Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)

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It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Public University and the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives.

The Moscow Public University, founded in 1908 on the initiative of the eminent Russian patron of the arts, Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky, played a special role in Russian education. It was the center of enlightened and moral education right up to 1918, realizing the progressive principles of alternative education in conjunction with a sound educational foundation available to all.

The Moscow State Institute for History and Archives, founded in 1930 as a center for the preparation of archivists, became over the years a focus of scientific research. In its archival pursuits in areas of history and such auxiliary realms as the study of primary sources, archaeology and palaeongraphy, it managed to preserve the very best of Russian research. By the beginning of the 1990s, this institution has achieved an actual university level which naturally enabled it to become the organizational heart of the RSUH, founded in 1991.

RSUH currently comprises seven institutes, eleven faculties, nineteen scientific and educational centers, eight laboratories, and fifty departments.