Moshkow graduated from
Moscow State University's
Department of Mechanics and Mathematics. Since 1991 he has been an employee of the
Scientific Research Institute of System Development, where he among other duties is administrating the campus
local network. He also took up teaching courses on
Unix,
TCP/IP,
HP OpenView,
VMware. Moshkow programmed some major media Internet projects like
Gazeta.Ru,
Lenta.Ru,
Vesti.Ru, etc. as well as authoring
Lib.ru also known as ''Maksim Moshkow's Library'', which started to operate in November 1994 and proved to be the largest and most comprehensive Russian electronic library. He is a laureate of the Internet Prize ROTOR-2005 as the "Man of the Year". He is married, and has one son and three daughters. ==See also==