MSU Faculty of Geography

MSU Faculty of Geography (Russian: Географический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University, created in 1938 by order #109 dated 23 July 1938. It is the largest collective of geographers in the world: 780 researchers, 1100 students and 200 post-graduates are working at the facility.

Faculty of Geography Lomonosov Moscow State University
Географический факультет МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова
PresidentNikolai Kasimov
DeanSergei Dobrolyubov
Location
CampusUrban
Website

Departments

There are 15 departments:

Human geography branch

Physical geography branch

Hydrometeorological branch

Geoecological branch

  • Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
  • Department of Environmental Management

Geoinformatics branch

  • Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

Research laboratories

  • Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources
  • Laboratory of Geoecology of the Northern Territories
  • Laboratory of Complex Mapping
  • Laboratory of Recent Deposits and Pleistocene Palaeogeography
  • Laboratory of Regional Analysis and Political Geography
  • Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows
  • World Data Center for Geography
  • The Makkaveev Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.