Mikhail Lomonosov

Lomonosov was born in the village of Mishaninskaya, later renamed Lomonosovo in his honor, in Archangelgorod Governorate, on an island not far from Kholmogory, in the far north of Russia.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=11}} His father, Vasily Dorofeyevich Lomonosov, was a prosperous peasant fisherman turned ship owner, who amassed a small fortune transporting goods from Arkhangelsk to Pustozyorsk, Solovki, Kola, and Lapland.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=11}} Lomonosov's mother was Vasily's first wife, a deacon's daughter, Elena Ivanovna Sivkova.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=12}}

He remained at Denisovka until he was ten, when his father decided that he was old enough to participate in his business ventures, and Lomonosov began accompanying Vasily on trading missions.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=12}}

Learning was young Lomonosov's passion, not business. The boy's thirst for knowledge was insatiable. Lomonosov had been taught to read as a boy by his neighbor Ivan Shubny, and he spent every spare moment with his books.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=12}} He continued his studies with the village deacon, S.N. Sabelnikov, but for many years the only books he had access to were religious texts. When he was fourteen, Lomonosov was given copies of Meletius Smotrytsky's Modern Church Slavonic (a grammar book) and Leonty Magnitsky's Arithmetic.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=13}} Lomonosov was a Russian Orthodox Christian all his life, but had close encounters with Old Believers schism in early youth and later in life he became a deist.{{cite book|title=Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov: his life and work|date=1980|publisher=Mir|page=161|author=Galina Evgenʹevna Pavlova |author2=Aleksandr Sergeevich Fedorov|quote=The atheistic direction of Lomonosov's scientific and artistic creativity was not always consistent. His world outlook, just as that of many other representatives of the age of enlightenment, possessed elements of deism according to which God, having created the universe, assumed no control over its development which was governed by the laws of nature. Lomonosov's deism was no chance factor. As Karl Marx aptly put it, deism was the most convenient and easiest way for many materialists of the 17th–18th centuries to abandon religion.}}{{cite book|title=Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence|url=https://archive.org/details/pushkinslyricint00kahn|url-access=limited|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191552939|page=[https://archive.org/details/pushkinslyricint00kahn/page/n142 130]|author=Andrew Kahn|quote=No atheistic conclusions spring from 'The Orb of Day has Set' to reverse Lomonosov's deism, but the poem still intrudes a painful gap between man and nature.}}

In 1724, his father married for the third and final time. Lomonosov and his stepmother Irina had an acrimonious relationship. Unhappy at home and intent on obtaining a higher education, which Lomonosov could not receive in Mishaninskaya, he was determined to leave the village.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=15}}

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In 1730, determined to "study sciences," the 19-year-old Lomonosov walked all the way to Moscow.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=15}} Shortly after arrival, he was admitted into the Slavic Greek Latin Academy by falsely claiming to be a son of a Kholmogory nobleman.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=16}} In 1734 that initial falsehood, as well as another lie that he was the son of a priest, nearly got him expelled from the academy, but the investigation ended without severe consequences.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=20}}

Lomonosov lived on three kopecks a day, eating only black bread and kvass, but he made rapid progress scholastically.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=17}} It is believed that in 1735, after three years in Moscow he was sent to Kiev to study for short period at the Kiev Academy. He quickly became dissatisfied with the education he was receiving there, and returned to Moscow.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=17}} In five years Lomonosov completed a twelve-year study course and in 1736, among 12 best graduates, was awarded a scholarship at the St. Petersburg Academy.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=23}} He plunged into his studies and was rewarded with a four-year grant to study abroad, in Germany, first at the University of Marburg and then in Freiberg.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=24}}

The University of Marburg was among Europe's most important universities in the mid-18th century due to the presence of the philosopher Christian Wolff, a prominent figure of the German Enlightenment. Lomonosov became one of Wolff's students while at Marburg from November 1736 to July 1739. Both philosophically and as a science administrator, this connection would be the most influential of Lomonosov's life. In 1739–1740 he studied mineralogy, mining, and metallurgy with Bergrat Henckel in his Freiberg laboratory; there, too, he intensified his studies of German literature.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

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Lomonosov quickly mastered the German language, and in addition to philosophy, seriously studied chemistry, discovered the works of 17th century Irish theologian and natural philosopher Robert Boyle, and even began writing poetry. He also developed an interest in German literature. He is said to have especially admired Günther. His "Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks," composed in 1739 - modelled after Günther's poem "Eugen ist fort. Ihr Musen, nach!", 1718, celebrating the taking of Belgrade from the Turks - , attracted a great deal of attention in Saint Petersburg.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

Contrary to his adoration for Wolff, Lomonosov had fierce disputes with Henckel over the training and education courses he and his two compatriot students were getting in Freiberg, as well as over very limited financial support which Henckel was instructed to provide to the Russians after numerous debts they had accumulated in Marburg. As the result, Lomonosov left Freiberg without permission and wandered for quite a while over Germany and Holland, unsuccessfully trying to obtain permission from Russian envoys to return to the St. Petersburg Academy.{{citation needed|date=April 2018}}

During his residence in Marburg, Lomonosov boarded with Catharina Zilch, a brewer's widow.Pavlova, Galina E., and Fedorov, Aleksandr S. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov: His Life and Work (English Translation). Mir: Moscow, 1980. He fell in love with Catharina's daughter Elizabeth Christine Zilch. They were married in June 1740.Pavlova, Galina E., and Fedorov, Aleksandr S. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov: His Life and Work (English Translation). Mir: Moscow, 1980. {{ISBN|0-8285-2895-0}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8285-2895-5}} Lomonosov found it extremely difficult to maintain his growing family on the scanty and irregular allowance granted him by the Russian Academy of Sciences. As his circumstances became desperate, he got permission to return to Saint Petersburg.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

