MSU Faculty of Geography

MSU Faculty of Geography (russian: Географический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University, created in 1938 by order #109 dated 23 July 1938. There are 15 departments:

Human geography branch

*Department of Social and Economic Geography of foreign countries
*Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
*Department of Geography of World Economy
*Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism

Physical geography branch

*Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science
*Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography
*Department of Glaciology and Cryolithology
*Department of Biogeography
*Department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Soil Geography

Hydrometeorological branch

*Department of Hydrology
*Department of Meteorology and Climatology
*Department of Oceanology

Geoecological branch

*Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
*Department of Environmental Management

Geoinformatics branch

*Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

Research laboratories

*Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources
*Laboratory of Geoecology of the Northern Territories
*Laboratory of Complex Mapping
*Laboratory of Recent Deposits and Pleistocene Palaeogeography
*Laboratory of Regional Analysis and Political Geography
*Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows
*World Data Center for Geography
*The Makkaveev Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes

External links

Official site of the faculty

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Geography education in Russia
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