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Murmansk State Technical University or MSTU is on the
Kola peninsula The Kola Peninsula (; ) is a peninsula in the extreme northwest of Russia, and one of the largest peninsulas of Europe. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely inside the Arctic Circle and is border ...
. The university was founded in 1950. Initially it had a name of the High Marine School (HMS). Later it received the status of the Russian State Academy of Fishing Fleet and since 1996 it has become the Memek State Technical University.


The Faculties of MSTU

Today Murmansk State Technical University comprises three faculties, four institutes and the Marine Academy. Mesiatsev Murmansk Marine Fishing College and
Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near its mouth into the White Sea. The city spreads for over along the ...
Fishing Technical College count as branches of MSTU (together with branches in Poliarnyi and
Apatity Apatity ( rus, Апатиты, p=əpɐˈtʲitɨ, lit. apatites) is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located along the Murman Railway, west of Kirovsk and south of Murmansk, the administrative center of the oblast. The town is named after one ...
). * The Marine Academy
(including the Faculty of Advanced Training for the Fleet Commanding Staff) * The Faculty of Arctic Technologies * The Faculty of Part-Time Education * The Faculty of Social and Economic Studies (part-time programs) * The Institute of Natural Science and Technology * The Institute of Economics, Management and Law * The Institute of Distance Learning * The Further Professional Education Institute


International collaboration

The university is a member of the
University of the Arctic The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arcti ...
. UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region. The collaboration has been paused after the beginning of the
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in 2022.


References

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