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PEOPLES’FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia was established by
theDecreeoftheUSSRGovernmentonFebruary5th,1960and
was named Peoples’Friendship University. In February, 1961 it
was named after Patrice Lumumba and in 1992 it was turned
into Peoples’Friendship University of Russia (PFUR).
In February 1975, the University was granted an award of
Peoples’Friendship for its contribution in preparing specialists
from Asian, African and Latin American countries.
Main peculiarity of our University lies in its multicultural
character.Todaythereareabout28,000graduates,post-grad-
uates and interns studying at PFUR.They represent more than
500 nations and nationalities from 152 countries from all
around the world.
The high quality of education provided at PFUR is displayed
through the success of 90, 000 of our alumni who work in al-
most all countries around the world. Among them are a num-
ber of Presidents and Prime Ministers, hundreds of famous
politicians and successful businessmen.
WithinhalfacenturyofitshistoryPFURhasbecomeaworld-
known university and gained popularity as a classical univer-
sity which has been holding leading positions among the best
Russian higher education institutions for many years growing
rapidly up in the international rating lists.
According to the World QS rating PFUR is in the list of Top-
500 world universities (there are only 10 Russian universities
listed inTop-500 world universities).
According to joint project by the ‘Interfax’ Informational
Agency and the QSWorld University Rankings 2014, PFUR is in
Top-100 universities of BRICS states, and 7th among the uni-
versities of Russia, CIS and Baltic countries and 1st in the in-
ternalization.
The University is ranked 4-6th in the National University
ranking 2011/2014 held by the‘Interfax’Informational Agen-
cy and‘Echo of Moscow’.
Peoples’Friendship University of Russia is a great scientific
centre that is taking an active part in carrying out scientific re-
search and experimental development projects within the pri-
orityscientificareas.PFURhasoneofthelargestsystemsof30
dissertationcouncilsinRussiaintendedtoassessscientificand
pedagogical qualifications, i.e. to grant diplomas in PhD and
Doctoral degree.
It is due to active scientific work done by the PFUR research-
ers, that provides the University with high ranking positions
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intheRussianandinternationalrankingsystems.Accordingto
Russiansciencecitationindex(RINC),PFURisranked6thinthe
total number of publications among 10,500 higher education
institutionsandscientificcentresinRussia;–4thamong1,000
higher education institutions in Russia, – 3rd among the uni-
versities in Moscow, 17th in the index of works cited in Russia
and 5th in the index of works cited in Moscow.
PFUR academic team consists of 500 doctorate degree hold-
ers, over 1, 200 Phd holders. There are 57 academicians and
corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and other state and public academies; 28 Honored Scientists
ofRussia.26peoplearehonorarymembersoftheinternation-
al academies and scientific communities. More than 500 em-
ployees are inventors and rationalizers.
Due to their outstanding contribution in science and edu-
cation and the great input into the development of friendship
between the nations, 26 outstanding people from Russia and
other countries were awarded with PFUR Emeritus Professors.
Among them are 2 monarchs, 8 presidents and 2 Prime-Min-
isters.
The University has established long-lasting and firm inter-
national ties with universities as well as international organi-
zations worldwide. PFUR is a member-university of Interna-
tional Association of Universities (IUA), founder and member
oftheEurasiaUniversityAssociation;NetworkUniversityofCIS
member counties, the SCO University (Shanghai Cooperation
Organization), participant of programs of the Association of
Academic Cooperation, member of the Black Sea Universities’
Network (BSUN) and others. PFUR has signed more than 400
agreements of cooperation with foreign universities and sci-
entific centres.
PFUR is a leader among all Russian universities in the to-
tal number of master’s programs in English (more than 30),
as well as joint master’s programs offered in cooperation with
leading world universities (more than 100) which gives stu-
dents an opportunity to receive 2 diplomas at the same time:
one of PFUR and another one of the university-partner.
PFURprovidesalltherequiredconditionsforstudiesandlei-
sure, including well-developed infrastructure. PFUR campus is
one of the best in Russia which has been proved by a number
of awards at annual contests for the Best campus and student
hostels of universities of Moscow and Russia.
PFURprovidescompletesecurity:alluniversitybuildingsare
equipped with modern systems and automatic fire alarm in-
cluding electronic access system and modern system of vid-
eo surveillance to monitor the University territory with 2, 000
video cameras.
Peoples’Friendship University of Russia takes special care of
students,teachersandemployees’health:PFURhasapolyclin-
ic, sanatorium and Medical service centre, more than 70 de-
partments of medicine, a Complex Program‘Health’. Annually
PFUR students and employees undergo a complete examina-
tion. Healthcare is provided with the opportunity to stick to a
healthy diet and do sports- there are more than 20 cafes and
restaurants with exotic traditional dishes of different coun-
tries, physical recreation centre with 45 departments and 40
kinds of sport. Among PFUR graduate and post-graduate stu-
dentstherearewinnersofMoscow,Russianandworldcompe-
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The University, where international students come to spend
5-10 years of their life, provides all required conditions for the
young people to develop and realize their potentials in more
than 30 clubs, groups and studios at Interclub, and develop
leadership skills and active social position at student self-gov-
erning bodies.
High-quality education, knowledge of foreign languages,
research skills, personal contacts and international network
provide demand for PFUR graduates on the labour market in
Russia and abroad.
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TRAINING
SPEICIALISTS
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In 1965, the first 288 young specialists from 47 countries
of the world graduated from PFUR and in 1975 the University
trained about 5,600 specialists including 4,250 graduates for
89 foreign countries. On September 14, 1960, following the
order of Rector PFUR admitted the first international student
which got the Student ID card №1. It was Ahmed Murad Taki
from Sierra Leone. In 1966, he successfully graduated from
the Faculty of Medicine and underwent a 1 year internship
training. After returning to his motherland Ahmed Murad
Taki worked as practitioner and headed a Medical college in
Freetown for many years.
The first foreign postgraduate who successfully defended
the PhD thesis in 1968 was Kante Kabina from the Republic of
Guinea who graduated from the Faculty of Science of PFUR in
1965. After returning to his motherland Kante Kabina worked
asdirectoroftheNationalInstituteofScientificResearch,dean
of the faculty in the University of Conakry and general director
of Department of Bauxite.
The first foreign PhD candidate who defended in 1977 his
doctoral thesis for the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences
was Honmode Jayant Dattatraya from India who graduated
from the Agrarian faculty of PFUR. At his motherland he
headed the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the
University located in Akola for many years.
In 2006, PFUR awarded its 50,000th diploma. It was
awarded to Jose Antiencia Villagomez (Ecuador), graduate
fromtheFacultyofEngineeringwithmajorin“Automatization
and Control”.
As of today Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia has
trained more than 90 thousand specialists from almost all
countries of the world. Every year about 5,000 specialists
graduate from the University.
1960 2010 2012 2013
Total number of
students at PFUR
646 25009 27842 28522
- International students 589 4193 5305 5826
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Every year the proportion of Master’s students from the
general student population is about 15%.
In 2010/2011 academic year 2,024 students studied at
Masters level, in 2011/2012 academic year their number rose
to 2,342 students, in 2012/2013 academic year it reached
2,883 students.
International students
In 1960, 589 international students from 59 countries
studiedintheUniversity.Thus,during55yearsoftheexistence
oftheUniversitythenumberofforeignstudentshasincreased
10 times.
Recentlytheincreaseinthenumberofinternationalstudents
exists due to the students from CIS countries. Therefore, in
2014 their number at all the faculties and institutes reached
2,262 people.
PFUR also admits students from far more countries now,
including Asia-Pacific countries, United States and European
countries.
Distribution of international students at PFUR by regions
2010 2012 2014
CIS and Baltic countries 1132 1997 1764
Countries of Asia 1219 1179 1371
Countries of Africa 766 912 1002
Countries of the Middle East 547 564 530
Countries of North and Latin America 268 444 444
European countries 261 209 332
1960 2000 2010 2012 2013 2014
Number of countries represented
at PFUR
59 116 143 145 148 152

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Quality system of PFUR
 iscertifiedinaccordancewithISOstandard9001:2008bya
French agency AFNOR Certification in 2011;
 the certificates were confirmed based on the results of a
control audit by AFNOR Certification in 2012 and 2013;
 receivedaRussianCertificateofQualityinaccordancewith
GOST R ISO 9001:2008;
 in December 2013, all higher education programs of PFUR
received accreditation of Rospotrebnadzor until 2020.
