Lomonosov Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University, commonly abbreviated MSU, is a public research university in Moscow and the oldest and largest university of the Russian Federation, with an academic population of about 39,282 students and more than 4,000 academics.罗蒙诺索夫莫斯科国立大学，简称莫斯科大学，是位于莫斯科的公立研究型大学，也是俄罗斯联邦历史最悠久、规模最大的大学，在校学生约 39,282 人，拥有 4,000 余名学术人员。

Founded in 1755 on the initiative of Mikhail Lomonosov and Ivan Shuvalov, the university counts thirteen Nobel laureates, six Fields Medal winners and one Turing Award laureate among its people, and according to OpenAlex has produced 228,206 scholarly works cited 8,538,884 times学校由米哈伊尔·罗蒙诺索夫与伊万·舒瓦洛夫倡议于 1755 年创办，人员中共有 13 位诺贝尔奖得主、6 位菲尔兹奖得主与 1 位图灵奖得主，据 OpenAlex 统计，学校累计发表学术成果 228,206 篇，总被引达 8,538,884 次。

History

• The idea of a university in Moscow was promoted by Ivan Shuvalov and Mikhail Lomonosov, and Russian Empress Elizabeth decreed its establishment on 23 January 1755, with the first lectures given on 26 April 1755 in the Julian calendar.在莫斯科办大学的构想由伊万·舒瓦洛夫与米哈伊尔·罗蒙诺索夫推动，俄罗斯女皇伊丽莎白于 1755 年 1 月 23 日下令设立该校，按儒略历计算，首堂课于 1755 年 4 月 26 日开讲。
• Saint Petersburg State University and MSU each claim to be Russia's oldest university, though St Petersburg, which has had continuous existence as a university since 1819, sees itself as the successor of an academy established by Peter the Great in 1724.圣彼得堡国立大学与莫斯科大学都自称俄罗斯最古老的大学，不过自 1819 年起持续以大学形态存在的圣彼得堡方面，认为自己是彼得大帝于 1724 年设立的一所科学院的继承者。
• The university first occupied the Principal Medicine Store on Red Square from 1755 to 1787, and in the eighteenth century it had three departments, philosophy, medicine and law, with a preparatory college attached until its abolition in 1812.学校自 1755 年至 1787 年一直设在红场旁的中心药店，18 世纪时设有哲学、医学与法律三个系，另附设一所预备学院，该学院于 1812 年撤销。
• Catherine the Great transferred the university to a neoclassical building on the other side of Mokhovaya Street, constructed between 1782 and 1793 to a design by Matvei Kazakov and rebuilt by Domenico Giliardi after the fire of 1812 consumed much of Moscow.叶卡捷琳娜二世将学校迁至莫霍瓦亚街另一侧的新古典主义建筑，该楼于 1782 至 1793 年间按 Matvei Kazakov 的设计建造，1812 年大火吞没大半个莫斯科后又由 Domenico Giliardi 重建。
• The university press, run by Nikolay Novikov in the 1780s, published the newspaper Moskovskie Vedomosti, the first such paper in Imperial Russia, and in 1779 Mikhail Kheraskov founded a boarding school for noblemen that became a gymnasium for the Russian nobility in 1830.18 世纪 80 年代由 Nikolay Novikov 主持的大学印刷所出版了《莫斯科通报》，是俄罗斯帝国最早的此类报纸，1779 年 Mikhail Kheraskov 创办了一所贵族寄宿学校，该校于 1830 年改为俄罗斯贵族男子中学。
• Medical education split into clinical, surgical and obstetrics faculties in 1804, and between 1884 and 1897 the Department of Medicine built a medical campus in Devichye Pole to a design by Konstantin Bykovsky, with Nikolay Sklifosovskiy and Fyodor Erismann acting as consultants.1804 年医学教育分设为诊疗、外科与妇产三个分部，1884 至 1897 年间医学部在德维奇耶波列建设医学园区，设计出自 Konstantin Bykovsky，Nikolay Sklifosovskiy 与 Fyodor Erismann 担任顾问。
• Roots of student unrest at the university reach deep into the nineteenth century, and in 1905 a social-democratic organisation emerged that called for the overthrow of the tsarist government and the establishment of a republic, after which the imperial government repeatedly threatened to close the university.学校的学生运动根源可上溯至 19 世纪，1905 年校内出现一个社会民主主义组织，号召推翻沙皇政府、建立共和国，此后沙皇政府多次威胁关闭学校。
• In 1911, protesting the introduction of troops onto the campus and the mistreatment of certain professors, 130 scientists and professors resigned en masse, among them Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy, Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev and Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin, while thousands of students were expelled.1911 年，因反对军队入驻校园以及部分教授遭虐待，130 名科学家与教授集体辞职，其中包括 Nikolay Dimitrievich Zelinskiy、Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev 与 Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin，另有数千名学生被开除。
