The cleverer person, the more useful he is for the Fatherland

(M.V.Lomonosov –the glory of the Russian science)Kuzina Elizabeth

Moscow State School 433Moscow,2012

A. Pushkin said about Lomonosov , « Lomonosov was a great man…. He founded the

first Russian university: or to express it more correctly he himself was our first university».

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was born in November, 1711 in a small village Denisovka in the north of Russia, near Holmogory.In 11-12 years he started to study reading and writing. In one of December nights, having taken the things (basically - books),he has walked in Moscow to study sciences.

Kholmogory

Lomonosov’s native house

In 1730 Lomonosov entered in Slavjano-Greek-Latin Academy He studied various subjects for six years and became one of the best students of Academy. In 1736, Lomonosov was awarded a scholarship to Saint Petersburg State University. He plunged into his studies and was rewarded with a two-year grant to study abroad at the University of Marburg, in Germany.In 1741 Lomonosov returned to Russia.

Slavic-Greek-Lateen Аcademy

Lomonosov’s house in Marburg

Lomonosov’s international passport

Lomonosov’s major scientific accomplishment was in the field of physical chemistry, with other notable discoveries in astronomy, geophysics, geology, metallurgy and mineralogy. He was also talented poet and mosaicist.

Lomonosov’s great achievements

M.V. Lomonosov is showing Katherine the Great his own mosaics. Picture by А. Kivshenko

Peter the Great

The factory producing coloured glass

Lomonosov’s great achievements

Lomonosov’s great achievements

Katherine’s the Great visit to Lomonosov

Lomonosov became the first Russian professor of chemistry at St. Petersburg Academy of Science in 1745. He was the founder of Moscow University, which in 1940 on the occasion of its 185th Anniversary was named after him.

Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Lomonosov Moscow State University

I admire Lomonosov. He was the man of the great will and very talented person. Lomonosov believed in Russians’ power and spirit, so do I!

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