Russian State University for the Humanities

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The Russian State University for the Humanities, also known as RSUH or RGGU (РГГУ, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет), is a university in Moscow, Russia with over 5500 students. It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Public University and the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives.

The Moscow Public University, founded in 1908 on the initiative of the eminent Russian patron of the arts, Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky, played a special role in Russian education. It was the center of enlightened and moral education right up to 1918, realizing the progressive principles of alternative education in conjunction with a sound educational foundation available to all.

The Moscow State Institute for History and Archives, founded in 1930 as a center for the preparation of archivists, became over the years a focus of scientific research. In its archival pursuits in areas of history and such auxiliary realms as the study of primary sources, archaeology and palaeongraphy, it managed to preserve the very best of Russian research. By the beginning of the 1990s, this institution has achieved an actual university level which naturally enabled it to become the organizational heart of the RSUH, founded in 1991.

RSUH currently comprises seven institutes, eleven faculties, nineteen scientific and educational centers, eight laboratories, and fifty departments. Its principal subdivisions are as follows:

Faculty of History, Political Science, and Law (including the Center for Oriental Studies)
Archives School
Institute of European Cultures
Marques Block Russian-French Centre for Historical Anthropology
Faculty of Philosophy (including the Department of Sociology)
History of Art Faculty
Historical-Philological Faculty
Institute of Information Sciences and Security Technologies
Mass-Media Institute
Linguistic Institute (including the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Intellectual Systems).
L.S.Vygotsky Psychology Institute
Economics, Management and Law Institute (including the Faculty of Management, the Faculty of Economics, and the Faculty of Law).

Its curriculum extends from preparatory to post-doctoral studies. The university is most renowned for its linguistics, intelligent systems (AI), cliometrics and historical dynamics research groups.

It also has many ties with universities abroad, including Université Laval, Trinity College, and Cairo University.