Russian State University for the
Humanities
Moscow
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• The Russian State University for the Humanities is an educational
institution which trains specialists in all areas of knowledge in the
humanities. Drawing upon more than three hundred years of the Russian
higher education tradition, as well as upon the experience (and example) of
the two unique Russian educational institutions – the Alfons L. Shanyavsky
Moscow Public University and the Moscow State Institute for History and
Archives – the RSUH is the rightful heir to the traditions of these excellent
institutions in its mission to help revive the atmosphere of art and culture in
education.
• The Moscow Public University, founded in 1908 through the initiative of
Alfons Leonovich Shanyavsky, an eminent Russian patron of arts, played a
special role in Russian education. Up to 1918, It was the first “free”
university center unfettered by formal limitations and open to everyone
“truly thirsting for knowledge.” It implemented the progressive principles
of alternative education in conjunction with a sound academic foundation
available to all.
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• The Moscow State Institute for History and Archives was founded in 1930
for training archivists. Over the years, it became a center of academic
research. In its archival pursuits in areas of history and such auxiliary
realms as the study of primary sources, archaeology and paleontology, it
managed to preserve the very best of the Russian research tradition. By the
beginning of the 1990s, this institution has achieved an actual university
level which naturally enabled it to become the structural heart of the RSUH
founded in 1991.
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Facts and Figures
Institutes 7
Divisions 18
Specializations - 78 Subject areas
Joint international specializations - 23
Bachelor programs - 3
Master programs - 4
Councils for Doctoral Degrees – 12
Councils for Candidate’s Degrees – 3
Research Institutes - 4
Academic Library - 1 000 000 volumes, 30 000 volumes of rare
editions
Museum center - 4
Regional branches – 35
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Institutes and Divisions
Institute for History and Archives
15 Nikolskaya St. “Ploshad’ Revolutsii,” “Teatral’naya” metro stations
Division for Archival Studies
• Division for Documentation Studies
• Division for Archives and Documentation Storage Technology
• Division for History, Political Science and Law
Institute for History and Philology
15 Chayanov St., bldg. 7, “Novoslobodskaya” metro station
Division for History and Philology
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Institute for Linguistics
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 2 metro “Novoslobodskaya” metro station
Division for Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Institute for Economics, Management and Law
15 Chayanov St., bldg. 7, “Novoslobodskaya” metro station
Division for Management
• Division for Economics
• Law Division
L.S.Vygotsky Institute for Psychology
6 Miusskaya Sq, bldg. 7, “Novoslobodskaya” metro station
Division for Psychology
• Division for Social Psychology and Pedagogy
• Division for Clinical Psychology
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Mass-Media Institute
15 Chayanov St., “Novoslobodskaya” metro station
Division for Journalism
Institute for Information Sciences and Security Technologies
25, bldg.2, Kirovogradschaya St., “Ulitsa akademika Yangelya” metro
station
Division for Information Security
Division for Information Systems
Division for History of Art
6 Miusskaya Sq. bldg. 7,
Division for Sociology
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 7
Division for Philosophy
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 7
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Research Institutes
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 7
Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 6
Institute for Russian History
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 6
"Russian Anthropology School" Institute
6 Miusskaya Sq., bldg. 7
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Institutes and Divisions:
Institute for History and Archives
Division for archival studies
Division for records management
Division for technotronic archives and documents
Division for history, politics and law
Institute for information Sciences and Security Technologies
The Information Security Faculty
Division for information Systems
L.S. Vygotskiy Institute for Psychology
Division for psychology
Division for social psychology and pedagogy
Division for medical psychology
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Institute for Economics,
Management and law Division for Management
Division for economics Faculty of Law
Institute for Linguistics
Division for theoretical and applied linguistics
Mass Media Institute
Institute for philology and history
Division for history and philology
University Divisions:
Division for art history
Division of philosophy
Division of sociology
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
University Departments:
Department of gender research
Chair Department of post-Soviet foreign countries
Chair Department of the history of science
Deputy Chair Department of English
Chair German language Department
Chair French language Department
Chair Department of physical education Chair
Research Institutes:
Institute for the advanced studies in the humanities
Institute of Oriental and Classical Studies
Institute for the Russian history
“The Russian anthropological school” Institute
Institute for new educational technologies and informatization
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Centers for education and research:
Center for social anthropology
Center for visual anthropology and ego-history
Center for foreign history
Center for the Study of Religion
Center for the Siberian culture studies Director
International Centers for education and research
Mark Bloc Russian-French center for historical anthropology
Russian-American center for the Biblical studies and Judaica
Institute for European Cultures
"Higher school for European cultures" research center
"Moscow-Quebec" center for education, research and culture
Deputy director Center for Russian as a foreign language
Russian-Swedish center
Russian-Italian center
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
Russian-Turkish center for education and research
Russian-Swiss center for education and research
V.S. Golenishev center for Egyptology
Y.V. Knorozov Mesoamerican research center
Russian-German center for education and research
Center for European Union relations
Iranian studies room
Confucius Institute
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• International Cooperation
• Developing academic and educational ties with foreign partners is one
of the major trends in the RSUH.
