Moscow University for the Humanities

Moscow University for the Humanities (Russian: Московский гуманитарный университет - МосГУ) is an accredited privately operated institution for higher education located in Moscow, Russia.[1] It is a member of the International Association of Universities.[2]

The University has six faculties. It serves more than 10,000 students at a time.[2]

Though the institution traces its history back to 1944,[3] it did not become a recognized university until 1992.[4] The current head of the university is Igor Ilyinsky,[5] who published a history of the institution in 2005.[6]

References

  1. ^ (8 October 2009). Задержаны предполагаемые убийцы студента МосГУ, Pravda.ru (in Russian)
  2. ^ a b http://mosgu.ru/mezhdunar/en/
  3. ^ МосГУ, Алма матер (Alma Mater), p.3 (2006) (in Russian, stating that МосГУ (MosGU)'s origins date back to 1944, starting from the Higher Komsomol School (Высшая комсомольская школа), Institute of Youth (Институт молодежи), Moscow Socio-Humanitarian Academy (Московская социально-гуманитарная академия), to the Moscow University for the Humanities.)
  4. ^ Khokhlov, Oleg (25 May 2009). Осторожно, вузы закрываются, Kommersant (in Russian)(notes that this institution was officially registered in 1992, soon after the Russian government authorized the establishment of private educational institutions)
  5. ^ (22 January 2008) Photo, Kommersant (photo of Ilyinsky and Andrey Dementyev at an event held at the university)
  6. ^ Ilyinsky, Igor. Московский гуманитарный университет: 60 лет (2005) (ISBN 5-98079-083-7)

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