The Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH; ), is a university in Moscow, Russia with over 25,000 students. It was created in 1991 as the result of the merger of the Moscow Urban University of the People (est. 1908) and the Moscow State University for History and Archives (est. 1930).

History

The Moscow Urban University of the People also known as the Shanyavsky People's University was founded in 1908 on the initiative of the Russian patron of the arts, Alfons Shanyavsky, and played a role in Russian higher education from its inception. The Moscow State Institute for History and Archives, founded in 1930 as a center for the preparation of

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s, 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,

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and

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, it managed to preserve Russian research. By the beginning of the 1990s, this institution had achieved university level which enabled it to become the organizational heart of the RSUH, founded in 1991. The university, has established a connection to international scientific community and has ties with universities abroad, including

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an values that they committed to when joining EUA”.

University structure

RSUH currently comprises eleven institutes, eighteen faculties, eight laboratories, and fifty departments. There are five university-wide faculties: *Faculty of Philosophy *Faculty of History of Art *Faculty of Sociology *Faculty of Cultural Studies *Faculty of PR and Advertising The eleven institutes are: *Historical and Archival Institute **This consists of Faculty of Archiving, Faculty of Documentation And Technotronic Archives, Faculty of History, Political Science, and Law and Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Regional Studies. *Institute of Economics, Management and Law **Including of Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Management and Faculty of Law * L. S. Vygotsky Institute of Psychology **Including Faculty of Psychology and Faculty of Psychology of the Education *Institute of Mass Media and Advertising **Including Faculty of Journalism *Institute of Linguistics (

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) **Including of Faculty of Theory and Practice Of Linguistics *Institute of Information Sciences and Security Technologies **Including Faculty of Information Systems and Security *Institute of History and Philology **Including Faculty of History and Philology *Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies (

) *International Institute of the New Educational Technologies *Institute of Additional Education *Institute of Regional Post-Soviet Research Across the university and its institutes and faculties, there are more than 50 scientific centres. Its curriculum extends from preparatory to post-doctoral studies. In 2023, Educational and scientific center—

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Higher School of Politics was established. The university also serves as the main centre for the

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Campus

The main campus of the university is located near the

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Metro Station in the North-Western part of Moscow. It is a closed campus consisting of 7 corpuses, 6 being used for the educational purposes and one (Corpus 4) used as a dormitory for the international students. The main corpus is the corpus 6, which, among other things, consists of the main University library and the University Museum. The university scientific library has a physical, as well as digital collection, providing scientific works and fiction. The libraries reading room, also located in the main corpus, consists of 3 big halls (2 of which have a second tier). Corpus 6 is connected to the corpus 7, which was the first building in the main campus to enter the new university in 1991. Corpus 7 used to serve as Moscow Urban University Of the People (in the name of A. Shanyavskiy). There are 2 other smaller separate campuses in the different parts of the city, one serving as a home for Institute of Information Sciences and Security Technologies, and the other one as a home for Historical and Archival Institute. The latter is located in

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in the city center. It used to be a main campus for Moscow State University of History And Archives, which later became a base for newly established Russian State University for the Humanities. The institute occupies a network of historic buildings along the

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, including the former

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and the cells of the

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. File:Rggu main.JPG, Main Building (Corpus 6) File:Rggu campus.jpg, View of the RSUH campus

Ratings

In 2014, the

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agency included the university in the list of higher educational institutions of the

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, where it was assigned a rating class of “D” (acceptable level of graduate training).Rating of higher educational institutions in Russia and member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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party project "Modernization of Education", according to the rector of

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, RSUH, among other universities, entered the top ten "leaders of the Russian segment" of education.MGIMO and Moscow State University are included in the list of leaders in the Russian segment
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