Organization
public technical university (Polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, sometimes colloquially referred as the Bauman School or Baumanka (Бауманка), is a public technical university (polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia. Bauman University offers B.S., M.S & PhD degrees in various engineering fields and applied sciences. In 2023, US News & World Report ranked it #1,758 in the world.
The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU; Russian: Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана, МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана), sometimes colloquially referred as the Bauman School or Baumanka (Бауманка), is a public technical university (polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia. Bauman University offers B.S., M.S & PhD degrees in various engineering fields and applied sciences. In 2023, US News & World Report ranked it #1,758 in the world.
Bauman University is the second oldest educational institution in Russia after Lomonosov Moscow State University (1755). In 1763, the Russian Empress Catherine II founded the Educational Imperial House. On October 5, 1826, the dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna issued a decree to establish "great workshops for different crafts with bedrooms, a dining room, etc." as a part of the Moscow Foundling Home in the German Quarter. All craft pupils were moved from an Orphanage there. On July 1, 1830, Emperor Nicholas I approved the Statute of Moscow Craft School.
Russia's developing industry needed skilled labor in many trades with the aim of the new school being to train artisans with a theoretical background to improve and spread skills in various trades all over Russia. New schools were created to teach crafts as well as basic sciences. In 1868 MCS was reorganized into the Imperial Moscow Technical School (IMTS) under the directorship of Victor Della-Vos. The main purpose of IMTS was to "educate construction engineers, mechanical engineers and industrial technologists".
The IMTS was financially supported by the Government and industrialists. Its management was democratic. A key feature of the new institution was its educational system called the "Russian method", which unifies a broad and intensive theoretical preparation with a deep practical education closely connected with industries. The school participated in the Universal Exposition in 1873 in Vienna and the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. It proved to be influential on John Daniel Runkle when he introduced manual training alongside theoretical training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was also applied to other American technical universities. Many scientists taught in IMTS, such as D. Mendeleev, N. Jukovsky, P. Chebychev, S. Chaplygin, A. Yershov, D. Sovetkin, F. Dmitriev, A. Letnikov, A. Gavrilenko.
In the Soviet period IMTS was renamed Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (BMHTS), after revolutionary Nikolay Bauman, who was killed near the building of this university. BMHTS continued education of engineers for machine and instrument building. In 1938, new military departments were created in MHTS such as tank, artillery, and ammunition. In 1948 a rocket department was added.
During the first half of the 20th century, Bauman University formed and founded more than 70 technical universities in the USSR. Some of them are now well known institutions, such as Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow University of Civil Engineering, Moscow Chemical Institute, Moscow Communication and Informatics University, Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute TSAGI, and the Military Academy of Aviation Engineering Joukovski.
On 27 July 1989 USSR State committee for peoples education conferred on Moscow Higher Technical School a name of Bauman Moscow Technical University (BMSTU). BMSTU was honored to be the first Russian technical university. Nearly 200,000 students graduated from the university. Most of them chose to become scientists or engineers in leading research centers, universities, private and government owned companies. Many of government officials, chief designers, CEOs of big enterprises, and cosmonauts are Bauman graduates, as noted below in the alumni section.
Many Bauman University graduates are world-renowned: Sergei Korolev for the first satellite in space and first man and woman in space, Andrey Tupolev for the world first supersonic passenger plane, Nikolay Dollezhal for the world first civil nuclear plant, Vladimir Shukhov for the first method and the world first petrol cracking plant as well as for the first hyperboloid structures in architecture, Nikolay Zhukovsky for the foundation of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics sciences, Pavel Sukhoi for the foundation of Sukhoi Aerospace Design Bureau.
Some of the specialized departments of BMSTU are located outside Moscow in cities of Moscow Oblast: Krasnogorsk (Russian: Красногорск), Reutov (Russian: Реутов), Korolyov (Russian: Королёв). There is also a large branch of the university in Kaluga (Russian: Калуга).
