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85 unusual facts about Moscow State University


Abdiqasim Salad Hassan

He pursued his post-secondary education in the USSR, graduating in 1965 from the Biology Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Abhay Kumar

Moreover he studied Russian language, history and literature at the Moscow State University and U.S. Foreign Policy at the George Washington University.

Alexander Chekhov

He later graduated from the Natural Sciences Department of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University.

Alexei Borodin

Borodin graduated from Moscow State University in 1997 and received M.S.E. in computers and information science and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alexey Kondrashov

He founded the laboratory of evolutionary genomics in the College of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Alistair Beaton

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Beaton was educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with First-Class Honours in Russian and German.

Alla Kigel

Kigel instead pursued a career as a criminal lawyer, and gained a Masters Degree in Law, from Moscow State University in 1954.

Andrei Richter

Andrei Richter is the director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, director and founder of the Moscow Media Law and Policy Institute, and Professor at the School of journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (teaching and doing research on mass media law and international journalism).

Anna Krylov

(with honors) in Chemistry from Moscow State University and later her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Benny Gerber.

Antanas Andrijauskas

He graduated Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in philosophy in 1978, and in 1990 he defended his habilitated doctoral dissertation.

Ataol Behramoğlu

Between November 1972 and June 1974, he worked as a research assistant at Moscow State University Faculty of Russian Philology, Chair of Russian and Soviet Literature.

Batyr

Various audiovisual recordings were made during Pogrebnoj-Aleksandroff's studies of Batyr and some of these have been transferred to Russia's Moscow State University for further study.

Bermet Akayeva

She graduated Frunze physics and mathematics school in 1989, studied at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University from 1989 to 1992 and at the Business School Lausanne from 1992 to 1994.

Blagoveschensk State Pedagogical University

University has established strong partnership with leading Russian universities and scientific centers: Moscow State University, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Far Eastern State University and others.

Boris Levit-Broun

In 1967, Boris Levit-Broun graduated from high school and tried unsuccessfully to enter the Department of History of Art, faculty of the Moscow State University.

Boris Rozovsky

Rozovsky started his studies in art school, but switched to mathematics; he earned a masters degree in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1973 from Moscow State University.

Büdragchaagiin Dash-Yondon

She was graduated from Moscow State University as a biochemist in 1970 and earned Ph.D in Chemical Science.

Burmomyrma

The fossil was first studied by Russian paleoentomologist Gennady M. Dlussky of the Moscow State University.

Burton Paulu

He taught and lectured widely in the US and Europe and held three appointments in the journalism department of Moscow State University, the first at a time when academic contacts between the US and the then - Soviet Union were rare and the last, when he was 81 years old, as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

Cape Markov

It was named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1961–62, for K.K. Markov, professor of geography at Moscow State University, and the author of a number of reports on Antarctica.

Cezar Lăzărescu

This architectural style (of which the Moscow State University and its clones such as the "Casa Scînteii" in Bucharest are prime examples) is mandated by law in all countries of the Soviet Empire.

Chechen mafia

According to the documentary The making of a new empire directed by Jos de Putter, the group originated in 1974 after a Chechen student at Moscow State University named Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev founded an underground opposition movement, which later became known as the widely feared Obshina.

Chingis Izmailov

He first studied art and architecture in Moscow, then, in 1971, joined the department of Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 1976 the same department's graduate school.

DivX, Inc.

In March 2008, DivX, Inc. announced that Moscow State University ranked MainConcept's H.264 codec first for the second straight year in its annual H.264-codec comparison.

Dmitry Gudkov

Dmitry Gudkov received a degree in journalism from Moscow State University in 2001.

Dora Sakayan

Sakayan began her graduate studies in Germanic philology in 1958 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU), completing them in 1961.

DOS Navigator

After that, DN was rewritten using Turbo Vision by Stefan Tanurkov and Dmitry Dotsenko (Dmitry developed DN at Moscow State University).

Edmund Knoll-Kownacki

After his matura exam in 1908 in Kaluga, he continued his education at the Department of Natural Sciences of the Moscow State University.

Elecard

Video Codec Comparison carried out through Moscow State University Compression Project, Elecard AVC Encoder demonstrated the fastest encoding speed and high picture quality, ranking 5th (and last among the tested H.264 encoders) in the overall codecs comparison results.

Elena Efimovna Kuzmina

She received her Ph.D. in archaeology in 1976 at the Moscow State University, where she is a full professor of archaeology since 1988.

Ene Ergma

Ergma received her Diploma cum laude (BSc/MSc equivalent) in astronomy and PhD in physics and mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and a DSc degree from Institute of Space Research, Moscow.

