Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia MGIMO
Owners:
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russian Foreign Ministry)
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Areas of training
For February 2020, MGIMO trains specialists in 18 areas:
- international relations,
- foreign regional studies,
- economics,
- jurisprudence,
- journalism,
- political science,
- advertising and public relations,
- sociology,
- management,
- trading,
- ecology and environmental management,
- state and municipal administration,
- finance and credit,
- linguistics,
- pedagogical education,
- psychology,
- personnel management,
- business informatics.
Faculties and Institutes
At the beginning of 2020, as part of MGIMO:
Faculties
- of International Relations
- International Legal Document
- International Economic Relations
- International Journalism Board
- International Business and Business Administration
- Faculty of Applied Economics and Commerce
- Faculty of Management and Policy
- Faculty of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
- Faculty of Financial Economics
- Faculty of Pre-University Training
Institutes
- International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy
- European Training Institute
- School of Government and International Affairs
- School of Business and International Competencies
Higher education institutions
Admission to MGIMO
Main article: Admission to MGIMO
Number of students
In 2017, about seven thousand students from Russia, the CIS countries and non-CIS countries studied at MGIMO.
Institute leaders
- 1944-1944 Ivan Dmitrievich Udaltsov
- 1944-1945 Stepanov Nikolai Vasilievich
- 1945-1949 Frantsov Georgy Pavlovich
- 1949-1952 Vereshchagin Ivan Kuzmich
- 1952-1955 Lobanov Ivan Ivanovich
- 1955-1957 Ivanov Mikhail Sergeevich
- 1958-1963 Ryzhenko Fedor Danilovich
- 1963-1965 Kutakov Leonid Nikolaevich
- 1965-1968 Miroshnichenko Boris Panteleimonovich
- 1968-1971 Yakovlev Mikhail Danilovich
- 1971-1974 Alexander Alekseyevich Soldatov
- 1974-1985 Lebedev Nikolai Ivanovich
- 1985-1990 Ovinnikov Richard Sergeevich
- 1990-1992 Andrey Stepanov
- 1992 - Torkunov Anatoly Vasilievich
History
2023: Training of Data Management Professionals
MGIMO Digital Department will train data management specialists. The university announced this on December 7, 2023.
MGIMO Digital Department, together with technology leader, data research expert Rodion Curtling, is creating an online course on data management practices in organizations. The course is implemented within the framework of the state program for supporting universities "Priority 2030" and meets the tasks of the national project "Data Economics" - to ensure the competitiveness of Russian companies, in particular, by automating the management of business processes.
 | We look at working with data primarily as a managerial, and to a lesser extent a technical task. Making data work is not another database or regulation, these are the rules and actions that an organization should take depending on the level of digital maturity already achieved. We pay special attention to data products - internal and external analytics, from a simple summary table to an automated decision-making system, "said Evgeny Pogrebnyak, Dean of the Faculty of Financial Economics at MGIMO, and Head of the Digital Department of MGIMO. |  |
In 2023, the training module started at the Faculty of Financial Economics for 23 students of the Digital Finance master's degree. The course will be available online next semester. Training is aimed at training data managers who use data to change the structure of companies' business, speed up customer service, create additional services and services: predictive maintenance, personalized personal services, automated document preparation and other innovations.
The course addresses three main aspects of data management: focus on business needs, data management processes (models, data quality, "data data"), and engineering technologies including databases and machine learning methods. Due to the extensive practice of the authors' work in Russian and foreign companies, as well as in various sectors of the economy, the international experience in the field of data management, including the common DMBOK and DCAM standards, was taken into account and revised as much as possible. The training program is intended for both managers and middle managers, including those who do not have special technical training.
2022
A new medical university began work in the Moscow region
In early September 2022, the MGIMO-MED Medical University was opened, established on the initiative of the Governor of the Moscow Region, MGIMO and the Mother and Child Group of Companies. It was launched on the basis of the Odintsovo branch of MGIMO, the press service of the governor and the government of the Moscow region reports. Read more here.
Agreement with T1 Consulting on the preparation of IT personnel
On July 1, 2022, developer POT1 Consulting announced the launch of a cooperation program with Russian universities. Cooperation was also concluded with MGIMO. Read more here.
2021
TAdviser and MGIMO agree on strategic partnership
The largest Russian Internet portal on information technologies in the state and business TAdviser and the Department of Public Administration of MGIMO agreed on joint events within the framework of a strategic partnership.
The editor-in-chief of the portal, Alexander Levashov, and the head of the department, Sergei Kamolov, agreed to organize a series of lectures for students of the course "Information Technologies in Public Administration," which will be held by leading TAdviser specialists in the spring of 2021.
