Maritime State University (MSU) (russian: Морско́й госуда́рственный университе́т и́мени адмира́ла Г.И. Невельско́го, translit=
G.I. Nevelskoi Maritime State University) is a maritime university in Russia. It is named after
G.I. Nevelskoi, in its full Russian name.
The university aims to provide specialisation in maritime transport systems in the spheres of natural science, the humanities, technical and marine conventional trends.
Twelve scientific schools are working in the sphere of marine and engineers elaboration within the university. MSU prepares engineer-technical staff of 28 specialisations and specialties. MSU includes eleven institutes, sixteen faculties, the Maritime College, Human-Technical Lyceum, lyceum classes, and the School of Young Sailors and Kids' Studio.
Structure
* The Institute "Maritime Academy";
* The Institute of Automation and Information Technologies;
* Maritime Technological Institute;
* Institute of Management;
* Sea Protection Institute;
* The Institute of Social and Political problems of Management;
* The Institute of Eastern Asia;
* Open Maritime Institute;
* Maritime Physics-Technological Institute;
* The Institute of Higher Qualification.
University resources
MSU has seven academic buildings, forty-six laboratories and studies, libraries, and ten professional training centers imitating ship equipment. MSU has a student cafeteria with two thousand seats, a medical center, eight dormitories for students, a swimming pool, a summer camp in
Narva Bay, and a yacht club.
MSU is one of the founders of the
Pacific Ocean Law Institute. The university conducts research on complex transport problems. Since 1997, the university organises research on the sailing boat ''Nadezhda'' together with Moscow and Saint Petersburg universities.
Since 1992, the university has its own shipping company FESMA, a training boat named ''Nadezhda'', a cargo training ship named ''Vitya Chalenko'', and a fishing boat named "Professor Phrolov". Senior students have navigation practice on ships of the
Far Eastern Shipping Company
FESCO Transportation Group ( rus, Fesco, r=FESCO Group) is an intermodal transport operator in Russia, which provides services, including marine shipping, Roll-on/roll-off, rail transportation and port handling. The parent company of the Group i ...
. There is a special kids' studio and the club "Moreckhod" in the university for professional guidance. There are special lyceum classes for teenagers in Vladivostok and some towns of the
Prymorskyi region, such as
Artyom,
Arsenyev, Kirovka, and
Nakhodka
Nakhodka ( rus, Нахо́дка, p=nɐˈxotkə) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok, the administrative center of the krai. Po ...
.
University sports
MSU has about twenty sport sections: swimming, volleyball, mini-football, shooting, various kinds of wrestling, tennis, ship design sports, among others.
The university usually organises open rowing sailing
regatta
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s for the Admiral G.I. Nevelskoi Cup in Spring and Autumn. About three hundred sportsmen take part in these regattas.
Leonid Lysenko, one of the famous
yachtsmen
Yachting is the use of recreational boats and ships called ''yachts'' for racing or cruising. Yachts are distinguished from working ships mainly by their leisure purpose. "Yacht" derives from the Dutch word '' jacht'' ("hunt"). With sailboats, t ...
of MSU, was the skipper and captain of the Admiral Nevelskoi yacht. The Admiral Nevelskoi yacht is one of the most expensive of its category, evaluated to be worth several hundred million US dollars, and was previously owned by the MSU. It was given to
Eric Typhis Degtyarenko
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The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
in 2010.
International cooperation
Mutual cooperation of Pacific-Asian region countries have a good influence on the development of international relationships. Partners of MSU include some universities in China,
Australian Maritime College
The Australian Maritime College (AMC) is a tertiary education institution based in Launceston, Tasmania, established by the ''Maritime College Act 1978'' (Cth). Tertiary education is provided and organised by the University of Tasmania (UTAS) as ...
,
California State University Maritime Academy,
Mokpo National Maritime University,
Korea Maritime and Ocean University, and
University of Trade Fleet, Tokyo. MSU also has student exchanges with universities of the
Toyama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Toyama Prefecture has a population of 1,044,588 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,247.61 km2 (1,640.01 sq mi). Toyama Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the ...
.
References
External links
Maritime State University official website (in Russian)Maritime State University official website (in English)
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Universities in Vladivostok
Maritime colleges in Russia