2. Lomonosov was born on 19th November 1711 in the small village of Mishaninskaia

3.  Lomonosov's father was a fishman and his mother was the daughter of a deacon. As a child Lomonosov learned to read and write.  In 1728 he went to study to Moscow

4.  Lomonosov in 1730 studied at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy in Moscow, Then he studied science at  the St. Petersburg Academy and later went to Germany.

5.  He returned to St. Petersburg in 1741. In 1748 he opened the first scientific chemical laboratory in Russia.

6.  In 1755 he founded the Moscow University.

7.  At the beginning of 1757 Lomonosov was a member of the academic chancellery and, a year later, head of the geographical department of the St. Petersburg Academy.

8.  From 1757 to his death in 1765 Lomonosov devoted his time to scientific administration, exploration, mining, metallurgy, and navigation.

9.  He wrote poetry and promoted the Russian language and Russian history.

10.  The first great Russian scientist, he united in himself knowledge not only of every basic area of the science of his time but of history, languages, poetry, literary prose, and art.

11.  Lomonosov was elected an honorary member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (1760), the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1763), and a member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences (1764). He died on 15th April 1765.