2020
Closure of hostels due to coronavirus and transition to distance learning
On March 16, 2020, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations announced a two-week quarantine in hostels due to coronavirus infection COVID-19. According to the order, until March 20 inclusive, nonresident students must leave the hostel and go to their hometowns.
Until April 2, all four buildings of the university are closed: Cheryomushki, Vernadsky, Teply Stan and Tsaritsyno. Students have been told that those in pre-graduate practice should complete it before the end of this week. All consultations on thesis will be held remotely.
From March 17 to March 22, "technical holidays" were also introduced at MGIMO, after which all students will be transferred to distance learning.
| | "It would be great to know about the closure earlier. Then there would be more time to think about what to do, "the master's student told Kommersant. - I work in Moscow, so going home to Krasnodar is problematic. Now I think urgently to rent an apartment, but it will be difficult, given that all students will now also start looking for apartments sharply, and an increase in demand often entails an increase in the cost of rent. If the state or university, for its part, introduces some kind of support in renting or paying for temporary residence, it will be wonderful, because students have already paid for living in a hostel and are forced to leave it. " | |
Agreement with the Digital Economy League to train smart cities specialists
On March 4, 2020, it became known that MGIMO MFA Russia and the group of companies Digital Economy League signed an agreement on cooperation in the training of specialists in. smart cities Students are trained in this area at a Russian university together South Korean with Ense University.
The agreement provides for cooperation within the framework of the master's program of the dual diploma of the Faculty of Management and Policy "Smart City Management," carried out jointly with the leading university of the Republic Korea - Ense (d.). Seoul The agreement was signed by the rector of MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry, academician RAS Anatoly Torkunov and the president of the League group of companies Digital Economics Sergei Shilov.
The purpose of the Smart City Management program is to train specialists with expertise in the field of architecture design and smart cities management. The introduction of modern digital solutions in this area is one of the key competencies of the Digital Economy League.
| | Training experts in the digital economy is a very important task not only for our company and the IT industry, but also for the whole country. People are our wealth. By agreement with MGIMO, we continue the systematic work of the League to find young talents, their support and development. And taking into account the status of the university and the international training program, one can count on the fact that graduates will have up-to-date expertise, which will allow them to prove themselves in the world IT services market, noted the president of the Digital Economy League group of companies Sergey Shilov
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2017
The faculties of public administration and political science are merged into the faculty of management and politics
In May 2017, as a result of the merger of the Faculties of Public Administration and Political Science, the Faculty of Management and Politics was created.
Received the right to independently award academic degrees of candidate and doctor of sciences
In 2017, by order of the Government of Russia, MGIMO received the right to independently award academic degrees of candidate and doctor of sciences, as well as create dissertation councils and establish their powers.
2016: Opening a branch in Odintsovo
On March 6, 2016, the Odintsovo branch of MGIMO was officially opened. The Gorchakovsky Lyceum operates on the basis of the Branch (grades 8-11 in two training profiles - socio-humanitarian and socio-economic).
2014
Dismissal of Professor Zubov for criticizing the Russian authorities in connection with the annexation of Crimea
In March 2014, the media announced the dismissal of Andrei Zubov, professor of the Department of Philosophy, for criticizing the position of the Russian authorities in relation to Ukraine and Crimea. In particular, the professor expressed his opinion in an article published in the Sheets newspaper "," where he compares the policy of President V.V. Putin with the policy of Adolf Hitler (annexation of the Sudetenland Czech Republic and the Anschluss of Austria). Zubov notes in the article that the actions of the fascist Germany in that period, as in the case of Crimea, were motivated by considerations of protecting "compatriots."
Many well-known teachers who signed the corresponding open letter published on the website of the Interregional Trade Union of Higher School Workers "University Solidarity" spoke in defense of Professor Zubov. Later, Professor Zubov was reinstated, as he was a member of the election commission, and the order to dismiss him violated the law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights," but at the end of the school year the contract with him was not renewed.
19 dissertations defended at MGIMO contain plagiarism in a significant amount
According to the Dissernet network expert community for April 2014, 19 dissertations containing plagiarism in a significant amount were defended in the dissertation council 209.002.01 at the Department of Legal Support of Management Activities of the MGIMO International Institute of Management. In six cases, the supervisor of dissertations was simultaneously the head of the dissertation council, Professor Robert Yengibaryan, who as of 2014 is the director of the MGIMO International Institute of Management and the chairman of the dissertation council at MGIMO-University for the defense of doctoral dissertations. According to him, the dissertation council 209.002.01 has already ceased to exist due to the death of three council members and the change of work of some other members. Yengibaryan also spoke negatively towards experts looking for plagiarism.
