Moscow Technological University (MIREA)

On September 1, 1947 according to the Order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of May 28, 1947 the All-Union Correspondence Power Institute of training and improvement of engineers in Moscow started its work having branches in Leningrad, Kiev, Baku, Tashkent, Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk.

VZEI was the leading research institute in the system of correspondence education in power and radio engineering specialties. It trained engineers for the industry, including new power industries. Its branches and training and counseling centers became the foundation for the technical institutes in Omsk, Kemerovo, Kirov and some other cities.

Carrying on the traditions of the Russian engineering thought, VZEI altered its functions according to the requirements of science and technology. In the course of its activity there were formed many directions of educational process, the structure as well as the academic staff of the modern technical higher educational institution. So, in the early sixties due to the need of expansion of specialists training in radio electronics and electronic equipment VZEI developed the transition from mainly power direction to high technologies.

During the transformation into an educational institution of a new type the students of Heat Power, Hydropower, Electrical Power and Electromechanical Faculties were transferred to Moscow Power Institute.

Along with Radio Engineering Faculty existing since the beginning of VZEI activity the following faculties began to function:

• Automatic Equipment, Telemechanics and Measuring Equipment;
• Computer Equipment;
• Design and Production of Radio-Electronic Equipment.

In addition to extramural studies the part-time (evening) Radio Engineering Faculty was established.

The large-scale modernization of VZEI began with the appointment of N.N. Evtikhiyev, who was an outstanding organizer of higher education and science, academician of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Work, bearer of six awards of the USSR and Russia in the future, to the post of the Rector of the Institute on December 19, 1964.

The next years saw the VZEI transformation into a higher educational institution for training of engineering staff for the defense industry enterprises of Moscow in rapidly developing Radio Engineering, Electronics, Cybernetics, Computer Equipment.

So, in the course of the VZEI activity there began to be defined the modern profile of the higher education institution, its structure, academic staff, traditions of training of highly qualified specialists for the development of new technologies in Radio Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Equipment. In 20 years of its existence the All-Union Correspondence Power Institute trained 7 thousand engineers.

The All-Union Correspondence Power Institute (VZEI) was transformed by the Government Resolution of June 30, 1967 into Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (MIREA) for the training of highly qualified engineering personnel for the knowledge-intensive branches of the electronic and radio industry, mechanical engineering and instrument engineering, automation equipment and control systems.

Nikolay Nikolaevich Evtikhiyev was appointed the Rector of MIREA.

At the beginning of its activity MIREA did not possess any buildings. Initially the Institute was located in one of blocks of Moscow Power Institute in 14 Krasnokazarmennaya Street.

In 1968 building 5 in Nalichnaya Street, with a total area of 2130 m² was converted into the training Block. Gradually educational facilities were expanded. In 1970 building 20 in 5th Street of Sokolinaya Gora was constructed.

At the same time the construction of a modern educational and scientific complex with a total area of 100 000 m² in the Southwest of Moscow, on Borovskoye highway near the village of Nikulino is being launched. SU-210 of Spetsstroy was engaged in the construction.[2]

Block B was the first to have been put into operation in 1976. Here the administration and dean's offices were placed (nowadays RTS Institute). All the faculties started their work in Block A of the building in 78 Vernadsky Avenue in 1979/1980 academic year. The construction of the building of MIREA came to the end in the 1980-es. 6 Blocks housed the facilities of the Institute.

The complex of buildings included a computer center and a scientific and technical library as well.

According to the Resolution of the Council of Ministers — the Government of the Russian Federation of June 16, 1993 and the Order of the State Committee of the Russian Federation on Higher Education of November 22, 1993 Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation received the status of technical university that demonstrates the all-Russian and international recognition of the high level of training for the knowledge-intensive industries taking into account the cardinal changes in the country.

During the period of 1967 — 1992, 44 897 specialists graduated from the Institute, including:

• full-time courses — 9195 people,
• intramural and extramural courses — 19 248 people,
• correspondence courses — 16 454 people.
• The Honors Degrees were gained by 1048 people.