Lomonosov returned to Russia in June 1741, after being abroad 4 years and 8 months. A year later he was named an Adjunct of the Russian Academy of Science in the physics department.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}} In May 1743, Lomonosov was accused, arrested, and held under house arrest for eight months, after he supposedly insulted various people associated with the academy. He was released and pardoned in January 1744 after apologising to all involved.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

Lomonosov was made a full member of the academy and named professor of chemistry in 1745.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}} He established the academy's first chemistry laboratory.Cornwell, Neil and Christian, Nicole. Reference Guide to Russian Literature, p. 514. Taylor & Francis: London, 1998 Eager to improve Russia's educational system, in 1755, Lomonosov joined his patron Count Ivan Shuvalov in founding Moscow University.

In 1760, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1764, he was elected Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna.R. Crease and V. Shiltsev, "Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765): Scientist in Politically Turbulent Times" in Il Nuovo Saggiatore, vol. 33, issue 5–6 (2017), pp. 43–56 https://www.ilnuovosaggiatore.sif.it/issue/54 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130092120/https://www.ilnuovosaggiatore.sif.it/issue/54 |date=30 January 2018 }} In 1764, Lomonosov was appointed to the position of the State Councillor which was of Rank V in the Russian Empire's Table of Ranks. He died on 4 April (o.s.), 1765 in Saint Petersburg. He is widely and deservingly regarded as the "Father of Russian Science,"V. Shiltsev, "Mikhail Lomonosov and the dawn of Russian science", Physics Today (February 2012), vol. 65, http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1438 though many of his scientific accomplishments were relatively unknown outside Russia until long after his death and gained proper appreciation only in late 19th and, especially, 20th centuries.

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In 1756, Lomonosov tried to replicate Robert Boyle's experiment of 1673.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=120}} He concluded that the commonly accepted phlogiston theory was false. Anticipating the discoveries of Antoine Lavoisier, he wrote in his diary: "Today I made an experiment in hermetic glass vessels in order to determine whether the mass of metals increases from the action of pure heat. The experiments – of which I append the record in 13 pages – demonstrated that the famous Robert Boyle was deluded, for without access of air from outside the mass of the burnt metal remains the same."

That is the Law of Mass Conservation in chemical reaction, which is well-known today as "in a chemical reaction, the mass of reactants is equal to the mass of the products." Lomonosov, together with Lavoisier, is regarded as the one who discovered the law of mass conservation.{{Cite journal | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | pages = 119–127 | last = Pomper | first = Philip | title = Lomonosov and the Discovery of the Law of the Conservation of Matter in Chemical Transformations | journal = Ambix | date = October 1962| doi = 10.1179/amb.1962.10.3.119 }}

He stated that all matter is composed of corpuscles – molecules that are "collections" of elements – atoms. In his dissertation "Elements of Mathematical Chemistry" (1741, unfinished), the scientist gives the following definition: "An element is a part of a body that does not consist of any other smaller and different bodies ... corpuscle is a collection of elements forming one small mass."{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mikhailvasilevic017733mbp |first=Mikhail Vasil'evich |last=Lomonosov |title=Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory |translator-first=Henry M. |translator-last=Leicester |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1959 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/mikhailvasilevic017733mbp/page/n71 56]–57}} In a later study (1748), he uses the term "atom" instead of "element", and "particula" (particle) or "molecule" instead of "corpuscle."

He regarded heat as a form of motion, suggested the wave theory of light, contributed to the formulation of the kinetic theory of gases, and stated the idea of conservation of matter in the following words: "All changes in nature are such that inasmuch is taken from one object insomuch is added to another. So, if the amount of matter decreases in one place, it increases elsewhere. This universal law of nature embraces laws of motion as well, for an object moving others by its own force in fact imparts to another object the force it loses" (first articulated in a letter to Leonhard Euler dated 5 July 1748, rephrased and published in Lomonosov's dissertation "Reflexion on the solidity and fluidity of bodies," 1760).{{cite book |last1=Pismen |first1=Len |title=The Swings of Science: From Complexity to Simplicity and Back |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-99777-3 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rvx9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA41}}

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Lomonosov was the first to discover and appreciate the atmosphere of Venus during his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in St Petersburg.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}{{cite journal |title=The 1761 Discovery of Venus' Atmosphere: Lomonosov and Others |journal=Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage |first=Vladimir |last=Shiltsev |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=85–112 |date=March 2014 |doi=10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2014.01.06 |bibcode=2014JAHH...17...85S|s2cid=53394126 }} At least in the English-speaking world, this attribution seems to have been owing to comments from the multi-lingual popular astronomy writer Willy Ley (1966), who consulted sources in both Russian and German, and wrote that Lomonosov observed a luminous ring (this was Ley's interpretation and was not indicated in quotes) and inferred from it the existence of an atmosphere "maybe greater than that of the Earth" (which was in quotes). Because many modern transit observers have also seen a threadlike arc produced by refraction of sunlight in the atmosphere of Venus when the planet has progressed off the limb of the Sun, it has generally, if rather uncritically, been assumed that this was the same thing that Lomonosov saw. Indeed, the term "Lomonosov’s arc" has frequently been used in the literature.{{cite journal |journal=Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union |title=Mikhail Lomonosov and the discovery of the atmosphere of Venus during the 1761 transit |first=Mikhail Ya. |last=Marov |date=2004 |pages=209–219 |bibcode=2005tvnv.conf..209M |doi=10.1017/S1743921305001390 |volume=2004 |doi-access=free }}

