title: MSU Faculty of Geography
text: # 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
  