Greetings from Rector of MUCT || History of MUCT || Educational Programm || Students in Science || Focus on Environment || International Ties || MUCT Facilities || Contact
Greetings from Rector of MUCT || History of MUCT || Educational Programm || Students in Science || Focus on Environment || International Ties || MUCT Facilities || Contact
Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology (MUCT) is the Russia's leading higher education establishment engaged in training specialists for the chemical industry. Every year, the University accepts about 840 freshmen. Apart from the students from CIS, formed of former Soviet Republics, the University provides training for nearly 450 undergraduate and graduate students from nearly 60 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
MUCT has 13 faculties, 7 colleges, and more than 50 departments, headed by prominent scholars and specialists in natural sciences, general engineering, chemical engineering, special disciplines, and social sciences:
The University's staff includes 1,000 lecturers and instructors and 900 research associates, of whom 120 have doctorates and 530 the candidate's degree.
In days of old, the land in this area used to belong to coachmen, whose natural occupation was crop farming, grazing horses, and trading timber for housing construction and shipbuilding. Many of the streets around the University bear old names inferring past residents' trades.
As modern industries burgeoned in Moscow between the 1870s and 1890s, the area around Miusskaya Square was rapidly built up with dwelling houses and academic and research institutions.
An educational establishment that enjoyed special repute was the Popular University. It was built from funds donated by A. Shamavsky, a rich gold mining industrialist and free-thinking and democratically minded man . This University was staffed with some of the top lecturers of the time.
The Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia traces its beginnings back to the year 1898.
It was founded as an Industrial School, reformed into the Moscow Chemical College in 1918, and shortly afterwards had the name of the celebrated scholar, Dmitry Mendeleev, added to its official name.
Two years later, the college was upgraded to institute, and given the title of the Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology.
That was 174 years after the great Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov opened the nation's first scientific chemical laboratory at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1746.
In 1993 the Institute was renamed into D.Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCT).
The educational program is aimed at producing top-level specialists for employment in a wide range of fields in chemical science and technology.
Apart from solid grounding in basic and special disciplines, the curricula include new humanity courses, environmental subjects, crash courses in foreign languages, and lengthy stints of practical training at leading centers of chemical science and education abroad.
The addition of courses in social sciences and humanities to the traditional program will give the future engineers a modern background in philosophy, ethics, esthetics, the history of world.
MUCT is one of the first higher learning institutions in the country to provide instruction in two languages, Russian and English.
Its researchers and students carry out diverse research projects, including the development of:
Their pioneering projects include the development of facing crystalline glass materials capable of challenging natural ones, granite and marble.
They have improved techniques and equipment for comprehensive purification of wastes from heavy metals.
They also have developed highly efficient electrolyte compositions for depositing glossy coatings intended for microelectronics.
Under contracts with the country's large research institutes and industrial enterprises, MUCT researchers have created energy-saving processes and optimal equipment designing principles, developed flexible manufacturing modules and processes, synthesized flexible flow lines, and much else.
Many of MUCT developments have been adopted in various industries, and awarded State prizes, diplomas and certificates of international exhibitions.
The students are contributing their share to these successes: every year they work on some 320 research projects.
The most competent and socially active students are granted honorary scholarships, and many more are given scholarships for progress in studies and research work.
Students' research papers are published in scientific journals, read at conferences, and entered in contests.
MUCT was the first among the country's higher educational establishments to respond to the call of the times by setting up the first ever department of industrial ecology which celebrated its 10th aniversary in 1994. In 1989 the first ever faculty of engineering ecology was set.
In 1995 the first ever Department for the Problems of Sustainable Development was set.
Thirty or so of the University's departments are actively involved in international cooperation programs. These cover joint projects and exchange of faculty members with many universities and colleges in the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, China, and other countries.
Cooperation with foreign institutions of higher learning is carried out in the following areas:
MUCT is active in export and import operations. As a result, it has set up joint ventures with companies in the US, Spain, Italy, and Germany to produce a material called Sigran,carry out catalytic hydrolysis, produce catalysts, etc.
The University has teamed up with the MCM in Frankfurt, Germany, in setting up a German joint-stock company, MCM Industrial Technology, which is to specialize in implementing the University's projects in Germany.
MUCT keeps up successful cooperation with US universities and colleges in providing short-term courses in the Russian language.
Numerous textbooks and monographs written at MUCT and translated into English, Japanese, Bulgarian, and Chinese have won the acclaim of many specialists at home and abroad.
The University has provided premises and facilities for an International UNESCO Center for Chemical Sciences, Education and Technology.
Here is the list of subjects undergraduate exchange students could explore in Moscow:
The users are offered more than 200 data banks in chemistry, chemical processes, physics and other sciences.
The University's library stook boasts more than 1.5 million books, there are rare publications among them.
The Center enables students and faculty members to:
The Computer Center has on offer data base control systems and programming systems for automating and designing industrial chemical processes.
President: Rector RCTU, prof. Pavel D. Sarkisov
Director: Prof. Vladimir A. Kolesnikov
This Department prepares recommendations for patents and licenses, looks for potential commercial partners, and prepares technical specifications for contracts.
Every year the University files over 250 patent applications. Also, it sells goods and services, and purchases equipment, instruments and computers under numerous export and import contracts.
| Phone: | Fax: | E-mail: | |
| Rector | (095)978-8733 | (095)200-4204 | rector@mhti.msk.su |
| Vice-Rector for Academics | (095)978-8740 | ||
| Admissions Board | (095)978-8520 | ||
| International Studies | (095)978-8690 | (095)978-8786 | alt@mhti.msk.su |
| Evening Chemistry School | (095)978-8284 | ||
| MUCT History Museum | (095)256-0384 | ||
| Sports Club | (095)495-0161 | ||
| "Mendeleyevets" Editors | (095)978-8857 |
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Thanks to Prof. Midden of Bowling Green State University for helping us to find a home for this page. Also thanks to Prof. Tarasova of MUCT for her priceless comments.
Last updated January 26, 1996