In 2012, Pasachoff and Sheehan{{cite journal |first1=Jay |last1=Sheehan |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=3 |journal=Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage |title=Lomonosov, the Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere, and Eighteenth-century Transits of Venus |bibcode=2012JAHH...15....3P |last2=Sheehan |first2=William |date=2012 |doi=10.3724/SP.J.1440-2807.2012.01.01 |s2cid=55848433 }} consulted original sources, and questioned the basis for the claim that Lomonosov observed the thin arc produced by the atmosphere of Venus. A reference to the paper was even picked up by the Russian state-controlled media group RIA Novosti on 31 January 2013, under the headline "Astronomical Battle in US Over Lomonosov’s discovery." An attempt was made by a group of researchers to experimentally reconstruct Lomonosov's observation using antique telescopes during the transit of Venus on 5–6 June 2012. One of them, Y. Petrunin, suggested that the telescope Lomonosov actually used was probably a 50 mm Dollond with a magnifying power of 40x.{{cite journal |title=Experimental Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere with Antique Refractors During the 2012 Transit of Venus|date=2012-08-27|arxiv=1208.5286 |author1=Alexandre Koukarine |author2=Igor Nesterenko |author3=Yuri Petrunin |author4=Vladimir Shiltsev |doi=10.1134/S0038094613060038 |volume=47 |issue=6|journal=Solar System Research |pages=487–490|bibcode = 2013SoSyR..47..487K |s2cid=119201160}}

It was preserved at Pulkova Observatory but destroyed when the Germans bombed the observatory during World War II. Thus, Lomonosov's actual telescope was not available, but other presumably similar instruments were employed on this occasion, and led the researchers to affirm their belief that Lomonosov's telescope would have been adequate to the task of detecting the arc.{{cite journal |title=Experimental Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere with Antique Refractors During the 2012 Transit of Venus|date=2012-08-27|arxiv=1208.5286 |author1=Alexandre Koukarine |author2=Igor Nesterenko |author3=Yuri Petrunin |author4=Vladimir Shiltsev |doi=10.1134/S0038094613060038 |volume=47 |issue=6|journal=Solar System Research |pages=487–490|bibcode = 2013SoSyR..47..487K |s2cid=119201160}} Thus A. Koukarine, using a 67 mm Dollond on Mt. Hamilton, where seeing was likely much better than Lomonosov enjoyed at St. Petersburg, clearly observed the spiderweb-thin arc known to be due to refraction in the atmosphere of Venus. However, Koukarine's sketches do not really resemble the diagram published by Lomonosov.{{cite journal | last1 = Shiltsev | first1 = V. | last2 = Nesterenko | first2 = I. | last3 = Rosenfeld | first3 = R. | year = 2013 | title = Replicating the discovery of Venus's atmosphere | url = http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i2/p64_s1 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130704225233/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i2/p64_s1 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2013-07-04 | journal = Physics Today | volume = 66 | issue = 2 | page = 64 | doi = 10.1063/pt.3.1894 | bibcode = 2013PhT....66b..64S | url-access = subscription }}{{cite journal | last1 = Koukarine | first1 = A. |display-authors=etal | year = 2013 | title = Experimental Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere with Antique Refractors During the 2012 Transit of Venus | journal = Solar System Research | volume = 47 | issue = 6| pages = 487–490 | doi=10.1134/S0038094613060038|arxiv = 1208.5286 |bibcode = 2013SoSyR..47..487K | s2cid = 119201160 }}

Koukarine's colleague V. Shiltsev, who more nearly observed under the same conditions as Lomonosov, using a 40 mm Dollond at Batavia, Illinois, produced a close duplicate of Lomonosov's diagram. However, the rather large wing of light shown next to the black disk of Venus in his drawing (and Lomonosov's) is too coarse to have been the arc. Instead it appears to be a complicated manifestation of the celebrated optical effect known as the "black drop". It should be kept in mind that, as stated in Sheehan and Westfall, "optical distortions at the interface between Venus and the Sun during transits are impressively large, and any inferences from them are fraught with peril".

Again, the actual words used by Lomonosov do not refer to an "arc" at all. In the Russian version, he described a brief brightening lasting a second or so, just before third contact, which appeared to Pasachoff and Sheehan to most probably indicate a last fleeting glimpse of the photosphere. As a check against this, Lomonosov's German version (he had learned to speak and write German fluently as a student at Marburg) was also consulted; he describes seeing "ein ganz helles Licht, wie ein Haar breit"=”a very bright light, as wide as a hair". Here, the adverb "ganz" in connection with "helles" (bright) could mean "as bright as possible" or "completely bright"), i.e., as bright as the surface brightness of the solar disk, which is even stronger evidence that this can't be Venus's atmosphere, which always appears much fainter.

Lomonosov's original sketches, if they existed, do not appear to have survived, Modern observations made during the nineteenth century transits and especially those of 2004 and 2012 suggest that what Lomonosov saw was not the arc associated with the atmosphere of Venus at all but the bright flash of the solar photosphere before third contact. The first observers to record the actual arc associated with the atmosphere of Venus, in a form comporting with modern observations, appear to have been Chappe, Rittenhouse, Wayles and Dymond, and several others at the transit in June 1769.

