MSU Faculty of Geography
# MSU Faculty of Geography

MSU Faculty of Geography (Russian: Географический факультет МГУ) is a faculty of Moscow State University, created in 1938 by order #109 dated 23 July 1938. There are 15 departments:

## Human geography branch

* Department of Social and Economic Geography of foreign countries
* Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia
* Department of Geography of World Economy
* Department of Recreational Geography and Tourism

## Physical geography branch

* Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Science
* Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography
* Department of Glaciology and Cryolithology
* Department of Biogeography
* Department of Geochemistry of Landscapes and Soil Geography

## Hydrometeorological branch

* Department of Hydrology
* Department of Meteorology and Climatology
* Department of Oceanology

## Geoecological branch

* Department of Physical Geography of the World and Geoecology
* Department of Environmental Management

## Geoinformatics branch

* Department of Mapping and Geoinformatics

## Research laboratories

* Laboratory of Renewable Energy Sources
* Laboratory of Geoecology of the Northern Territories
* Laboratory of Complex Mapping
* Laboratory of Recent Deposits and Pleistocene Palaeogeography
* Laboratory of Regional Analysis and Political Geography
* Laboratory of Snow Avalanches and Debris Flows
* World Data Center for Geography
* The Makkaveev Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Fluvial Processes
