Founded 1930 as Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute. Became High Military Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army in 1941 and evacuated to Leninabad in October. Returned from evacuation to Moscow in 1943, transferred to Leningrad in 1944 and became the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute in 1945. Following an Agreement between the government and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1995 the institution received the status of a regional meteorological educational centre of the WMO. Renamed Russian State Hydrometeorological University in 1998. Became a signatory of the Magna Charta Universitatum in 2006.

Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU) offers courses at all levels of higher professional training leading to BA, MA, Specialist, Candidate (equivalent to PhD) and Doctor of Sciences degrees in the area of environmental studies.

RSHU has the status of the Regional Meteorological Training Center of World Meteorological Organization.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
1. The university is an autonomous institution at the heart of societies differently organized because of geography and historical heritage; it produces, examines, appraises and hands down culture by research and teaching.

To meet the needs of the world around it, its research and teaching must be morally and intellectually independent of all political authority and intellectually independent of all political authority and economic power.

2. Teaching and research in universities must be inseparable if their tuition is not to lag behind changing needs, the demands of society, and advances in scientific knowledge.

3. Freedom in research and training is the fundamental principle of university life, and governments and universities, each as far as in them lies, must ensure respect for this fundamental requirement.

Rejecting intolerance and always open to dialogue, the university is an ideal meeting-ground for teachers capable of imparting their knowledge and well equipped to develop it by research and innovation and students entitled, able and willing to enrich their minds with that knowledge.

4. A university is the trustee of the European humanist tradition; its constant care is to attain universal knowledge; to fulfil its vocation it transcends geographical and political frontiers, and affirms the vital need for different cultures to know and influence each other.

Voronezh State University is one of Russia’s leading public research universities whose history can be traced back to 1802.

VSU’s Mission is to generate scientific knowledge, to conduct interdisciplinary programmes aimed at training highly qualified professionals, as well as to implement innovative solutions, ensuring a high quality of life in accordance with the national interest and global market demands.

VSU sees itself as:

an achievement-oriented world-class center of research and education for the Sciences and Natural and Human Resource Management;
a center of interdisciplinary training of Russian and international students in academic programmes which are competitive at the international level;
an entrepreneurial university whose activities are focused on accelerating technology transfer and the adoption of innovative technologies in the hi-tech sector of the economy of the Central Black Earth Region and Russia as a whole;
a dedicated institutional leader in the Central Black Earth Region committed to pooling the intellectual and cultural resources of the higher education system in order to enhance the socio-economic prosperity and improve the people’s living standards.

Founded 1804 as Kazan State University. Acquired current title and status 2010. The main centre of higher education for a vast Volga Region (Povolzhskii Federal District). Created on the basis of Kazan State University, Tatar State University of Humanities and Education, Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute, and Yelabuga State University of Education.

Kazan University is one of the oldest universities in Russia – it celebrated its 210th anniversary in 2014. We considered this milestone as another token of the university’s dedication to its longstanding academic mission as one of the leading educational institutions in Russia and in the world.

Kazan University has gained its international fame thanks to its distinguished scholars and graduates whose achievements have had a beneficial effect on the whole mankind. The unique culture of our University has shaped the development of Kazan and the Volga region. The University’s new federal status obtained in 2010 poses new interesting challenges and calls for new approaches in the rapidly changing world.

Today, Kazan Federal University is a dynamic modern University which participates in local and international cooperation, networking with academia and industry, boosting the region’s human resources development, as well as top-level research and innovation in different areas. Multiple centers of excellence and world-class research and teaching laboratories have been established in recent years. Our participation in the Project 5-100 designates our determination to reach the highest levels of global educational rankings. What we have achieved up to now is an evidence of the right choice of strategy – from a classical to a research university where entrepreneurial and innovative activities are prominently represented.