Russian as a foreign language courses

Russian as a foreign language. Program for beginners and learners with intermediate level of Russian

A one term (340 hours) or one year (700 hours) intensive program for learners without  previous  learning experience or with the introductory knowledge of Russian.

Students who didn’t learn Russian before will be aтle to reach A2 level by the end of the program. Students who learned Russian will be able to improve their Russian to B1 level.

Those learners who plan to continue studying in Russia in a bachelor program have possibility to take an expanded program of 826 academic hours that includes a practical course of Russian, a special course in academic Russian and an audiovisual course of Russian.

We offer a comfortable and interesting studying in international groups with our course teachers who are real professionals with vast experience in teaching Russian  to international students from  all over the world. Our "Russian as a foreign language" students take part in linguistic competitions where they can show how good they have become in Russian.

Our students’ life is full of events. They go to Irkutsk museums and theatre performances. Every year we celebrate traditional Russian holidays such as Christmas Day, Spring Festival. Foreign students participate in the Institute’s Poetry Festival and can present their talents at the annuall Students’ Spring musical festival.

For all our international students there are dormitory rooms available.