24 educational programs of PFUR received international ac-
creditation of European agencies.
Based on the results of monitoring of the performance of
federal educational institutions of higher professional educa-
tioncarriedoutbytheMinistryofEducationandScienceofthe
Russian Federation in 2013 PFUR was featured in the list of ef-
ficient universities.
Many things have changed in the University for the last few
years: the number of faculties and specialties has increased,
new multilevel structure of higher education (bachelor -
master - PhD) has been introduced.
Faculty of Russian language and general
educational disciplines - 1 year
Bachelor studies - 4 years
Master studies - 2 years
PhD studies - 3 years
Starting from 2007-2008 academic year students of all
faculties and specialties moved to a new system of training
with the use of credit points, similar to the ECTS with the
issuanceofasingleEuropeanDiplomaSupplementofhigher
education in foreign languages.
For all the disciplines and majors that are part of the
system of credit points there is a point rating system which
includes a multipoint system of credits and a methodology
ofranking of students.
Since 1996, PFUR has a quality management system
for education. Following the Edict of the President of the
Russian Federation of 12 March, 2012, PFUR obtains the
right of developing and implementing its own standards of
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Peoples’Friendship University of Russia has more than 150
laboratoriesandscientificcentersinwhichscientists,PhDcan-
didates and students carry out research in all fields of basic
and applied sciences. Thanks to the technical support of sci-
entific laboratories there are 7,5 students per one laboratory
space (comparing with 7,2 in 2010). Current laboratory devel-
opment of teaching materials, electronic publications of study
materials, laboratory ofTV and Radio service (TV PFUR) and a
classroom(complexoflaboratories)ofconferenceinterpreting
allow to implement many projects. The classroom of confer-
ence interpretingactualized the need for a program of train-
ing interpreters which is implemented at the Philological fac-
ulty.Laboratoryofdevelopmentofmodernteachingmaterials
and electronic publications and printing of modern teaching
materials located at the publishing complex of PFUR allows
to provide edition and printing of modern teaching materials
and other printed materials of the University staff as well as of
non-university authors.
Modernizedscientificlaboratoriesprovidedevelopmentand
expansionoftheresearchcapacityofPFURintoppriorityfields
of science and technologies. High-tech equipment including
unique allow to carry out not only R&D but also commercial
research and to determine development of innovative educa-
tional courses and programs for bachelor and master studies
as well as programs of supplementary professional education.
Technical support in educational process
Joint Educational Programs with foreign universities
International cooperation is an inherent part of the work
of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia as an internation-
al university. It is also an important instrument of securing
the quality of education and its compliance with internation-
al standards.
Elaborationofjointeducationalprogramswithforeignpart-
ners universities is an important aspect of inter-university co-
operation.
Peoples’FriendshipUniversityofRussiaisaleaderamongall
Russian universities in the field of joint educational programs
with the leading universities of the world. The University has
114 programs of Double diploma education with European,
Chinese and CIS universities, including:
 77 programs with universities of CIS countries;
 9 programs with Chinese universities;
 27 programs with European universities;
 1 program with a Canadian university.
Number of programs of Double diploma education
2006/2007 academic year 5
Programs of Double diploma education ensure integration
into international scientific society, as well as knowledge of
the main marketing technologies of universities and help to
assess soberly the place of the University among all other Rus-
sian and foreign educational institutions and to protect intel-
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is in the forefront of
all the universities engaged in elaboration of educational pro-
grams in foreign languages. International impact of such pro-
grams is reflected in the growing adaptation of PFUR gradu-
ates to the global labor market. Thus, in 2014 the University
has 31 master’s programs in English, French and Spanish for
foreign and Russian students.
Educational programs in foreign languages
Admission of students to PFUR
Number of programs
2010 9
2012 19
2013 27
2014 31
In 2014, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia has 9
postgraduate training programs in English.
Choice of your future profession and the university which
can give you knowledge and skills that will be relevant in the
labor markets in the near future is an important decision in
anybody’slife.TheDiplomaofPeoples’FriendshipUniversityof
Russia as a traditional university which offers high quality ed-
ucation that meets international standards is highly valued by
employers. Due to this fact the number of those who want to
study in PFUR is steadily rising.
In 2014, the total number of applications submitted to the
University reached 30,099 which was 1.936 applications more
than in 2013 (28,163) and 5,767 applications more than in
2012 (24,332).
In 2014, admission of full-time students was carried out in
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In 2014, 15,798 applications were submitted to 748 state-
funded places which led to 21,12 applicants per 1 state-funded
place. The enrollment competition for 18 majors was 30 and
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Preparatory courses of the Russian language for interna-
tional students started their work in 1960, whereas other 6
faculties (Engineering, Historical and Philological, Medical,
Agronomy, Faculty of Science, Economics and Law) started in
September, 1st
, 1961.
In the 1990s, new faculties started functioning at PFUR
(Ecological, Economics, Law, Philology, Humanities and social
sciences, Upgrading skills for teachers of Russian as a foreign
language, Upgrading skills for medical workers), as well as
newinstitutesofForeignlanguages,Worldeconomyandbusi-
ness, Distant education, Hospitality and tourism, Gravitation
and Cosmology, new systems of pre-university education and
continuing professional education were developed.
In 2000, Chair of Policy in Higher Education with the status
of UNESCO Department was initiated.
In2011,Educationandresearchinstituteofcomparativeed-
ucational policy started functioning at PFUR, and in 2013 the
Institute of applied technical and economical expertise start-
ed its work.
In 2014, subject to the structural changes at PFUR, Faculties
of Medicine and Law were reorganized into the Institutes of
Medicine and Law.
Today Peoples’Friendship University of Russia consists of 7
major faculties, Faculty of the Russian language and general
disciplines,7educationinstitutes,2educationandresearchin-
stitutes,InstituteofMedico-Biologicalproblems,3facultiesof
upgrading skills, 3 all-University departments, more than 150
labs as well as 2 Centres for Collective usage.
Faculty of Science
Number of departments: 17
Total number of students – 1,057: 792 bachelor’s students,
251 master’s students, 14 specialists
~ 150 PhD students
Tel: +7 (495) 952- 26-44
Е-mail: sci@pfur.ru
Engineering faculty
Total number of students – 2,159: 1,370 bachelor’s students,
~ 160 PhD students
Tel: +7 (495) 952-08-29
Е-mail: rudneng77@yandex.ru
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Medical Institute
Number of departments: 44 departments and 2 courses
Total number of students – 3, 730: 476 bachelor’s students, 8 master’s students,
3, 246 specialists
~ 1, 350 PhD students, clinical residents, internship residents
Tel.: + 7 (495) 433-27-94
Е-mail: med.dekanat@pfur.ru
Ecological Faculty
Total number of students - 381: 324 bachelor’s students, 55 master’s students,
2 specialists
~ 70 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 952-89-01 Е-mail: natchernykh63@mail.ru
Agrarian Faculty
Total number of students - 981: 534 bachelor’s students,
~ 100 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-70-07 Е-mail: agro@pochta.rudn.ru
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Total number of students – 1, 998: 1, 438 bachelor’s students,
~ 250 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-32-66 Е-mail: dekanat.fgsn@gmail.com
Philological Faculty
Number of departments: 9 departments and 1 course
~ 200 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-37-45 Е-mail: filfak-rudn@mail.ru

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Faculty of Economics
~ 200 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-43-15
Е-mail: economy@rudn.ru
Institute of Law
Total number of students – 1, 323: 889 bachelor’s students,
~ 220 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 433-14-80 Е-mail: urdekanat@mail.ru
Faculty of the Russian language and general educational disciplines
Total number of students – 850 (full-time)
Tel.: + 7 (495) 433-01-01
Е-mail: podfak@pfur.ru
Institute ofWorld Economy and Business
Total number of students – 675: 522 bachelor’s students, 39 master’s students,
114 specialists
Tel.: + 7 (495) 433-40-29
Е-mail: info@imeb.ru
Institute of Foreign Languages
Total number of students – 614: 525 bachelor’s students, 62 master’s students,
27 specialists
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-71-60
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Institute of Hospitality andTourism
Total number of students - 436: 282 bachelor’s students, 28 master’s students,
126 specialists
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-15-91
Е-mail: igbit@rudn.ru
Institute of International Programs
Total number of students – 38: 6 bachelor’s students, 32 master’s students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-65-01
Е-mail: imp@rudn.ru
Institute of AppliedTechnical and Economic Research and Expertise
25 bachelor’s students
200 master’s students
26 PhD students
4 doctorate students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 787-38-03, ext. 2051, 2409
Е-mail: iptie2014@yandex.ru
Educational and research institutes
Educational and Research Institute of Сomparative Educational Policy
8 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 787-38-03, ext. 1679
Е-mail: dakata60@mail.ru
Educational and Research Institute of Gravitation and Cosmology
9 PhD students
Tel.: + 7 (495) 434-66-82
Е-mail: a.yefremov@rudn.ru

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In 1960, 194 teachers and researchers started training stu-
dents from Asian, African and Latin American countries. The
academic and research team included 4 Doctoral degree hold-
ers, professors and 26 PhD holders, associate professors.