• After the October Revolution of 1917 the institution began to admit children of the proletariat and peasantry, and in 1919 it abolished tuition fees and established a preparatory facility to help working-class children prepare for entrance examinations.1917 年十月革命后，学校开始招收工农子弟，1919 年免除学费，并设立预科机构，帮助工农子弟准备入学考试。
• The medical campus at Devichye Pole and medical education in general were separated from Moscow University in 1930, which was followed in 1932 by the renaming of the institution to Moscow State University in honour of its founder Mikhail Lomonosov.1930 年，德维奇耶波列医学园区及整个医学教育从莫斯科大学分出，1932 年学校为纪念创办人米哈伊尔·罗蒙诺索夫而改名为莫斯科国立大学。
• During Joseph Stalin's first five-year plan of 1928 to 1932 the university was expanded, and in the post-war era the ruler ordered seven tiered neoclassic towers to be built around the city, with the university taking the largest of them.在约瑟夫·斯大林 1928 至 1932 年的第一个五年计划期间学校得到扩充，战后这位领导人下令在莫斯科城周围建造七座阶梯式新古典主义高楼，学校占据了其中最大的一座。
• The main building was completed in 1953 and stands on Sparrow Hills in southwest Moscow, its central tower rising 240 metres and 36 storeys, making it the tallest building in Europe until 1990.主楼于 1953 年建成，位于莫斯科西南的麻雀山，中央塔楼高 240 米、共 36 层，直至 1990 年都是欧洲最高的建筑。
• Like many of Stalin's great construction projects the main building was erected with Gulag labour, and its façades are decorated with huge motifs of clocks, barometers and thermometers together with sculptures and the hammer and sickle, with statues of Russian scholars including Lomonosov standing before the library.与斯大林时期许多大型工程一样，主楼由古拉格劳力修建，外墙饰有巨大的时钟、气压表与温度表图案，并配以雕塑与镰刀锤子标志，建筑前还立有包括罗蒙诺索夫在内的俄国学者雕像。
• The building reports 42 floors, a floor area of about one million square metres, corridors running some 33 kilometres with more than 5,000 rooms, and a twelve-tonne red star at the summit that contains a small room and an observation deck.该建筑共 42 层，建筑面积约 100 万平方米，走廊总长约 33 千米，内有 5,000 多间房间，顶端的红星重达 12 吨，内含一间小屋与一个观景台。
• After 1991 nine new faculties were established, and the following year the university gained a unique status in which it is funded directly from the state budget, bypassing the Ministry of Education.1991 年以后学校新设九个院系，次年学校获得一种独特地位，即经费直接来自国家预算，绕过教育部拨付。
• On 6 September 1997 the French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre used the facade of the university as the backdrop for a concert that attracted a paying crowd of half a million people.1997 年 9 月 6 日，法国电子音乐人 Jean Michel Jarre 以学校正立面为背景举办演唱会，付费观众达五十万人。
• The Ulyanovsk branch of the university was reorganised into Ulyanovsk State University in 1996, and the university once had branch campuses in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.学校位于乌里扬诺斯克的分校于 1996 年改组为乌里扬诺斯克国立大学，学校此前在乌克兰、哈萨克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦与乌兹别克斯坦均设有分校。
• On 19 March 2008 the SKIF MSU supercomputer was launched, its peak performance of 60 teraflops, 47.170 teraflops on the LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest supercomputer in the Commonwealth of Independent States at that time.2008 年 3 月 19 日，SKIF MSU 超级计算机启动，其峰值性能为 60 万亿次每秒，LINPACK 基准测试为 47.170 万亿次每秒，在当时是独联体最快的超级计算机。
• A French University College founded in 1991 and 1992 as a Franco-Russian institution associated with the university was formally absorbed into the MSU structure in 2016, after the French side withdrew its professors and funding following the invasion of Ukraine.1991 至 1992 年间成立、与学校关联的法俄大学学院于 2016 年正式并入莫斯科大学建制，而在俄乌战争爆发后，法方撤走了教授与经费。
• In March 2022 the rector Viktor Sadovnichy was the lead signatory of a public statement endorsing the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, after which Academia Europaea suspended his membership and Yale, the University of Hamburg, the University of Potsdam and HKU Business School suspended their relationships, while St Andrews suspended a joint master's programme.2022 年 3 月，校长维克托·萨多夫尼奇作为公开声明的首席签署人表态支持 2022 年俄乌战争，随后欧洲 Academia 暂停其会员资格，耶鲁大学、汉堡应用科技大学、波茨坦大学与香港大学商学院中止了与学校的合作关系，圣安德鲁斯大学也暂停了联合硕士项目。

