International University in Moscow - was established in 1991 by Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

 and President George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

, and was the first private university in Russia.

In August 1991, President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev and President Bush launched a joint educational project - Soviet-American University, which later in the documents signed by the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin was named International University in Moscow.

President of the University - Gavriil Kh. Popov is a well-known Russian economist, a prominent politician, and the first Mayor of Moscow. Rector of the University - Sergey N. Krasavchenko is a renowned economist and politician, 1990-1999 member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, first deputy head of the presidential administration and adviser to the Russian President.

The university's main campus is located at 17 Leningradsky Prospect in central Moscow.