Organization:Moscow State University of Railway Engineering

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Russian University of Transport (MIIT)
Российский университет транспорта (МИИТ)
Established1896
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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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