Moscow State University

The main building of Moscow university

Lomonosov Moscow State University(MSU;Russian:Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова), also known asMoscow State University,is the largest and oldestuniversityinRussia.It was made in 1755 and is inMoscow.It was made byIvan ShuvalovandMikhail Lomonosov.It is named after Lomonosov.

The university building is an example ofStalinist architecture.In total, there are seven such towers around Moscow. The tower at the university is the largest one. The tower was designed byarchitectLev Vladimirovich Rudnev.It was built after the war. He was awarded theStalin Prizefor its construction, in 1949. The building was the largestskyscraperoutsideNew Yorkfor a long time. It was the tallest buildimg in Europe, until 1988. The central tower is 240m high. It has 36-stories. It is flanked by four huge wings of student and faculty accommodations. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms. Facilities that are inside the building include a concert hall, a theatre, a museum, various administration services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's salon, a canteen, bank offices, shops, cafeterias, and a bomb shelter. Along with the university administration, four of the main faculties -Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics,theFaculty of Geology,theFaculty of Geography,and theFaculty of Fine and Performing Arts- now are in the Main building. The star on the top of the tower is large enough so that it has a small room and a viewing platform; it weighs 12 tons.The building's facades are decorated with giant clocks, barometers, and thermometers, statues, carved wheat sheaves, and Soviet crests (recently renovated). It stands before a terrace featuring statues of male and female students gazing optimistically and confidently into the future.

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• Moscow State University
• Pictures of Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityArchived2016-11-15 at theWayback Machine
• Moscow State University campus on Google Maps