 15,000 support staff. Approximately 5,000 researchers work at the university's research institutes and facilities.
More than 40,000 undergraduates and 7,000 advanced degree candidates are enrolled.
Annually, the university hosts approximately 2,000 students, graduate students, and researchers from around the world.
Notable people
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 such as
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...
,
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...
, and
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 ( Old Style da ...
, politicians such as
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Commu ...
and
Mikhail Suslov
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov (russian: Михаи́л Андре́евич Су́слов; 25 January 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1965, and as un ...
, as well as mathematicians and physicists such as
Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (alternative spelling Arnol'd, russian: link=no, Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov–A ...
,
Boris Demidovich
Boris Pavlovich Demidovich (; be, Барыс Паўлавіч Дземідовіч; Navahrudak, March 2, 1906 – Moscow, April 23, 1977) was a Soviet/ Belorussian mathematician.
Family and early life
Demidovich was born in a family of te ...
,
Vladimir Drinfeld
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld ( uk, Володи́мир Ге́ршонович Дрінфельд; russian: Влади́мир Ге́ршонович Дри́нфельд; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a renowne ...
,
Vitaly Ginzburg
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together wit ...
,
Andrey Kolmogorov
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov ( rus, Андре́й Никола́евич Колмого́ров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ kəlmɐˈɡorəf, a=Ru-Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov.ogg, 25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Sovi ...
,
Grigory Margulis
Grigory Aleksandrovich Margulis (russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Маргу́лис, first name often given as Gregory, Grigori or Gregori; born February 24, 1946) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on ...
,
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...
, and
Yakov Sinai
Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (russian: link=no, Я́ков Григо́рьевич Сина́й; born September 21, 1935) is a Russian-American mathematician known for his work on dynamical systems. He contributed to the modern metric theory of dy ...
.
Moscow State University in philately
Stamp of USSR 1576g.jpg, 1950 postage stamp:
the project of the 26-storey building of Moscow State University
Stamp of USSR 1837.jpg, 1955 postage stamp:
the old university building
Stamp of USSR 1838.jpg, 1955 postage stamp:
the new university building
Stamp of USSR 2047.jpg, 1957 postage stamp:
Moscow Festival of Youth and Students
1958 CPA 2173.jpg, 1958 postage stamp:
V Congress of the International Union of Architects
The International Union of Architects ( French: ''Union internationale des Architectes''; UIA) is the only international non-governmental organization that represents the world's architects, now estimated to number some 3.2 million in all.
About ...
1958 CPA 2198.jpg, 1958 postage stamp:
X Congress of the International Astronomical Union
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in the new university building
Rus Stamp-MORF_200.jpg, 2002 postage stamp:
200th anniversary of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation
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The Ministry of Education ...
Rus Stamp-MGU_250.jpg, 2005 postage stamp:
250th anniversary of Moscow State University
See also
*
Education in Russia
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List of early modern universities in Europe
The list of early modern universities in Europe comprises all universities that existed in the early modern age (1501–1800) in Europe. It also includes short-lived foundations and educational institutions whose university status is a matter o ...
*
List of universities in Russia
The following is a list of universities and other higher educational institutions in Russia, based primarily on the ''National Information Centre on Academic Recognition and Mobility'' webpage of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Rus ...
*
List of rectors of Moscow State University
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List of honorary professors of the Moscow State University
This is the list of Honorary Professors of Moscow State University.
* Chinghiz Aitmatov, Russian/Kyrgyz novelist (2004)
* Askar Akayev, physicist, 1st President of Kyrgyzstan (1996)
* Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1993)
* Zhores Alferov, physi ...
References
External links
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1755 establishments in the Russian Empire
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