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In 1762, Lomonosov presented an improved design of a reflecting telescope to the Russian Academy of Sciences forum. His telescope had its primary mirror adjusted at an angle of four degrees to the telescope's axis. This made the image focus at the side of the telescope tube, where the observer could view the image with an eyepiece without blocking the image. This invention was not published until 1827, so this type of telescope has become associated with a similar design by William Herschel, the Herschelian telescope."On an optic pipe improvement" – Lomonosov M.V. Selected works in two volumes. Volume I: Natural sciences and philosophy. Moscow: Nauka (Science) publishing house, 1986 {{in lang|ru}}. Name in Russian: «Об усовершенствовании зрительных труб» – М.В. Ломоносов. Избранные произведения. В двух томах. Т. 1. Естественные науки и философия. М.: Наука. 1986

In 1759, with his collaborator, academician Joseph Adam Braun, Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury and to carry out initial experiments with it.{{Cite arXiv |last1=Lomonosov |first1=Mikhail |last2=Shiltsev |first2=Vladimir |date=2018-01-03 |title=Mikhail Lomonosov. Meditations on Solidity and Fluidity of Bodies(1760). English translation and commentary by V.Shiltsev |class=physics.hist-ph |eprint=1801.00909 |language=en}} Believing that nature is subject to regular and continuous evolution, he demonstrated the organic origin of soil, peat, coal, petroleum and amber. In 1745, he published a catalogue of over 3,000 minerals, and in 1760, he explained the formation of icebergs.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

In 1763, he published On The Strata of the Earth – his most significant geological work.Lomonosov M.V. On the strata of the Earth: a translation of "O sloiakh zemnykh" / translated by S.M. Rowland, S. Korolev. Boulder: Geological Soc. of America, 2012. 41 p. (Special paper; 485) This work puts him before James Hutton, who has been traditionally regarded as the founder of modern geology. Lomonosov based his conceptions on the unity of the Earth's processes in time, and necessity to explain the planet's past from present.

Lomonosov's observation of iceberg formation led into his pioneering work in geography. Lomonosov got close to the theory of continental drift,{{Cite web |title=zoohall.com.ua |url=http://www.zoohall.com.ua/leftframes/ecolog/greenplanet/jizn1.htm |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=www.zoohall.com.ua}} theoretically predicted the existence of Antarctica (he argued that icebergs of the Southern Ocean could be formed only on a dry land covered with ice),{{Cite web |date=2020-08-08 |title=About - Eduard Belcher |url=https://www.eduard-belcher.org/belcher-stati5.html |access-date=2024-09-29 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808070306/https://www.eduard-belcher.org/belcher-stati5.html |url-status=bot: unknown }} and invented sea tools which made writing and calculating directions and distances easier. In 1764, he organized an expedition (led by Admiral Vasili Chichagov) to find the Northeast Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by sailing along the northern coast of Siberia.{{sfn|Menshutkin|1952|p=}}

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The idea of a coaxial rotor originated from Mikhail Lomonosov. In July 1754, he developed a model of a small helicopter with a coaxial rotor and demonstrated it to the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Lomonosov was proud to restore the ancient art of mosaics. In 1754, in his letter to Leonhard Euler, he wrote that his three years of experiments on the effects of chemistry of minerals on their colour led to his deep involvement in the mosaic art. In 1763, he set up a glass factory that produced the first stained glass mosaics outside of Italy. There were forty mosaics attributed to Lomonosov, with only twenty-four surviving to the present day. Among the best is the portrait of Peter the Great and the Battle of Poltava, measuring {{convert|4.8|×|6.4|m}}.{{cite web|author=Elena Lavrenova |url=http://www.foxdesign.ru/aphorism/biography/lomonosov.html |title=Lomonosov biography |publisher=Foxdesign.ru |access-date=2 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.narfu.ru/lomonosov |title=М.В. Ломоносов: к 300-летию со дня рождения|publisher=narfu.ru |access-date=2 May 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://grokhovs1.chat.ru/lomonos/lomono5.html |title=М.А. Безбородое М.В. Ломоносов. Фабрика В Усть-Рудицах |publisher=Grokhovs1.chat.ru |date=5 December 2001 |access-date=2 May 2011}}

Besides his scientific activities, Lomonosov also paid considerable attention to literature.{{Cite web |last=Pilshchikov |first=Igor |date=1 December 2016 |title=Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov |script-title=ru:Михаил Васильевич Ломоносов |url=https://rvb.ru/18vek/lomonosov/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=Rvb.ru}} Together with his contemporaries Alexander Sumarokov and Vasily Trediakovsky, Lomonosov sought the creation of a system of Russian linguistic conventions, syntax and prosody which would allow the advancement of a native literary tradition on the basis of Western European genres.{{Cite book |last=Kahn |first=A. |title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2017 |isbn=9780190681173 |editor-last=Greene |editor-first=Roland |edition=4th |pages=1230 |chapter=Russia, Poetry of}} He laid out his literary theories in his work "Epistle on the Rules of Russian Versification" (1739). Lomonosov is considered the founder of accentual-syllabic (or syllabo-tonic) verse in Russian poetry, although statistical analysis suggests the adoption of this system was already in progress when Lomonosov publicized his theories. His "Ode on the Taking of Khotin" has been called the first "aesthetically indisputable example" of accentual-syllabic verse in the history of Russian literature. The iambic tetrameter and hexameter verse and the ten-line odic stanza which he developed had a lasting role in Russian poetry. His advocacy of the iamb won out over Trediakovsky's arguments for the trochee as the basic metrical foot.

