The Russian State University of Hydrology and Meteorology (Petersburg), the world's first institution of higher education in hydrology and meteorology, was founded in 1930 as the Moscow Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, with the main departments of meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, ecology and environmental physics, economics and humanities. The main faculties are the Department of Meteorology, the Department of Hydrology, the Department of Oceanography, the Department of Ecology and Environmental Physics, and the Department of Economics and Humanities;