MSU Faculty of Geography

MSU Faculty of Geography (Russian: Географический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University, created in 1938 by order #109 dated 23 July 1938. It is the largest collective of geographers in the world:^{[citation needed]} 780 researchers, 1100 students and 200 post-graduates are working at the facility.

Departments[]

There are 15 departments:

Human geography branch[]

• Department of Social and Economic Geography of foreign countries
• Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
• Department of Geography of World Economy
• Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism

Physical geography branch[]

• Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science
• Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography
• Department of Glaciology and Cryolithology
• Department of Biogeography
• Department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Soil Geography

Hydrometeorological branch[]

• Department of Hydrology
• Department of Meteorology and Climatology
• Department of Oceanology

Geoecological branch[]

• Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
• Department of Environmental Management

Geoinformatics branch[]

• Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

Research laboratories[]

• Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources
• Laboratory of Geoecology of the Northern Territories
• Laboratory of Complex Mapping
• Laboratory of Recent Deposits and Pleistocene Palaeogeography
• Laboratory of Regional Analysis and Political Geography
• Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows
• World Data Center for Geography
• The Makkaveev Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes

External links[]

• Official site of the faculty
• The Information on a site of Moscow State University

Coordinates: 55°42′00″N 37°31′46″E / 55.70000°N 37.52944°E / 55.70000; 37.52944