D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCTR) (Russian: Российский химико-технологический университет имени Д. И. Менделеева) is a public research university in Moscow, and is the largest Russian center for education and research in the field of chemical engineering. The history of MUCTR can be traced back to the Moscow Industrial School initially founded in 1898. The university acquired its current name and status in 1992 with its Moscow campus mainly located on Miusskaya Square and in Tushino. The university's other two branches are situated in Novomoskovsk (Tula Oblast) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan).

The university offers bachelors, specialists credential, masters and PhD programs in various areas of chemistry, sustainable development, petrochemistry, biotechnology, materials of modern energy and nanotechnology, and several other specialities.

The D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia is one of the leading centers of scientific and innovative research in Russia. The university regularly implements projects carried out under federal target programs, as well as numerous grants initiated by scientific foundations. In 2020, the university carried out 202 research projects, with 40 grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and 9 from the Russian Scientific Foundation. As of 2021, MUCTR has more than 120 cooperation agreements with universities and companies from more than 35 countries around the globe. In 2018, under the state program "Industry Development and Increasing its Competitiveness," the university founded the Mendeleev Engineering Center, which now hosts most of its laboratories and scientific equipment. As of 2021, preparations are underway at the Tushino complex to create an innovative scientific and technological center called "Mendeleev Valley". The Mendeleev Valley project was approved by a government decree issued in 2019.

History

The Moscow Industrial School

On January 9, 1880, the Moscow City Duma approved the founding of several realschule in Moscow. The Duma would later allocate 100 thousand rubles in support of the project for the purchase of land and more than 260 thousand rubles for the construction of buildings. A year later, the Duma issued a decree establishing a new metropolitan institution - a full-time realschule with mechanical-technical and chemical-technical departments. As initially planned, the school was supposed to have a boarding house able to accommodate from 50 to 100 students. The inclusion of dormitories led to additional expenditures, and the overall construction cost for the institute increased to 360 thousand rubles. However, the very same year, construction of the school was suspended as a result of a new program of administrative reforms initiated by Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The implications of these reforms included the reformation of technical education in the Russian Empire while a new special commission of the Ministry of National Education was established to deliberate on the matter of technical education. According to the reports provided by the commission, the Moscow City Duma was planning "to build in Moscow an industrial school (secondary technical, four-year) with five general education preparatory classes."

In the end, the Moscow Industrial School would be founded towards the end of the 1890s. Initially, the building was supposed to be constructed on Volkhonka street, but this site was subsequently given to the Pushkin Museum.nstead the new site for the Moscow Industrial School was allocated on the Miusskaya Square – it was around 4000 square sazhens.

On November 18, 1896, the Special Construction Commission for the Construction of Industrial School Buildings was established with the geologist Alexander Krylov as its chairman and Maxim Geppener as the primary architect. On December 30 of the same year, Krylov was appointed the first director of the LPA. According to plans for the project, the complex of buildings included a three-storey "school building" (currently part of the Main building of the Russian Chemical Technical University overlooking Miusskaya Square), a three-storey "house for teachers and servants" (now the children's technopark "Mendeleev Center"), as well as a one-story building for LPU service. In November 1896 the Russian architect Maksim Geppener was appointed as the head of the commission dedicated to the construction of Moscow Industrial School buildings. On December 30 Geppener was also appointed as the first director of the Moscow Industrial School. Among the milestones included in this working project was the construction of a three-story educational building, a three-storey house for the professors and staff, and a one-storey campus for the facilities.

Structure

As of the 2021/22 academic year, the university has the following structure:

Academics

Educational activities

Since 2015, MUCTR has been the head of the federal educational and methodological association in the field of higher education in chemical engineering specialties. Among other things, the association has been endeavouring to prepare new all-Russian all-Russian educational standards for the chemical industry. The university also remains the primary organization relied upon by CIS member states for training, professional retraining and advanced training of personnel working in the chemical industry. Starting in 2019 MUCTR has also become a member of the Rosatom consortium of flagship universities, a university consortium whose main task is to coordinate science and activities of higher, postgraduate and additional professional education in the interests of the nuclear industry.

In 2018 MUCTR signed an agreement with the Kazan National Research Technological University on cooperation in the educational sphere. A year later, together with Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, MUCTR launched a joint bachelor's program to train specialists in modern materials science and renewable energy.

In 2020, together with the Moscow Innovation Agency, MUCTR launched a master's program under the title "Business Management in the Digital Economy". At the same time, MUCTR signed an agreement with the Perm State Agrarian and Technological University to create an Internet platform that to offer programs in the continuing professional education sector. Recently in 2021, the university launched an online bachelor's program in chemical technology. This initiative was implemented together in cooperation with the Far Eastern Federal University, Tomsk Polytechnic University and other universities, with the support of Sibur.

