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Open Day for Exchange Students 🌏

On October 27, 2021 (Wednesday), 16:00-18:00 GMT+3 Moscow State University is holding a virtual Open Day for Exchange Students.

⭕ During the Open Day, we will tell you about our exchange programs, student life and MSU international student support system, as well as provide information foreign students need before arriving in Russia.

🎙Our exchange students who are currently studying at MSU will share their experience and emotions about life in Moscow and study process at the University. Our academic mobility coordinators will be answering questions in live chat.

☝ Registration link: https://studentin.msu.ru/open_day_exchange

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Open Day for Exchange Students!

International students of Moscow State University have been vaccinated against COVID-19 🏥

Foreign students of the university took part in the vaccination against the coronavirus infection COVID-19. Moscow State University provided foreign students with the opportunity to be vaccinated with the single-component Sputnik Light vaccine free of charge.

“As a foreigner in Russia, I want to move safely around the city and country,” said Dzyan Baoming, a MSU student from China. - Thanks to the University, I had such an opportunity - I was vaccinated on July 20, and that's great. Now I can move around Moscow more calmly and not worry. "

What's about you? Have you already been vaccinated? 👩‍⚕️

📸 Photo: Pelagia Zamyatina, "Vechernyaya Moskva"

Biophysicists of Moscow State University have come close to understanding the process of the emergence of neurodegenerative diseases.

An international team of scientists, which included researchers from the biological and physics faculties of Moscow State University, found out the aspects of the regulation of the assembly and disassembly of the protein skeleton of cells. Molecular dynamics calculations were performed on the Lomonosov-2 supercomputer of the Moscow State University.

The study can shed light on the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, its results are published in the highly rated scientific journal Developmental Cell.

Read more: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1534580721004056?via%3Dihub

Today, July 15, is World Youth Skills Day, established by the UN General Assembly. It was approved in 2014 at a UN meeting, when the Sri Lankan delegation raised the issue of growing youth unemployment.

For more than two centuries, Moscow University has been a forge of talented youth, providing fundamental knowledge and practical skills. Among Russian universities, Moscow State University leads all international rankings in terms of employment of graduates. Look for the position of the university by the hashtag

Moscow State University regularly conducts activities aimed at career guidance for students and alumni. In addition to the main disciplines, many faculties integrate inter-faculty courses into the educational process, organize public lectures to introduce students to future employers.

July 13, 260 years ago, the first Russian naturalist and professor of Moscow University Matvey Afonin went to study with Karl Linnaeus.

Matvey Ivanovich Afonin devoted his entire life to the University of Moscow. Having entered the gymnasium at the Imperial Moscow University, he became interested in agriculture, zoology and botany. As a diligent student, on July 13, 1761, Matvey Afonin was sent to Sweden to study with the outstanding naturalist Karl Linnaeus, who was the first to create a unified classification of all living things. While the young student was studying in Sweden, Ivan Shuvalov, one of the founders of Moscow University, was very interested in his success. Returning to Moscow, Matvey Afonin became a lecturer in the Department of Natural History of the Medical Faculty of Moscow University. For the first time in Russia, he gave a course in agriculture in Russian.

Images of Matvey Ivanovich have not survived to our time, but it is known that the department created under his leadership was located in the first (historical) building of Moscow University on Red Square on the site of the State Historical Museum.

Rector of Moscow State University launched the construction of new clusters of the scientific and technological valley of Moscow State University

On July 12, a solemn ceremony was held to start the construction of the clusters - "Interdisciplinary" and "Educational" of the scientific and technological valley of the Moscow State University "Vorobyovy Gory". The event was attended by Rector of Moscow State University Academician Viktor Sadovnichy, Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin and General Director of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev.

The innovative scientific and technological center of Moscow State University "Vorobyovy Gory" is being built on the site located between Vernadsky Avenue, Lomonosovsky, Michurinsky Avenues and Ramensky Boulevard.

"Educational cluster" is the cluster for the implementation of the educational direction, including additional education programs; it assumes the presence of classrooms and research laboratories for the implementation of projects on the basis of faculties and scientific and educational schools of Moscow State University, as well as the formation of an innovative environment for the development of scientific and technological startups.

"Interdisciplinary cluster" is the cluster of interdisciplinary humanities research, cognitive sciences, including the problems of artificial intelligence; implementation of the United Eurasia Transnational megaproject; innovative sports developments (development of scientific foundations for the development of sports in Russia; creation of a methodology for describing the "ideal" models of athletes, taking into account the genetic, physiological, anthropological, biochemical characteristics of a person; issues of psychological support and support of sports).

🏅The Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University has selected 4 students who will represent Russia at the International Chemistry Olympiad in Tokyo. 🧪

The training camp of candidates for the Russian team for the 53rd International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), which was supervised by scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of MSU, under the leadership of Professor Vadim Eremin, has ended.

For two weeks, more than 20 winners of the All-Russian Olympiad in chemistry solved the most difficult exercises in all the main sections of chemistry. The training camp ended with a theoretical Olympiad, 4 winners of which made up the Russian team: Andrey Tyrin (Moscow), Alexander Trofimov (Yekaterinburg), Georgy Zhomin (Moscow) and Timofey Charkin (Moscow). "The Russian national chemistry team is one of the strongest in the world. Russian schoolchildren are consistently among the gold medalists and become absolute winners.

The International Chemistry Olympiad starts in Tokyo on July 25 and will be held remotely. We wish our team good luck! 🇷🇺

Happy Medical Worker's Day, !

