Moscow State Forest University () (MSFU) is a specialized establishment of higher education which trains engineering personnel, scientists as well as bachelors and masters for forest industry,
wood processing
Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing.
The major wo ...
and
pulp and paper industry
The pulp and paper industry comprises companies that use wood, specifically pulpwood, as raw material and produce pulp, paper, paperboard, and other cellulose-based products.
Manufacturing process
In the manufacturing process, pulp is intr ...
and is an educational and scientific center of forest complex of the country. One school (commonly called in Russia "a faculty", and is similar to a college within a university) of the university prepares specialists for the aerospace industry.
Established in 1919 as the Moscow Forest Engineering Institute, the school was Russia's "first higher education institution for training
forest engineers."
[Teplyakov, Victor K. 1994. "Forestry education in Russia," ''Forestry Chronicle'' 70(6): 700-704.]
There are nine schools (colleges) in the university specializing in forest engineering and one school (college) specializing in electronics, applied mathematics and computer science Faculty of Computer Science (FEST). FEST was founded in 1959 on an initiative by academician
Sergey Pavlovich Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and w ...
with the goal to prepare engineers for the Soviet Aerospace industry.
Since 2016 Moscow State Forest University is a division of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (Russian: Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), sometimes colloquially referred to as the Bauman School or Baumanka (Russian: Ба́уманка) is a public technical university (Polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia.
See also
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List of historic schools of forestry
This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder(s), present status, and (where applicable) closing date. Many remain active.
1700s
* 1778 - A course of study i ...
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Forestry education
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
Forestry in Russia
Mytishchinsky District
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