Gainan Saidkhuzhin

He combined sport with studies, graduating from Smolensk Institute of Physical Education in 1967 and from the economics faculty of the Moscow State University in 1973.

Godunov's theorem

Professor Sergei K. Godunov originally proved the theorem as a Ph.D. student at Moscow State University.

GraphiCon

The conference is hosted by Moscow State University in association with Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Center of Computing for Physics and Technology, and the Russian Computer Graphics Society.

György Dalos

From 1962 to 1967, he studied history at the Lomonossov University in Moscow.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!

The calendar features twelve semi-nude female students of journalism faculty at the Moscow State University (MSU), each for every month, with a short message.

Harvard Lampoon Building

After initially promising to install it on top of a building at Moscow State University, the delegation returned the statue.

Heimar Lenk

Lenk studied at Tallinn Polytechnic Institute as well as at Moscow State University.

Hotel Ukrayina

Ironically the massive Moscow State University which was thrice as big was finished in only four years 1949-1953, i.e. almost twice as fast.

Igor Akimushkin

Born in Moscow, he graduated the biological faculty of Moscow State University in 1952.

Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov

Before 1991 he was head of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow and has been professor at Moscow State University.

Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim

After moving to Oslo in 1952 he finished his secondary education at Grefsen in 1956, he studied Russian language in the Norwegian military, and in 1960 at the Moscow State University.

Institute of International Programs of PetrSU

By that time such centres had existed in Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Kazan, Kaliningrad, at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), Moscow State International Institute of International Relations and Moscow State University.

International Exhibition of Calligraphy

calligrapher, poet, singer, actor, teacher of the Lomonosov Moscow State University

Iosif Shklovsky

In 1933 Shklovsky entered the Physico-Mathematical Faculty of the Moscow State University.

Irakly Shanidze

While studying at Moscow State University he contributed to the University newspaper "Вестник Московского Университета".

James Franklin Collins

He studied at Moscow State University and conducted archival research during 1965-66 as an exchange student in the history faculty and conducted research at the British Museum in 1966 as an Indiana University fellow.

Karatsuba algorithm

In 1960, Kolmogorov organized a seminar on mathematical problems in cybernetics at the Moscow State University, where he stated the \Omega(n^2)\,\!

Kathrin Becker

From 1984 to 1991, Kathrin Becker studied art history and Slavic languages at the Ruhr University Bochum, the Moscow State University, and the Leningrad State University.

Kim Kyong-hui

She attended the Kim Il-sung Higher Party School in 1966, and went to study at Moscow State University in 1968.

Lana Gogoberidze

Educated at Tbilisi State University and Moscow State University of Cinematography, Gogoberidze headed Director’s Studio at the Rustaveli Theatre School, Tbilisi, in 1975 and directed the studio Kartuli P'ilmi (Georgia Film) in 1988.

Liri Belishova

She attended, along with Ramiz Alia, the marxist leninist institute of the Moscow State University in 1952–1954, and married, during this period her second husband, Maqo Çomo, then Minister of Agriculture.

Machiste

Mariah was a Moscow University archaeology student and Olympic fencer who had recently stumbled into Skartaris at Travis Morgan's side.

Marat Basharov

After the high school, he was enrolled into the prestigious Moscow State University, Faculty of Law.

Mark Dyurgerov

Mark was educated at Moscow State University, where he received his BS and PhD degrees in 1970 and 1974.

Martin B. Gold

He has lectured at the Russian Federal Assembly, the Parliament of Ukraine, Moscow State University, the Russian Foreign Service Institute and before numerous domestic university audiences on American political developments and the parliamentary processes of the United States Congress.

Metro-2

He went on to say that the same fate befell many of the underground bomb shelters, and in particular a system of underground bunkers beneath the building of Moscow State University, which he said were flooded and had deteriorated.

In south-west Moscow, near the Ramenki District, there is a vacant lot to the south-west of the main building of Moscow State University.

Nikolai Stoletov

Stoletov was born in Vladimir and attended the Vladimir Gymnasium (grammar school) and the Psysics faculty of the Moscow State University graduating in 1854.

Nikolay Emanuel

He lectured at Moscow State University since 1944 (and was appointed full Professor in 1950).

Nikolay Florea

After the finish of the school and astronomical department of the University He was employed as astronomer in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), while subsequently He was transferred to the Shternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University.

Nikolay Korshunov

He studied at Moscow Musical School after Dunaevsky and Moscow State University.

Ocean Paradise Diamond

The Fancy classification was initially debated by the DHG Gemological Laboratory and the Gemmological Center of Moscow State University.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Oleksander Hrekov

On the insistence of his father, Hrekov completed the law school of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1897.