Tenyearslater,initsanniversaryyear(1970)PFURacademic
team consisted of 864 people (84 Doctoral degree holders and
388 PhD holders).
Today total number of PFUR employees has reached 5, 000
people with 2, 464 teachers (506 Doctoral degree holders, 1,
153 PhD holders), with potential and skills to provide quality
training of specialists and carrying out scientific and research
work in the outlined research frames.
Among the academic and research team at PFUR there are:
 15 academicians and corresponding members of Russian
academies of sciences;
 42 members of public academies;
 28 Honorary scientists of RF;
 15 Honorary doctors of RF;
 6 Honorary lawyers of RF;
 4 Honorary cultural workers of RF;
 2 Honorary economists of RF;
 2 Honorary inventors of RF;
 10 Honorary workers of higher school in RF;
 25 Honorary University professors;
 132 Honorary workers of higher professional education
in RF.
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Honorary Doctorates
26 foreign and Russian political and public activists, outstanding scientists received the title of Honorary Doctors of PFUR.
Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichy
1995
Academician of the Russian Academy
of Sciences, Rector of the Lomonosov
Moscow State University
Otto Hervardt
1995
MD, Head of the Pathology Institute in
Heidelberg University
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva
(1945 – 2001)
1997
King of Nepal
(1972 – 2001)
Ulrich Kunat
1997
MD, Professor, Dr. (Clinic & Surgery) of Free
University of Berlin
Saito Rakuro
(1923 – 1995)
1995
President of Japanese Association of
FormerWar Prisoners (1979-1995)
José Eduardo dos Santos
1998
President of the Republic of Angola

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El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba
2001
2001 President of the Republic
of Gabon
(1967 – 2009)
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
1998
President of the Republic of
South Africa
(1999 – 2008)
Sam Nujoma
1998
President of the Republic of Namibia
(1990 – 2005)
Georges Lochak
1998
Professor, Chief researcher of the French
National Research Center, President of
the Louis de Broglie Society, Senior Editor
of the“Annales de la Fondation Louis de
Brole”magazine
Sheik HasinaWajed
2000
Prime minister of the People’s Republic
of Bangladesh
ChingizTorekulovich Aitmatov
(1928 – 2008)
1999
Writer and public figure, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Kyrgyzstan to Benelux and France
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Olusegun Obasanjo
2001
President of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria
(1999 – 2007)
Franz Halberg
(1919 – 2013)
2006
Director of the Chronobiology Center
of Minnesota
Peter Dutkevitch
2006
Professor, Director of the Institute
of Europe and Russia at Carleton
University of Ottawa
Karim Kazhimkanovich Massimov
2007
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan
Matsuura Kōichirō
2008
Former Director-General of UN
for the matters of educations, research
and culture
(1999 – 2009)
Jan Sadlak
2008
Chief of Section for Higher Education
Policy at UNESCO - CEPES, Paris
(UNESCO-CEPES)
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Willi Eger
2014
Director of the Centre for scientific
calculations of Heidelberg University
Institute of applied mathematics
(Germany)
QianTang
2014
UNESCO Assistant Director-
General for Education
Daisaku Ikeda
2014
Japanese humanist,
philosopher, writer, poet,
founder of the Soka University,
Japan
Mahinda Rajapaksa
2010
President of Democratic
Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Bharrat Jagdeo
2010
President of Co-operative
Republic of Guyana
(1999 – 2011)
Yevgeny Maksimovich
Primakov
2011
President of the Russian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry (2001 –
2011), academician and a member
of the Presidium of the Russian
Academy of Sciences
Her Royal Highness
Princess of the Kingdom of
Thailand Chulapon Mahidol
2012
Her Royal Highness
professor, Doctor of chemistry
Princess of the Kingdom ofThailand
Rafael Correa Delgado
2013
Constitutional President of the
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Science at PFUR

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PFURtakesanactivepartinresearchanddevelopmentwork
in priority research areas in close cooperation with many re-
search institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and oth-
er leading scientific organizations from Russia, CIS and foreign
countries. Every year in PFUR master and doctoral theses are
defended and scientific and technical patents on inventions in
different areas of priority are obtained on a regular basis.
Main scientific achievements of PFUR:
PFURhasbeenfeaturedinscientificorganizationsrankings
for the last 5 years, according to the Russian Science
Citation Index (RSCI):
Among more than 10,500 scientific organizations and
universitiesofRussia:
3 6th
place in the number of scientific publications;
3 17th
place in the citation index.
Amongmorethan1,000scientificorganizationsofMoscow:
3 3rd
place in the number of scientific publications;
3 5th
place in the citation index.
PFURisranked2nd
amongallscientificorganizationsofRus-
sia in the number of national patents obtained for the last
10 years (2002-2012), following government-owned cor-
poration Rosatom and followed by the Ministry of Industry
andTrade of the Russian Federation.
In the number of grants among 105 Russian universities
PFUR ranks:
3 10th
, according to the Russian Foundation for Basic
Research;
3 4th
,accordingtotheRussianFoundationforHumanities.
500 employees of PFUR are inventors and innovators.
PFUR obtained 870 inventor’s certificates and 160 patents
of the Russian Federation.
PFUR registered 2 scientific discoveries.
PFUR founded and modernized:
3 45 scientific-educational centers;
3 150 scientific-educational laboratories;
3 2 Centers of collective use;
3 Scientific-educational center on Nanotechnology.
PFUR obtained 10 RF President’s Grants for young scien-
tists.
Among top-priority scientific fields are:
biomedical technologies in living systems;
nanoengineering, energy and resource saving technologies
and new materials;
environmental management;
information and telecommunication technologies,
computer software systems for nanotechnology and
bioinformation technologies;
cultural, social and economic dynamics of innovative
development of Russia in the context of international
cooperation;
management for competitive advantage of high-tech
industries;
problems and perspectives of development of rocket and
space industry of Russia;
innovative development of CIS.
Guarantee of a high quality education based on the pres-
ervation of its fundamental nature and correspondence to
the current and future needs of the individual, society and
the state is the main task of the education policy of Peoples’
Friendship University of Russia. This task is successfully ful-
filledthankstobasicandappliedresearch,useofresearchre-
sults in the educational process and integration of PFUR into
the world educational space.
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The most significant projects of PFUR:
ContestofStrategicdevelopmentprogramsof2012–2016
3 287 million rubles of funding as of 2012 – 2014;
3 33% of it goes to science.
3 in the frame of SDP more than 30 thousands rubles are
planned to be spent on events on“Modernization of sci-
entific research process and innovative activity”in 2014.
