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Professor Vladimir Vasil’evich Golubev - the first dean of the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University

Issue 2 from 30.06.2003

In 1933 Narkompros (the Commissariat of Enlightenment) restored the depart mental structure in Soviet Universities. Moscow State University acquired six departments: mechanics and mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, soil sci ence, and the workers’ department. Correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences V. V. Golubev (1884—1954) became the dean of the mcchanico-mathematical department. The paper describes Golubev’s activities as a teacher and uni versity administrator in building one of the world’s most prestigious educational institutions in mathematics.

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