The history of the M. Weinberg Quartet began in 2001. "Youth. Energy. Initiative. Excellence." Under this motto, in 2001, the Moscow quartet of soloists began its existence. It took the name RUSQUARTET and united talented youth of the string faculty of the Academic College of Music at Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky in the class of G.V. Soboleva. They had successfully go through all the trials and tribulations of the difficult mastering of the intricacies of quartet art within the walls of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky in the class of National Artist of Russia, Professor D.V. Shebalin (A. Borodin Quartet). One of the permanent mentors of the quartet from 2007 to the present day is Henk Gittart (Netherlands, Schoenberg Quartet). During the formative years, participants of RUSQUARTET received master classes from leading Russian and foreign performers: Valentin Berlinsky (Borodin Quartet), Mikhail Kopelman (Borodin Quartet, Kopelman Quartet), Igor Naydin (Borodin Quartet), Gerhard Schultz (Alban Berg Quartet), Joel Smirnoff (Julliard Quartet), Philip Setzer (Emerson Quartet), Don Weilerstein (Cleveland Quartet), Gabor Tokash (Tokacs Quartet), Barry Shifman (St. Lawrence Quartet), Mark Steinberg (Brentano Quartet), Denis Brott (Orford Quartet).
RUSQUARTET was a participant in master classes at the Banff Center (Canada), Villecroze Academy (France), Stanford University (USA), McGill University (Montreal).