Contest of Development programs of activities of student
associations of 2012-2013. Annual funding reaches 20 mil-
lion rubles, 8 million of which goes to “Science and inno-
vation”.
Contest of Development programs of activities of student
associations of 2014. Funding reaches 14 million rubles in
total,6,9millionofwhichgoesto“Scienceandinnovation”.
Large contest which is part of the project“Development of
cooperation between Russian universities and industrial
enterprisestocreatehigh-techproductionofuniquedrugs”.
Totalfundingasof2013–2015reaches342million rubles,
including 100% of external financing: 40 million rubles in
2013, 55 million rubles in 2014.
In 2014, the victory of a research team led by A.
Skubachevsky in the competition for the right to receive
Grants of the President of the RF for State Support ofYoung
Scientists and Leading Scientific Schools (2014 Contest of
scientific schools) became an important achievement for
PFUR. Grants are given for 2 years to finance the costs of
basic and applied research, including the priority areas of
science, technology and engineering of the Russian Feder-
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Scientists of the University participate in scientific projects included in the following federal target programs (FRP):
Name of the programme/grant 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Federal target programme“Russian language”(2011-2015) 12 13 15 9 8
Federal target programme“Scientific and scientific-pedagogical
personnel of innovative Russia”(2009-2013)
35 39 29 6 -
Federal target programme of Education Development (2011-2015) 1 1 1 7
Federal target programme“Research and development in priority
areas of science and technology sector of Russia”(2007-2013)
1 2 1 -
Russian Foundation for Basic Research 31 28 38 30 29
Russian Foundation for Humanities 15 25 26 25 21
The President of the RF for State Support ofYoung Scientists and
PhDs
2 1 5 6 3
In the frame of international projects and grants PFUR conducts research on request of the United Nations, Interstate fund of
humanitarian cooperation of the participating states of the Commonwealth of Independent States and foreign companies.
Number of research conducted in the frame of national
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Number of research conducted (external sources)
Source of financing 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Federal targeted programmes 33 48 48 40 14
State order (basic part/plan) 33 28 27 23 24
State order (project part/scientific and technological
programmes)
17 18 18 7 3
Programmes of different funds and grants (RFBR,
RFH etc)
42 46 53 64 55
Other 2 0 7 9 10
President’s grants 3 2 1 5 6
Contracted studies 56 59 55 65 69
Other sources 3 8 13 16 29
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One of the key indicators of active scientific and methodical work of faculty and graduate students of the University is publica-
tionofscientificarticles,monographs,textbooks,manualsandothermaterials.HighlevelofscientificpotentialofPFURscientists
is confirmed by acknowledgement of their achievements by national and foreign scientific community.
Indicators of publication activity of PFUR inWoS, Scopus
WоS1
SCOPUS
Articles
Citation
index
h-index Articles
Citation
index
h-index
Cumulative as to
06.30.2012
3729 9185 34 2966 6545 31
Cumulative as to
06.30.2013
4188 10336 35 3188 7219 33
Cumulative as to
06.30.2014
4392 11202 35 3459 9016 35
Cumulative as to
01.11.2014
4507 11821 37 3571 9190 37
Publication activities of professors and scientists of PFUR
1
In the InCites (Thomson Reuters) system
WоS:
 average citation of 1 article – 2,62 (2,47 in 2013)
 average citation of 1 SP – 6,18 (5,11 in 2013)
SCOPUS:
 average citation of 1 article – 2,57 (2,26 in 2013)
 average citation of 1 SP – 4,98 (3,57 in 2013)
Publications in the chemistry field account for more than one
third (31,3%) of all PFUR publications in SCOPUS and for more
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Russian Science Citation Index database
Peoples’Friendship University of Russia profile (as to 28.11.2014):
2014 (cumulative)
Total number of publications in RSCI 34014
Total number of citations of publications 43507
Number of authors 3775
Number of authors registered in Science Index 2129
h-index (Hirsch index) 60
According to RSCI as to 28.11.2014
Name of the indicator 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Total number of publications per year 2789 3277 3704 4158 4734 2764
Number of articles included in the Higher Attestation
Commission list
1365 1764 2143 2361 2513 1854
Number of publication with the participation of foreign
organizations
118 150 139 135 150 27
Number of citations of all publications per yest 3392 4059 5885 6829 7572 4482
Figures for the five years (2009 – 2013) by areas of knowledge
Area of knowledge Number of publications Number of citations
Natural sciences 2436 5136
Engineering sciences 1081 487
Medical sciences 2977 2203
Agricultural sciences 537 167
Social sciences 4720 2276
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The positive dynamics of growth in the number of international conferences held at Peoples’Friendship University of Russia is
registered, while the number of all-Russian conferences remained at the same level.
TheUniversityPlanofinternationalconferencesisincludedintheConsolidatedactionplanoftheMinistryofEducationandSci-
ence of the Russian Federation on an annual basis.
International and all-Russian conferences held at PFUR
Number of international and all-Russian conferences held at PFUR
Total number of conferences International conferences All-Russian conferences
2010 106 46 17
2011 96 36 20
2012 116 29 29
2013 138 51 20
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ThetrendsinthedevelopmentofhighereducationinRussia
require close ties between education and scientific research,
especially in the priority areas of science and technology, thus
the University considers the area of scientific and research
work of students one of the most important areas of its devel-
opment. The fields of activity in the frame of Students’scien-
tific research correspond with the priority R&D areas of PFUR.
In 2014, the number of students engaged in different forms
of R&D reached 1,500 people. The University departments
hold 75 scientific study groups with the total number of par-
ticipantsofmorethan1,200students.ThePFURStudentscien-
tific society leads an active work as well.
In 2014, Peoples’Friendship University of Russia held a total
number of 50 scientific and scientific-practical conferences of
students, graduates and young scientists with 10 of them be-
ing international and 13 – all-Russian.
ThestudentsparticipateinR&Dactivityofthedepartments.
Each year the interest for scientific research is rising which is
reflected in the publication activity of students.
Students’scientific research
Students› scientific research in 2012 – 2014:
2012 2013 2014
2015
(plan)
Number of full-time students involved in paid research and development work 213 301 303 310
Number of students’publications 1215 1420 1430 1400
Number of students’projects submitted to national, international and other contests 73 180 213 246
Number of President and Government scholarships for students 12 13 12 12
The students of PFUR actively participate in implementing
scientific research results in production. In 2014 30 students
worked in small innovative enterprises founded at the prem-
ises of PFUR.
R&D activity is funded from different sources: scholarship
programs,grants,extrabudgetaryresourcesofPFUR.Students
get included in research teams engaged in funded scientific
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Dissertation Councils
30 dissertation councils for the defense of the PhD and Doc-
toral dissertations work in PFUR today and provide training of
highly qualified staff in 15 branches of science and 67 special-
ties including:
9 in the Institute of Medicine;
4 at the Faculty of Science;
4 at the Faculty of Social and Humanitarian Sciences;
2 at the Faculty of Engineering;
3 at the Philological Faculty;
3 in the Institute of Law;
2 at the Faculty of Economics;
1 at the Agrarian Faculty;
1 at the Ecological Faculty.
In 2013, in Dissertation councils of PFUR and other organi-
zations 405 theses were defended by post-graduate students,
doctoral candidates and employees of the University and oth-
er Russian and foreign organizations:
 50 PhD dissertations;
 355 Candidate dissertations.
Foreigncitizensdefended57Candidatedissertationsinclud-
ing 52 theses defended in PFUR dissertation councils.
Data on Defense ofTheses by the University employees in 2010 – 2013
2010 2011 2012 2013
DSc PhD DSc PhD DSc PhD DSc PhD
Number of Defenses
ofTheses (by PFUR
employees)
22 38 9 37 18 22 10 49
The year 2013 was full of changes in reorganization of the
Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation.
In February 2013,V. Filippov, rector of PFUR, was appointed
chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission.
Following the Decree of the Government of the Russian Fed-
eration in 2013 Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia was
elected as one of the 10 Universities for approbation of“Elec-
tronic HAC”system.