As of 2021, MUCTR consists of two branches located in Novomoskovsk and in Tashkent. The history of the former branch can be traced back to 1959 when it started as a faculty of the Dmitri Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology at the Stalinogorsk Chemical Combine. Due to a rapid decrease in the number of applicants to this branch, there have been ongoing discussions since 2019 on the possibility of closing the branch. The first foreign branch of MUCTR located in Tashkent was initially launched back in 2019, while its official opening ceremony took place on May 27, 2021.

The curriculum is approved by the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of Uzbekistan, and training is conducted in Russian, following the Federal Educational Standards of Russia. The Tashkent branch prepares MA students for careers in materials science and protection of materials from corrosion, and chemical technologies of nanomaterials. BA students can pursue degrees in materials science and technology, nanomaterials and nanosystems; technology of artistic processing of materials; technology of synthetic biologically active substances, chemical pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; and safety of technological processes and production.

Buildings

MUCTR campus on Miusskaya street includes several historical buildings located between 1st Miusskaya street and Miusskaya Square, not far from the metro stations Mendeleyevskaya and Novoslobodskaya. The main building was designed in 1898 by the architect Maxim Geppener for the Moscow Industrial School in an eclectic style of architecture. Initially, it was a three-story building with large windows in the auditoriums, but later two other wings were added. In 1909 the main entrance was decorated with a bas-relief depicting Dmitry Mendeleev. Already in the Soviet times, the main building also got two more additional floors. In 2018 the campus was largely renovated with an update of brickwork, roofing, facade finishing, replacement of the drainpipes, and hydrophobization. The other buildings of the campus were founded at the end of the XVIII–beginning of the XIX century.

In May 1966, a monument to the university members who took part in the Great Patriotic War was erected in the courtyard near the main entrance at the expense of teachers, staff and students. The authors of the work were graduate students A. A. Volkov and A. A. Ershov. The inscription "Eternal glory to the Mendeleev soldiers who fell in the battles for the Soviet Motherland" is engraved on the stylobate while the marble slabs contain lists of the Mendeleev soldiers who died during the war.

Tushino complex is located nearby the metro station Skhodnenskaya. The construction of this nine-storey building started back in 2004. The overall amount of investments in the project amounted to 800 million rubles. MUCTR Tushino complex is one of the largest educational buildings in Russia with a total area of 27 thousand square meters that could accommodate up to 1500 people. The complex consists of three nine-storey wings, which house 57 laboratories, classrooms, and an assembly hall. The opening ceremony took place in 2008 and was officiated by Mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov. The territory of this complex is used for the Mendeleev Valley Center, the opening of the first facilities which is scheduled for 2021.

Central library is located nearby the metro station Baumanskaya. In 2019, more than 850 library units were relocated to the Tushino campus.

Shelepikha campus was opened in the 1970s, nearby the metro station Krasnopresnenskaya. Throughout the years the buildings hosted the Department of Life Safety, the Center for the MUCTR History and the Chemical Industry, the Faculty of Military Education. As of 2021, the complex is decommissioned.

Notable people

Alumni

Vladimir Yevtushenkov- entrepreneur, chairman of the board of directors and owner of the majority stake in Sistema.

Boris Zhukov - scientist in the field of technical chemistry, academician, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

Martin Kabachnik - scientist in the field of chemistry organophosphorus compound, Hero of Socialist Labour (1978), laureate of the Lenin Prize (1974), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

Dmitrii Knorre - scientist in the field of chemical kinetics, molecular biology and bioorganic chemistry. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences and a laureate of the Lenin Prize

George Koval - Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously, since 2007), in 1940-1948 he conducted intelligence activities in the United States, since 1953 he taught at the MUCR

Ulmas Mirsaidovich Mirsaidov - Tajik theoretical chemist and professor at the Nikitin Institute of Chemistry

Valentin Koptyug - scientist in the field of physical, synthetic and applied organic chemistry, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry

Vasily Korshak - scientist in the field of chemistry polymers, twice laureate Stalin Prize (1949, 1951), Lenin Prize laureate (1986). He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

Valery Legasov - Soviet inorganic chemist, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1981), member of the government commission to investigate the causes and the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster, for which in 1996 he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Russia.

Alexander Kovarski - physical chemist and professor

Joseph Leites - laureate of Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Alexander Nastyukov - scientist-chemist, laureate of the Nobel prize.

Oleg Nefedov - scientist in the field of chemistry, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1988–2001, Advisor to the RAS since 2001.

Boris Ogorodnikov - laureate of the Lenin Prize in 1966, chief researcher at Karpov Scientific Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry.

Alexander Topchiev - Soviet organic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1949), vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958-1962).

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