2013
The Institute of International Relations and Management was established with training in English
In 2013, the School of Government and International Affairs (School of Government and International Affairs) was created, on the basis of which the first bachelor's degree in Russia is being implemented with training in English.
The first international accreditation of all educational programs in Russia
In July 2013, MGIMO received international accreditation of all educational programs at three levels of education, becoming the first and so far the only university in Russia to implement such a large-scale project.
2011
Faculty of Applied Economics and Commerce was founded
In 2011, the Faculty of Applied Economics and Commerce was founded.
Speech by Russian Foreign Minister S. Lavrova to students
Speech Sergei Lavrov for MGIMO freshmen (01.09.2011)
2000: International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy established
In February 2000, at the initiative of the largest oil, gas and energy companies in Russia, the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy was formed in the structure of MGIMO. The purpose of the Institute was to train personnel for the development of international energy cooperation.
1998: Faculty of Political Science established
In 1998, the Faculty of Political Science was established.
1994
University Status and Transition to Bachelor-Master Training System
In 1994, MGIMO received university status and introduced a two-stage bachelor-master training system.
Launch of training for officials on public administration programs
In 1994, by a decision of the Government of Russia, the university was instructed to train specialists in the field of state and municipal administration from among persons with higher professional education working in public administration bodies. These training programs were implemented by the new structural division of the university at that time - the International Institute of Management.
1992: Faculty of International Business and Business Administration opened
In 1992, the Faculty of International Business and Business Administration was opened at MGIMO.
1990: Deideologization of curricula
The true "moment of truth" in the history of MGIMO was the turn of the 1980s and 90s. In the last years of perestroika, the deideologization of curricula and the educational process began. The rejection of the idea of foreign policy as a class phenomenon contributed to the revival of scientific and practical discussions. Many Mgimovites, both within the framework of the educational process, scientific and practical conferences, and working as part of Soviet delegations at international forums, contributed to the development and implementation of the new foreign policy course of the Soviet Union, and then Russia.
MGIMO has become in the full sense an open institution. All previously existing restrictions on student admission were lifted - applicants were not required to submit recommendations from party and Komsomol bodies; restrictions on the admission of girls were lifted, age restrictions were canceled. Special guards were liquidated, in which foreign scientific and periodic publications accumulated. Educational and scientific exchanges with foreign university and research centers began to be established and developed. Contacts were established with new customers from the non-state sector, the media, joint ventures that needed graduates from the faculty.
1985: Criticism of the university during perestroika
In 1985, with the beginning of perestroika, MGIMO was criticized and tested. Often this criticism was absurd and partisan. Of course, in the work of the institute, and the faculty of international relations, among other things, there were shortcomings, but they were generated by the then socio-political situation.
In the first "perestroika" years - from 1986 to 1988 - the dean was a graduate of MGIMO, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor German Vasilyevich Fokeev. In 1988, Anatoly Vasilyevich Torkunov, a graduate of the Faculty of International Relations, became dean. In 1989, he was appointed first vice-rector (in 1989-1990, the faculty was headed by candidate of economic sciences, associate professor Andrei Olegovich Stroganov.), And in October 1992, at a general meeting of the institute's staff, he was elected rector of MGIMO.
1984: The institute moves to a new complex on Vernadsky Avenue
In the mid-1980s, the widespread use of technical means of training in the educational process and equipping classrooms with automated training systems began. This became a reality after the final move of the institute to a new complex at 76 Vernadsky Avenue.
In December 1984, the faculty of the Faculty of International Relations and its students were the last to leave the old MGIMO building near the Moskva River and moved to the South-West.
1983: A sharp rise in the number of staff receiving diplomatic ranks
All deans, individual professors, in particular, the head of the department of the history of international relations and foreign policy of the USSR, were traditionally assigned diplomatic ranks in the 1960s and 1970s. However, the number of professors and associate professors who had diplomatic ranks until the 1980s was calculated in units. A noticeable increase in the number of MGIMO employees with diplomatic ranks occurred in 1983, when they were assigned to many professors and associate professors of the Faculty of International Relations and the Faculty of International Law.
1976: Establishment of the Problem Research Laboratory
The mid-1970s were marked by a significant increase in the applied nature of research by MGIMO scientists. Under the influence of the discussion around sociological issues of international relations, applied interdisciplinary research in the field of foreign policy began to develop. Their initiators were Dmitry Vladimirovich Ermolenko, Yuri Alexandrovich Zamoshkin, Mark Arsenievich Khrustalev, Anatoly Andreevich Zlobin and Vladislav Borisovich Tikhomirov.