The Bauman University is commonly regarded as one of Russia's most prestigious universities and has high entry requirements for its prospective students.The Bauman University is regularly ranked first in official government and business press rating. The Bauman University also regularly occupies top 3 places in rating of alumni hunted by biggest Russian companies. In 2011/2012 QS World University rankings, BMSTU ranked 379th overall and 229th in Engineering & IT.
The Bauman University has a National Research Center status, the financing of Bauman University is provided by a separate expense asset of Russian National Budget independently of Ministry of Education. BMSTU is Skolkovo innovation center founder.
Bauman has long been, openly, associated with Russian military research and development (R&D). It carries out more R&D than any other higher education institution in Russia, over 40% of which is in the interests of the ministry of defence.
In 2026 a consortium of journalists from the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, the Insider, Delfi and VSquare obtained a cache of 2,000 internal Bauman documents covering years of activity until 2025. They reveal the existence of a secret facility known as Department 4, or Special Training. Students are trained here for work in Russia's military intelligence directorate, the GRU. According to the documents, Department 4 has three specialist streams; the most prominent is called the "Special Reconnaissance Service", coded 093400.
The files include syllabuses and staff contracts, and cover career assignments of graduates, who are taught computer hacking and disinformation, and are then posted to notorious Russian military intelligence cyber-units. The GRU has control over recruitment and grading, and supplies officers involved in the academic process, examining and approving candidates and arranging overseas placements. Subjects taught include electronic eavesdropping and covert surveillance.
The department was led from 2022 to 2025 by GRU signals intelligence lieutenant colonel Kirill Stupakov. Another teacher was major general Viktor Netyksho, who had commanded a hacking group known as Fancy Bear (GRU Unit 26165), whose personnel were indicted by the US Department of Justice for interfering in the 2016 US presidential election.
In the two-semester, 144-hour course "Defence against technical reconnaissance" students are taught hacking techniques including password attacks, software vulnerabilities and computer trojans and viruses. They learn the workings of US and British military intelligence agencies, the use of western intelligence in the Russo-Ukrainian war, and about reconnaissance and strike drones there. They also study information warfare, and as an assignment must develop a disinformation campaign and make a social media video using "manipulation, pressure and hidden propaganda".
Students are taught about mechanisms of psychological manipulation, and how to impose a desired perception of information on an audience.
The head of Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Anatoly Alexandrov signed a letter of support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On November 2, 2023, an agreement was reached with Bauman Moscow State Technical University for the development of design plans for what was called the "jihad machine", a light and manoeuvrable buggy intended for use in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, whose manufacturing was to be the responsibility of the authorities of Chechnya.
The university was placed on the USA sanction list in 2023.
The admissions process includes exams on math, physics, and Russian. The university accepts one in ten applicants, which means that there are more than 30000 applicants. More than 2,600 of them pass through two years of preparation courses, another 2,000 follow studies in high schools partners of Bauman University. Participation in admission process requires a gage of original high school certificate which prevents applicants to take part in Lomonosov Moscow State University admission process at the same time.
The academic year in this university begins on 1 September, and is divided into two terms (semesters). Students take exams at the end of each semester. The course of study lasts 6 years without interrupt for engineer specialist degree. But over the last few years the Bauman University has continued to integrate with the Bologna Process. And today some students learn using two step educational system. The first two years students study general engineering subjects. In the third year students begin to study specialized subjects. The university scientific library was founded in 1830.
The first order of the BMSTU Dmitrov Branch was bringing into service in 1965. In 1965–1973 – Suburban Educational and Science-Experimental Centre, in 1973–2000 – Educational-Experimental Centre.
In 1959 BMSTU opened in Kaluga the branch for education of the industrial machine- and device engineering personnel. Nowadays the BMSTU Kaluga Branch is a technical institute of Kaluga region. It consists of 7 buildings. The Kaluga Branch is an educational-science- manufacturing complex, including: 5 departments (machine engineering technologies; design-mechanical; electronics, informatics and management; socioeconomic; fundamental science), military education department, computer bureau, library with reading-rooms, sport camp and sport pavilion.
The Bauman University Publishing House was established in January, 1989 on the base of university publishing department. The first issue of Baumanets newspaper was printed on 18 February 1923. At that time the newspaper was called Udarnik. It has been printed for 90 years since then.
