"The Palace of advanced scientific thought" as a reflection of the epoch: on the history of the creation of a new territory of the Moscow University on Leninskiye Gory

Abstract

The article examines the history of the creation of the Lomonosov Moscow State University complex on the Leninskiye (Vorobyovy) Gory, the 70th anniversary of the opening of which is celebrated in 2023, based on the materials of the MSU Archive. The cultural and historical aspect of its creation after the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 reflects the socio-economic conditions, philosophical views, trends in culture, social tastes of the era and aesthetic preferences of the creators. In the architectural and landscape composition in the style of "triumph", the social image of the "palace of science" and the concept of the "garden city" were developed, embodied in the context of the modernization of the 1930s in the project of the "academic campus". An integral part of the new territory of the Moscow State University is the Botanical garden, the director-organizer of which - Professor Nina Alexandrovna Bazilevskaya (1902-1997) - a student of N. I. Vavilov - was 120 years old in 2022.