Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov

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Childhood
Mikhail Lomonosov is the father of the Russian sciences and outstanding

poet, the founder of Russian literature. Lomonosov was born in 1711 in Arhangelsk province. He liked to spend his time fishing with his father. He began to read himself then he was a little boy.

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Study
He wanted to study and when he was 19 he went

by foot to Moscow. He decided to enter the Slavic-Greek-Latin academy. He entered it and six years later in 1736 he was sent abroad to complete his studies in chemistry and mining. Lomonosov worked hard and he became a great scientist. He was a physicist, a painter and astronomer, a geographer, a historian and a statesman

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Attainment
Lomonosov made a telescope; he observed a lot of stars and

planets with his telescope. Lomonosov wrote the first scientific grammar of Russian language. He wrote many poems. Lomonosov build a factory near Petersburg. It was a factory where glass was produced. He made a portrait of Peter I of pieces of glass. Lomonosov was the founder of the first Russian University. This University is named after Lomonosov and it is situated in Moscow.

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Death
Lomonosov died in 1765 but people still know and remember him.

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Scientific discovery

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Lomonosov was the founder of Moscow University, which in 1940 on

the occasion of its 185th Anniversary was named after him. He is the author of the first scientifical grammar of the Russian language. Lomonosov published the first history of Russia in 1760 and invented a new system of meter in his poetry. He also revived the art of Russian mosaic and built a mosaic and colored-glass factory.

Scientific work

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