Medical Worker's Day brings together all doctors, nurses, orderlies, students and interns of medical specialties. 🩺

There is a Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at Moscow State University, as well as Medical Research and Educational Center (MNOTs MSU), which in the spring of 2020 worked as a COVID-19 hospital. Hundreds of scientists, doctors, staff and students worked on saving lives of patients with coronavirus infection. MSU COVID-19 hospital was recognized as one of the most perspective for treatment of COVID-19 in Moscow.

Congratulations to all doctors! 🚑

📸 Andrey Nikerichev

🌎 The rector of MSU meets with the most outstanding foreign graduates of the University

On June 23, the rector of Moscow State University Academician Viktor Sadovnichy meets with the most outstanding foreign graduates of 2021. The traditional meeting will be held remotely. The rector will congratulate the graduates on the completion of their studies, tell about international relations of the university and opportunities after graduation. 🎓

Guests of honor of the event and graduates of Moscow State University of past years will give words of encouragment to yesterday's students and share some secrets of their professional success. Graduates of 2021, as the main characters of the event, will tell about the most memorable moments of their student life.

⭕ A special Internet portal will be available for professors, teachers, future and current students of Moscow State University, alumni, their parents and all comers. Guests of the portal will have an opportunity to watch video messages recorded by alumni from around the world. All those wishing to share the joy of this day will also be able to see creative performances dedicated to unforgettable years of study in Russia.

Today, June 16 marks the 58th anniversary of the flight of the first woman cosmonaut and honorary professor of Moscow State University Valentina Tereshkova 🚀

The first woman to visit space, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, made her flight on June 16, 1963 on the Vostok-6 spacecraft. It lasted almost three days. Over this period her spacecraft orbited the Earth 48 times. During the flight, a large amount of biomedical research was carried out, testing and improvement of manned spacecraft systems under conditions of joint flight. Apart from that, the world's first female astronaut kept a logbook and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere.

In the same year, in the assembly hall of Moscow State University, Valentina Tereshkova gave a press conference, where she told Soviet and foreign journalists about the flight. Speaking, Tereshkova told about an unforgettable day on June 16, 1963, when she had a chance to fly into space and prove that Soviet women can handle this difficult and honorable work, about manual orientation of the spacecraft in orbit, about radio communication with V. F. Bykovsy, who was also in orbit on the Vostok-5 spacecraft, and, of course, about the beauty of our planet and the return to our native Earth.

In 2013, the rector of Moscow State University, Academician Viktor Sadovnichy, presented Valentina Tereshkova with a diploma and a medal for the title of Honorary Professor.

📸 Source: Yaroslavl State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve

During the Emergency DataHack hackathon, the KageLol team of alumni and students from the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, figured out how to predict the appearance of ice jams. About how they managed to create the project, why it is important, and how MSU helps in the implementation of student ideas, we talked with one of the participants - Maxim Kharlamov 👇🏻

How is your project created as part of the hackathon useful? How does it simplify life? Why is your solution the best?

Maxim Kharlamov: Ice jam is a very dangerous accumulation of ice floes during the spring ice drift completely blocking the flow of the river, as a result of which the water level rises significantly. If an ice jam occurs near settlements, then, as a rule, this entails severe economic damage, and people often die. For example, the flood in Lensk in 2001 killed 6 people and flooded 90% of the city's territory. Timely forecasting of such a dangerous phenomenon will make it possible to take the necessary measures in time, and, most importantly, help save human lives.

Who is on the team? By what principle were people recruited into it? Is this the first competition, or have you already had a similar experience?

MK: For me personally, it was only the second time, but other members of the team are more experienced. We were all united by a love of programming and our captain, Zhenya Malygin. Together with him we graduated from the Department of Land Hydrology in 2015. Vanya Malygin, Zhenya's brother, is an alumnus of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, and in graduate school he was engaged in forecasting ice phenomena. Masha Sakirkina studied at the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Artem Katsura is a student of the Department of Land Hydrology. As you can see, most of us are geographers, and solving such a geographic problem was a matter of honor for us.

Can you briefly describe how your idea was born? What tools were involved in the process?

MK: It all started with an analysis of the literature. We analyzed all the most important processes leading to the emergence of ice jams, and understood which of them we can describe and which cannot. It quickly became clear that it is almost impossible to predict the date of the ice jam 2-4 months before the start of the ice drift, since one of the most important factors in the formation of an ice jam, namely the process of breaking the ice in the spring, remains unknown to us. We had to somehow predict the meteorological situation for 2 months ahead, and for this we decided to use various indices of atmospheric circulation.These indices help to assess the strength of the Arctic cyclone and the Siberian anticyclone, since it is their rivalry that determines the weather in the region under study. As a result, we generated a lot of potential predictors and the only thing left for us was to select the most important of them and build a model based on them.

What was the biggest challenge your team faced?

MK: We were desperately short of time. Still, 48 hours for solving such a difficult task is extremely short and we had to sacrifice sleep in order to have time to implement all the ideas.

How did studying at Moscow State University help you acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the hackathon?

MK: It seems to me that the most important thing in preparation is to develop a work strategy. The roles and responsibilities of all team members should be pre-assigned. Thanks to our education, we understood quite well all the factors of the formation of an ice jam, we knew what additional data we needed and where we could get it.

What do you do in your free time?

MK: Unfortunately, there is not that much of it. I try to go to the climbing wall more often, play the guitar, go on expeditions and travel.

What plans do you have for the future?

MK: I would like to finish my Ph.D. dissertation as soon as possible, and then I will go to travel somewhere in Africa.