И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

TEXT 3. THE MOSCOW

RAILWAY TRANSPORT INSTITUTE
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(1) A new life for the Moscow Railway Transport In­stitute began after the Great October Socialist Revolution. The Soviet Government has always paid great attention to the development of railway transport and the training of railway engineers.

(2) Under the Soviet power the Moscow Railway Trans­port Institute has become one of the largest higher edu­cational institutions in our country.

(3) About 15,000 students study at the Institute. The Institute has twelve faculties—the Railway Construction Faculty, the Operation of Transportation Process Faculty, the Bridges and Tunnels Faculty, the Civil Engineering Faculty, the Railway Economics Faculty, the Railway Electrification Faculty, the Mechanical Faculty, the Mechan­ical and Technological Faculty, the Automation and Tele­communication Faculty, the Engineering Cybernetics Faculty and two Evening Faculties.

(4) The twelve faculties train engineers in 24 speciali­ties. Every year about 2,000 students graduate from the Institute. The course of study at the Institute lasts five years. The study of theoretical subjects is followed by practical training at workshops, depots, locomotive build­ing works, on construction sites, etc.

(5) The first- and second-year students study such gen­eral subjects as higher mathematics, physics, chemistry, descriptive geometry, drawing, a foreign language, the his­tory of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ar' other subjects. The study of special subjects begins third year.

(6) Each academic year has two terms. At the end of each term the students take examinations. Those who pass all the exams and get good marks are given grants. The students who failed in any examination do not get a grant.

(7) The Institute is headed by the Rector. At the head of each faculty is the Dean.

(8) There are about 60 departments at the Institute with more than 1,270 teachers. About 10 per cent of them are professors and Doctors of Sciences.