The university trains top-class specialists in natural sciences, humanities, engineering sciences, pedagogy, and medical sciences. While studying, students are engaged not only in research but also in commercial projects.

How can you know that you have compatriot status? That's quite simple – permanent residence abroad is a mandatory initial condition here. Moreover, you must have no residence permit or temporary residence permit.

Derzhavin University is a classical university in Central Russia with a hundred years' history and rich research and educational potential. Many countries recommend it to students for getting higher education.

The first engineering transport university in Russia. It provides advanced engineering training in many key areas, such as heavy haul and high-speed traffic control, magnetic levitation transport, development of digital technologies.

Anicet Gabriel Kotchofa. High Commissioner for International Cooperation, Deputy Secretary-General at the Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization.

Vishal Sharma. President of the Association of International Students in Russia. In 2011, he passed competitive selection in India, his home country, and got the Russian Government Scholarship to study for free.

Foreign citizens can apply for state-funded places at Russian universities within the quota, under the international education agreements, or as compatriots. We have done our best to see into this matter.

Is your country listed among the states that signed education cooperation agreements with Russia? If your country has an agreement with Russia, inquire if you are eligible for participation in the competition for state-funded places.

Saint-Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (SPbSUITD) takes an active part in selecting international applicants for studying at Russian universities within the Russian Government quota.

The leading technological university for digital mechanical engineering, a first-class research center. The university trains unique specialists using individual learning paths and a project-based approach to designing a curriculum.

The university provides training in all areas of the oil and gas industry: exploration, extraction, transportation, processing of oil and gas, creation of technology and information support for engineering processes.

NArFU is one of ten Russian federal universities, the largest research and education center in North-Western Russia. It trains specialists in technology, natural sciences, engineering, humanities, economics, and IT.

NSTU is one of the major research and education centers in Russia. As early as while studying, students can work at promising companies in Russia and all over the world. The university conducts basic and applied research and invites prominent scientists.

Omsk State Technical University is one of the largest technical universities in Russia with state-of-the-art equipment that ensures high quality of professional training.

Pirogov RNRMU is a leading research and education medical center that trains physicians, pharmacists, clinical psychologists, social workers, as well as unique research staff for medical biochemistry, cybernetics, biophysics.

Headteacher at Private Russian Class online school Lyudmila Ramilevna Zakorchevnaya talks about the games you can play with your foreign friends, native Russian speakers, or even in a class with your fellow students and teacher.

Studying Russian as a foreign language helps international applicants develop key linguistic competencies that will come in handy while applying to a Russian university.

SUAI is one of Russia's and the world's leading academic organizations in the field of aerospace systems, control systems, state-of-the-art educational technologies.

Being the oldest Russian institution of higher technical education for architects and civil engineers, SPbGASU is now a major educational and scientific center providing comprehensive training in the fields of civil engineering, architecture.

South Ural State University is one of the Russian higher education leaders, the region's center for innovative development in Digital Industry, Material Science, and Ecology.

One of the most fast-developing Russian universities that successfully combines an innovative approach to education with respect for the traditions that have been established over 90 years.

VyatSU is a classical multidisciplinary university that trains specialists in engineering and humanities. Among its graduates are successful experts in all fields, from history and law to civil engineering and information technology.

Issa Togo is a graduate of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Associate Professor at the Department of Water Management and Hydrotechnical Construction of SPbPU Institute of Civil Engineering.