Russian University of Transport (MIIT)Российский университет транспорта (МИИТ) |
Established | 1896 |
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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
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