In November 2013, the website of the PFUR Dissertation
Councils (dissovet.rudn.ru) began to work. It conducts the
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Information about intellectual property objects registered
in Rospatent can be found in the UNI database “Intellectual
property” in the “Patents and certificates”. Database contains
notonlyinformationaboutobjectsregisteredbyPFURbutalso
objects, titles to which belong to the University employees. As
to December 1st, 2014, database contains information about
469inventions(titlesto349ofwhichbelongtoPFUR),65util-
itymodels(titlesto44ofwhichbelongtoPFUR),133software
and databases (titles to 84 of which belong to PFUR). All ob-
jects of intellectual law registered by PFUR in Rospatent are
registered as intangible assets.
Patents obtained by professors and Scientist of PFUR
Results of intellectual activity 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of applications for a patent on objects of
industrial property
20 31 11 19 14
Number of obtained patents on objects of industrial
property
22 18 11 30
20, is a US
patent
Certificate of software registration 2 3 2 27 23
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Training of high qualified staff is one of the main fields of
concern of the University faculty and staff in the contest of
innovative changes in the education system of the Russian
Federation. In 2013/2014 academic year 3,227 people were
trained at all modes of training of high qualified staff.
In 2014, PFUR in cooperation with the leading European
partner universities realizes 23 programs of a double scientif-
ic management.
PFUR is ranked 1st among Russian universities in the pro-
portion of postgraduate education which is equal to ap-
proximately 20% of students of BEP (with master studies
taken into consideration this figure reaches 30%).
PFURisranked4thamong29nationalresearchuniversities
and8federaluniversitiesintermsof«Overallperformance
of post-graduate and doctoral studies».
The effectiveness of doctoral studies reached 50% in 2013
(the average figure among Russian universities is 36%).
The effectiveness of post-graduate studies reached 60,8%
in 2013 (the average figure among Russian universities is
32%).
Training of high qualified staff
Total number of students (Russian and foreign citizens) at all modes of postgraduate studies
Doctoral
candidates
All but
dissertation
Post-
graduate
students
Seeker of the candidate
degree/foreign interns
Resident
medical
practitioners
Interns Total
2010 19 26 489 236 277 381 1428
2011 18 17 508 182 296 365 1386
2012 23 24 511 140 258 372 1328
2013 19 36 590 203 332 401 1581
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Number of post-graduates among 100 students 9,6 8,9 8,8 10,9 10
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In 2013, the University participated in the competition for
the admission quotas to graduate school and residency for the
first time and received a state accreditation of basic education
programsincluding145programsofpost-graduatestudies,54
for residency and 22 for internship programs.
In 2014, the total number of the University programs of
training of high qualified staff reached its historical high of
267.
10 PFUR post-graduate students received President and
Government scholarships for 2013/2014 academic year and
6 postgraduate students received scholarships of the PFUR
Academic Board.
PFUR partnerships and cooperation
 Roscosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency
Russian space systems, the leading enterprise of the rocket and space industry specialized in developing, producing, supervis-
ing and exploiting space information systems.
 Rosatom, State Atomic Energy Corporation
 Zarubezhgeologia, specialized organization for exploration works abroad
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 ORKK, United Rocket and Space Corporation
 Lukoil, international oil company
 Gazprom, leading gas company
 Alrosa, Russian mining corporation
 National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute and 35 R&D Institutes of RAS
 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, Moscow Institute of Physics andTechnology, National
Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (ETU), St. Petersburg Mining University,
South Federal University, Russian State University for the Humanities, Diplomatic academy and MGIMO
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Peoples’Friendship
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InternationalcooperationisanintegralpartofPFURactivity
asaninternationaluniversity.Itservesanimportanttoolinse-
curing quality of education and international academic stan-
dards.
 Ranked 1st in the Reuters Agency’s rating of classical uni-
versities in terms of internationalization
 Ranked 1st in the National rating of universities for
2012/2013intermsofdevelopmentofinternationalactiv-
ity (internationalization)
 Ranked 1st among the universities of CIS countries and
Baltics in terms of internalization
 Ranked 1st among the BRICS universities in terms of in-
ternalization
 Ranked in the World Top-500 in the QS World Universi-
ty Rankings 2014
 82nd in the QS BRICS ranking
 84th in the QS World University Rankings in terms of the
number of international students
 Among 20 best Russian universities according to Webo-
metrics global ranking
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
is a member of the following international
organizations:
 member of the International Association of Universities
(IAU);
 memberoftheEuropeanAssociationofUniversities(EAU);
 founder and member of the Eurasian Association of
Universities;
 member of the Francophone University Association (AUF);
 member of the European Association for International
Education;
 member of the «N+I» Network of Engineering Universities
(France);
 member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development Program on Institutional Management
in Higher Education (OECD PIMH);
 member of the International Association of Russian
Language and LiteratureTeachers (IARLLT);
 member of the Institutional Network of the Universities
from the Capitals of Europe;
 member of the Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN)
 member of the Observatory of the Great Charter of
Universities;
 founder and member of the International Network for
Cooperation among the Universities of Europe and Central
Asia (UNINET-ECA);
 founder and member of the Academic Network of the
Universities from East and South Europe(AIMOS);
 member of International Observatory on Academic
Ranking and Excellence IREG
 memberoftheEuropeanUniversitiesContinuingEducation
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PFUR initiated organizing the CIS Network University and
today it serves its national and international coordinator.
PFUR Rector heads the international and national Rectors’
meetings of the SCO University Board of Rectors.
PFUR initiated the foundation of the BRICS Network Univer-
sity.
Having started inter-university master’s program ‘Interna-
tional security of the human rights’in 2009, PFUR became the
leadingUniversityoftheConsortiumbetweentheMoscowState
Institute for International Relations (MGIMO), RSHU, PFUR, Ka-
zan Federal University, Perm State National research Universi-
ty and Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
PFUR is participant of programs and forums of UN, UNESCO
and Council of Europe.
PFUR has founded the Chair of Policy in Higher Education
with the status of UNESCO department.
Structure of the International Office
 Department of CIS and Baltic countries
 Department of African countries
 Department of North American and Latin American
countries
 Department of Asian countries
 The Department of the Middle East
 The European Department
 Department of academic mobility
 Institute of International Programs
 National information centеr on academic recognition and
mobility
 Academic-research Institute of Comparative Educational
Policy
 Center of strategic research of Asian-Pacific region
 Centre of Francophone
International interuniversity cooperation
One of the most important strategic tendencies in the
development of the University is inviting most prom-
inent international professors and activists in the
sphere of education to give lectures and special cours
esatPFURupontherequestofthefacultiesandinstitutes.
Annually there are about 200 professors and lecturers
from our partner –universities visiting PFUR and about
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Level of undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students
academic exchange
There are more than 500 exchange students having visited
PFUR within the academic mobility program in accordance
with the agreements of cooperation with an average annual
amount of 400 – 450 students in 2010 – 2013.
In 2014, more than 300 international students arrived at
PFURtocarryoutstudiesandtakeupinternshipswithinofthe
studentexchangeprograminaccordancewiththeagreements
between the governments on cooperation with foreign
universities.
The recent years can be characterized with a rise of
popularity and variety of forms of such progressive types of
student exchange as summer (holiday) schools. There are
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Informatization
of PFUR

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PFUR leads an active work aimed at developing and implementing new information systems and modernizing the existing
ones. Special attention is paid to the set of actions on elaborating the unified information system.
Name 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Total number of working computers in the
educational process
2126 2239 2268 2203 2280
Number of classrooms with free access to the
Internet (including classrooms with wireless
access)
108 115 121 122 125
Number of classrooms with multimedia
projectors
181 195 207 235 250
Number of wireless broadband internet
access points to the PFUR network
63 79 167 271 560
Since2002,intheUniversityhasbeensuccessfullyfunctioning
the PFUR educational portal (EP) which is a structured web-
portal with websites distantly updated by registered users.
EP is intended for constant use by all university units and
faculty in order to transfer part of the classes from classrooms
to its webpages and to broaden the opportunities of the
professors and students.
EP is an automatized system which unites all educational
websites of all professors, disciplines, majors, departments
and faculties on the Internet.