• The RSUH has more than 250 partner educational institutions in
Europe, in the US, in Canada, Asia, and Latin America. The RSUH
works with the Konstanz University, the Humboldts Berlin University,
Bohum University in Germany, with Université Paris-Sorbonne IV,
Paris-VIII, with the universities of Nantes and Toulouse in France, with
the universities of Milan, Naples, Rome and Venice in Italy, with the
universities of Uppsala and Göteborg in Sweden, with the State
Universities of Iowa and Ohio, with Middlebury college, Trinity
College, Beloit College in the US, with Laval University in Canada,
with the Chibo University in Japan, with the Seoul University in the
Republic of Korea and with other universities and colleges as well.
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
The principal activities of the Department for International Affairs:
• organizing international cooperation
• developing International Centers for Education and Research
• organizing training for foreign students and graduates students
• organizing international conferences, seminars and presentations at the
RSUH
• organizing and managing student and graduate student exchanges,
faculty exchanges
• organizing and managing the RSUH’s participation in multilateral
integration projects
• providing visa support
• producing educational multimedia products, analytical informational
catalogues and reference books
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
International cooperation in numbers and figures on average per year:
• Foreign partners - More than 250
• Academic mobility - More than 1000 people a year
• International Centers for Education and Research – 13
• International regional studies specializations - 23
• Lectures by foreign scholars - 55
• International Conferences - 45
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
List of courses for international students
• The Politics of Post-Communist Russia. Prof. Pivovar
• Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics. Prof. Pivovar
• Introduction to Russian and Post-Soviet Relations. Prof. Pivovar
• Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Prof. Pivovar
• Discover Moscow. Prof. Elena Dines
• Old Moscow in retro photos and manuscripts. Prof. Elena Dines
• Hidden paths: Moscow that no longer exists. Prof. Elena Dines
• Identity Issues: Mechanisms of Cross-Cultural Communication. Prof. Maria
Gordeyeva
• Negotiations: theory and practice. Prof. Maria Gordeyeva
• Intercultural communication. Prof. Maria Gordeyeva
• Modern conflict management. Prof. Maria Gordeyeva
• Tolerance and intercultural communication. Prof. Maria Gordeyeva
• The history of Russia 862-1800. Prof. Igor Kurukin
• Russia in the 18th century. Prof. Igor Kurukin
• Specific Features of Russian History. Russian Lands and the Golden Horde. Prof.
Igor Kurukin
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
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Audiovisual communications in the contemporary world. Prof. Grigory Lanskoy
Foundations and concepts of modern physics. Prof. Arkadiy Lipkin
Russian History of the XX century: Stalinism and the Cold War. Prof. Alexander P.
Logunov
Russia: Economic Awareness. Prof. Sergey Lyalyaev
Common Values in a Changing Russia Mirrored in Literature, Film and News
Media. Prof. Petrova
Contemporary Russian Culture. Prof. Petrova
Contemporary Russian Drama and Cinema. Prof. Petrova
The Media in Russia. Prof. Petrova
Authorities and the question of trust. Prof. Petrova
Market Economy – a test of human values. Prof. Petrova
Common human values in Russian Orthodox traditions. Prof. Petrova
Joys and sorrows of Russian youth. Permanent and temporary values. Prof. Petrova
War in Chechnya, stimulus for conflict and hostility. Prof. Petrova
Changes in social status as a result of the transition to a new economic and political
system. Prof. Petrova
Political history of modern Sudan. Prof. Seregichev
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
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Myth, literature, advertisement: Representation of identity in contemporary Russian
culture. Prof. Maria A. Shteynman
Adventures of the Russian idea. Prof. Vladimir Strelkov
Aspects of the history of the Russian orthodoxy. Prof. Vladimir Strelkov
The phenomenon of death through the optics of classic Russian culture. Prof. Vladimir
Strelkov
Russian Music. Prof. Irina Vorontsova
Image of Russia in American Political Cartoons. Prof. Zhuravleva
Political History of Modern Russia (1991 – 2008). Prof. Valentina D. Zimina
Russian Literature and Culture of the 20th Century. Prof. Tatyana V. Buzina
Russian Literature and Culture of the 20th Century. Prof. Tatyana V. Buzina
Russian Literature of the 19th Century. Prof. Tatyana V. Buzina
Clash of mentalities in the Russian society: past and present
Essential Critical Thinking in Social Science and Humanities. Prof. Maria Eliferova
Notion of University. Anna Zavaley
Soviet and Russian heraldry (the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries). Irina
Kostina
Modern Russian Artists, their Art Studios and Schools and Musical and Literary Salons in
Present Day Russia Irina Kostina
The fate of poets in the post-revolutionary Russia (based on the history of the Association
Literary Mansion in 1919 - 1929). Irina Kostina
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
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History of paper. Irina Kostina
History of museums. Types of Museums. Museums' Network. Palaces - Museums. Museums
of Modernity. Local History Museums. Irina Kostina
The history of statehood in Russia - ideas, people, symbols. Irina Kostina
Christianity in Russia. Life of the Clergy at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the
20th century. The Fate of the Clergy after the Revolution. Irina Kostina
Russian Orthodox art. The sacred space. Yury Gabrov
Eastern Christianity. Yury Gabrov
Russian underground music. Yury Gabrov
Semester program in Russian Studies. Dr. Troy McGrath
Contemporary Russian Studies. Dr. Troy McGrath
Visual Russia: Course on Russian Art, Architecture, and Film. Dr. Troy McGrath
20th and 21st Century Russia/USSR. Dr. Troy McGrath
Religion and Church/State Relations in Russia. Dr. Troy McGrath
Post-Communism in Russia. Dr. Troy McGrath
Russian Politic & Institutions. Dr. Troy McGrath
Foreign Policy of Russia & former USSR. Dr. Troy McGrath
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Basic (Survival) Russian. Dr. Troy McGrath
• Elementary Russian (1st year Russian). Dr. Troy McGrath
• Intermediate Composition and Conversation (2nd year Russian). Dr.
