Russian State Geological Prospecting University

Russian State University for Geological Prospecting (MGRI)

Российский государственный геологоразведочный университет (МГРИ)
Motto	Mente et Malleo (умом и молотком), by mind and by hammer
Type	Public
Established	17 April 1930
Rector	Kosyanov Vadim Alexandrovich
Academic staff	328
Students	6647 (including the branch in Stary Oskol)
Postgraduates	1,000
Other students	20.7% (2020) total percentage of international students
Address	Miklukho-Maklaya Street, 23, 117997, Moscow, Russia , Moscow , Russia 55°38′59″N 37°30′47″E / 55.6497°N 37.5131°E / 55.6497; 37.5131
Campus	Urban
Colors	Blue, dark-blue, white
Mascot	Bear
Website	mgri.ru

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting (Russian: Российский государственный геологоразведочный университет, МГРИ), or the Russian State University for Geological Prospecting is named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze and previously known as the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute, is a public university based in Moscow, Russia, specialising in geology, geophysics, gemmology, ecology and other earth-science disciplines.

There was a task in the USSR to prepare 435,000 engineers and technicians in five years (1930-1935) during the USSR industrialization period, while their number in 1929 was 66,000.^[2]

In 1930 the Moscow Mining Academy was divided into six independent institutes by the order of Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. Among the new colleges which grew out of the Academy's departments was Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute (Russian: Московский геологоразведочный институт).

Over the entire history of MGRI, the university raised more than 30,000 specialists, 1,500 candidates and 400 doctors of sciences. More than 1,300 foreigners from over 78 countries of the world are among the graduates of Russian State University of Geological Prospecting.

University graduates are the discoverers of more than two hundred large mineral deposits both in the Russian Federation and abroad. There is one mineral named after university as Mgriite (Cu₃AsSe₃). Lots of other minerals as well as geographic and geological objects and about 280 species of fossils of flora and fauna are named after graduates(professors and geologists) of MGRI. About 15 graduates of MGRI were elected academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences(now the Russian Academy of Sciences) and 12 people were elected as corresponding members. Professors have been working on the set of "Construction Norms and Regulations" for engineering and geological spheres in Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS) and in Latin America. For more than 100 years of history, the university has developed scientific and pedagogical schools in almost all areas of the Earth Sciences. Graduates of MGRI have made a significant contribution to the development of the geological prospecting and mining industries internationally.