The history of Moscow State University began in 1872, when V. Guerrier founded the Moscow Higher Women's Courses (MVZHK).The history of Moscow State Pedagogical University, dating back almost 150 years, began in November 1872, when Russian historian and public figure Vladimir Guerrier, with the approval of Emperor Alexander II, founded the Moscow Higher Women's Courses (MVZHK), the first educational institution in Russia that opened access to higher education for women of any class in their homeland. Before that, they could only study at foreign universities.
At first, the educational program was two years long, there were almost no specializations, and historical and philological disciplines prevailed. Over the years, the courses were located in different buildings, including the Polytechnic Museum. By the mid-1880s, the number of listeners exceeded 200, which was quite a lot for those years. Recruitment to the MVZHK was discontinued in 1886, after which they existed in the format of "public lectures" for women at the Polytechnic Museum and "collective lessons" organized by the Moscow Society of Educators and Teachers. At the present stage, Moscow State University has actively engaged in the process of training new personnel for the digital economy in the field of digital education. Based on Russian traditions, taking into account global and national values, taking into account the personal and cultural components of innovation, the University implements a platform for the development of digital technologies and network models of a unified information and educational environment that will work for the benefit of all domestic education.Our university's activities in the field of international cooperation have a long history. It began in 1948, when the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin, the first foreign students arrived. By the end of the 1950s, MGPI had become one of the leading universities in the USSR in the field of training scientific and pedagogical personnel for foreign countries. In the post–war years, students from many countries friendly to the Soviet Union, such as China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Mongolia, Algeria, Syria, Ethiopia, Hungary, and Peru, were sent to MGPI, as well as to other major universities in the USSR. At that time, most foreign students studied at the faculties of preschool pedagogy and psychology, pedagogy and psychology, biology and chemistry, mathematics, physics and Philology. A significant influx of foreigners to MGPI took place in the early 1960s. In those years, the annual intake of foreign students was 50-60 people, and the total number of foreign students reached 300