Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University. Adaptation

Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University graduates include railway transport ministers, political figures, heads of major transport, construction, industrial and research enterprises, well-known scientists, inventors, and designers.

Key Scientific Divisions

• Institute of Railway Transport Applied Economics and Accounting
• Center for Computer Railway Technologies
• Research and Education Center for Innovative Development of Passenger Railway Transport
• Test Center "Environmental and Occupational Safety"
• Testing Laboratory "Mechanical Laboratory named after Professor N. A. Belelyubsky"
• Research Testing Laboratory "Bridge Laboratory"
• Research Laboratory "Railway Vehicle Dynamics"
• Applied Research Laboratory "Maintenance Automation, Diagnostics and Monitoring of Railway Automation and Telemechanics Systems"

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Student Science

• Work in scientific circles and research laboratories under the supervision of Candidates and Doctors of Science
• Enhanced scholarships for successful research activities
• PGUPS student research grant competition

Security

PGUPS cares about student security. All university buildings, including the dormitories, are guarded by the security team 24/7 and equipped with video surveillance systems.

PGUPS regularly offers evacuation training so that students know what they should do in an emergency. The dormitory staff members are on duty 24/7 and are always ready to help students, if necessary.

Health

PGUPS has a modern medical center on campus.

In the PGUPS outpatient clinic, students can undergo diagnostic testing, treatment, get advice, obtain health certificates required to live in the dormitory and take part in sports competitions.

PGUPS International

It provides up-to-date information about PGUPS’s international activities: study abroad, double degree programs, short-term internships, lectures of foreign professors, etc.

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International Relations Department

Provides migration and visa support to international students, and helps them handle organizational problems.

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Tutorial Support

Tutors from among teachers and mentors from among senior students help students get comfortable at PGUPS and in Saint Petersburg.

Tutor responsibilities

• First and second years: assistance in quick and smooth adaptation, familiarization with rights and responsibilities, academic and nonacademic process management at the university, teambuilding, and creation of a favorable environment in the student group
• Third-fifth years: professional self-determination and adaptation of students, identification of interests, capacities for some or other activities, orientation in the world of professions, informing about particular characteristics of the modern labor market

Traditional form of activity: academic hours. Tutorial hours are conducted once a week and included in the main timetable of the first- and second-year students. In the third-fifth years, tutorial hours are conducted according to the departments’ timetable.