Ivanovo State University

Ivanovo State University was founded on 21 December 1918 as Ivanovo-Voznesensk Institute of National Education. On 12 July 1923 it was transformed into a teacher training college which in its turn served as a basis for creating a teacher training institute in August 1932. That institute was named after Dmitry Furmanov. Ivanovo State University – as a successor of that institute – has been successfully functioning since 1973.

The structure of IvSU:

• 9 academic buildings;
• 3 halls of residence with all modern conveniences;
• a university library and reading-rooms;
• a sports facilities;
• a health centre;
• computer centres and multimedia classrooms;
• educational and scientific laboratories;
• zoological and archaeological museums, the museum "Writers of Ivanovo Region";
• a botanical garden and a vivarium.

IvSU students are providedtrained in several educational programmes:

Bachelor's degree

• Mathematics
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Fundamental Computer Science and Information Technology
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Applied Informatics
• Nanotechnology and Microsystems Engineering
• Psychology
• Economics
• Management
• Human Resource Management
• Sociology
• Social Work
• Jurisprudence
• International Relations
• Advertising and Public Relations
• Journalism
• Teacher Education
• Psychological and Pedagogical Education
• Philology
• History
• Physical Education

Master's degree

• Mathematics
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Applied Informatics
• Psychology
• Economics
• Management
• Finance and Credit
• Sociology
• Jurisprudence
• International Relations
• Journalism
• Psychological and Pedagogical Education
• Philology
• History

Specialist's degree

• Fundamental and Applied Chemistry

PhD Degree

• Mathematics and Mechanics
• Chemical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering
• Psychological Sciences
• Economics
• Sociological Sciences
• Education and Pedagogical Sciences
• Linguistics and Literature Studies
• Historical Sciences and Archeology
• Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies

Ivanovo State University is an important international scientific and educational centre in the region. The successful work of the centre is based on the great competence of our university's staff and promotion of cross-cultural tolerance.

Today IvSU has partner relations with educational and scientific institutions of Bulgaria, Belarus, Vietnam, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, China, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Finland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Denmark, China, Uzbekistan.

The acting agreements give IvSU students and faculty an opportunity to improve their professional knowledge and language skills, to get acquainted with culture of various countries and to get experience of cross-cultural communication due to exchange education, participation in language, undertaking scientific internships and educational tours.

Ivanovo State University started training foreign specialists in 1978. Over 500 students have come from over 40 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe to study at the university. Congo, China, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Germany, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria etc. are among these countries. IvSU graduates have gone on to work in various countries of the world: Germany, Vietnam, Holland, China, Canada, the US, Mongolia, Cameroon, Syria, Angola, etc.

IvSU offers foreign students the following educational programmes:

• An additional educational programme that provides training for foreign citizens and stateless persons to master a professional educational programme in Russian (preparatory department).
• Additional professional education under the programme "Russian as a Foreign Language" (professional retraining), which gives the right to teach Russian as a foreign language at the initial stage and to translate.
• Additional education under the programme "Russian as a Foreign Language" as part of coursework and internships, exchange education and advanced training, "Methods of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language."
• The main professional programme "Russian language and culture in the modern world" (Master's degree) for foreign citizens.

Ivanovo State University offers foreign students many opportunities for developing their creativity and for cultural enrichment. The issues of intercultural dialogue and interethnic tolerance are discussed at the annual inter-university scientific and practical conference "A World without Borders". Foreign students take an active part in this conference. The "Welcome Centre" is a student association within the framework of the federal project "Your Route is Russia!" Residents of the centre actively involve foreign students of IvSU in their work. IvSU takes an active part in the concert and exhibition devoted to International Student Day.

The main goal of the centre is IvSU undergraduate and graduate students' adaptation to the present-day labor market and providing advice. The centre also helps high school graduates to choose the future profession.

About 95-97% of IvSU graduates find employment within half a year after their graduation. Around 70% of them work directly in the fields they majored in. Over 30% of graduate students successfully manage to combine their studies with work.

IvSU students take an active part in a number of all-Russian forums and workshops such as "Students' Russia", contests "Student of the Year" and "Univervision", all-Russian "Student Forum", "Territory of Meanings", "XXI century leader" workshop etc.

