Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

Russian University of Transport (MIIT)

Российский университет транспорта (МИИТ)

Established| 1896
Location|

Moscow, Russia

Russian University of Transport (MIIT)  (formerly Emperor Nicholas II Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, until 2016 named after Felix Dzerzhinsky) (MIIT), or Russian: Московский государственный университет путей сообщения Императора Николая II (МГУПС (МИИТ), is the leading and largest higher education institution in the field of railway transport in Moscow, Russia , with more than 17,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. Every year about 25,000 top managers and specialists take professional development courses at MIIT.[1]

## Notable alumni

* Semyon Belits-Geiman, Soviet Olympic swimmer
* Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgian businessman and politician
* Vitaly Malkin, Russian businessman and politician
* Konstantin Borovoi, Russian businessman and politician
* Igor Guberman, Russian-Israeli poet
* Anatoly Rybakov, Soviet and Russian writer
* Roustam Tariko, Russian businessman
* Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Joseph Stalin
* Igor Zaitsev, Soviet Grandmaster
* Gregory Kaidanov, Russian-American Grandmaster
* Viktor Vekselberg, Russian businessman
* Leonard Blavatnik, Russian-American businessman
* Vladimir Kuzmin, Russian musician
* Victor Cherkashin, Longtime KGB officer in America, handler for Ames and Hanssen
* Alexander Maslyakov, Russian television personality, founder of KVN

## References

1. ↑ "Moscow State University of Railway Engineering". Erasmus Mundus. http://www.mundus-multic.org/partner2/MIIT. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

## External links

* Official site of MIIT

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