MSU Faculty of Geography

MSU Faculty of Geography (Географический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University, created in 1938 by order #109 dated 23 July 1938. There are 15 departments:

Human geography branch

 * Department of Social and Economic Geography of foreign countries
 * Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
 * Department of Geography of World Economy
 * Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism

Physical geography branch

 * Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science
 * Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography
 * Department of Glaciology and Cryolithology
 * Department of Biogeography
 * Department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Soil Geography

Hydrometeorological branch

 * Department of Hydrology
 * Department of Meteorology and Climatology
 * Department of Oceanology

Geoecological branch

 * Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
 * Department of Environmental Management

Geoinformatics branch

 * Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

Research laboratories

 * Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources
 * Laboratory of Geoecology of the Northern Territories
 * Laboratory of Complex Mapping
 * Laboratory of Recent Deposits and Pleistocene Palaeogeography
 * Laboratory of Regional Analysis and Political Geography
 * Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows
 * World Data Center for Geography
 * The Makkaveev Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes