National Research University of Electronic Technology[2][3] (Russian: Национальный исследовательский университет "Московский институт электронной техники" / МИЭТ,[3] lit.

University was founded in 1965 and is based in Zelenograd, Moscow (the Soviet Union's center for electronic and microelectronic design and engineering).

The University complex was designed by the architects Felix Novikov and Grigory Saevich and built in 1967-1971.

The decoration of the exterior walls of the library is the white bas-relief (970 m²) "The Becoming of a Homo sapiens" (Russian: Становление человека разумного, Stanovlenie cheloveka razumnogo) completed in 1974 by the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny.

The main facades of the main administrative building and the assembly hall are turned to Shokin's Square (Russian: Площадь Шокина, Ploshchad Shokina), named after Alexander Shokin (1909-1988), the USSR Minister of Electronic Industry, one of founders of Zelenograd and MIET.