Academics

• The university comprises 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, 15 research institutes and six branches, and is one of the largest academic organisations in the world by the breadth of its departments.学校设有 43 个院系、300 多个教研室、15 个研究所与 6 个分校，其教研室数量与学科覆盖使其成为世界上规模最大的学术机构之一。
• Its full range of faculties covers mechanics and mathematics, computational mathematics and cybernetics, physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, bioengineering and bioinformatics, soil science, geology, geography, fundamental medicine, space research, history, philology, philosophy, economics, law, journalism, psychology, sociology, foreign languages and area studies, public administration, world politics, political science, fine and performing arts, global studies and education.学校院系门类齐全，涵盖力学与数学、计算数学与控制论、物理、化学、材料科学、生物、生物工程与生物信息学、土壤科学、地质、地理、基础医学、空间研究、历史、语言文学、哲学、经济、法律、新闻、心理学、社会学、外语与区域研究、国家管理、世界政治、政治学、艺术与表演、全球研究与教育。
• These are supplemented by graduate schools including the Moscow School of Economics, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, the Graduate School of Public Administration, the Graduate School of Public Audit and the Graduate School of Innovative Business Administration.此外还设有莫斯科经济学院、工商管理学院研究生院、翻译与口译研究生院、公共管理研究生院、公共审计研究生院、创新管理研究生院等机构。
• The recorded figures show 39,282 students with more than 40,000 undergraduates and some 7,000 advanced degree candidates, alongside more than 4,000 academics, 15,000 support staff and about 5,000 researchers at the research institutes and facilities.记录数据显示学校有学生 39,282 人，其中本科生逾 40,000 人、高级学位候选人约 7,000 人，另有学术人员 4,000 余名、支撑人员 15,000 人，研究机构与设施中约有 5,000 名研究人员。
• Roughly 2,000 students, graduate students and researchers from around the world are hosted annually, and the university employs academic staff on a scale rarely matched by any Russian institution.学校每年接待约 2,000 名来自世界各地的学生、研究生与研究人员，其学术人员规模在俄罗斯各机构中鲜有能及。
• The institute-level research platforms include the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Institute of Mechanics, the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, the A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, the N. N. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Problems of Microphysics, the Research Computing Center, the White Sea Biological Station and the Moscow University Herbarium.学校的研究所级平台包括 Skobeltsyn 核物理研究所、力学研究所、Sternberg 天文研究所、A. N. Belozersky 物理化学生物学研究所、N. N. Bogolyubov 理论微观物理问题研究所、计算研究中心、白海生物站与莫斯科大学植物标本馆。
• The mathematics tradition is the university's most celebrated academic asset, with the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics counting alumni such as Pafnuty Chebyshev, Nikolay Luzin, Andrey Kolmogorov, Vladimir Arnold, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Pavel Alexandrov, Ivan Petrovsky, Lev Pontryagin, Yuri Manin and Yakov Sinai.数学传统是该校最负盛名的学术资产，力学与数学系的校友包括帕夫努季·切比雪夫、尼古拉·卢津、安德烈·柯尔莫哥洛夫、弗拉基米尔·阿诺德、奥莉加·拉德任斯卡娅、帕维尔·亚历山德罗夫、伊万·彼得罗夫斯基、列夫·庞特里亚金、尤里·马宁与雅科夫·西奈。
• Physics and astronomy carry a comparable weight, with Nobel laureates Igor Tamm, Ilya Frank, Lev Landau, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vitaly Ginzburg and Alexei Abrikosov among the alumni, and the SKIF MSU supercomputer serving the whole university.物理与天文学同样分量十足，诺贝尔奖得主 Igor Tamm、Ilya Frank、列夫·朗道、亚历山大·普罗霍罗夫、彼得·卡皮察、维塔利·金兹堡与阿列克谢·阿布里科索夫均出自该校，SKIF MSU 超级计算机服务于全校。
