National Research University of Electronic Technology
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an
Charter
of MIET (russian: link=no, Национальный исследовательский университет "Московский институт электронной техники" / МИЭТ,
lit. National Research University "Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology"
[Direct translation of Russian official name.]) is a Russian technical university in the field of
microelectronics
Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...
,
information
Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random ...
and
computer technologies and one of 29 National Research Universities. University is founded in 1965 and located in
Zelenograd
Zelenograd ( rus, Зеленогра́д, p=zʲɪlʲɪnɐˈgrat, lit. ''green city'') is a city and administrative okrug of Moscow, Russia. The city of Zelenograd and the territory under its jurisdiction form the Zelenogradsky Administrative O ...
,
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 ...
(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 national ...
's center of electronic and microelectronic engineering). The university was often considered the center of the ''Soviet Silicon Valley''.
Architecture
The University complex was designed by the architects
Felix Novikov
Felix Aronovich Novikov (russian: Феликс Аронович Новиков, 3 August 1927 – 18 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian architect. In 1991, he was awarded the honorary title of People's Architect of the USSR, becoming the last ...
and Grigory Saevich and built in 1967-1971. The complex has some similarity with the complex of the Finnish
Helsinki University of Technology
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in ...
, built in 1954-1969 by architect
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...
. The main administrative building (#1) with library and five large lecture halls, the assembly hall (#2) with dining hall, two academic buildings (#3 and #4), and sports complex (#5) of multipurpose arena and swimming pool were built of
red brick
A brick is a type of block used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term ''brick'' denotes a block composed of dried clay, but is now also used informally to denote other chemically cured cons ...
s and connected by passages in united microtown.
The decoration of the exterior walls of the library is the huge white
bas-relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...
(970 m², all four walls) "The Becoming of a Homo sapiens" (russian: Становление человека разумного, ''Stanovlenie cheloveka razumnogo'') completed in 1974 by the sculptor
Ernst Neizvestny
Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (russian: Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный; 9 April 1925 – 9 August 2016) was a Russian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1976 and lived and ...
.
The main facades of the main administrative building and the assembly hall are turned to Shokin's Square (russian: Площадь Шокина, Ploshchad Shokina), named after Alexander Shokin (1909-1988), the twice Hero of Socialist Labour, the USSR Minister of Electronic Industry, one of founders of Zelenograd and MIET. The main MIET entrance is decorated by clock designed by the artist Sergey Chekhov and the sculptor Valery Tyulin and placed in the white tower. The
sound system of the clock mimics
striking clock
A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up to twelve time ...
(one bell stroke every 15 minutes, and X strokes of the bell at X o'clock sharp).
There is Shokin's bust in the park near the square. There are also Skokin's and Presnukhin's (the first rector) memorial plates respectively on the right and left sides of the main administrative building facade (if we are looking on the facade).
Institutes and educational programs
* Institute of Biomedical Systems
** Biotechnical systems and technologies
* Institute of High-Tech Law, Social Science and Humanities
** Legal support for national security
* Institute of Linguistic and Pedagogical Education
** Linguistic
* Institute of International Education
* Institute of Microdevices and Control Systems
** Computer science and engineering
** Radio engineering
** Control of technical systems
* Institute of Nano- and Microsystem Engineering
** Design and technology of electronic facilities
* Institute of Advanced Materials and Technologies
** Nanomaterials
** Material science and technologies
** Technosphere safety
* Institute of system and software engineering and information technologies
** Applied computer science
** Software engineering
** Quality control
* Institute of Physics and Applied Mathematics
* Military Educational Center
** military specialties for
Air Defence of the Russian Ground Forces
* ''Educational programs outside institutes''
** Design
** Infocommunication technologies and systems
** Information systems and technologies
** Information security
** Management
** Applied mathematics
** Electronics and nanoelectronics
Rectors
* Leonid Viktorovich Ershov – 1966 (acting)
* Leonid Nikolaevich Presnukhin – 1966–88
* Vitali Dmitrievich Verner – 1988–98
*
Yuri Aleksandrovich Chaplygin – 1998–2016
* Vladimir Aleksandrovich Bespalov – 2016–...
Notes
The university can be also referred to as ''Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering'' in the English language sources, which was its English official name in the 1990s.
See also
*
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, MIEM (russian: Московский институт электроники и математики НИУ ВШЭ, МИЭМ; also occasionally referred to as ''Moscow Institute of Electronic Enginee ...
, another Russian technical institute founded in 1960s within the scope of the Soviet microelectronics program
References
External links
Englishan
Russianofficial website
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Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
National research universities in Russia
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Technical universities and colleges in Russia
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow