**Code**: [MW](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125298) **Organization**: Moscow State University **Division**: Faculty of Biology **Department**: Department of Ecology and Plant Geography **Location**: Moscow, Russia **Total number of specimens**: 1109606 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1765 or 1780 **Taxonomic coverage**: Vascular plants (including 4,748 types); modest collection of lichens (ca. 10,000 specimens); bryophytes (86,293 specimens); diatoms (857 specimens, use MW-D acronym); no fungi and algae **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide, but strong in the former U.S.S.R., especially European part (390,600 specimens), Caucasus (109,000), Crimea (32,700), Siberia and Russian Far East (184,200), and Middle Asia and Kazakhstan (100,800); Mongolia (27,700); western and central Europe (40,600); other Asian countries (27,900) **Incorporated herbaria**: Societas Naturae Curiosorum Mosquensis, Medical and Surgical Academy, MOSP (in part - A. Zernov collections), Kostroma State University, laboratory of forest ecosystem stability, ca. 2,000 specimens (2016), Badkhyz Reserve, Turkmenistan, ca. 1,000 specimens (2017), Institute of physicochemical and biological problems in soil science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ca. 1,000 specimens (2018), Vladimir Museum of Nature, ca. 500 specimens (2019), Insitute of Forest Studies, Russian Academy of Sciencies, ca. 28,000 specimens (2022). **Important collectors**: M. F. Adams, V. V. Alechin, Y. E. Alexeev, A. M. Amirkhanov, N. V. Androssov, N. I. Annenkov, S. A. Balandin, F. A. M. von Bieberstein, E. Boissier, A. K. Boschnjak, A. J. Bronzov, S. S. Charkevicz, G. I. Cherkasova, L. N. Chilikina, H. Cuming, T. G. Dervis-Sokolova, J. Dickson, G. I. Dochman, M. S. Dvorakovsky, J. F. Ehrhart, A. G. Elenevsky, R. A. Elenevsky, V. R. Filin, A. F. Flerov, I. Forster, J. G. A. Forster, E. E. Gogina, L. F. Goldbach, M. I. Golenkin, V. P. Goloskokov, I. N. Goroshankin, V. S. Govoruchin, G. E. Grosset, A. A. Grossheim, I. A. Gubanov, A. von Haller, H. C. Haussknecht, G. F. Hoffmann, F. R. Hohenacker, D. H. Hoppe, M. S. Ignatov, N. N. Kaden, M. N. Karavaev, G. S. Karelin, N. J. Katz, N. N. Kauffmann, A. P. Khokhrjakov, K. V. Kiseleva, E. V. Kluykov, V. L. Komarov, E. P. Korovin, A. V. Koshevnikov, S. I. Korshinsky, I. P. Kirilow, T. Kotschy, J. Krause, I. M. Krasnoborov, M. V. Kultiassov, V. B. Kuvajev, F. S. Leontijev, C. Linnaeus, S. Y. Lipschitz, D. I. Litvinov, S. R. Majorov, M. A. Maximowicz, K. I. Meyer, K. Meinshausen, G. V. Mikeschin, D. Murray, M. I. Nazarov, V. S. Novikov, P. T. Novograblenov, I. V. Novopokrovsky, I. V. Palibin, N. V. Pavlov, V. N. Pavlov, M. G. Pimenov, A. N. Petunnikov, G. M. Proskurjakova, N. A. Prozorovsky, M. G. Popov, E. B. Pospelova, I. A. Rajkova, L. E. Rodin, F. I. Ruprecht, A. I. Schreter, N. V. Schipczinskij, I. S. Schtschukin, A. I. Schrenk, N. K. Schvedczikova, I. G. Serebrjakov, I. E. Shavrov, P. V. Sjuzev, P. A. Smirnov, V. I. Smirnov, D. D. Sokolov, S. S. Stankov, C. von Steven, V. N. Sukaczev, D. P. Syreistschikov, G. V. Tekutjeva, C. P. Thunberg, V. N. Tikhomirov, T. T. Trofimov, C. B. Trinius, N. S. Turczaninow, A. P. Tyrtikov, L. A. Utkin, V. N. Vekhov, T. B. Vernander, S. V. Viktorov, A. G. Voronov, V. N. Voroschilov, A. Zernov, A. E. Zhadovsky, P. P. Zhudova, V. Y. Zinger **Notes**: Updated Dec 2022 (general update). MW is the second largest herbarium of Russia with ca. 20,000 additional accessions in 2019. Loans and exchange are temporarily suspended. Historic collections of G. F. Hoffmann, J. F. Ehrhart, C. B. Trinius, I. Forster, and Herbarium Alchemillarum of V. N. Tikhomirov are stored separately. Complete digitization was finished in 2018. Ca. 1,047,500 specimens are digitized and fully available via Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) and GBIF (https://doi.org/10.15468/cpnhcc). **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2022-12-05 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.