North Caucasian Federal District. Nalchik is the capital and cultural center of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the resort city of federal importance in the south of Russia.
St. Petersburg is one of the most beautiful megacities in the world, the second largest city in Russia, located on the shores of the Gulf of Finland. Every year the universities of St. Petersburg admit thousands of foreign students from all over the world.
A combination of favorable climatic conditions and deposits of mineral waters and therapeutic muds makes the Krasnodar Territory the most popular resort and tourist region in Russia.
The Republic of Tatarstan has great scientific and educational potential and is well-known far beyond the country's borders. About 150 000 students from over 120 countries attend its 44 universities.
In recent years, the number of international students choosing the Irkutsk Region as a study destination has been increasing rapidly. Irkutsk alone has over 7,000 students from 40 countries.
The Krasnodar Territory has the fifth-largest inflow of foreign tourists in Russia after Moscow and the Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and is the hottest region in Russia.
The Belgorod Region is a Russian region with one of the most thriving economies. Belgorod, the capital of the Belgorod Region, boasts abundant greenery and clean air.
According to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tatarstan, more than 18,000 international students from 14 countries of the former USSR and 107 other foreign countries are studying at 39 universities of the republic today.
Belgorod is a multinational advanced city in the south of the Central Russian Upland, the scientific, cultural, economic and spiritual center of the Central Black Earth Region of Russia.
Today Volgograd is a major industrial, educational and scientific center that stretches for 100 kilometers as a narrow strip along the Volga River bank.