• The chemistry faculty counts Alexei Chichibabin, Lev Chugaev and Nikolay Demyanov, while biology and soil science are represented by Alexander Oparin, whose work on the origin of life made him prominent.化学系有阿列克谢·齐齐巴宾、列夫·楚加耶夫与尼古拉·杰米扬诺夫，生物学与土壤科学则以提出生命起源理论的亚历山大·奥巴林为代表。
• Chinese scholars form a notable part of this record, among them the mathematician Gu Chaohao, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and holder of the Hua Loo-Keng Mathematics Award, and the physicists Hao Bailin and Guan Weiyan, both academicians of the same academy.中国学者在这一名录中占有显著位置，其中包括中国科学院院士、华罗庚数学奖得主谷超豪，以及同为该院院士的物理学家郝柏林与管惟炎。
• The university houses the UNESCO International Demography Courses and the UNESCO Hydrology Courses, and it maintains branch campuses abroad in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as well as former branch sites in Tashkent, Dushanbe, Sevastopol and Yerevan.学校承办联合国教科文组织国际人口学课程与水文学课程，并在乌克兰、哈萨克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦与乌兹别克斯坦设有海外分校，此前在塔什干、杜尚别、塞瓦斯托波尔与埃里温亦设有分校点。
• In 2007 the rector described corruption in the Russian education system as a systemic illness and said he had seen advertisements guaranteeing a perfect entrance examination score at the university for a substantial fee.2007 年校长将俄罗斯教育体系中的腐败形容为一种系统性疾病，并表示曾见到以重金保证入学考试满分的广告。
• Critical reporting has questioned the university over allegations of unfair admission practices and a lack of impartiality in the awarding of degrees, as well as over a documented record of staff convicted of academic dishonesty.批评性报道质疑该校存在录取不公与学位授予缺乏客观性的指控，同时也涉及该校有教职人员因学术不端被定罪的记录。
• According to data compiled on 19 December 2020 the university ranked fourth among Russian universities by the number of employees convicted of dishonesty, with 232 cases, behind Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.据 2020 年 12 月 19 日汇总的数据，该校在俄罗斯高校中因员工学术不端被定案人数排名第四，共 232 起，位列第一的普列汉诺夫俄罗斯经济大学之后。
• Reported tuition varies from 240,000 to 570,000 roubles a year with about one student in five paying fees, and a fee-based cohort filed a collective action over the transition to distance teaching.据招生部门公布的收费标准，学费每年在 24 万至 57 万卢布之间，约五分之一的学生为缴费就读，学费生曾就转为远程教学一事提起集体诉讼。
• The Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Education awards have gone to members of the university, which has also received the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.俄罗斯科学院与俄罗斯教育科学院的奖项曾授予该校成员，学校本身还获得过列宁勋章、十月革命勋章与劳动红旗勋章。
• Two Orthodox churches operate on the campus, the house church of the Martyr Tatiana and the church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, even though Russian legislation prohibits the activities of religious organisations directly at universities.尽管俄罗斯法律禁止宗教组织直接在大学开展活动，校内仍运作着殉道者塔季安娜娜校内教堂与基里尔与梅多德乌斯等使徒教堂两座东正教堂。
• In November 2011 the Academic Council decided to award Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia the title of Honorary Doctor of the university, and the diploma was presented during his visit on 28 September 2012.2011 年 11 月，校学术委员会决定授予莫斯科及全境宗主教 Kirill 名誉博士学位称号，2012 年 9 月 28 日其到访学校时正式颁发证书。