In 1990 Bauman Publishing House started issuing theoretical and applied broad-scoped "Vestnik MSTU". There are educational materials in different scientific areas: Physical and Mathematical sciences, Information and Computer science, Optics, Mechanical, Radio, Instrument and Power Engineering, Laser Technology, Economics, Law and other subjects.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev – Lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer, founder of soviet cosmonautics
Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov – Russian engineer, scientist and architect, inventor of the Shukhov cracking process
Vladimir Solovyov – Soviet cosmonaut and first man on Mir
Andrey Nikolaevich Tupolev – pioneering Soviet aircraft engineer, chief designer of the "Tupolev" aircraft
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi – Soviet aerospace engineer, chief designer of the "Sukhoi" military aircraft
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev – Russian mathematician and mechanician
Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev – Soviet aircraft designer
Georgy Malenkov – Prime Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky – Russian scientist and mechanician, founder of modern aerodynamics
Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomei – Soviet mechanics scientist, aviation and missile engineer
Nikolay Alekseevich Pilyugin – Soviet chief designer of rocket guidance systems
Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin – Soviet aircraft designer, founder of the Lavochkin aircraft design bureau
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov – Soviet aeronautical engineer
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin – Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer
Sergei Alekseyevich Lebedev – Soviet scientist in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science, designer of the first Soviet computers
Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky – Soviet mathematician
Vladimir Evgenievich Zotikov – Russian and Soviet scientist and textile engineer
Lev Iakovlevich Karpov – Russian chemist and Bolshevik revolutionary
Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov – Soviet physicist, the president of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Arkady Grigoryevich Mordvinov – Soviet architect and construction manager
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikulin – Soviet aircraft engine designer and chief designer in the Mikulin design bureau
Sergey Alexandrovich Afanasyev – Soviet engineer and statesman, space and defence industry executive, the first minister of the Soviet Ministry of General Machine Building.
Alfred Rosenberg – German Nazi political figure, influential ideologue of the NSDAP, executed for war crimes
Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimiy – Soviet designer of rocket weaponry
Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal – Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors
Vladimir Pavlovich Barmin – Soviet scientist, designer of the rocket launch complexes
Alexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian – Soviet engineer, first planetary rovers chassis designer
Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov – Soviet cosmonaut and space engineer
Oleg Ivanovich Skripochka – Soviet cosmonaut and space engineer
Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov – Soviet cosmonaut.
Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalov – Soviet engineer and cosmonaut
Vassili Nesterenko – Soviet nuclear energy physicist
Maksim Zakharovich Saburov – Soviet engineer, economist and politician
Zou Jiahua – former vice premier of China
Georgy Trefilov – founder and the former co-owner of the "MARTA" holding
Dmitry Grishin – Russian businessman, investor and Internet entrepreneur. Co-founder, chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group
Dmitry Sklyarov – Russian programmer, hacker and cryptographer
Igor Sysoev – creator and developer of the Nginx Web server and founder of NGINX, Inc
Alexander Volkov (fighter) – professional Mixed Martial Artist, current UFC Heavyweight contender
Vasiliy Yegorovich Tairov – viticulturist, founder of the first scientific winemaking institution in Odessa
