Moscow State University

To start with…
We do appreciate the opportunity to meet you.
We do appreciate the opportunity to communicate with you.
We do appreciate your interest and we promise to do our best for it not to fade.
We do..
..what we can where we can, and we do like it. Let’s have a look together!
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

Moscow State University
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©
The foundation
When? In 1755 on the 25-th of January (St. Tatiana’s Day)
By whom?
By the Empress Elizabeth.

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The foundation
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov…
…was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. In 1755 Lomonosov joined Count Ivan Shuvalov in founding the Moscow State University.

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The Pharmaceutical House - the first building of Moscow University. XVIII century
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

The Lecture-Halls building at the end of the XIX century
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

Today’s 31-stored Main Building on the Sparrow Hills

The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©
41 departments
a choice of 128 qualifications
11 Nobel prize winners among professors and academicians
the number of students, postgraduates and interns - more than 60 000
more than 8000 professors
about 4000 students and postgraduates from 80 countries
Some figures about MSU

In Soviet Russia:
Languages are taught for comprehension
No opportunity to communicate with the native speakers
Language learners put their life at risk
Today:
Languages are taught for production
Here we are, talking to each other!
Everybody has to learn at least one foreign language
Back in USSR

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comparatively new – founded in 1988 under the direction of our dean, Svetlana Grigorievna Ter-Minasova
Set up for:
training the experts in international communication, required by the changes in the country
learning a real foreign language:
2 or more + Latin
(as the father of European languages)
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies

Our faculty is divided into five main departments:
Translation and interpretation
Teaching
Cross-cultural communication
Area studies
Cultural studies

Our thanks to…
…our beloved dean Svetlana Grigorievna, who filled the faculty with that wonderful spirit of family, confidence and creativity.
The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, 2011. ©

The first organized meeting
with the first-year students
of the year is called
“flowerbed”
because it is
traditionally held
at the backyard of
the faculty next to
the flowerbed
Great
opportunity
for the
freshmen
and exchange
students to get
to know the main
people of the faculty
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Leisure time

The Day of the Faculty
It’ s an anniversary of the foundation of our department – the Faculty of Foreign languages and area studies.
Students and professors make performances
Then first year students give an oath of allegiance
According to
a tradition our dean makes a speech

We’re having a great time!

Lingva – the students’ magazine
Anyone can try their hand at journalism and write an article for our faculty magazine.

«Muz salon» – or music lounge
The atmosphere is very friendly there.
Students sing, dance, show their talents.

Small family…