In their research, the internal and foreign policy of individual countries, specific international political situations were analyzed from the standpoint of a complex of scientific disciplines - history, sociology, economic science, psychology, as well as mathematics. Thus, the beginning of the political science direction of scientific work at MGIMO was laid as a field of studying political processes using complex methods and techniques, which subsequently contributed to the opening of the MGIMO Faculty of Political Science, which later became the flagship of political science in Russia.
Applied research attracted significant interest from the Foreign Ministry and other practical organizations and received their support. For their further development in 1976, by the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the State Committee on Science and Technology at MGIMO, the Problem Research Laboratory was created (later renamed the Center for International Studies, now the Institute for International Studies). The results of the laboratory's predictive and analytical developments, published in the scientific press, aroused interest from foreign specialists.
This gave impetus to the introduction of the results of theoretical and applied political science developments into the educational process in the form of special theoretical lecture courses on international relations. New forms and methods of training have become widespread - situational seminars, business games, etc.
In the second half of the 1970s, the course "Theory of International Relations" (TMO) was introduced into the curriculum of the Faculty of International Relations, first as an optional and then compulsory subject. The founders of the Mgimov school of TMO were V.I. Antyukhina-Moskovchenko, M.A. Khrustalev and A.A. Zlobin. Theoretical and applied developments of the Center for International Studies of MGIMO laid the foundations for teaching at the Faculty of International Relations of such disciplines as the theory of political analysis and conflictology, negotiation, and a number of others.
1969: Creation of faculties of International Law and International Journalism
In 1969, the Faculty of International Law and the Faculty of International Journalism were established.
1959: Faculties of International Relations and International Economic Relations opened
In 1959, reorganization again took place. The Faculties of International Relations and International Economic Relations were opened.
1958: Joining the Institute of Foreign Trade and establishing the Faculty of Foreign Trade
In 1958, the Institute of Foreign Trade of the MVT of the USSR, created in 1934 in Leningrad, and then transferred to Moscow, joined MGIMO. The Faculty of Foreign Trade was formed with two departments - commercial and currency and financial. As a result, the Faculty of Economics was significantly expanded, its focus on training specialists for foreign trade and foreign economic activity intensified. Subsequently, this faculty was transformed into the faculty of international economic relations.
1954
Accession of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies
In 1954, an eastern branch was opened at MGIMO. This happened as a result of a merger with one of the oldest Russian universities - the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, the successor to the Lazarev School, created in 1815. The famous Lazarev Library, which had no equal in composition of oriental literature in Moscow, also left MGIMO.
As a result, the range of countries studied was significantly expanded, the study of two foreign languages was introduced in all specialties of MGIMO.
The task was to train specialists on the basis of MGIMO not only for Europe and America, but also to work in the countries of Asia and Africa in the conditions of the collapse of the colonial system. Dozens of young states entered the path of independent development, with which the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations immediately after their declaration of independence. Working in these countries required highly qualified specialists who knew not only the language and literature of the country, but also its history, economy and culture. By 1960, MGIMO was also supposed to begin graduating specialists in the countries of the East.
Reorganization of the three faculties into Western and Eastern. Student protests
In 1954, the three faculties operating at that time - international relations, international legal and international economic relations - were transformed into two - western and eastern. The restructuring of the institute and faculties painfully affected the fate of many students - both MGIMO and the Institute of Oriental Studies.
Most of the students of the two universities were transferred to other educational institutions, those who refused to be transferred were expelled. There was a personnel shake-up of the faculty, which ended with the release of more than a hundred teachers from work.
The protests of students and teachers, which resulted in a demonstration near the Foreign Ministry building and received international publicity, led to a partial mitigation of the voluntary measures taken: five-year students were given the opportunity to graduate from the institute.
Graduates of 1956 remember well that after graduating from MGIMO, not everyone got a job in their specialty. The diplomas issued that year included a separate line instead of a specialty: "a high school teacher with knowledge of a foreign language."
The dean of the western faculty was S.A. Gonionsky, historian, specialist in Latin America, dean of the eastern - G.A. Ganshin, economist, specialist in China.
The curriculum of the Western faculty provided for the mandatory study of only one foreign language, while Eastern students, along with the study of one of the Eastern languages, also studied one of the Western languages - English or French. The initiator of the introduction of compulsory study of the second language at the Western faculty was S.A. Gonionsky, who at one time headed the department of romance languages. It was necessary to put students of both faculties in the same position with a six-year term of study, which was also introduced in 1954.
