RUSSIAN LANGUAGE COURSE FOR INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
To be admitted to all our academic programmes taught in Russian the first and the most important thing is to know Russian language. You should be able to read, write and speak Russian well. Therefore, before proceeding to our academic degree programmes you should submit also a relevant certificate of your Russian language level or if you do not speak Russian you have to take any Russian language course and get a relevant certificate. It usually takes 1 academic year to learn Russian before sending any application for degree courses.
At our University we offer the Russian language course which gives you the possibility to study Russian as a foreign language, for 576 academic hours. This course is just to study Russian language (without any other disciplines) and it doesn’t assume the further automatic admission to our Bachelor or Master programmes.The classes are held 5 days a week.
There is only one intake a year for the offline course starting in October and ending in May-June. No other intakes and admission during a year. Applications for the course start annually in May and end in August. The detailed application steps are below.
At the end of the course you should pass an interview and a written examination in Russian that will enable you to have a relevant certificate. Those students, who don't attend the minimum 90% of our offline classes during the course, are not permitted to pass the final examination and are not issued the relevant Certificate that gives the possibility to apply further to any Russian degree programme of any University.
Priority to apply for our course is given to those applicants which next year, after completing the Russian language course, will apply for our University degree programmes (BSc courses or MSc courses).
The last date of the course registration is September, 15.
Please be aware of that the invitation letter is ready not less than in 1 month from the date of submission of your documents to our local Migration Office.
The course fee is 100.000 roubles. It is fully paid before getting the invitation document!
If you are not elder than 24 years old at the moment of your application you are welcome to our course.
APPLICATION PROCESS includes the following steps taking into account that the Russian language course starts in October:
Step 1:
Starting from May till 10th September you send us an email (to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) including the following information and the copies of some documents:
- Application Form completed with your data;
- Copy of your travel passport valid not less 18 months (1st page) from the starting date of the course + its legalized translation into Russian;
- Copy of academic certificates of your previous schools, with transcript of records; in case if you are going to apply for any our degree course after completing the Russian language course;
- 1 electronic ordinary small photo, like for documents (3x4);
- City of your birth;
- City of your residence;
- City where you will apply for your visa;
- What University degree programme you will apply after the course
- Do you neeed a place in our student dormitory for the whole period of study.
Step 2:
We consider your application and if you meet our entry requirements we will contact you directly as soon as possible providing you with the information about next enrolment procedures. In case you accept and agree with all enrolment terms and deadlines you are obliged to inform us about it in writing by email as soon as possible to start the official invitation procedure.
Step 3:
If all your documents are correct, you should pay from any Russian bank account
- fee for your invitation document - 1300 roubles.
Your payment receipt is sent us by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Step 4:
After your payment is made, we start the invitation procedure submitting your documents to our Federal Migration Office (FMO) that ussually issues the invitation document in 4 weeks after submitting our request.
As soon as the invitation document is ready (about 30 days), we inform you that the invitation letter is ready and you will need to pay from any Russian account 100% of the course cost = 100.000 rubles. After the payment made (the account details here), you send us a receipt and we send you an invitation letter to apply for your visa. Without this payment the inviation document is not sent to an applicant!
The entry date to Russia with our invitation letter is not earlier than 25th September.
With this document and your passport you go to the local Russian Embassy or Consulate and you will be issued the visa. The copy of your invitation document will be sent also directly to your local Russian Embassy you have specified in your Application Form.
The first visa will be valid for 3 months and enable you to make only one entry to Russia. Further it will be extended for the period of your study at the course with multiple entries.
Step 5:
After getting your Russian visa you should buy travel tickets to Kazan and inform us about your arrival date. You should arrive 3-5 days before starting date of the course, i.e. at the end of September or first dates of October!
Step 6:
On your arrival to Kazan you should go to any city hostel for 2-3 days while you are making your medical documents for the accomodation in our student dormitory.
Step 7:
All international students are required by law to be registered within 7 days after the entry into Russia with our local Immigration Office. If you miss this deadline you ought to pay a penalty of 2.000 rubles before applying for further registration.
If you are planning to live in any city appartment or other location, except the University dormitory, you should be registered there by the owner of the location within 7 days from the date of your arrival to Kazan. As soon as you get the registration document you should send or bring us its copy. Please pay attention: the location owner must offcially register you in the city system, otherwise it is not legal and you will pay a penalty of 2.000 rubles before applying for further registration.
If you are planning to be hosted in our student dormitory (all international students live in our student hostel sharing one room with 4 students on equal rights with Russian students) within 2-3 days from the date of your arrival:
- first: you should make a medical certificate from a doctor stating that the student is healthy. You can undergo an examination and get such a certificate at a paid University clinic at the Universiade Village, in Orenburg tract Street. 2.
- second: then to pay 18 990 rubles (10 months) for living in our dormitory, you can do it online. Payment destination in Russian: "за проживание в общежитии, фамилия, имя студента".
- third: next, with three documents (medical certificate, payment check, document for accomodation from the International Admission Office), you go to the director of the campus, hostel No. 5 in Kalinina street, 19 to sign the Accomodation agreement.
Step 8:
As soon as you sign the Accomodation agreement you are OBLIGED to submit immediately the following original and copy documents to the International Admission Office (contacts are below) to be registered and to extend your Russian visa (it is ready about 20 working days after submitting documents to the Migration Office):
- your valid travel passport with all Russian visas available (3 copies);
- your migration card (3 copies);
- 1 photo (3х4cm) (color or black/white);
- accomodation agreement with our hostel (2 copies);
- medical insurance (1 copy, if it is already available) or you pay it directly in the office (in cash);
- copy of your academic certificates of your previous schools, with transcript of records;
- payment of the State Duty for visa extension of 1600 rubles. You can pay it online or in bank. Just be sure to check the spelling of your name, surname according to your Russian visa and your passport number, otherwise in case of spelling errors you will pay again the same fee;
- pay for the student textbook (1280 roubles) that should have all students of the course to learn the language.
Step 9:
After having submitted all required documents and paid all the fees you will go to our student dormitory. The accomodation is realised during the working hours: 9am-5pm.
Step 10:
According to the Russian law during 90 days after the date of arrival in Russia any foreign citizen should pass medical tests (in Kazan fee 5.780 rubles in the clinic at the address in Korolenko Street, 54) and after that give fingerprints at the passport office. After this procedure you are given an ID card as a foreign national. The medical tests are valid for 1 year, the fingerprints are given only once. If you don't have such a card you will be: - reduced the period of stay in the Russian Federation and later you can be prohibited to enter Russia during next 5 years; - cancelled work permit in case if you work or temporary residence permit.
The students who don't pay the full cost of the course, don't have medical insurance and payment of the State Duty for visa extension of 1600 rubles, are not extended the visa.
The students not attending the course and breaching the rules of staying in Russia are expelled from the University and are subject to deportation.
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Our contacts:
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
International Relations Department
Admission Office
Opening hours: Mon-Fri / 10 a.m - 5 p.m
Kalinina Street, 43 - Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
Academic building No. 3, floor 2, room 3-219
Tel: +7 (843) 526 9317 / 526 9313
Fax: +7 (843) 238 7972
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