In 1994 MIREA passed the state licensing and accreditation as the University.

In 1998 the conference of pedagogical, scientific and other categories of workers and students of MIREA elected Professor Alexander Sergeyevich Sigov, the Dean of Electronics Faculty, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, to be the Rector of MIREA. In 2003 A.S. Sigov was re-elected the Rector of the University for a five-year term. The next five-year term re-election took place in 2008.

In June, 2013 Professor Stanislav Alekseevich Kudzh, Doctor of Engineering, became the new Rector of the Institute.

On June 14, 2013 by the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation No. 461 the Russian Research Institute of Information Technologies and Computer-Aided Engineering Systems (Federal State Budget Institution ROSNIIITIAP) and the All-Russian Research Institute of Industrial Art (VNIITE) joined the University as its structural divisions.

By the order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of June 9, 2014 [4] MGTU MIREA was joined by Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Science (MGUPI) and the Institute of Professional Administration and Complex Energy Efficiency (IPAIKE) with all their branches. The joint university received the name Moscow State University of Information Technologies of Radio Engineering and Electronics, but kept the abbreviation from the predecessors — MIREA, MGUPI.

On April 30, 2015 TASS reported that approximately on May 12 the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation would issue the Order uniting "Moscow State University of Information Technologies, Radio Engineering and Electronics" (MIREA, MGUPI) and "Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies of M. V. Lomonosov" (MITHT) into "Lomonosov Russian Technological University" (RTU of Lomonosov) [5].

On May 27, 2015 the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation published the Order on accession of Moscow State University of Fine Chemical Technologies of M. V. Lomonosov (MITHT) to Moscow State University of Information Technologies, Radio Engineering and Electronics (MIREA, MGUPI), and also about the renaming of the last into "Moscow Technological University" [6].

On April 24, 2018, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia published Order No. 325 on the renaming of Moscow Technological University into the Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education MIREA – Russian Technological University (RTU MIREA).

View of the main campus of the University towards Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station

The main campus of the Higher Education Institution is located in 78 Vernadsky Avenue. (metro station Yugo-Zapadnaya).

The building was constructed in the 1980-es, on the project of the architect Valentin Opryshko, and consists of 6 Blocks, a sport center, a library and a conference room.

• Block "A". The main training Block with the central entrance equipped with turnstiles houses locker rooms, lecture halls, Information Technologies Institute;
• Block "B" houses the Departments of Radio Engineering and Telecommunication Systems Institute.
• Block "V" houses the Departments of Physical Technological Institute.
• Block "G" houses the Departments of Cybernetics Institute and Information Technologies Institute.
• Block "D" houses the administration of the University, Accounts Department and several Departments of the Institutes.
• Block "E" houses Complex Security and Special Instrument Engineering Institute.

All University Blocks are connected by the corridors so it is possible to pass from one Block into another, as well as to the sport center, library and conference room, without leaving the building.

The campus is located in 86 Vernadsky Avenue.

The campus is located in 20 Stromynka Street.

The campus is located in 5th Street of Sokolinaya Gora, 22.

The campus is located in 1st Shchipkovsky Lane, 23.

The campus is located in 64 Usachyov Street, Building 1.

• Physical Technological Institute
• Complex Security and Special Instrument Engineering Institute
• M.V. Lomonosov Fine Chemical Technologies Institute
• Economics and Law Institute
• Information Technologies Institute
• Cybernetics Institute
• Radio Engineering and Telecommunication Systems Institute
• Innovative Technologies and Public Administration Institute
• Evening and Correspondence Education Institute
• Distance Learning Center

Training of students in the field of secondary vocational education is carried out at the Instrument Engineering and Information Technology College.

The Pre-University Training Institute is responsible for applicants’ enrolment to the University.

Enrolment of foreign citizens is carried out by the International Education Institute.

The university also has supplementary education programs: Driving School, TV Academy, foreign language teaching, Design School, MBA programs, advanced training, professional retraining, and so on.

• Branch in Stavropol
• Branch in Fryazino