1949: Establishment of the Faculty of Economics
In 1949, the Faculty of Economics was created (since 1950 - International Economic). In the same year, a journalistic elective and elective translators-synchronists were opened at the Faculty of History and International Faculty.
1948: Two faculties were formed - Historical and International and International Legal
In 1948, two faculties were formed - Historical and International and International Legal.
1946: Start of admission of international students
Since 1946, students from foreign countries began to go to study at MGIMO.
1944: Establishment of the institute on the basis of the International Faculty of Moscow State University
The date of creation of the university is considered to be October 14, 1944, when the Council of People's Commissars transformed the International Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, created a year earlier, into an independent institute - the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the NKID of the USSR with the admission of 250 people to the first year.
Together with the teachers who came from Moscow State University, together with books from the vast university library, the new university also embraced university traditions. It was Moscow State University that gave the institute the personnel of outstanding scientists who laid the foundations of the MGIMO scientific and pedagogical school. Among them:
- Vsevolod Nikolaevich Durdenevsky,
- Alexey Vladimirovich Efimov,
- Lev Nikolaevich Ivanov,
- Sergey Borisovich Krylov,
- Vladimir Ivanovich Lebedev,
- Philip Iosifovich Notovich,
- Evgeny Viktorovich Tarle,
- Lev Vladimirovich Cherepnin,
- Leonid Alekseevich Nikiforov and many others.
However, in October 1941, Moscow University itself was strengthened by the inclusion of IFLI - the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature. Many of the first MGIMO teachers previously worked or studied at IFLI. All of them laid the foundations of the scientific schools of MGIMO and the Faculty of International Relations.
Graduates of the 1940-1950s proudly recall that they had a chance to listen to lectures by the outstanding historian academician Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle, who taught a systematic course on new history. Vivid impressions left his lectures on the history of the Patriotic War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars and Taleiran diplomacy, as well as on the history of the Crimean War of 1853-1856 and the period on the eve of World War I. When reading his courses, Evgeny Viktorovich did not use any notes or any sketches. But it was also very difficult to record his lectures - it was a subtle game of thought, with light irony, witty generalizations and remarks. Tarle's lectures were not listened to in order to "pass," but in order to remember and assimilate for life.
Along with the scientific school of Academician Tarle, whose works were mainly devoted to the history of European countries, a school of Americanists was formed at the Department of General History. Its founders were Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Alexei Vladimirovich Efimov and Doctor of Historical Sciences Professor Lev Izrailevich Zubok. One of the students of A.V. Efimov, Professor R.F. Ivanov, almost half a century later, warmly recalled his lectures:
| | "I listened to his lectures on the new history of the United States and European countries in the second half of the 40s at MGIMO. For us, front-line students accustomed to subordination by the military service, the academic title itself - a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences - was already acting magically. But even more striking was his appearance: majestically beautiful, with a curly hair, eagle profile, tall, slender, broad-shouldered. And even strong lameness (the result of illness in his youth), a heavy mahogany stick, on which he relied, heading to the pulpit, did not violate the first impression of the exceptional harmony and spirituality of this person. " | |
Special and general courses of lectures by A.V. Efimov on US history were a major phenomenon in the then historical science and in pedagogy. The course of these lectures formed the basis of his "Essays on the History of the United States."
S.B. Krylov published fundamental works on budget and air law back in the 1920s and 30s, as well as the book "International Private Law." The course "International Law," prepared by him in collaboration with V.N. Durdenevsky, was published in 1947 and laid the foundation for the domestic school of international law. SB Krylov took an active part in the preparation of the UN Charter in Dumbarton Oaks. His "Materials on the History of the UN" were published in 1949, and then reprinted in 1961.
V.N. Durdenevsky is also known for his works on foreign state, constitutional and international law, published in the interwar time, and for publishing documents.
1943: Creation of the Faculty of International Relations at Moscow State University with 200 students
The first steps of the faculty were taken in support of the best personnel of Moscow State University and its material base. In 1943, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR asked the Soviet government about the need to open a faculty of international relations at Moscow State University. On August 31, 1943, a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR was issued - four-year studies were supposed at the new faculty, with 200 students admitted to the first year "mainly from among males."
The first students of the faculty are former front-line soldiers, many of whom, having been seriously injured, were demobilized from the army, as well as high school graduates who did not reach the draft age.
The Faculty of International Relations became the thirteenth at Moscow State University. He was granted a separate building at 6 Kropotkinsky Lane. The first dean was Doctor of Economics, Professor Ivan Dmitrievich Udaltsov.
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