M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) is the largest university
in Russia. Students have been studying there since it was founded on
January 25th, 1755. Even today January the 25th is celebrated as
Student's Day all over Russia. Originally located on Red Square,
nowadays most of its faculties are situated on Sparrow Hills, in the
southwest of Moscow. MSU is a highly prestigious university. It's
students are proud to study there. MSU has some very impressive
buildings. The main building was the tallest building in Europe until
1988 and the central tower is believed to have a total of 33 kilometres
of corridors and 5.000 rooms. The university's facilities are superb and
include a concert hall, a museum, a huge library, a swimming pool and a
police station! The facade of the building is highly decorative thanks
to the giant clocks, carvings and Soviet crests that you can see there.
But perhaps most impressive of all is the star on top of the main tower -
it weights 12 tons!
In the early days MSU only had three faculties: philosophy, medicine and
law. Today, It has a total of 29 faculties and 15 research centres and
has 4,000 teaching staff and 31,000 students and 7,000 postgraduates.