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M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова, often abbreviated МГУ, MSU, MGU) is the largest and the second oldest university in Russia, founded in 1755. As of 2004, the university has some 4,000 staff teaching 31,000 students and 7,000 postgraduates. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy.
University history
The campus Since 1953 most of the departments are situated on Sparrow Hills, in the southwest of Moscow. The Main building was designed by architect Lev Vladimirovich Rudnev. In the post-war era, Stalin ordered seven huge tiered neoclassic towers built around the city. The MSU Main building was by far the largest. It was also the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at that time, and it remained the tallest building in Europe until 1988. The central tower being 240m and 36-stories high, was flanked by four huge wings of student and faculty accommodations. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5000 rooms. Facilities available inside the building include a concert hall, a theatre, a museum, various administration services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's, a canteen, bank offices, shops, cafeterias, a bomb shelter, etc. Along with the university administration, four of the main departments - Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, the Department of Geology, the Department of Geography and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts - now remain in the Main buiding. The star on the top of the tower is large enough to provide a small room and a viewing platform; it weighs 12 tons. The building's facades are ornamented with giant clocks, barometers, and thermometers, statues, carved wheat sheaves and Soviet crests (recently renovated). It stands before a terrace featuring statues of male and female students gazing optimistically and confidently into the future. While the Sparrow Hills were on the outskirts of the city at the time of the construction of the Main building, they are now about halfway from the Kremlin to the city limits. Several other buildings and sport facilities were later added to the city campus, including the only specialized baseball stadium in Russia. Currently a new building is in construction for the social sciences departments, and a vast new facility has just been built for the library, which is the second biggest in Russia by the number of books. The university also has several dormitory buildings in the southwest of Moscow outside the campus. The historical buiding of the Mokhovaya Street now houses mainly the Department of Journalism, the Department of Psychology and the The Institute of Asian and African Studies. The building has coordinates . Departments Institutions Famous alumni and faculty Alexey Abrikosov | Pavel Alexandrov | Vladimir Arnold | Pafnuty Chebyshev | Anton Chekhov | Boris Chicherin | Ekaterina Dashkova | Semyon Desnitsky | Vladimir Drinfeld | Israel Gelfand | Vitaly Ginzburg | Mikhail Gorbachev | Alexander Herzen | C A R Hoare | Ion Iliescu | Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov | Wassily Kandinsky | Pyotr Kapitsa | Yuri Knorosov | Andrey Kolmogorov | Maxim Kontsevich | Igor Kurchatov | Lev Landau | Grigory Landsberg | Nikolai Luzin | Grigory Margulis | Sergei Novikov | Andrei Okounkov | Olga Oleinik | Alexander Oparin | Ivan Petrovsky | Andrei Sakharov | Yakov Sinai | Igor Tamm | Vladimir Toporov | Nikolai Trubetzkoi See also | ||||||||||
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