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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Moscow State University, Seven Sisters, Druzhba pipeline, Artek, Central Asia - Center gas pipeline system, ORLEN Lietuva, Narkomfin building, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Communal House of the Textile Institute, Lenin's Mausoleum, Kazansky Rail Terminal, Brest Fortress, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Tsentrosoyuz building, Main Turkmen Canal, Kauchuk Factory Club, Derzhprom, Moscow State Circus, Lubyanka, Ivolginsky Datsan, Minsk Tractor Works, Galiaskar Kamal Tatar Academic Theatre, Central Economic Mathematical Institute, Medeu Dam, Moscow-850, Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics, Orlyonok, Moscow Expo Center, Palace of Sports, Latvian Academy of Sciences, Red Banner Textile Factory, Krugovaya Kinopanorama, Lefortovo Prison, Children's Railroad, Qaraqum Canal, Russian Space Research Institute, Zarya Vostoka building, Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, Rusakov Workers' Club, Grozny-Tuapse oil pipeline, State Public Science and Technical Library, Powerline Ekibastuz-Kokshetau, Printing plant of "Ogonyok" magazine, Zuev Workers' Club, Tagansky Protected Command Point, Moskva Pool, Ministry of Construction of Heavy Industry, NKVD buildings, Yerevan Children's railway, Yerevan Confectionery and Macaroni Factory, Krushcheby. Excerpt: Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian: , Moskovskiy gosudarstvennyy universitet imeni M. V. Lomonosova), previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU (Russian: , Universitet Lomonosova; Russian: , MGU), is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy. In 1940, the university was renamed in honor of its founder, Mikhail Lomonosov. Currently the university employs more than 4,000 academic staff and 15,000 oth...