Campus

• Since 1953 most faculties have been located on Sparrow Hills in southwest Moscow, in a tiered complex arranged around a central library, with the administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and the faculties of mechanics and mathematics, geology, geography, and fine and performing arts housed in the main building.自 1953 年起，多数院系设于莫斯科西南的麻雀山，教学设施围绕中央图书馆作阶梯式排布，校方管理机构、地球科学博物馆以及力学与数学、地质、地理、艺术与表演等院系均设于主楼之内。
• The building on Mokhovaya Street, erected between 1782 and 1793 to a design by Matvei Kazakov and rebuilt by Domenico Giliardi after the fire of 1812, houses the Faculty of Journalism, the Faculty of Psychology and the Institute of Asian and African Countries.莫霍瓦亚街校舍建于 1782 至 1793 年间，出自 Matvei Kazakov 之手，1812 年大火后由 Domenico Giliardi 重建，如今设有新闻学院、心理学学院与亚洲和非洲研究所。
• A number of faculty buildings stand near Manege Square in the centre of Moscow, and the university library is part of the main building complex, whose 33 kilometres of corridors and more than 5,000 rooms serve some 40,000 students and staff.多个院系楼位于莫斯科市中心的 Manege 广场附近，大学图书馆是主楼群的一部分，其 33 千米长的走廊与 5,000 多间房间服务着约 4 万名师生。
• The university operates branch campuses abroad in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, with sites at Tashkent, Dushanbe, Sevastopol and Yerevan, and it also runs research and teaching facilities beyond Russia.学校在乌克兰、哈萨克斯坦、塔吉克斯坦与乌兹别克斯坦设有分校，校址包括塔什干、杜尚别、塞瓦斯托波尔与埃里温，并在俄罗斯境外运营若干科研与教学设施。
• Reported difficulties in privatising apartments in the main building have affected residents, who have also been unable to register children or obtain documents there, a long-running grievance on the Sparrow Hills site.主楼内住户办理房产私有化长期受阻，还曾遇到无法为子女办理登记、无法领取相关证件的困难，这一问题在麻雀山校址上久拖未决。
• The main building was the tallest in Europe until 1990, and its 240 metre central tower with its twelve-tonne red star remains one of the most recognisable silhouettes of the Russian capital.主楼在 1990 年之前一直是欧洲最高的建筑，其 240 米高的中央塔楼与十二吨重的红星，至今仍是俄罗斯首都最具辨识度的天际线之一。

Reputation

• Lomonosov Moscow State University places 115th in the world in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 65.2, and it is consistently ranked first among Russian universities in national league tables.罗蒙诺索夫莫斯科国立大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列全球第 115，得分 65.2，并在各类俄罗斯国内排名中持续位居本国第一。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and in the 2026–27 Best Global Universities table of U.S. News and World Report it stands 521st.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026–27 版全球最佳大学排名中列第 521。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024 places it in the 101 to 150 band worldwide, and the RAEX survey has ranked it first in Russia in both teaching conditions and research activity throughout the period from 2012 to 2026.2024 年世界大学学术排名将其列入全球 101 至 150 区间，RAEX 调查则在 2012 至 2026 年间持续将其在优质教育条件与科研活动两项上列为俄罗斯第一。
• OpenAlex records 228,206 works and 8,538,884 citations for the institution, the largest scholarly output of any university in the country and a total that reflects the depth of its fundamental science establishment.OpenAlex 为该校记录了 228,206 篇学术成果与 8,538,884 次引用，产出规模居全国各大学之首，反映出其基础科学体系的深厚积淀。
• Thirteen Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university, including Boris Pasternak in Literature in 1958, Igor Tamm, Ilya Frank, Lev Landau, Aleksandr Prokhorov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Vitaly Ginzburg and Alexei Abrikosov in Physics, Andrei Sakharov and Mikhail Gorbachev in Peace, and eight in Physiology or Medicine.共有 13 位诺贝尔奖得主与该校相关，包括 1958 年文学奖得主鲍里斯·帕斯捷尔纳克，物理学奖得主 Igor Tamm、Ilya Frank、列夫·朗道、亚历山大·普罗霍罗夫、彼得·卡皮察、维塔利·金兹堡与阿列克谢·阿布里科索夫，和平奖得主安德烈·萨哈罗夫与米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫，以及生理学或医学奖得主 8 位。
• Six Fields Medal winners are counted among its alumni, namely Sergei Novikov in 1970, Grigory Margulis in 1978, Vladimir Drinfeld in 1990, Maxim Kontsevich in 1998, Vladimir Voevodsky in 2002 and Andrei Okounkov in 2006, and the Abel Prize went to Yakov Sinai in 2014.校友中有六位菲尔兹奖得主，分别是 1970 年的谢尔盖·彼得罗维奇·诺维科夫、1978 年的格列戈里·马尔古利斯、1990 年的弗拉基米尔·德林菲尔德、1998 年的马克西姆·孔采维奇、2002 年的弗沃特斯基与 2006 年的安德烈·奥昆科夫，此外雅科夫·西奈获 2014 年阿贝尔奖。
• Tony Hoare, who developed the quicksort algorithm, received the 1980 Turing Award and appears among the university's associated computer scientists, and Yakov Sinai received the Abel Prize in 2014 for work in dynamical systems.提出快速排序算法的 Tony Hoare 于 1980 年获图灵奖，是与该校相关的计算机科学家代表人物，雅科夫·西奈则因动力系统方面的研究获 2014 年阿贝尔奖。
• The university's standing has been affected by its support for the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which suspended academic cooperation with several Western partners, and the rankings themselves have been criticised for favouring English-language publication.该校因支持 2022 年俄乌战争而处境受损，与多家西方伙伴的学术合作中止，其排名本身也因偏重英语发表而受到批评。

