Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
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The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Russian: Российский государственный университет нефти и газа имени И. М. Губкина) is a university in Moscow. The university was founded on April 17, 1930 and is named after the geologist Ivan Gubkin. The university is affectionally known as Kerosinka (Russian: Керосинка), meaning "kerosene stove". The university had been known in 1960-1980s (when many Soviet universities had unofficial restrictions on the number of Jewish students) for it lax attitude toward accepting student of Jewish origin.
