The State University of Land Use Planning (Russian: Государственный университет по землеустройству), formerly Moscow State University of Land Management / State University of Farming, is one of the oldest universities in Russia.

History

The university was founded on May 27, 1779, when a

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of the

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under the reign of

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established a land survey school. It was founded by Sergey Ivanovich Rozhnov. The first director of the school was

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. In 1819, the school was renamed the Konstantinovsky Surveying College, and in 1835 it was again renamed as the Konstantinovsky (

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) Surveying Institute. In 1849, the received the rite of a first-rate university and was transferred to the position of a military institution. It became the Moscow Surveying Institute in 1917. During the period from 1835 to 1917, the Institute trained more than 2,000 specialists, including approximately 1,500 surveying engineers. In 1945, the Institute was renamed the Moscow Institute of Land Use Engineers (MIIS). In connection with the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow Institute of Land Use Engineers, the

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of the

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awarded the

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for the school's merits in training highly qualified personnel for agriculture and a significant contribution to the development of science and practice of land management. Under the Provision of the

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No. 30 on January 18, 1991, the State University of Land Use Planning was established "to train experts in land law, surveying, soil science, geobotany, geodesy, architecture and planning of agriculture inhabited localities." Order No. 193 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on March 24, 1992 established the University with the training of specialists in

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land management Land management is the process of managing the land use, use and development of land resources. Those resources are used for a variety of purposes for example agriculture, forestry, water resource management, Human settlement, human settlements an ...

soil science Soil science is the study of soil as a natural resource on the surface of the Earth including soil formation, soil classification, classification and Soil survey, mapping; Soil physics, physical, Soil chemistry, chemical, Soil biology, biologica ...

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, architecture and planning of villages. PGRS 2 003 AksakovST - crop

Structure

*Faculty of Architectural *Faculty of Urban

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*Faculty of Land Management *Faculty of Real Estate Cadastre *Faculty of Legal *Institute for Advanced Studies *Military Department

Rectors

* 1997-2021 – Volkov Sergey Nikolaevich * from 2021 – Acting Rector Timur Papaskiri

Awards

2021 – 25th place in the International Ranking of the IAAR Eurasian University Ranking (IAAR EUR)

Museum

The museum is located in the building of the State Unitary Enterprise, built from 1930–1935.

References

External links

Official website
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