In 2014, the PFUR EP contains 71,000 units of educational
materials (against 45,000 in 2010).
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Studyandresearchinformationlibrariancenter(Scientificli-
brary) provides information support of the research activity at
the University.
The scientific fund of the SRILC (SL) in print and electronic
formats is presented in the Electronic librarian system (PFUR
ELS).
In cooperation with large international consortiums SRILC
(SL) organizes connection to electronic sources in Russian and
English. Information on scientific and scientometric databases
is presented on the website in the section“Electronic sources
for scientific activity”and“Open electronic sources”.
SRILC(SL)conductsscientific-practicalseminarsandrealizes
programs of supplement education.
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Information support of the employees’activity
PFUR is actively working at the information support of the activity of administrative staff.
Name 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Percentage of orders issued in electronic
document management system (compared
to total volume of orders)
28 35 32 32 33
Percentage of administrative staff using
e-mail for working tasks
80 80 80 80 84
Total volume of mail sent (Gb) 90 109 142 144 192,8
Name 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Percentage of publications presented at the
scientific library in electronic format among
all the publications
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System
of continuing education
at PFUR

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System of continuing education at PFUR is:
 30 departments of CPE – education centres, institutes and
faculties of upgrading skills which train specialists in ac-
cordance with the changing demands of the market;
 More than 1, 500 CPE programs;
 Morethan1,500programsforupgradingskillsandreceiv-
ing new qualifications (72 -1,000 hours’programs)
 19, 827 students
 1, 493 international students at CPE
 24 programs offered in foreign languages
 274 CPE programs and CE upon request of companies, or-
ganizations, state and municipal institutions
 95 programs with the use of distant education technolo-
gies and methods of online education
 14 summer schools with classes in English and Spanish
 Centres of preparing for Cambridge ESOL, DELF, PRO, DELE,
TestDaF examinations
PFUR comes first among the Russian universities in the
share of post-university education - ~20% students for
major educational programs (~ 30% if master’s students
included).
PFUR is cooperating with the biggest business companies
and state corporations of the Russian Federation such as
RF Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Healthcare, Gazprom,
Surgutneftegas, Bayer, UN, Rostechnologies, TSNIImash and
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CPE structural unit:
 Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining (IASR)
 Faculty ofTraining Medical Employees (FTME)
 Faculty of Training Teachers of Russian as a Foreign Lan-
guage (FTTRFL)
 Faculty ofTraining Foreign LanguageTeachers (FTFLT)
 Higher School of Management and Economic Security
(HSMES)
 SPE Interdisciplinary Center“Perspectiva”
 Teaching and Research Centre for Radiation and Environ-
mental Control (TRCREC)
 International Institute for Contractual Systems Develop-
ment (IICSD)
 InternationalAcademyofTelevisionandInformationBusi-
ness (IATIB)
 Institute of Oriental Medicine
 Center for Education andTraining (CET)
 Driving School
 Department for Special Education
 Main Russian LanguageTesting Center for Foreign Citizens
 Computer testing center“TEST-COMP”of the Department
of ComputerTechnology
 Institute of Continuing Medical Education and socio-de-
mographic research
 School educational attainment for migrants
CPE centers at the faculties and Institutes:
 Institute of Law CPE
 Medical Institute CPE
 Faculty of Humanitarian and Social Sciences CPE
 Ecological faculty CPE
 Agrarian faculty CPE
 Philological faculty CPE
 Faculty of Economics CPE
 Institute of Foreign Languages CPE
 Institute ofWorld Economy and Business CPE
 Institute of Hospitality Business andTourism CPE
 Institute of International Programs CPE
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Pre-university training:
 CMSE «Unikum»
 Bio-medical school“Medic”
CMSE“Unikum”trains perspective students to take State Fi-
nal Examination, Unique state examination and participate in
creative competitions in order to enter PFUR and other Rus-
sianuniversities.Moreover,theCentrealsopreparesbachelor’s
students to take up master’s programs. CMSE“Unikum”offers
programs for specialized classes in the Moscow and Moscow
region schools.
Bio-medical school «Medic» is responsible for organizing
and maintaining educational process for prospective students
using modern techniques in order to prepare them to pass
the Unified State Exam in chemistry, biology, the Russian lan-
guage (including one-to-one classes in the USE format) in or-
der to help the schoolleavers enter any Russian university spe-
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Learning
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Department of the Russian language of the Pre-university
faculty headed by E. Motina was the first department estab-
lished at the University. In October 1960, more than 100 pro-
fessors of Russian language started to work in the University.
The Department was divided into sections of Latin America,
South-Eastern Asia, Middle East and Africa and study groups
of international students were formed subject to their majors.
Currently PFUR has 10 departments of Russian language
which teach Russian to Russian and international students.
Russian language is taught by about 300 professors in-
cluding:
 20 DSc;
 136 PhD;
 6 incumbent and corresponding members of state and
public academies of sciences of Russia;
 4honoraryworkersofhigherprofessionaleducationofthe
Russian Federation.
From 2010 to 2014, professors of the Russian language
wrote 500 textbooks and manuals, including 104 with labels
of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Feder-
ationandnationalacademicassociations.Textbooksandman-
uals developed at PFUR are widely used in Russian universi-
ties as well as in foreign ones. For instance, the textbook by C.
Khavronina and A. Shirochenskaya“Russian language in exer-
cises”has been used for 50 years and published 70 times in 18
languages.
PFUR specialists in Russian philology participate not only in
academic but also in scientific activity as well. For the last 5
years they have prepared 2,500 publications, including:
 450workspublishedinscientificjournalsfeaturedinHigh-
er Attestation Commission register;
 500 publications issued abroad;
 45 monographs;
 scientific articles devoted to the Russian language and
methods of its teaching.
Professors of the Russian language of PFUR maintain close
scientifictieswithMoscowStateUniversity,RussianLanguage
Institute of RAS, Institute of Linguistics of RAS, Pushkin State
Russian Language Institute, specialists in Russian philology
from Spain, Italy, France, CIS countries, India, China, Sri Lan-
ka and other countries; they also participate in the work of
different public professional organizations: International As-
sociation ofTeachers of Russian Language and Literature (MA-
PRYAL), Russian Society of Teachers of Russian Language and
Literature (ROPRYAL) etc.
It is worth mentioning the significant contribution that
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia made to the estab-
lishment of the school of the Russian Language in Zvyozdny
Gorodok (Cosmonauts’ training centre) for teaching Russian
language to foreign astronauts. Programs of intensive studies
elaborated in PFUR allow to spend only 3 months preparing
candidates for learning technical disciplines related to space
inRussian.Languagespaceprogramisalsosuccessfullyimple-
mented by PFUR specialists among“space tourists”who have
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6 months or 1 year to learn Russian in order to communicate
with space crew.
In 1967, the University established a faculty of Refresher
training for teachers of Russian as a foreign language (FRT-
TRF). The faculty organizes on a regular basis scientific and
methodological schools, courses, internships, distant network
schools, webinars, international round tables, conferences of
professors and managers of nurseries, educational institu-
tions, and international organizations in full-time and part-
time form. FRTTRF staff published 48 monographs, more than
250textbooks,referencebooks,dictionaries,methodicrecom-
mendations including electronic, and more than 1,600 scien-
tific and methodological articles many of which are featured
in SCOPUS and RSCI.
FRTTRF staff is the winner of such contests as“Leading sci-
entific and pedagogical staff of PFUR”(2010 – 2012), and has
diplomas of the International Fair“School of the year”, certifi-
cate of ETS Global Institute of USA, diplomas of International
Information forum“Eurasia Ring”etc.
Since 1999, PFUR has a Head Russian language testing cen-
ter for foreign citizens (HRLTCFFC) which is the main executive
organofStateSystemofTestingRussianasaForeignLanguage
established by the Ministry of Education of Russia. Today the
testingsystemisusedin160universitiesinRussiaandabroad.
In 2009, HRLTCFFC as part of the RussianTest Consortium suc-
cessfully passed the ALTE audit.
