Moscow City Pedagogical University (MGPU) is one of the leading pedagogical universities in Moscow (along with Moscow State University and MGPPU), administratively subordinated to Moscow.
The university has a Museum of Economics and Everyday Life and a museum of the Soviet economist Vitaly Alekseevich Zhamin.More than once, ideas arose about the creation of a new pedagogical university in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Moscow. In 1993[2] The Moscow Department of Education proposed to the Ministry of Education of Russia a project on the creation of a new university of MGPU on the basis of MGOPi. The proposal outlined the steps for the development of the future university. The Moscow pedagogical colleges No. 9 (4 Vojvodina Street) and No. 16 (Sheremetyevo Street) were supposed to join the buildings of MGOPi. 66-a), and the school building No. 418 on 3rd Vladimirskaya St. However, the ideas remained unfulfilled for two years.
The University was founded on March 1, 1995 by the decision of the Moscow Government. Its founders were the first rector V. V. Ryabov, the head of the Department of Education L. P. Kezina and the Deputy Minister of Education of Russia V. D. Shadrikov. The material basis of the MGPU consisted of the buildings of pedagogical colleges No. 1 (named after Ushinsky — now the building of the Institute of Law and Management of MGPU), No. 2 (now the main administrative building of MGPU, IGN MGPU), No. 3 (named after Krupskoy, now the representative building of the Moscow State Pedagogical University) No. 4 (now the Cheryomushki College of the Moscow State Pedagogical University), No. 5 (now the building of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of Education), No. 6 (now the Dorogomilovo College of the Moscow State Pedagogical University).
In the first year, the first 1300 students were admitted to 8 faculties (the first of which were historical and philological) in 17 specialties and 3 forms of study. The Institute is growing rapidly — soon there will be 12 faculties — pedagogical, historical, philological, psychological, correctional pedagogy, foreign languages, physical education and sports, mathematical, chemical biology, geography, technology and entrepreneurship. Later, law and other faculties also appeared.