Lomonosov wrote solemn occasional, spiritual, as natural-philosophical odes, as well as an Anacreontic ode. According to A. Kahn, "the turgidity of the Lomonosovian ode derives from a propensity to create semantic clusters, usually through etymologic play or tropes, such as zeugma." His "Evening Meditation on God's Grandeur" and "Morning Meditation on God's Grandeur" are the first Russian poems on the theme of sublime admiration of nature. He applied an idiosyncratic theory to his later poems – tender subjects needed words containing the front vowel sounds E, I, Y and U, whereas things that may cause fear (like "anger", "envy", "pain" and "sorrow") needed words with back vowel sounds O, U and Y. That was a version of what is now called sound symbolism.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} He also wrote two verse tragedies, Tamira i Selim and Demofont.

Lomonosov wrote an important Russian grammar in 1755 (published in 1757), in which he distinguished Old Church Slavonic and colloquial Russian forms. His work on rhetoric "Kratkoye rukovodstvo k krasnorechiyu" (Brief guide to eloquence, 1748) is the first such work in Russian and expounds a theory of literature on the basis of Russian literary models. His treatise "Predisloviye o polze knig tserkovnykh v rossiyskom yazyke" (Introduction to the usefulness of church books in the Russian language, 1757) is the first Russian work on stylistics. Lomonosov adopted classical views on the existence of three distinct styles—high, middle, and low—and applied them to the Russian literary language. It also addresses the problems of the combination of Church Slavonic and Russian forms and the categorization of literary genres. In 1760, Lomonosov published a history of Russia.{{Cite book |last=Lomonosov |first=Mikhail Vasilʹevich |url=https://archive.org/details/chronologicalabr00lomo |title=A chronological abridgement of the Russian history; translated from the original Russian |date=1767 |publisher=[London, Printed for T. Snelling] |others=University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library}}[http://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/Etext/index.html hist.msu.ru] In addition, he attempted to write a grand Aeneid-inspired epic about Peter the Great, but he died before he could finish it.{{cite book | first1=Alex | last1=Preminger | first2=Terry V.F. | last2=Brogan | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7wwAQAAMAAJ&q=lomonosov+peter+the+great+aeneid | title=The New Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics | publisher=MJF Books | year=1993 | page=1104| isbn=9781567311525 }} (originally from the Pennsylvania State University)

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His granddaughter Sophia Konstantinova (1769–1844) married Russian military hero and statesman General Nikolay Raevsky. His great-granddaughter was Princess Maria (Raevskaya) Volkonskaya, the wife of the Decembrist Prince Sergei Volkonsky.{{cite book |last=Sutherland |first=Christine |title=The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |location=New York |date=1984 |isbn=978-0-374-23727-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/princessofsiberi00suth }}

The city of Lomonosov, Russia (formerly Oranienbaum), and a lunar crater bear his name, as does a crater on Mars and the asteroid 1379 Lomonosowa. A Russian satellite launched in 2016 was named Mikhailo Lomonosov after him. The Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg was renamed after him from 1925 to 2005. In 1948, the underwater Lomonosov Ridge in the Arctic Ocean was named in his honor.{{cite web |title=IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer |publisher=International Hydrographic Organization/Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |date=September 2007 |url=http://www.gebco.net/about_us/meetings_and_minutes/documents/gebco_scufn_15_report.pdf |accessdate=24 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080911062905/http://www.gebco.net/about_us/meetings_and_minutes/documents/gebco_scufn_15_report.pdf |archivedate=11 September 2008}}

Lomonosov Bridge in Saint Petersburg was named after the polymath. Originally called Tchernyshov Bridge (Chernyshev Bridge) in honour of {{ill|Count Grigory Tchernyshov (Chernyshev)|ru|Чернышёв, Григорий Петрович}} one of Peter the Great's most prominent generals, whose estates were located nearby, the bridge was erected in 1785−1987, and replaced a wooden bridge which had previously stood at the site. It was one of seven moveable stone bridges of similar design crossing the Fontanka River, built simultaneously with the river's granite embankments. Only Lomonosov Bridge and Staro-Kalinkin Bridge have survived more or less intact.

Moscow's Domodedovo Airport is officially named after Lomonosov.{{Cite news |last=Zubacheva |first=Ksenia |title=What are the 'major' changes at Russian airports – and should you be worried? |work=Russia Beyond |date=3 June 2019 |url=https://www.rbth.com/travel/330453-airports-renaming |access-date=2022-05-28}}

The Lomonosov Gold Medal was established in 1959 and is awarded annually by the Russian Academy of Sciences to a Russian and a foreign scientist.{{Cite web |title=Lomonosov Gold Medal |language=ru |publisher=ras.ru |url=http://www.ras.ru/about/awards/lomonosovgoldmedal.aspx |access-date=2020-02-02}}

Lomonosovskaya Station on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro is named after him. It was opened in 1970.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

The street "Lomonosova iela" in the Maskavas Forštate district of Riga is named in honor of Lomonosov. During the Soviet era, a main street in Tallinn, Estonia, was named in his honor as "M. Lomonossovi", but from 1991, the year when Estonia restored its independence, the street was renamed {{ill|Gonsiori|et|Gonsiori tänav}} after Jakob Johann Gonsior, a 19th-century alderman and lawyer.{{cite web |last=Hamilton |first=Simon |title=A Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names |url= http://www.tallinnstreets.com/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626010846/http://www.tallinnstreets.com/ |archivedate=26 June 2011}}

