MSU Faculty of Geography explained
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
- 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
- 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
- Department of Hydrology
- Department of Meteorology and Climatology
- Department of Oceanology
Geoecological branch
- Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
- Department of Environmental Management
Geoinformatics branch
- Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics
Research laboratories
- 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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