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MSU Faculty of Geography

Coordinates: 55°42′00″N 37°31′46″E / 55.70000°N 37.52944°E / 55.70000; 37.52944
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Faculty of Geography Lomonosov Moscow State University
Географический факультет МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова
PresidentNikolai Kasimov
DeanSergei Dobrolyubov
Location
Moscow, Russia
CampusUrban
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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. There are 15 departments:

Human geography branch

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Geoecological branch

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

Geoinformatics branch

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  • Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

Research laboratories

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