Vladimir Uzhva (born 1950), Russian educator
SPECIAL MACHINERY (SM)
SM-1 Space Vehicles and Carrier Rockets
SM-2 Aerospace Systems
SM-3 Ballistics and Aerodynamics
SM-4 High-accuracy Flight Units
SM-5 Autonomous Information and Control Systems
SM-6 Missile and Impulse Systems
SM-7 Special Robotics and Mechatronics
SM-8 Launch Rocket Complex
SM-9 Multipurpose Tracked Vehicles and Mobile Robots
SM-10 Wheel Vehicles
SM-11 Submarine Robots and Apparatus
SM-12 Technology of Manufacturing for Aerospace
SM-13 Composite Materials for Aerospace
INFORMATICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONTROL SYSTEMS (IU)
IU-1 Automatic Control Systems for Flight Vehicles
IU-2 Gyroscopic Instruments and Systems for orientation, navigation and stabilization
IU-3 Information Systems and Telecommunications
IU-4 Electronic Equipment Design and Technology
IU-5 Automatic Information Processing and Control Systems
IU-6 Computer Systems, Complexes and Networks
IU-7 Software for Computers and Automation Systems
IU-8 Information Security
IU-9 Computer Design and Technology
MACHINE-BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES (MT)
МТ-1 Metal-Cutting Machine Tools
МТ-2 Tool Technics
МТ-3 Technologies of Mechanical Engineering
МТ-4 Metrology and Interchangeability
МТ-5 Casting Technology
МТ-6 Technologies of Processing by Pressure
МТ-7 Technologies of Welding and Diagnostics
МТ-8 Materials Technology
MT-9 Industrial Design
МТ-10 The Equipment and Technologies Flatting Rinks
МТ-11 Electronic Technologies in Mechanical Engineering
МТ-12 Laser Technologies in Mechanical Engineering
МТ-13 Technologies of Materials Processing
ROBOTICS AND COMPLEX AUTOMATION (RK)
RK-1 Engineering Drawing
RK-2 Theory of Mechanisms and Machines
RK-3 Bases of Machine Designing
RK-4 Lifting-, Transport-, Construction Machines
RK-5 Applied Mechanics
RK-6 Computer Aided Design and Engineering
RK-9 Computer Systems of Manufacture Automation
RK-10 Robotic Systems
POWER ENGINEERING (E)
E-1 Rocket Engines
E-2 Piston Engines
E-3 Gas Turbine Plants and Non-conventional Power Installations
E-4 The Refrigerating, Cryogenic Technics, Central Airs and Life-support
E-5 The Vacuum and Compressor Technics
E-6 Thermophysics
E-7 Nuclear Reactors and Installations
E-8 Plasma Power Installations
E-9 Ecology and Industrial Safety
E-10 Hydromechanics, Hydromachines and Hydro-Pneumoautomatics
RADIOELECTRONICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGIES (RL)
RL-1 Radio-Electronic Systems and Devices
RL-2 Laser and Optic-Electronic Systems
RL-3 Optic-Electronic Devices for Scientific Research
RL-4 Theoretical Bases of Electrotechnology
RL-5 Sub-units of Apparatus Devices
RL-6 Technologies of Device Making
BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (BMT)
BMT-1 Biomedical Technical Systems
BMT-2 Medic-Technical Information Technologies
BMT-3 Valeology
BMT-4 Medic-Technical Management
FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES (FN)
FN-1 Higher Mathematics
FN-2 Applied Mathematics
FN-3 Theoretical Mechanics
FN-4 Physics
FN-5 Chemistry
FN-7 Electronic Engineering and Industrial Electronics
FN-11 Calculus Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
FN-12 Mathematical Modelling
ENGINEERING BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (EBM)
EBM-1 The Economic Theory
EBM-2 Economy and the Manufacture Organisation
EBM-3 Industrial Logistics
EBM-4 Organisation Management
EBM-5 Economy and Management at the Enterprise for Branches
EBM-6 Business and Foreign Trade Activities
EBM-7 Innovative Entrepreneurship
LINGUISTICS (L)
L-1 Russian
L-2 English Language for Instrument-Making Specialities
L-3 English Language for Machine-Building Specialities
L-4 Romano-Germanic Languages
SOCIAL AND THE HUMANITIES (SSH)
SSH-1 History
SSH-2 Sociology and Culturology
SSH-3 Political Science
SSH-4 Philosophy
JURISPRUDENCE (JUR)
JUR-1 Jurisprudence
JUR-2 Legal Expertise
Physical Education and Sanitation Department
Military Education Department
AK – Aerospace
OEP – Optic-Electronic Device Engineering
PS – Device Engineering
RKT – Space-Rocket Technics
RT – Radio-Technical
GUIMC – Lead Educational, Research and Methodical Vocational Rehabilitation Centre for Individuals with Health Disabilities
