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On August 6, 1906, Olimpiada Vasilievna Kozlova was born. She headed our university for more than 35 years and is rightfully considered the founder of management education in Russia.
Olimpiada Vasilievna began her career at the age of 10 in the Pokrovskaya artel of fishermen. Later she worked as a turner at a factory, secretary of the village council, was elected secretary of the Moskvoretsky district committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), and at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War she carried out a special task to form the Moscow divisions of the people's militia.
In 1950, Olimpiada Vasilievna was appointed rector of the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze (now the State University of Management). Olimpiada Vasilievna set the task of reorganizing the training of engineers and economists into the training of management personnel, which was implemented.
In 1966, it was at MIEI that the first domestic department on the fundamentals of management theory and practice was created, with Olimpiada Kozlova as its permanent head.
In 1969, for its great labor services to the state and society, MIEI was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 1975 it was transformed into the first Moscow Institute of Management in the Soviet Union.
Today, GUU retains the title of the leading management university in the country and carefully preserves the historical memory of its heritage. Olympiada Kozlova played a vital role in the development of our university, laying the foundation for both the management approach in education and the unique campus in the South-Eastern Administrative District. Today, we would like to once again express our gratitude to Olympiada Vasilyevna for her undeniable contribution, dedication to her work and endless courage.
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