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In Dnipro, Ukraine, a statue of Lomonosov replaced a statue of Catherine the Great in 1919. It stood until 6 January 2023, when it was removed by the city of Dnipro because of Russia's full-scale invasion into Ukraine.{{cite news |title=У Дніпрі демонтували пам'ятник Михайлові Ломоносову |trans-title=In Dnipro, a memorial to Mikhailo Lomonosov was removed |language=Ukrainian |format=The site includes scripts from mail.ru and ok.ru |publisher=Radio Svoboda/Radio Freedom |date=2023-01-06 |url= https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/news-dnipro-demontazh-lomonosov/32212251.html |accessdate=2023-01-06}}

On 19 November 2011, Google celebrated his 300th birthday with a Google Doodle.{{cite web |url=https://doodles.google/doodle/mikhail-lomonosovs-300th-birthday/ |title=Mikhail Lomonosov's 300th Birthday |website=Google |date=19 November 2011}}

A great number of different stamps was issued in honor of Lomonosov throughout the years: Mikhail Lomonosov and the Academy of Sciences building in Leningrad stamp of 1925,{{Cite web |title=Mikhail Lomonosov and building of the Academy in Leningrad |publisher=colnect.com |url= https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/236502-Mikhail_Lomonosov_and_building_of_the_Academy_in_Leningrad-Bicentenary_of_the_USSR_Academy_of_Sciences-Soviet_Union_USSR |accessdate=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} stamps depicting Lomonosov issued in 1949,{{Cite web |title=Mikhail V. Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian scientist-polymath |publisher=colnect.com |url= https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/198455-Mikhail_V_Lomonosov_1711-1765_Russian_scientist-polymath-Lomonosov_Museum_in_Leningrad-Soviet_Union_USSR |accessdate=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} in 1956{{Cite web |title=Mikhail V. Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian scientist and poet |publisher=colnect.com |url= https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/143174-Mikhail_V_Lomonosov_1711-1765_Russian_scientist_and_poet-Portraits_of_Writers-Soviet_Union_USSR |accessdate=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and in 1961,{{Cite web |title=Portrait of M. V. Lomonosov (by M. Shreier) |publisher=colnect.com |url= https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/232315-Portrait_of_M_V_Lomonosov_by_M_Shreier-250th_Birth_Anniversary_of_MVLomonosov-Soviet_Union_USSR |accessdate=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} a 275th Birth Anniversary of M.V. Lomonosov stamp of 1986,{{Cite web |title=275th Birth Anniversary of M.V.Lomonosov |publisher=colnect.com |url= https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/89804-275th_Birth_Anniversary_of_MVLomonosov-Birth_Anniversaries-Soviet_Union_USSR |access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} a History of Russia (Ekaterina II) stamp depicting Lomonosov and his study room talking to the queen that was issued in 2004,{{Cite web|url=https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/275577-History_of_Russia_Ekaterina_II-History_of_Russian_State-Russia|title=Patronage of science|publisher=colnect.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} three 300th Anniversary of the Birth of M.V. Lomonosov stamps were issued in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/503223-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-Russia|title=300th Anniversary of the Birth of M.V.Lomonosov, 100 rubles|publisher=colnect.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/286768-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-Russia|title=300th Anniversary of the Birth of M.V.Lomonosov, 200 rubles|publisher=colnect.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=https://colnect.com/en/stamps/stamp/286769-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-300th_Anniversary_of_the_Birth_of_MVLomonosov-Russia|title=300th Anniversary of the Birth of M.V.Lomonosov, 100 rubles, Booklet Pane|publisher=colnect.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

File:1925 lomonosov 3k text.jpg|1925

File:Stamp of USSR 0977.jpg|1945

File:Stamp of USSR 1837.jpg|1955

File:The Soviet Union 1956 CPA 1966 stamp (Mikhail Lomonosov (After Leontius Miropolsky) and the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg).jpg|1956

File:Rus Stamp-Lomonosov-1961_6.jpg|1961

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File:2004. Марка России Pokrovitel stvo naukam i iskusstvu Ekaterina II v kabinete MV Lomonosova.jpg|2004

File:Stamp of Russia 2011 No 1543.jpg|2011

The Akademik Lomonosov, the first of a series of Russian floating nuclear power stations, is named after him. It started operation on 19 December 2019.{{cite news |url=http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-connects-floating-plant-to-grid |title=Russia connects floating plant to grid |date=2019-12-19 |work=World Nuclear News |access-date=2020-09-01}}{{cite web|title=Work starts on on-shore infrastructure for Russian floating plant|url=http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Work-starts-on-on-shore-infrastructure-for-Russian-floating-plant-0710165.html|publisher=World Nuclear News|access-date=4 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609173718/http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Work-starts-on-on-shore-infrastructure-for-Russian-floating-plant-0710165.html|archive-date=9 June 2019|url-status=dead}}

Moscow State University, founded by him in 1755, was renamed M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1940, while celebrating its 185th anniversary.{{cite web |title=History of Moscow University |url=https://www.msu.ru/en/info/history3.html#nachalo1 |website=msu.ru}} There are also Moscow Institute of Mechanics and Electrical Engineering M.V. Lomonosov (Lomonosov Institute), Lomonosov Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Odessa Technological Institute of Food Industry n.a. M.V. Lomonosov, Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies n.a. M.V. Lomonosov, and several other schools in Russia and Kazakhstan.{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/20111119/492112712.html|title=What was named after Lomonosov?|date=19 November 2011|publisher=ria.ru|language=ru|access-date=2020-02-02}}

