Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) is the leading and one of the oldest and largest classical universities in Russia. MSU, which has 35 thousand students, includes 41 faculties, 15 research institutes, 6 branches in the CIS countries. The University has the right to issue diplomas of its own sample with the official seal of the Russian Federation to its graduates, to certify their diplomas with a seal with the official symbols of the Russian Federation.
The initiators of the creation of the university were the favorite of Empress Elizabeth I Petrovna I. I. Shuvalov, who became its first curator, and the scientist M. V. Lomonosov, whose name MSU has been bearing since 1940. The opening of Moscow University took place in 1755 on Red Square in the building of the former Zemsky order, which now houses the State Historical Museum.
In 1953, a four-year construction of one of the first 7 high-rise buildings in Moscow was completed - the new main building of the university complex on Leninsky - now Vorobyovy Gory. With a height of 183.2 meters and a spire of 239.5 meters, the building was the tallest building in Europe until 1990.
In the central part of the main building there are the rector's office and administration, a scientific library, 3 faculties, the Museum of Geosciences, an assembly hall for 1500 people, the Palace of Culture, three gyms, an indoor swimming pool. On the last floor, the 32nd floor, there is an observation deck.
In the side wings of the main building there is a dormitory for students and graduate students with almost 6,000 beds and 184 apartments for professors and teachers of the university. There is also a cinema, a post office, a telegraph office, canteens, shops, a hairdresser's, consumer services, and a clinic.