Student projects include:

• "Your Choice" – a multilevel school for most active students;
• "Hello! You’re a student!" – a project aimed at first-year students;
• "Initiation to Studentship" – a contest/performance;
• "Hello, we’re looking for talented people!" a contest/performance;
• "The World without Borders" – an intercultural project;
• "Dance Week" – a dance contest;
• "Students' Spring" – a creativity contest;
• "MegaQR" – a photo quest, etc.

Ivanovo State University offers its students three comfortable dormitories located next to the University buildings. All the dormitories have the possibility of accessing the Internet.

There are beds, wardrobes, bedside tables, desks and bookshelves in the dormitory rooms. Students can use washing machines, refrigerators and cooking stoves. Dormitories have study rooms, winter gardens and sports halls

Famous scientists have worked at the University: biologist S. N. Bogolyubsky (first rector of the institute), mathematicians N. N. Luzin, A. Ya. Khinchin, D. E. Menchov, A. I. Maltsev, physicists A. I Nekrasov, R. V. Kunitsky, V. S. Sorokin, historians D. M. Petrushevsky, A. A. Kizevetter, A. Z. Manfred, A. P. Kazhdan, writers N. F. Belchikov, D. E Maximov, philosopher A. I. Uyomov and others.

Among the graduates are famous writers Mikhail Dudin, Oleg Gorelov, Pavel Kupriyanovsky, Leonid Taganov, Dmitry Bushuev, Igor Zhukov, Moscow Region Prosecutor Alexander Anikin. One of the university's graduates is the First Deputy Prosecutor of the Vologda Oblast and Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation Alexei Vasilkov.

Ivanovo State University carries out fundamental and applied research in 19 scientific fields. These fields cover practically the whole spectrum of current scientific trends:

• The Natural and Engineering Sciences – 6 fields,
• The Humanities – 7 fields,
• The Social Sciences – 6 fields.

Collaboration of the scientific and educational centres results in coordination of educational process and research:

• Nanomaterials Research Institute
• Intelligentsia Studies Research Institute
• The Tribological Centre of Science and Education
• The Chemical Physics Centre of Science and Education
• The Centre of Studies focusing on the 'Problems of Economic Reliability of Production Systems'
• The Centre of Studies focusing on the 'Problems of Mathematics and Computer Sciences'
• The Archaeological Centre of Science and Education
• The Research Centre of Studying the German Law
• The Laboratory of Communicative Behavior of a Human Being
• The Laboratory of the Research in the Post-Soviet Era
• The Public Laboratory of Research in Criminal and Legal Law
• The Centre of Studies focusing on the Problems of Economic Reliability of Production Systems
• The Center of Industrial and Information Technologies
• The Centre of Studies focusing on the Written Word in the Context of Culture
• The Centre of Ethnic and National Research
• Current Problems of Modern Lexicography
• The Research Centre of Regional Development
• The Research of Poetics of Classical Russian Literature

IvSU publishes a number of scientific journals. Among them one can mention such publications as 'Liquid Crystals and Their Application', 'Woman in Russian Society' and 'Intelligentsia and the World' which are included into the special list of journals recommended for publishing main results of research aimed at gaining the academic degrees of Candidates and Doctors of Sciences.

Besides, the journal 'Liquid Crystals and Their Application' is included into the international citation data bases 'Web of Science' and 'Scopus'. In 2017 the journal 'Woman in Russian Society' was also included into 'Scopus' international citation database.

About 3,000 of students are engaged in physical education in the University. The University Sport Festivals, Freshman Sport Festival, University personal championships, Sport Fests, Health Days, Teachers and Staff Sports Festival, Family Festival, Skiing and Running Festivals are held annually. Representative teams take part in the regional sport festivals among universities, the best athletes of the University participate in national and international competitions.

Students can choose a suitable sports club:

• Athletic gymnastics
• Aerobics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Kayaking
• Kickboxing
• Athletics
• Ski race
• Table tennis
• Powerlifting
• Sambo
• Combat Sambo
• Chess
• Football
• Wushu

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