Jonathan Hardwick

Jonathan, institute you noted is most famous all around the USSR and ex-USSR. It is a kind of russian MIT.

There are tons of funny stories about how hard it is come in to 'fizteh'. You should have extremely sharp non-formal knowledge of mathematics and physics to became student there.

I read somewhere, that about 40% of russian bank top managers was its students.

There are number of famous universities in Russia but 'fizteh' releases most engeneering engeneers since mid-communistic times.