"we will disperse, when the time comes, in all
the world, from Dolgoprudny…"
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(Phystech) as a technical university is a very unusual
conglomeration, a kludge that has nothing to be compared with in the whole
world. The closest semblance of Phystech of 50 or 10 years ago in the
US might be found in the Associated Universities, Inc. that combined
educational and research resources of the US North Eastern Great Nine:
Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, The Johns
Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University
of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, University of Rochester, Yale University
including the Brookheaven National Laboratory and the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory. While the purpose of the AU, Inc. was research, the purpose
of the Phystech conglomeration was education.
Incidentally, Associated Universities was created in the same month and year as Phystech, right after Winston Churchill's Fulton Speach that officially started the Cold War. In the words of Frederick Forsyth, Phystech was the exclusive Soviet Nuclear Arms and Rocket Scientist Forge in the late Soviet Union. Phystech had a central college hidden in Moscow suburbs and a network of more than a hundred base departments incorporated in the major research centers. Some say that at the height of the Cold War, Phystech had more base
departments than the Pentagon had strategic bases. Lately, with the defeat of the Evil Empire, the situation with Phystech
is changing.
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