Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI )

Location

Kashira Hwy, 31, Moscow, Russia, 115409

College Description

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) is a public technical university in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1942 as the Moscow Mechanical Institute of Munitions, but was soon renamed the Moscow Mechanical Institute. Its original mission was to train skilled personnel for the Soviet military and Soviet atomic bomb project. It was renamed the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1953, which was its name until 2009.