Student life

• The university's motto is Наука есть ясное познание истины, просвещение разума, rendered in English as Science is clear knowledge of the truth, enlightenment of the mind, with the Latin form Scientia est clara cognitio veritatis, illustratio mentis.学校校训为俄文「Наука есть ясное познание истины，просвещение разума」，英译为科学是对真理的清晰认识与对理性的启迪，其拉丁文形式见于校徽与官方铭辞。
• Each of the university's six campuses has its own library and residential accommodation, and the main campus is organised around the central library building that serves the whole complex.学校六个校区各自设有图书馆与学生宿舍，主校区则围绕服务整个校区的中央图书馆组织布局。
• Religious life is unusually visible for a Russian university, with two Orthodox churches on the campus, the house church of the Martyr Tatiana and the church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius, and religious literature and objects of worship traded on the university territory.宗教生活在这所俄罗斯大学中格外显眼，校内有两座东正教堂，即殉道者塔季安娜娜校内教堂与基里尔与梅多德乌斯等使徒教堂，校园内还交易宗教文献与礼拜用品。
• The university is a member of the International Forum of Public Universities, and in 2015 it marked its 250th anniversary with ceremonies that invited education leaders from around the world to address the campus.学校是公共大学国际论坛成员，2015 年举行建校 250 周年庆典，邀请世界各地的教育界人士到校演讲。
• A tradition of student volunteering and self-organisation grew out of the political activism of 1905 and 1911, when 130 professors resigned and thousands of students were expelled over questions of academic freedom.学生志愿精神与自我组织的传统，源自 1905 年与 1911 年的政治运动，其时 130 名教授为学术自由问题集体辞职，数千名学生被开除。
• Student dissatisfaction has repeatedly surfaced in public protest, including demonstrations against the siting of a 2018 FIFA World Cup fan zone near the main building, which the rector had approved in May 2018.学生不满情绪多次以公开抗议形式出现，其中包括反对在主楼附近设立 2018 年世界杯球迷广场，校长曾于 2018 年 5 月批准该方案。
• Amateur astronomy has a firm place in student life through the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, one of the university's named research centres, which conducts both teaching and observational work.业余天文通过斯特恩伯格天文研究所在学生生活中占有稳固位置，该所是学校具名研究中心之一，同时从事教学与观测工作。
• Religious study is part of the curriculum rather than only an extracurricular matter, given the presence of the Faculty of World Politics, the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute of Asian and African Countries alongside the secular sciences.在世界政治学院、哲学学院与亚洲和非洲研究所与世俗学科并置的格局下，宗教研究属于课程设置的一部分，而不单纯是课外事务。

