MSU Faculty of Geography

{{Short description|Faculty of Moscow State University}}

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|name = Faculty of Geography Lomonosov Moscow State University

|city = Moscow, Russia

|native_name = Географический факультет МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова

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|president = Nikolai Kasimov

|dean = Sergei Dobrolyubov

|campus = Urban

|website = [http://www.eng.geogr.msu.ru/]

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MSU Faculty of Geography ({{langx|ru|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 Palaeogeography
  • Department of Glaciology and Cryolithology

Hydrometeorological branch

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

Geoecological branch

  • Department of Biogeography
  • Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
  • Department of Environmental Management
  • Department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Soil Geography

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