Education in Moscow
Science and Education
There are 1696 high schools in Moscow, as well as 91 colleges. Besides these, there are 222 institutions offering higher education in Moscow, including 60 state universities and the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which was founded in 1755. The university main building located in Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) is 240 metres (790 ft) tall and when completed, was the tallest building outside the United States. The university has over 30,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students, who have a choice of twenty-nine faculties and 450 departments for study. Additionally, approximately 10,000 high school students take courses at the university, while over two thousand researchers work. The Moscow State University library contains over nine million books, making it one of the largest libraries in all of Russia. Its acclaim throughout the international academic community has meant that over 11,000 international students have graduated from the university, with many coming to Moscow to learn the Russian Language.
Moscow is one of the main financial centres of the Russian Federation and CIS countries and is well-known for its business schools, among the best are Finance Academy under the Government of RF; Plekhanov Russian Economic University; New Economic School; All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade; The State University of Management, and the State University – Higher School of Economics. They offer undegraduate degrees in management, finance, accounting, marketing, real estate and economic theory as well Masters programs and MBA with varied concentrations. Most of them have branches in other regions of Russia and countries around the world.
Entrance to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, founded in 1830, is located in the center of Moscow and provides more than 18,000 undergraduate and 1,000 postgraduate students with an education in science and engineering offering a wide range of technical degrees. Since it opened enrolment to students from outside Russia in 1991, Bauman Moscow State Technical University has increased its international enrolment to up to two hundred.
The Moscow Conservatory, founded in 1866 is a prominent music school in Russia, whose graduates included Sergey Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Aram Khachaturian, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Alfred Schnittke.
The Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, abbreviated as VGIK, is the world's oldest educational institution in Cinematography, founded by Vladimir Gardin in 1919. Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Aleksey Batalov were among its most distinguished professors and Mikhail Vartanov, Sergei Parajanov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Eldar Ryazanov, Alexander Sokurov, Yuriy Norshteyn, Aleksander Petrov, Vasily Shukshin, Konrad Wolf among graduates.
Moscow State Institute of International Relations, founded in 1944, remains Russia's best known school of international relations and diplomacy, with six different schools focused on international relations. Approximately 4,500 students make up the university's student body and over 700,000 Russian and foreign-language books—of which 20,000 are considered rare—can be found in the library of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Among other prominent institutions are the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, also known as Phystech, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Motorway Institute (State Technical University), and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has taught numerous Nobel Prize winners, including Pyotr Kapitsa, Nikolay Semyonov, Lev Landau, and Alexander Prokhorov, while the Moscpow Engineering Physics Institute is known for its research in nuclear physics. The highest Russian military school is the Combened Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Although Moscow has a number of famous Soviet-era higher educational institutions, most of which are more oriented towards engineering or the fundamental science, in recent years Moscow has seen a significant growth in the number of commercial and private institutions that offer classes in business and management. Many state institutions have expanded their education scope and increased their student enrolments. Institutions in Moscow, as well as the rest of post-Soviet Russia, have begun to offer new international certificates and postgraduate degrees, including the Master of Business Administration. Student exchange programs with different (especially, European) countries also have become widespread in Moscow's universities, while many schools within the Russian capital will also offer seminars, lectures, and courses for corporate employees and businessmen.
Moscow is known as one of the most important science centers in Russia. The headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences are located in Moscow as well as numerous research and applied science institutions. The Kurchatov Institute, Russia's leading research and development institution in the field of nuclear energy, where the first nuclear reactor in Europe was built, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems and Steklov Institute of Mathematics are all situated in Moscow.
There are 452 libraries in the city, including 168 for children. The Russian State Library, founded in 1862 is the national library of Russia. The Russian State Library is home to over 275 kilometres of shelves and forty-two million items, including over seventeen million books and serial volumes, thirteen million journals, 350,000 music scores and sound records, and 150,000 maps, making it the largest library in Russia and one of the largest in the world. Items in 247 different languages comprise approximately twenty-nine percent of the collection.
The State Public Historical Library, founded in 1863, is the largest library, specialising in Russian history. Its collection contains four million items in 112 languages (including 47 languages of the former USSR), mostly on Russian and world history, heraldry, numismatics, and the history of science.