From 2010 to 2013, Head testing center tested 13,634 can-
didates for TORFL certificate, 29,887 candidates for the Rus-
sian citizenship Certificate and 5,753 candidates for work per-
mit Certificate in the territory of the Russian Federation. From
2009 to 2013, HRLTCFFC organized and conducted tests for
96,045candidatesforCertificateofstatetestingintheRussian
language in total.
Foreign languages at PFUR
Trainingofspecialistsindifferentsphereswhospeakforeign
languages and can work as translators and interpreters has al-
waysbeenoneofthetopprioritiesofPFUReducationalpolicy.
Professor N. Firsova, Doctor of Philological sciences, mem-
ber of the International Academy of Sciences of Higher School,
isconsideredtobetherightfulfounderoftheschoolofforeign
language and teaching translation at PFUR.
Today PFUR has 9 departments of foreign languages which
provide professionally-oriented teaching of foreign languages
in accordance with the basic specialty of students of faculties
and institutes.
Training specialists with higher linguistic education is car-
ried out by the Philological faculty and Institute of Foreign
Languages; master programs of training of linguists-transla-
tors also exist at the departments of foreign languages of the
Faculty of Economics and Institute of Law.
Teaching is provided by 285 professors of foreign languag-
es including 9 DSc, 107 PhD, 16 professors and 86 associate
teachers. 4 of them are incumbent members of public acad-

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emies of science, 8 professors are Honorary Workers of High-
er Professional Education and Honorary teachers of the Rus-
sian Federation.
For the last 5 years the staff of the departments of foreign
languages prepared more than 2,875 scientific and method-
ological works including 20 textbooks and manuals with la-
bels, 56 monographs, 461 articles in journals, recommended
by HAC of the Russian Federation, 149 publications in foreign
scientific journals including 12 publications in foreign scientif-
ic journals featured inWoS/Scopus databases.
PFUR students study English, French, Spanish, German, Ital-
ian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Persian, Latin languages in dif-
ferent programs of supplementary professional education.
StudentsoftheUniversitydefendthesesinforeignlanguag-
es according to their majors, participate in conferences and
publish articles in foreign languages, undergo internships in
foreign partner universities and organizations, get enrolled in
theprogramsofsupplementarylanguagetraining,participate
in international competitions and win them and obtain grants
for education abroad.
PFUR established 2 examination centers that work today.
During 2013, 284 PFUR students successfully passed interna-
tionalcertificateexaminationsinforeignlanguages.PFURalso
develops cooperation between its departments of foreign lan-
guages and several foreign educational centers including:
 Goethe-Institut
 Instituto Cervantes
 Institut Francais de Russie
 Cambridge ESOL
 British Council
 The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
 Beijing Language and Culture University
 Cultural Center of Embassy of Egypt
 Simon Bolivar Latin American Cultural Center
 Information center on French higher education “Campus
France”
 Russian cultural center in Amman (Jordan)
PFUR departments of foreign languages successfully cooper-
ate with foreign universities including universities and linguis-
ticcollegesofGreatBritain,USuniversities,universitiesanded-
ucationalorganizationsofFrance,Germany,Spain,SouthKorea,
Latin America and Italy.
In 2005, Peoples’Friendship University of Russia established
a Faculty of refresher training for foreign language teach-
ers which prepares specialists in training of foreign languages
teachers and their methods of teaching, organizes internships
and professional retraining and prepares for the foreign lan-
guages proficiency exams of different levels: DELE (Spanish),
DELFandDALF(French),TOEFLandIELTS(English),DaFandOSD
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PFUR pays special attention to the development of student
self-governing bodies, creation and support of various stu-
dent organizations, unions and communities. The major part
of the student organizations are fraternities of international
students, first of which started functioning straight after the
University’s foundation. In 1960, there was already a fraterni-
ty of Iraq students, in 1961- fraternities of students from In-
donesia, Jordan, Yemen, Cuba, Lebanon, Mexico, Sudan, Chile
and Japan.
In 1995, the first regional fraternity of international stu-
dents was founded- Federation of students from Latin Ameri-
caandtheCaribbean.In1996,PFURAssociationofAfricanstu-
dents (ASSAFTSU) was initiated. In 2001- Association of Arab
studentsatPFURandPFURAssociationofstudentsfromAsia–
Association‘Asia’.
In 1997, the first union (association) of students from re-
gions (constituents) of RF was established, i.e. Association of
students from Republic of Altai. In 1999 – the first fraterni-
ty of students from CIS countries started its work (Republic of
Kazakhstan).
Today there are more than 200 student organizations at
PFUR:
 PFUR Student Council (established in November 2001. Co-
ordinates the activities of student associations);
 Student campus Council (established in 2005; coordinates
activities of student dorm councils);
 Student council of the sport club‘Druzhba’;
 Women’s Committee (established in 1964);
 Public student council of PFUR Interclub;
 4 regional organizations of PFUR international students
(Association of African students (ASSAFTSU) PFUR, Associa-
tionofArabstudentsatPFUR,PFURAssociationofstudents
from Asia and Federation of students from Latin America
and the Caribbean);
 107 student fraternities of international students;
 16 student unions from regions (constituents) of RF;
 12 faculty and institutes student communities;
 13 Student Councils of hostels;
 73 professional student associations.
Student organizations and unions hold more than 800 var-
ious events (holidays, festivals, days and weeks of cultures of
variousworldnations,exhibitions,evenings,dedicatedtospe-
cial dates in Russia and in the homelands of PFUR students,
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Physical culture has always been a priority sphere for devel-
opment at PFUR.
Physical-recreation centre PFUR was established in 1996.
Today the Department of Physical education and sport pro-
vides grounds for classes with total number of full-time stu-
dents of 7, 850 (408 hours for the whole period of education
at PFUR). Attending classes is compulsory for the 1st and 2nd
year students.
What we have:
 Stadium with grandstands capable of hosting 3,000 peo-
ple;
 Football and baseball stadium hosting 300 people
 2 covered artificial turf fields for mini- football in “Me-
gasphera”;
 2 sport halls (each 680 square meters);
 2 basketball and volleyball grounds in“Megasphera”;
 Football-hockey rinks;
 Run tracks (200 m and 400m);
 2 jumping tracks;
 15 tennis courts (6 outdoors and 9 indoors );
 4 halls for athletic gymnastics (2 male and 2 female);
Student sport
 2 fitness halls;
 Ski’s (450 pieces);
 2 halls for martial arts;
 2 gyms;
 5 Badminton areas (4 indoors, 1 outdoor);
 Chess-club;
 Cardioarea:10athletictracks,4ellipticalmachinesand10
stationary bicycles
On the territory of PhRC PFUR in 2014-2015:
 27 teams formed in various types of sports;
 45 functioning sections in 40 kinds of sports.
Annually held:
 PFUR Olympics in 10 types of sports
 Fraternity, regional and interregional competitions
 Olympicsofstudentconstructionteams‘FriendshipMerid-
ian’
 Mini-Championship in football, mini-football, basketball
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TheCluboftheUniversitylocatedatOrdzhonikidzestreet,3,
began its work in 1960-1961. First groups were formed: dance
group, vocal group, theatrical group, art studio, light music or-
chestra and pop bands.
Performance groups were formed in fraternities of foreign
students and according to the international principle. They
preserved national traditions and customs.
Today the International culture center (PFUR Interclub)
hosts on continuing basis 14 performance groups:
 Folk group – International dancing group “Rhythms of
friendship”
 Preparatory group and children’s group of “Rhythms of
friendship”
 Musical plastic studio“Isadora”
 Studio of academic vocal“Orpheus”
 Folk studio «Raduga»
 Pop vocal studio
Word art studio
Theatrical calisthenics studio
 Pop dancing studio «Gloria»
 Modern dancing studio «Adel»
 Exotic dance show «Amaren»
 Dance group“Legendi Gor”
Theatre studio
 Mind games club“What?Where?When?”
Today Interclub hosts 42 amateur student groups of 1,000
people in total (in 2010, there were 31 groups with 512 peo-
ple in total) that unite students from Asia, Africa, Latin Amer-
ica, Middle East, regions of Russia, countries of CIS and Baltic
countries.