Notable people

• Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, who promoted the Moscow university with Ivan Shuvalov and whose name the institution took in 1932, was the scientist and polymath whose statue stands before the main building.米哈伊尔·瓦西里耶维奇·罗蒙诺索夫与伊万·舒瓦洛夫共同推动了在莫斯科办大学，学校于 1932 年以他的名字命名，主楼前的雕像即为他这位科学家与通才。
• Sergey Ivanovich Tatyanyanov, historian and statesman, served as the first curator of the Moscow University museum and as the first director of the university press established in 1755.历史学家兼政治家谢尔盖·伊万诺维奇·塔季扬诺夫曾任莫斯科大学博物馆首任馆长，也是 1755 年成立的大学印刷所首任负责人。
• Sergey Ivanovich Tatyanyanov was succeeded as press director by Nikolay Novikov, who in the 1780s published Moskovskie Vedomosti, the first newspaper of Imperial Russia.谢尔盖·伊万诺维奇·塔季扬诺夫卸任印刷所负责人后由 Nikolay Novikov 接任，后者在 18 世纪 80 年代出版了俄罗斯帝国第一份报纸《莫斯科通报》。
• Anton Chekhov, the short story writer, studied medicine at the university and never completed his degree, joining the alumni roll alongside Ivan Turgenev and Boris Pasternak.短篇小说巨匠安东·契诃夫曾在该校学习医学但未能毕业，该校文学系校友还包括伊万·屠格涅夫与鲍里斯·帕斯捷尔纳克。
• Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, graduated in law and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, while Andrei Sakharov, a graduate of the physics faculty, received the same prize in 1975.苏联末代领导人米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫在该校法律系毕业并于 1990 年获诺贝尔和平奖，物理系毕业的安德烈·萨哈罗夫则于 1975 年获同一奖项。
• Andrei Kolmogorov, one of the founders of modern probability theory, and Vladimir Arnold, who solved Hilbert's thirteenth problem, both worked at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.现代概率论奠基人安德烈·柯尔莫哥洛夫，以及解决希尔伯特第十三问题的弗拉基米尔·阿诺德，都曾在力学与数学系任教。
• Vladimir Drinfeld received the 1990 Fields Medal and Andrei Okounkov the 2006 Fields Medal as alumni of the mathematics faculty, and Maxim Kontsevich received it in 1998.弗拉基米尔·德林菲尔德于 1990 年获菲尔兹奖，安德烈·奥昆科夫于 2006 年获菲尔兹奖，马克西姆·孔采维奇则于 1998 年获此奖，他们均为数学系校友。
• Pyotr Kapitsa won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on low-temperature physics, and Vitaly Ginzburg and Alexei Abrikosov shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics.彼得·卡皮察因低温物理研究获 1978 年诺贝尔物理学奖，维塔利·金兹堡与阿列克谢·阿布里科索夫则分享 2003 年诺贝尔物理学奖。
• Chinese alumni include the mathematician Gu Chaohao, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and winner of the Hua Loo-Keng Mathematics Award, and the physicists Hao Bailin and Guan Weiyan, both academicians of the academy.中国校友包括中国科学院院士、华罗庚数学奖得主谷超豪，以及同为该院院士的物理学家郝柏林与管惟炎。
• Janis Cakste, the first president of Latvia, Ian Iliescu, the first president of Romania, and Kim Dae-jung, the fifteenth president of South Korea and a 2000 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, all studied at the university.拉脱维亚首任总统雅尼斯·恰克斯特、罗马尼亚首任总统扬·伊利埃斯库，以及大韩民国第 15 任总统、2000 年诺贝尔和平奖得主金大中，都曾在此就读。
• Choe Yong-rim, a North Korean politician, is listed among the university's alumni, and Nikolay Bukharin, the Marxist theorist and writer, also studied there.朝鲜政治家崔永林被列于该校校友名录之中，马克思主义理论家兼作家尼古拉·布哈林也曾在此学习。
• Viktor Sadovnichy, a mathematician and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has served as rector, and in 2012 he presented the honorary doctorate diploma to Patriarch Kirill.数学家、俄罗斯科学院院士维克托·萨多夫尼奇担任校长，2012 年由他向宗主教 Kirill 颁发名誉博士学位证书。