Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies
| Московский государственный университет тонких химических технологий имени М. В. Ломоносова |
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| Type | public |
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| Established | 1900 |
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Website | Official University website |
Coordinates: 55°39′43″N 37°28′37″E / 55.66194°N 37.47694°E
Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies named after M.V. Lomonosov (traditional abbreviation "MITHT") is one of the oldest universities in the country that offer training in a wide range of specialties in the field of chemical technology.
Currently, there are more than 4,500 students in nine areas of undergraduate, 28 master's programs and 23 scientific specialties for training of candidates and doctors of science. In MITHT there are 8 dissertation councils for doctoral and PhD theses.
Research and teaching activities are performed by more than 400 professors and 158 scientists, including more than 120 doctors of science and professors. Located in Moscow at Vernadsky Avenue, Building 86 (new building complex) and Malaya Pirogovskaya, Building 1 (historic building).
History of the University and its continuing operations as a higher education institution begins 1 July 1900 and covers several stages.
1 July (14 July, New Style) 1900 was organized the Moscow Higher Women Courses (MHWC). Their structure originally consisted of two departments: History and Philosophy and Physics and Mathematics. On the last one were soon opened two offices: mathematical and natural, and after a few years two more – medical and chemical-pharmaceutical. The initiators and the first lecturers were outstanding scientists, academics subsequently S.A. Chaplygin, V.I. Vernadsky, N.D. Zelinsky (the inventor of the gas mask (1916)), Professors V.F. Davidov, B.K. Mlodzeevskii, A.N. Reformatsky, A.A. Eichenwald, S.G. Krapivin. The first director of MHWC was Professor V.I. Guerrier.
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