Moscow
Moscow is the capital of Russian Federation. The city area is about 30 km in diameter and the population reaches to almost 10 million people. Moscow was founded by Yury Dolgoruky in 1147. Nowadays Moscow is the most important political and business center of Russia and has a true "Russian" feel. Some people even call it a "big village". In the center of European Russia, 8 hours by car or train from St. Petersburg,, and 4 hours by plane from London.
The main historical core of Moscow is Kremlin (a fortress - on photo), which is located in the core of the city. Tverskaya street, which is the main avenue of the city, starts from the Kremlin and heads north to become Leningradskoye Shosse(HIGHWAY), which leads directly to St. Petersburg (750km).
Moscow has a radial structure, and the Garden Ring road defines the center of the city. A smaller Boulevard Ring defines the city's downtown. To be able to find the right building on any street, it's useful to know that in Moscow house numbering starts from the center. Also, the odd-number houses are located to the left, and the even-number houses - to the right. So, if you're looking for Tverskaya st., #2, for example, it will be located very close to the Kremlin (which is the most central place in Moscow), on your right-hand side (if you turn your back to the Kremlin). Moscow is located in the middle of the continent, so the temperature is contintal, which means hot weather in Summer and cold weather in Winter. The hottest months are July and August, when the temperatures can reach +30-35 celcius. They are followed by mild September, which turns into Indian Summer - the last warm days of the year usually in the end of the month. October sees the Autumn starting and the temperatures can go down to zero by the end of the month. The first snow usually appears in the middle of November, but the most snowy months are January and February. February is also the coldest month, when the temperatures often go down to minus 15 celcius. March is when the Spring comes, and the temperatures rise back to zero and it becomes quite warm by the end of April only (10-15 celcius). The snow leaves some time in the end of March. The end of April sees an abrupt change to warm and sunny weather, and in the beginning of May it can already be +20. May is actually the most comfortable month, as there are not many rains and the temperature stays around +20.
View of Moscow City
Education and Science
There are 1696 high schools in Moscow, as well as 91 colleges. Besides these, there are 222 institutions offering higher education in Moscow, including 60 state universities and the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which was founded in 1755. The university main building located in Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) is 240 meters (787 ft) tall and when completed, wasthe tallest building outside the United States. The university has over 30,000 undergraduate and 7,000 postgraduate students, who have a choice of twenty-nine faculties and 450 departments for study. Additionally, approximately 10,000 high school students take courses at the university, while overtwo thousand researchers work.
The Moscow State University's library contains over nine million books, making it one of the largest libraries in all of Russia. Its acclaim throughout the international academic community has meant that over 11,000 international students have graduated from the university, with many coming to Moscow to learn the Russian language
Main building of Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics
Moscow is a financial center of Russian Federation and CIS countries
and well-known for its business schools, among the best are Plekhanov Russian Academy
of Economics; Finance Academy under the Government of RF ; New Economic School;
The State University of Management, and State University – Higher School of Economics.
They offer undegraduate degrees in management, finance, accounting, marketing,
real estate and economic theory as well Masters programs and MBA with varied concentrations.
Most of them have branches in other regions of Russia and countries around the world.
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, founded in 1830, is located in the centre of
Moscow and provides more than 18,000 undergraduate and 1,000 postgraduate students with
an education in science and engineering offering a wide range of technical degrees.
Since it opened enrolment to students from outside Russia in 1991,
Bauman Moscow State Technical University has increased its international enrolment
to up to two hundred.
The Moscow Conservatory, founded in 1866 is a prominent music school in Russia,
whose graduates included Sergey Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Aram Khachaturian,
Mstislav Rostropovich, and Alfred Schnittke.
Entrance to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute
The Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, abbreviated as VGIK,
is the world's oldest educational institution in Cinematography, founded by
Vladimir Gardin in 1919. Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and
Aleksey Batalov were among its most distinguished professors and Mikhail Vartanov,
Sergei Parajanov, Andrey Tarkovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Eldar Ryazanov, Aleksandr Sokurov,
Yuriy Norshteyn, Aleksandr Petrov, Vasily Shukshin, Konrad Wolf among graduates.
Moscow State Institute of International Relations, founded in 1944,
remains Russia's best known school of international relations and diplomacy,
with six different schools focused on international relations. Approximately 4,500 students
make up the university's student body and over 700,000 Russian and
foreign-language books — of which 20,000 are considered rare — can be found in the l
ibrary of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Among other prominent institutions are the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
also known as Phystech, Moscow Aviation Institute and the
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
has taught numerous Noble Prize winners, including Pyotr Kapitsa, Nikolay Semyonov,
Lev Landau and Alexandr Prokhorov, while the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute is
known for its research in nuclear physics.The highest Russian military school is the
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Although Moscow has a number of famous Soviet-era higher educational institutions,
most of which are more oriented towards engineering or the fundamental science,
in recent years Moscow has seen a significant growth in the number of commercial
and private institutions that offer classes in business and management.
Many state institutions have expanded their education scope and increased
their student enrolments. Institutions in Moscow, as well as the rest of
post-Soviet Russia, have begun to offer new international certificates and
postgraduate degrees, including the Master of Business Administration.
Student exchange programs with different (especially, European) countries also
have become widespread in Moscow's universities, while many schools within the
Russian capital will also offer seminars, lectures, and courses for corporate
employees and businessmen.
The headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow is known as one of the most important science centres in Russia.
The headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences are located in Moscow
as well as numerous research and applied science institutions.
The Kurchatov Institute, Russia's leading research and development institution
in the field of nuclear energy, where the first nuclear reactor in Europe was built,
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Theoretical and
Experimental Physics, Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems and
Steklov Institute of Mathematics are all situated in Moscow.
There are 452 libraries in the city, including 168 for children.
The Russian State Library, founded in 1862 is the national library of Russia.
The Russian State Library is home to over 275 kilometres of shelves and
forty-two million items, including over seventeen million books and serial volumes,
thirteen million journals, 350,000 music scores and sound records, and 150,000 maps,
making it the largest library in Russia and one of the largest in the world.
Items in 247 different languages comprise approximately twenty-nine percent of
the collection.
The State Public Historical Library, founded in 1863, is the largest library,
specialising in Russian history. Its collection contains four million items
in 112 languages (including 47 languages of the former USSR),
mostly on Russian and world history, heraldry, numismatics,
and the history of science.
Beside these achievements of Moscow institutions, now available a degree program
for Medical Education in English Language in the wonderfull city of
Moscow.
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