Universities in Moscow
| M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University | Vorobjovy Gory | +7 (495) 939-1000 http://www.msu.ru/english/ |
| Moscow State Forest University (MSFU) | 1st Institutskaya str. 1 | +7 (495) 583-6490 http://www.mgul.ac.ru/eng/ |
| Moscow State Technical University n.a. N.E. Bauman (MSTU) | 2-nd Baumanskaya str. 5 | +7 (495) 261-4055 http://www.bmstu.ru/mstu/English/ |
| Russian State University for the Humanities | Miusskaya Square, 6, bld. 6 | +7 (495) 250-6511 http://www.rsuh.ru/english/ |
| Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) | Mikluho-Maklai str. 6 | +7 (495) 434-7027 http://www.sci.pfu.edu.ru/index_eng.htm |
Preschool in Moscow
| European Gymnasium | Poperechny prosp. 1a | +7 (495) 269-0710 http://www.eurogym.ru/e_index.html |
| Lomonosovskaja school | +7 (495) 243-2213 | |
| "Nasledije" school | Utkina str., 39b | +7 (495) 365-3778 |
| Pro Gymnasium № 1633 | 1st Ljusinovskiiy per. 5 | +7 (495) 959-8842 |
| YA SAM | Panferova str. 8 | +7 (495) 134-1355 http://www.yasam.ru/indexeng.html |
Arts Schools in Moscow
| Aesthetic Education Of Children Center "Golden Cock" | B.Haritonyevskiiy per., 13-A | +7 (495) 923-00-94 |
| Art School Of Alexey Yegorov - Classical School Of Fine Arts | Strastnoy boulevard, 4/3 | +7 (495) 200-5609 |
| Children's Art Academy | Novozavodskaya str. 27 | +7 (495) 145-9777 |
| Moscow Academic Art Luceum Of Russia Art Academy | Krymskiy val, 8 | +7 (495) 230-3436 |
| Moscow State Specialized Aquarel School of Sergej Andrijaki | Gorohovskiiy per., 17 | +7 (495) 261-17-84 |
Language Schools in Moscow
| GRINT Centre for Education | Yunosty str. 5/1, block 6 , of.35 | +7 (495) 374-7430 (7-499)-374 69 51 Fax. (7-499) - 374 73 66 http://www.grint.ru/ |
| Language Link | Address: Souschovskaya str. 8/12 | +7 (495) 978-2218 http://russian.language.ru/ |
| Lingua.ru School | Staropansky per. 3 | +7 (495) 933-0905 http://www.lingua.ru/english.html |
| Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages | B. Trekhgorny per. 11 | +7 (495) 255-6915 http://www.gaudeamus.ru/eng/main.htm |
Driving schools in Moscow
| "Auto-online" | Melnikova str. 2 | +7 (495) 276-4675 |
| "Losinka" | Olonetskiy proezd, 6 | +7 (495) 470-0643 |
| "Cabriolet" | Shmitovskiy proezd, 16 | +7 (495) 256-1574 |
| "TCHAIYKA" | Kalashnyiy per., 10 | +7 (495) 290-2162 |
| Central Driving school | Kashirskoe highway, 24 | +7 (495) 725-2207 |
Music Schools in Moscow
| Russian Gnesins' Academy of Music | Povarskaya str. 30-36 | +7 (495) 291-5813 http://www.musicmanagement.ru/Academy_en.html |
| Music and choir school "Radost" | Novopestchanaja str., 26 | +7 (495) 198-0421 |
| Musical and aesthetic center "Allegro" | Dekabristov str., 2 | +7 (495) 907-16-47 |
Dancing Schools in Moscow
| CASA DEL TANGO | Bolshoi Kislovskiy lane 4, bld. 2 | +7 (495) 420-9744 http://www.casadeltango.ru/eng_school.htm |
| MARACATU | + 7 903 610-0635 http://www.maracatu.narod.ru/index1.html |
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| Oficial Oriental Belydance {stomach dance} | Ykrainski Bylvar, 15 | +7 (495) 536-6397 http://tar.hs.ru/11index2.htm |
| Milongas | Delegatskaya str. 7 | +7 (495) 302-2274 http://www.milonga.ru/eng/milonga.html |