Moscow State University, officially the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, is a public research university in Moscow, Russia, founded in 1755. It is a large institution, with 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments and six branches. Its alumni include past leaders of the Soviet Union and of other governments, and as of 2019 thirteen Nobel laureates, six Fields Medal winners and one Turing Award winner were affiliated with it. The ethnologist and linguist Yuri Knorozov began his undergraduate studies in its ethnology department in 1940, before his work on the decipherment of the Maya script.
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is a public research university in Moscow, Russia
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1. Moscow State University (Wikipedia)
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is a public research university in Moscow, Russia
2. Research Organization Registry (ROR): Lomonosov Moscow State University (ROR record)
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"established": 1755,
Yuri Knorozov (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Yuri Knorozov, Early lifeQuote, Associated With: Yuri Knorozov, Early life
he commenced undergraduate studies in the newly created Department of Ethnology at Moscow State University's department of History
Alexander Afanasyev (Wikipedia)
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he entered the Law Faculty of the University of Moscow
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