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Moscow State University was founded in 1755, when Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its establishment after Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov promoted the idea. It is officially named M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University.
As of 2019-13 Nobel laureates were affiliated with Moscow State University, along with 6 Fields Medal winners and 1 Turing Award winner.
In 1911, in protest over troops being marched onto campus and the mistreatment of certain professors, 130 scientists and faculty members resigned together, including Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, and Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin. Thousands of students were also expelled.
Notable alumni include writers Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, and Ivan Turgenev; politicians Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Suslov, and Ruslan Khasbulatov; and scientists and mathematicians including Andrei Sakharov, Andrey Kolmogorov, and Vladimir Arnold.
On the 6th of September 1997, French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre performed a concert using the front of Moscow State University as the backdrop. The event drew a paying crowd of half a million people.
After Rector Viktor Sadovnichy signed a statement endorsing Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Yale University, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, the University of Potsdam, and HKU Business School all suspended their relationships with the university. The University of St Andrews suspended a joint master's degree program, and Academia Europaea suspended Sadovnichy's membership.