Russian State Geological Prospecting University

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting (Russian: Российский государственный геологоразведочный университет, МГРИ), or the Russian State University for Geological Prospecting is named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze and previously known as the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute, is a public university based in Moscow, Russia, specialising in geology, geophysics, gemmology, ecology and other earth-science disciplines. There was a task in the USSR to prepare 435,000 engineers and technicians in five years (1930-1935) during the USSR industrialization period, while their number in 1929 was 66,000. In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was divided into six independent institutes by the order of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.

Type

University

Founded

1930

Students

4,720

Also known as

MGRI