Troy McGrath
• Advanced Composition and Conversation (3rd year Russian). Dr. Troy
McGrath
• Advanced Conversation and Reading: (4th year Russian). Dr. Troy
McGrath
• Russian Lit Survey: Intro of key authors, works of Russian
literature. Dr. Troy McGrath
• Russian Economic System. Dr. Troy McGrath
• Russian Business Practices and Environment. Dr. Troy McGrath
• Civil War in Russia, 1917-1921. Dr. Sergey Karpenko
• Journalism and literary criticism in 19th century Russia. Dr. Vladimir
Gopman
• New Developments in Today’s Spoken Russian. Dr. Raisa Rozina
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
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Center for Russian as a Foreign Language
The Center for Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) is one of the University’s
academic subdivisions. The Center teaches foreign students the Russian language
and culture, increasing their opportunities through improving their language skills.
The RFL Center has a flexible education system. Each student selects an individual
program from the courses on offer, tailored to their requirements, abilities and
duration of stay.
Courses offered at the RFL Center include:
Basic Russian
Russian for beginners
Russian speech etiquette
Summer/Winter language school (intensive cultural program included)
Russian for graduate student and research fellows
In addition, the Russian Language Center also offers:
Various meetings with Russian students where you can discuss a variety of issues
and current events
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Regular foreign film screenings where you can watch little-known
cinematic masterpieces
• Performances organized by the University Russian Theater
• On arrival at the Center, students fill in a questionnaire and take a
placement test. On the basis of the test and the questionnaire, a specific
program is designed which can be supplemented with additional special
courses.
• At the end of the study period, all students who have successfully
completed their program are awarded an RSUH certificate.
• International Office of the RSUH offers the following cultural events:
• Sightseeing in Moscow
• Moscow Kremlin and its churches, The Armory
• “Golden Ring” of Russia
• Moscow of the nobility
• The State Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
• Estates and monasteries in the Moscow Region and beyond
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Dormitory
• The dormitory of the University is within walking distance from the
administrative and departmental building as well as from lecture and
seminar rooms. Each room is furnished and has a telephone line.
Bathroom and shower are on the floor. Each floor is equipped with a
kitchen. Each floor has a recreational room with a TV set. You can also
use washing machines located on several floors.
• The free of charge cleaning service is offered every day.
• If you are accompanied by University representatives they will show
you the dormitory (otherwise look at the University map to find the
dormitory), where you must fill the guest form and get the key to your
room.
• Payments for the accommodation are to be made at the Dormitory
Administration (building 4, ground floor, room 10).
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Museum Center
• The University Museum Center comprises the following permanent
expositions and museums:
• The Tsvetaev Art Museum exhibits a variety of sculptures which show an
ancient history of Egypt, Greece, Rome and etc. The entrance to the
museum halls is on the left side from the main entrance to the University.
• The Ancient Mexican Art Museum shows the history of this great
civilization, the development of the trade, fine arts in the regions of Mexico
exemplified in various different vases, decorations, jewels dating back to
the ancient times. This museum is
• situated on the 6th floor, room 625, main building.
• The “Different Art” Museum exhibits modern paintings, drawings and
sculptures. The entrance to the museum halls is on the right side from the
main entrance to the University.
• Open: Tue.-Sat.- 10.00 a.m. - 17.00 p.m.
• For more information visit http://museum.rsuh.ru/
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
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Department for International Relations
Department for Foreign Students (room 422, mail building)
Tel. +7 495 250-6516
Fax +7 495 251-1070
welcome@rsuh.ru
Department for Coordination of International Activity (room 433a, mail building)
Tel. +7 495 250-6503
Fax +7 495 250-6576
bravo@rsuh.ru
Department for International Cooperation (room 428, mail building)
Tel. +7 495 250-6531
Fax +7 495 973-4860
inter@rsuh.ru
Visa Department (room 428a, mail building)
Tel. +7 495 250-6354
Fax +7 495 973-4860
welcome@rsuh.ru
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, 15
Chayanova st, Moscow, phone +7 (499) 250-6118, www.rggu.com
• Center for Russian as a Foreign Language (room 407, building 7)
Tel. +7 495 250-6905
Fax +7 495 251-1070
rfl@rsuh.ru