Park Tae-joon

He was also granted an honorary doctorate in economics from M.V. in Russia.

Prince George of Kartli

In 1785, he donated 10,000 rubles to the Imperial University of Moscow.

Rick Gilmore

He has written articles on food stabilization, food security, trade liberalization, and venture capitalism, and has lectured at the Agrarian Institute of Russia, Moscow State University, University of Aix-en-Provence, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and American University.

Robert Dessaix

He studied at Moscow State University during the early 1970s, and taught Russian Studies at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales from 1972 to 1984.

Roza Otunbayeva

She graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of Moscow State University in 1972 and went on to teach as senior professor and head of the philosophy department at Kyrgyz State National University for six years.

Ruben Simonov

Graduating from the Moscow State University, he then became an actor, starting his career at the Armenian drama studio in the Armenian House of Culture.

Ruslan Medzhitov

Professor Medzhitov was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and earned a B.S. at Tashkent State University before going on to pursue a Ph.D. in biochemistry at Moscow State University.

Rustem Devletovich Zhantiev

In 1960 he graduated from Department of Entomology in the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University.

Sergey Lvovich Levitsky

At his parents request he attended and graduated (1839) from the Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University and soon after served in the Russian civil service with the Ministry of the Interior, St. Petersburg.

Superfunction

~}~ has then been used as the logo of the Physics department of the Moscow State University.

Svetlana Katok

Katok grew up in Moscow, and earned a masters degree from Moscow State University in 1969; however, as a Jew, she was denied admission to the doctoral program there and instead became a schoolteacher.

Tamara Melenteva

Melenteva graduated from the Philology Department at Moscow State University specializing in teaching Russian as a foreign language and also has a degree in Neuropsychology and Psychology from Moscow State University.

Theodore K. Lorenz

Lorenz lived in Russia where he worked as a taxidermist in the Zoological Garden of the Imperial University in Moscow.

Valentin A. Bazhanov

Since 1993 he is at Ulyanovsk branch of Moscow State University (Ulyanovsk-Simbirsk University), Department of Philosophy, The Dean of the Humanities (1993 – October, 1995).

Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova

After the war she enrolled in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at the University of Moscow.

Vladimir Levenshtein

He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Moscow State University in 1958 and has worked at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics in Moscow ever since.

Walter Hyatt

Uncle Walt's Band gained a cult following around the world, ranging from the University of California - Berkeley to Moscow University in Russia.

Wild Salmon Center

These expeditions were a joint venture between the WSC and Moscow State University.

Yevgeny Kiselyov

A student in Persian at Moscow State University, he later worked as an interpreter in Iran and Afghanistan during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

Zonnon

The Zonnon Language Report was written by Brian Kirk (director at Robinsons Associates), and David Lightfoot (Oxford Brookes University) working with Prof. Jürg Gutknecht (ETH, Zürich) and Dr. Eugene Zueff (Евгений Зуев) (Moscow State University).


Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter

The project is an international collaboration of researchers from Louisiana State University, University of Maryland, College Park, Marshall Space Flight Center, Purple Mountain Observatory in China, Moscow State University in Russia and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.

Alexander Bourganov

His recent works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000); a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a statue of poet Walt Whitman located on the campus of Moscow State University (2009).

Alexander Luria

Additionally, from 1945 on Luria worked at the Moscow State University and was instrumental in the foundation of the Faculty of Psychology at the Moscow State University, where he later headed the Departments of Patho- and Neuropsychology.

G. V. Belyi

His family moved from there to Ukraine, and he began his studies at the Kiev Physics and Mathematics School but moved from there to Moscow State University.

James H. Billington

Most recently he was awarded honorary doctorates from the Tbilisi State University in Georgia (1999) and the Moscow State University for the Humanities (2001).

Leonid Mandelstam

This paradigm-altering discovery (together with G. S. Landsberg) had occurred at the Moscow State University just one week earlier than a parallel discovery of the same phenomena by C. V. Raman and K. S. Krishnan.

Yevgeniya Rudneva

In her letter to professor Sergey Blazhko, head of the Astrometry Department of Moscow State University, dated October 19, 1942, she wrote that her first bomb she promised the Nazis for the building of the Faculty of mechanics and mathematics, which was bombed by them in the winter.

Zamira Sydykova

Sydykova studied journalism at the prestigious Moscow State University and after graduating began working as a reporter for the popular newspaper, Komsomolets Kirgizii, the local organ of the Soviet communist party's youth wing, Komsomol.