On 19 November 1986, on the 275th anniversary of the birth of M.V. Lomonosov, the USSR State Bank issued a 1 ruble commemorative coin from a copper-nickel alloy.{{Cite web|url=https://colnect.com/en/coins/coin/32054-1_Ruble_275th_Anniv_-_Birth_of_polymath_Mikhail_Lomonosov-1965~1991_-_USSR_Commemorative_RESTRIKE_1988-Soviet_Union_USSR|title=1 Ruble (275th Anniv. – Birth of polymath Mikhail Lomonosov)|publisher=colnect.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-02}}{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

On 6 December 2022, the City Council of the Ukrainian city Dnipro decided to remove from the city all monuments to figures of Russian culture and history, in particular it was mentioned that the monuments to Lomonosov, Alexander Pushkin and Maxim Gorky would be removed from the public space of the city.{{cite web |title=Monuments to Pushkin, Lomonosov, and Gorky will be removed from public space in Dnipro – city council|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/12/6/7379537/|website=Ukrayinska Pravda|date=6 December 2022|access-date=6 December 2022|language=Ukrainian}}

File:RR5217-0001R М.В. Ломоносов.png|1992, the first commemorative coin of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation with a face value of 100 rubles. Gold

File:RR5110-0111R.png|2011, 2 rubles, silver. On the occasion of the 300th birthday

File:RR5714-0046R.jpg|2015, commemorative coin, 10 rubles

;English translations

• {{ cite book |title = A Chronological Abridgement of the Russian History |others=Translated by J.G.A.F. for T. Snelling |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |date=1767 |url=https://archive.org/details/chronologicalabr00lomo |publisher=[London, Printed for T. Snelling] }}
• {{cite book |title=Panegyric to the Sovereign Emperor, Peter the Great.|last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |others=Translated by Ronald Hingley in Marc Raeff, ed. Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology |date=1966 |isbn=978-0391009059 |publisher=Prometheus Books }}
• {{cite book |title=Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |others=Translated by Henry M. Leicester |date=1970 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674574205 |url=https://archive.org/details/mikhailvasilevic017733mbp}}
• {{ cite book |title = The Appearance of Venus on the Sun, Observed at the St.Petersburg Imperial Academy of Sciences on May 26, 1761 |others=Translated by Vladimir Shiltsev in "Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus Atmosphere in 1761: English Translation of Original Publication with Commentaries" |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |date=2012 |arxiv=1206.3489 }}
• {{ cite book |title = On the Strata of the Earth. |others=Translation and commentary by S.M. Rowland and S. Korolev |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |date=2012 |publisher=The Geological Society of America, Special Paper 485 |isbn=978-0-8137-2485-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5x3jgEACAAJ }}
• {{ cite book |title = Oratio De Meteoris Vi Electrica Ortis – Discourse on Atmospheric Phenomena Originating from Electrical Force (1753)|others=Translation and commentary by Vladimir Shiltsev |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |date=2017 |arxiv=1709.08847 }}
• {{ cite book |title = Meditations on Solidity and Fluidity of Bodies (1760) |others=Translation and commentary by Vladimir Shiltsev |last=Lomonosov |first= Mikhail |date=2018 |arxiv=1801.00909 }}

;German translations

• {{ cite book |title = Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow. Ausgewählte Schriften in zwei Bänden.|last=Lomonossow |first= Michail |date=1961 |publisher=Berlin-Akademie Verlag |url=https://www.amazon.de/Ausgew%C3%A4hlte-Schriften-zwei-B%C3%A4nden-Sprachwissenschaft/dp/B0025APKB2 }}
• {{ cite book |title = Erste Grundlagen Der Metallurgie Oder Des Huttenwesens (1763) |others=Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Friedrich Naumann |last=Lomonosov |first= Michail |date=2015 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3110424072 }}
• {{cite book |title=Schriften zur Geologie und zum Berg- und Hüttenwesen (1742–1765) |others=Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Friedrich Naumann |last=Lomonosov |first=Michail |editor1-first=Friedrich |editor1-last=Naumann |date=2017 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-042406-5 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/456840?rskey=Q0pEfn |doi=10.1515/9783110424065 |access-date=29 January 2018 |archive-date=30 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091658/https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/456840?rskey=Q0pEfn |url-status=dead }}

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• Christian Wolff (philosopher)
• Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov
• Franz Aepinus
• Gerhard Friedrich Müller
• Ivan Kulibin
• Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche
• Johann Daniel Schumacher
• Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
• Northern (Arctic) Federal University
• Stepan Krasheninnikov
• Stepan Rumovsky
• Vasily Trediakovsky

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{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book |title=Russia's Lomonosov, Chemist Courtier, Physicist Poet |last=Menshutkin |first=Boris N. |date=1952 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |asin=B0007DKTQU |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVJgAAAAMAAJ&q=Russia's+Lomonosov,+Chemist+Courtier,+Physicist+Poet}}

