Moscow State Industrial University

The life of every collective , every organization begins from the first step taken by the initiative people who decides to start a new business. For the Moscow State Technical University “MAMI” (UMech) such a step and, as well, the beginning of complicated but bright history of the University development was establishment of a small vocational school in Moscow, which later turned into one of the leading secondary technical schools in tsarist Russia – Komisarov Technical School (KTS).

Activities of this School had a huge impact on formation and improvement of the Russian professional education. The teaching staff of educational institutions, organized on its basis, including the staff of the UMech, preserved and developed the experience and traditions of the Komisarov Technical School through the post-revolution period.

At present more than 35,000 students are training at the University, the teaching staff is almost 1500 people. There are 78 departments and 7 institutes in the university (Engineering Design Institute, Industrial and Technological Institute, Environmental and Chemical Engineering Institute, Chernomyrdin Humanitarian-economic Institute, Institute for Basic Competencies, Institute of Additional Education, International Institute, which provides training for foreign students). There are 11 comfortable dormitories. The University is provided with sufficiently modern technical basis for training students: there are 21 buildings with well-equipped lecture-halls, training and scientific laboratories, computer class-rooms, sports halls, a scientific-technical library which numbers nearly 1mln. books, dining halls and canteens.

In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia of March 21, 2016, the Moscow Polytechnic University has been created as a result of reorganization in the form of merging the UMech (MAMI) and the Moscow State University of Printing Arts named after Ivan Fedorov (MGUP). Andrey Nikolaenko (former Rector of MAMI) has been appointed Rector of the Moscow Polytechnic University.During all its life the institute always played the key role in our country in the area of training high-skilled personnel for the chemical, petrochemical and gas industries, industrial bio-technology, municipal environment protection, engineering methods of environment protection from harmful emissions and industrial and agricultural waste, for defining solutions of rational usage of natural and energy resources.