• Universities

Before obtaining university status in 1993, Moscow Technological University started out as the All-Union Correspondence Power Institute in 1947, becoming the Moscow Institute of Radio Engineering 20 years later. Between 1967 and 2015, there were a series of mergers with other colleges before the university gained the name it has today.The university is acknowledged for its training of highly qualified specialists for: telecommunications, information and computer technologies, automatic equipment, cybernetics, radio engineering and electronics, chemistry and biotechnologies. Among its staff are 21 fellow and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Operating across seven local campuses, four other branches, and a system of 50 strategic partner enterprises, MIREA encompasses institutes including: information technologies and robotics; radio engineering and telecommunication systems; fine chemical technologies; complex security and special instrument engineering; part time, correspondence and distance training; instrument engineering and information technologies; international training; military department; physical training department; postgraduate study department; youth policy and international relations institute branches.Moscow Technological University’s research operations are ordered around a network of research centres, scientific laboratories and students design offices.These facilities include: Industrial Art Research Institute; Center of Integrated Circuits, Nanoelectronics Devices and Microsystems Design; Information Technologies and Automated Design Institute; Training and Scientific Institute of Informatics and Control Systems; Crisis and Emergency Situations Monitoring Center Lidar; Technological Business Center; Complex Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Center; Laboratory of Lighting Engineering LEDLAB.