Text B Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University or MSU is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia (the oldest after St.Petersburg State University founded in 1724) and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy. In 1940, the university was renamed in honor of its founder, Mikhail Lomonosov. Currently the university employs more than 4,000 academic staff. More than 40,000 undergraduates and 7,000 postgraduates are currently enrolled in the university. There are around 2,000 overseas students in the university. According to the national rankings produced by RIA Novosti and Forbes the university is regarded as one of Russia's most prestigious one and takes the 1st placed in Russia. It has high entry requirements for its prospective students.

Since 1953, most of the faculties have been situated on Sparrow Hills, The university has 39 faculties and 15 research centers The main building was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at the time of its construction, and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms.

Facilities available inside the building include a concert hall, a theater, a museum, various administrative services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's salon, several canteens, bank offices, shops, cafeterias, a bomb shelter, etc. There is the university administration, the Museum of Earth Sciences and four of the main faculties in the Main building. There are several other buildings and sports facilities in the university campus, including the only baseball stadium in Russia. A new building for the library which is the second largest in Russia with its 9,000,000 books has just been built. The university also has several dormitory buildings in the southwest of Moscow, outside the campus.

The university has well-established contacts with the most distinguished universities in the world, exchanging students and lecturers with the leading universities overseas. 11 Nobel laureates are affiliated with the university. It is the alma mater of many famous writers such as Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev, politicians such as Mikhail Gorbachev or Mikhail Suslov, as well as renowned mathematicians and physicists such as Boris Demidovich, Vladimir Arnold, and Andrey Kolmogorov.

 

9. Assignment for a curious student. Look for additional information and video clips about Law Department of MSU. What is it famous for?

 

10. Read the text C and be ready to speak about past and present of the Omsk Academy of the Russian Interior Ministry.

The following words will help to understand the text.

law enforcement –правоприменение

crime –преступление

to detect –разыскивать

to prevent –предотвращать

to investigate –расследовать

All-Siberia militia commanders’ courses –Общесибирские командные курсы conditions –условия

destruction – разрушения

martial law –военное положение

peasant –крестьянин

literate –грамотный

fluently –бегло

Criminal Investigation Department –отдел уголовного розыска

correspondence –заочный

refresher courses –курсы переподготовки

to ensure –обеспечить

thorough –тщательный

passing score –проходной балл

routine – обычный, установленный

to keep up (with) –придерживаться чего-либо

gaudy –пестрый

assistant-professor –доцент

to provide –обеспечивать

to do one’s best –делать все возможное

case studies –обучение по кейсовой методике

field trips –учебные поездки

facilities –условия

to equip –оборудовать

gym –спортивный зал

campus –территория учебного заведения

muster deck –зал для построений

firearms range – тир

to achieve –достигать

evidence –доказательства

to interview witnesses –опрашивать свидетелей

to interrogate –допрашивать

to search a crime scene – осматривать место преступления

Text C The Omsk Academy of the Russian Interior Ministry [2]

 

The Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is a police training institution. It is one of the oldest law enforcement training institutions in Russia. Its history is connected with the decision of the government to create militia schools and courses of crime detection in the country. March 5, 1920 was the birthday of the All-Siberia militia commanders’ courses in Omsk with Nikolay Kozyrev as the first head.

The courses were to work under very difficult conditions of economical destruction, the Civil War and martial law. The candidates for the training were only from workers and poor peasants. They were to be literate, that is to be able to read and write fluently, to know four rules of arithmetic and have some years of service in Red Army. The first instructors were practical workers of the militia and Criminal Investigation Departments. In 1953 the Omsk Higher School of the MIA was formed. At present it has the Academy status.

There are two departments at the Academy: the day department and the correspondence department. There are also refresher courses for veterans of militia service. To ensure the proper standards of future police cadets and later on police officers there is a thorough selection system. In order to enter the Academy an applicant is to deal with entrance examinations. If there is a passing score, proper moral and physical standards, he is a freshman. There are routine regulations which all the students are to keep up with: while on duty they are to wear a police uniform– a dark blue coat and trousers, a white holiday or a light-blue everyday shirt and a tie, an overcoat and a cap. Black shoes are a must, and gaudy socks are taboo. The cadet is to wear his hair cut in a short fashion.

Law enforcement experts of great practical experience, Professors and Assistant-professors, Doctors and Candidats of Law are giving lectures and providing instruction and practice. They are doing their best to give the police cadets professional specialization at lectures, seminars, case studies, group discussions, demonstrations, students' scientific societies, practical exercises and field trips. There are also such facilities as specially equipped classrooms, lecture-halls, laboratories, libraries, good gyms and an open campus, a muster deck, firearms ranges and a camp for field training at the Academy.

To achieve the objectives of modern detective training the trainee is to have actual knowledge of the following: the prevention of crime, the detection of crime, sources of evidence, the criminal law.

Besides the cadets are to get professional skills and abilities — to drive a car, to use the weapon, to interview and to interrogate witnesses and criminals, to search a crime scene, to master investigational techniques. Special subjects are not the only subjects of the curriculum. As it is in every higher institution in this country, social sciences and foreign languages are in the program of studies too.

The duration of pre-service training is five years. The graduates get a diploma of a lawyer with specialization in crime detection and criminal investigation.

 

11. Assignment for a curious student.

Watch the film about The Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, learn some more facts from its history be ready to discuss them in your group.