• {{cite journal|last=Crease|first=Robert|title=Mikhail Who?|journal=Physics World|date=November 2011|volume=24|issue=11|pages=21|doi=10.1088/2058-7058/24/11/32|bibcode=2011PhyW...24k..21C|url=https://physicsworld.com/a/mikhail-who/|url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal|last=Kutateladze|first=Semen|title=The Mathematical Background of Lomonosov's Contribution|journal= Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics|date=April 2011|volume=5|issue=2|pages=155–162|doi=10.1134/S1990478911020013|arxiv=1104.2783|s2cid=54612414}}
• {{cite journal|last=Shiltsev|first=Vladimir|title=Nov. 19, 1711: Birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, Russia's first modern scientist|journal=APS News|date=November 2011|volume=20|issue=10|url=http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201111/physicshistory.cfm}}
• {{cite journal|last=Shiltsev|first=Vladimir|title=Mikhail Lomonosov and the dawn of Russian science|journal=Physics Today|date=February 2012|volume=65|issue=2|pages=40–46|bibcode=2012PhT....65b..40S|doi=10.1063/PT.3.1438|doi-access=free}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• {{cite journal|last=Crease|first=Robert|title=Transit Watching|journal=Physics World|volume=25|issue=8|pages=16|date=August 2012|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/2012/aug/16/transit-watching|bibcode=2012PhyW...25h..16C|doi=10.1088/2058-7058/25/08/25|url-access=subscription}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Crease|first1=Robert|last2=Shiltsev|first2=Vladimir|title=Pomor Polymath: The Upbringing of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, 1711–1730|journal=Physics in Perspective|date=December 2013 |volume=15|issue=4|doi=10.1007/s00016-013-0113-5|pages=391–414|bibcode = 2013PhP....15..391C |s2cid=120066473}}
• {{cite journal |title=Lomonosov's Dedication to His Russian grammar |author=C.A. Johnson |journal=Slavic Review |volume=23 |issue=2 |date=June 1964 |pages=328–332 |doi=10.2307/2492939|jstor=2492939 |s2cid=163610178 }}
• Peter Hoffmann: Michail Vasil'evič Lomonosov (1711–1765). Ein Enzyklopädist im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011. {{ISBN|978-3-631-61797-7}}
• {{cite journal | last=Physics-Uspekhi | first=Kapitza P.L. | title=Lomonosov and world science | journal=Physics-Uspekhi | volume=8 | issue=5 | date=1966-05-01 | issn=1063-7869 | pages=720–728 | url=https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1966/5/i/ | language=ru | access-date=2023-10-24}}
• Norbert Nail (March 2012): Russi intra muros: Studenten aus Sankt Petersburg 1736–1739 bei Christian Wolff in Marburg. Zum 300. Geburtstag des Universalgelehrten Michail Vasil'evič Lomonosov am 19. November 2011. In: Studenten-Kurier 1/2012, pp. 15–19. {{ISSN|0931-0444}} [https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/uniarchiv/inhalte-pdf/sk-2012-1-lomonossow.pdf]
• Steven Usitalo (2013): The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov (A Russian National Myth), Academic Studies Press. {{ISBN|978-1618111739}}
• M.W. Lomonossow in Freiberg. Herausgegeben anlässlich der Einweihung des Lomonossow-Hauses in der Freiberger Fischerstraße am 7. Februar 2014 (russisch u. deutsch). Freiberg: TU Bergakademie 2014. (Darin: F. Naumann, Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossows Weg in die Wissenschaft; F. Naumann, Das Lomonossow-Haus und seine Geschichte; C. Drebenstedt / B. Meyer, Deutsch-Russische Montanbeziehungen im Wandel der Zeit]. [Russian and German]
• R.Crease and V.Shiltsev, "Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765): Scientist in Politically Turbulent Times" in Il Nuovo Saggiatore, vol. 33, issue 5–6 (2017), pp. 43–56 https://web.archive.org/web/20180130092120/https://www.ilnuovosaggiatore.sif.it/issue/54
• Robert Crease / Vladimir Shiltsev: Fueling Peter's Mill: Mikhail Lomonosov's Educational Training in Russia and Germany, 1731–1741. In: Physics in Perspective, Vol. 20, Issue 3, September 2018, pp. 272–304. {{doi|10.1007/s00016-018-0227-x}}

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• [http://lomonosovo.ru Сайт о М.В. Ломоносове] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205091746/http://lomonosovo.ru/ |date=5 December 2020 }} – жизнь, научная деятельность, творчество, историческая родина, туризм на родину Ломоносова, 300-летний юбилей М.В. Ломоносова {{in lang|ru}}
• [http://www.ras.ru/lomonosov/about.aspx Lomonosov and His Time] – electronic collection at the Russian Academy of Sciences website {{in lang|ru}}
• [http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/lomonosov.htm Illustrated chronology of Lomonosov's life] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313195944/http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/poetpage/lomonosov.htm |date=13 March 2013 }}
• [http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/texts/evening_meds.htm Evening Meditation on the Greatness of God on the occasion of the Northern Lights] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613180629/http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/texts/evening_meds.htm |date=13 June 2013 }}
• [http://www.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/mvl_e.html Kutateladze S.S. The Mathematical Background of Lomonosov's Contribution] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016230108/http://www.math.nsc.ru/LBRT/g2/english/ssk/mvl_e.html |date=16 October 2019 }}
• [http://www.uni-marburg.de/uniarchiv/bilder/lomo?searchterm=lomonossow Lomonosov's matriculation, Marburg 17 November 1736] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921040153/http://www.uni-marburg.de/uniarchiv/bilder/lomo?searchterm=lomonossow |date=21 September 2020 }}
• Lomonosov's Passport, Marburg 13 May 1741

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