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Also Known As	Moskovsky Gosudarstvenny Universitet Imeni M. V. Lomonosova • Moscow M. V. Lomonosov State University
Date	1755 - present
Areas Of Involvement	public education
Notable Alumni	Sergei Novikov • Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank • Wassily Kandinsky • Mikhail Gorbachev • Andrey Sakharov • Yuri Milner • Yevgeny Primakov • Vitaly Ginzburg • Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko • Andrei Okounkov • Vladimir Voevodsky • Tony Hoare • Gregory Margulis • Vladimir Drinfeld
Related People	Mikhail Lomonosov • A.R. Luria