Description of the attraction
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) is the leading and largest university in Moscow, the center of Russian science and culture, one of the oldest universities in Russia.
Moscow University was founded in 1755. Initially, the university was located in the building of the Main Pharmacy on Red Square. In 1786-1793, a special building was built for the university at the corner of Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Mokhovaya streets. This imposing U-shaped building was damaged in a fire in 1812 and was rebuilt in the Russian Empire style. In 1833-1836, on the opposite corner of Bolshaya Nikitskaya and Mokhovaya streets, the so-called new university building with the university church of St. Tatiana was erected.
Many famous personalities studied at Moscow University: Decembrists A. and N. Muravyov, S. Trubetskoy, P. Kakhovsky, writers D. Fonvizin, V. Zhukovsky, A. Griboyedov, M. Lermontov, V. Belinsky, A. Herzen, F. Tyutchev, A. Chekhov, theatrical figures V. Nemirovich-Danchenko and E. Vakhtangov.
In the 1950s, a new high-rise building of Moscow University was built on the Sparrow (Lenin) Hills according to the project of the architect L. Rudnev. In the 1950s-1970s, a whole university complex was built nearby, where almost all the faculties of Moscow State University were located, and only four of them remained in the buildings on Mokhovaya.
Today, Moscow State University is the largest classical university in the Russian Federation. More than 40 thousand students and postgraduates study in it, preparatory classes are conducted for more than 10 thousand schoolchildren.