Every year student groups of the University participate in
150 concert programs at venues of PFUR, Moscow, Russia and
foreign countries, take part in many student festivals and win
on a regular basis. For the last 5 years the total number of stu-
dents who won and received diplomas has exceeded 260 peo-
ple.
As a result of hard work of administration and heads of the
groups during the last few years the total number of all stu-
dent performance groups members has risen from 673 to
1,076 people (41%) and the number of foreign members has
reached 518 people which is 48% of a total number of mem-
bers.
The leading position among all performance groups of In-
terclub belongs to the International dancing group“Rhythms
of friendship”(Director – Honorary worker of Culture of the RF
Valentina Ryazanova). In 2011, this group celebrated its 40th
anniversary.Everyyearthegroupadmitsmorethan40people;
forallyearsofitsexistencethisinternationalgrouphastaught
dances of the peoples of the world to more than 1,700 people
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Construction teams
In summer 1964, students of Patrice Lumumba Peoples’
Friendship University from 18 different countries of Asia, Af-
rica and Latin America went to the virgin lands of Kazakhstan
for the first time in order to help in the construction of houses
andgranaries,aswellasinharvesting.Theynamedtheirinter-
national group“Youth of the Planet”.
ThefollowingsummerthePFUstudentsfrom25countriesof
Asia, Africa and Latin America worked there.
In1968,PFUfounded6universitygroupsthatworkedindif-
ferent parts of USSR and helped to build the new building of
the University in Moscow.
PFU International constructional team existed till 1990.
In 1999, upon the initiative of PFUR students, Rector and
tradeuniontheInternationalconstructionalteam“Meridianof
Friendship”resumed its work.
Starting from 2001, the International constructional team
“MeridianofFriendship”hasbeenworkingonanall-yearbasis
and has become a structural division of the University.
In 2008,“Meridian of Friendship”was re-organized and be-
came the Center of youth student building teams“Meridian of
Friendship”.
Starting from 2010, apart from student building teams an
agricultural team, IT team, service team and volunteer team
were formed.
For the last 5 years the total number of members of“Merid-
ian of Friendship” has reached 1,700 students from 79 coun-
tries.
Therearetwoeducationalprogramsforthemembersofstu-
dent building teams: School for training team leaders and Ba-
sicTraining. For the last 5 years 327 students have undergone
training in these schools.
“Meridian of Friendship”has repeatedly won at city conven-
tions of student building teams organized by the Department
ofCultureofMoscowinseveralcategories:“Beststudentteam”
and“Best student team of commissar’s work”.The PFUR Inter-
nationalconstructionalteamalsohasDiplomasoftheGovern-
ment of Moscow.
The staff received the highest award of Russian Student
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StudentKVN(ClubfortheLightheadedandQuick-witted)
PFUR Club for the Lightheaded and Quick-witted, which
unites members from different subjects of the Russian Feder-
ation, as well as from foreign countries, is a perfect example
of bringing up culture of behavior in a multicultural environ-
ment.
KVNmovementinPFURstartedin1996.Decisiononholding
annual tournaments for PFUR KVN Championship was made
in 1999. For all years of its existence KVN has formed its sys-
tem with rules and traditions. The University has its own KVN
champions. The most outstanding KVN members were put
down in the Book of Honor of PFUR.
PFUR KVN team has more awards than any other club in the
InternationalKVNClub.ItistheonlyteamontheInternational
KVN Club that has all kinds of medals:
Bronze medal (2003)
Silver medal (2004)
Gold medal (2006)
The most triumphal moment for PFUR KVN team was 2007
KVN Summer cup in Sochi when the team became the Cham-
pion of the Champions.
KVN teams from PFUR participated in International Music
Festivals inYurmala (Latvia) 10 times.They hold the record for
the highest number of awards of this prestigious Festival.The
first award“Big KiViN in Light”went to the team“Children of
Lumumba” (in 1998), then PFUR KVN team got two awards
“Big KiViN in Dark” (in 2002 and 2004), two awards “Small
KiViN in Gold”(in 2003 and 2005) and the highest prize of the
Festival“Big KiViN in Gold”(in 2006).
The whole collection of prizes of PFUR KVN teams features
Moscow Cup (won by the team “Children of Lumumba” in
1999), 5 awards of Interuniversity tournament of the South-
West Administrative District Prefect Cup (won by Senior KVN
team in 2001 and 2002, the KVN team RUDNiK in 2007 and
2008 and by Junior KVN team in 2012), the South Administra-
tive District Prefect Cup (won by KVN Second team), Moscow
MayorCup,uniqueCupsfromTyumen,Kazakhstan,theChech-
en Republic, Prague, as well as certificates, diplomas and let-
ters of gratitude.
PFUR KVN teams participated in various Leagues of Inter-
national KVN Union. Almost all PFUR teams have taken part
in the Moscow league, the First league held in Kazan, Ryazan,
Tyumen, St. Petersburg and Minsk, the Baltics league (Saint
Petersburg),theNorthernleague(Khanty-Mansyisk),theEuro
league (Minsk) where PFUR KVN team became a champion in
2002, the Central Ryazan league where the team “RUDNiK”
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league, the Premier league where“RUDNiK”was a semifinalist
in2008,andtheHigherKVNleague(Moscow)wherethisteam
became a quarterfinalist in 2009.
In 2011, after 5 years of absence the PFUR KVN team re-
turned to the Music Festival in Yurmala dedicated to the 50th
anniversary of KVN and once again proved its right to call it-
self the best musical team by winning its second“Big KiViN in
Gold”.
The new wave of the KVN movement owes its existence to
theincumbentinternationalPFURKVNteam,winneroftheIn-
teruniversity tournament for the Cup of Prefect of South-West
administrative district (2012) and holder of the Cups of II and
IIIMoscowfestivalsofnationalhumor“Vsesvoyi”(“NoStrang-
ers”) in 2011 and 2012. After the season of 2012 in the Big
League of KVN“Povolzhie”(cities of Kazan, Ufa, Tolyatti, Che-
boksary) the team became third out of 36 teams who started
in the beginning.
In 2013, the Junior PFUR team with the support of the Se-
nior team brilliantly made its first appearance in “Dzintari”
concert hall inYurmala and won“Small KiViN in gold”award.
In December 2013, PFUR team participated in XXV Interna-
tional festival of KVN teams in Sochi and was invited to play in
the Big League of the International KVN Union which means
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University Newspaper «Druzhba» (Friendship) is the official
publishing organ of the Peoples’Friendship University of Rus-
siathatrepresentsitsnumerousstaff:students,professorsand
employees.The first issue of the newspaper was published on
February 5, 1962. It was circulated among participants of the
solemnmeetingtomarkthePFUanniversarywhichtookplace
in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses in order to show them the
newly born newspaper.The publishing organ was founded by
theUniversityAcademicCouncilupontheinitiativeoffraterni-
ties and student organizations.
Today the newspaper circulation has reached 2,000, and
certain issues include 20 pages of A4 format. Announcements
andnewissuesinelectronicformatcanbefoundattheofficial
website of the University.
The newspaper is published in color and distributed free
of charge. In its pages the paper highlights the scientific and
business life in PFUR, international matters, events in PFUR
culture and sport life, students’problems, publishes materials
on healthy life.
The Publishing organ of «Druzhba» also issues a“Bulletin of
the complex safety of students and employees of PFUR”.
First-year students of the Philological faculty (majoring in
Journalism and Public Relations) have their year round train-
ing in the newspaper editorial board.
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Student life
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Student hostels
Catering
There are more than 8, 000 people living at PFUR dorms an-
nually, 60% out of which are students from CIS countries and
Middle East who inhabit upon the national basis. Students
who arrive with their families are offered separate rooms.
PFUR Campus is:
 13 buildings of student dorms (7 5-storeyed buildings and
6 tall dorms);
8academicbuildings-allwalkingdistancefromeachother;
 electronic surveillance system in all students’ dorms and
on campus;
electronicaccesssysteminallfacilities,security,automatic
fire alarm and alerting system;
 PFUR police station;
 international students adaptation centre;
 communal service and amenities;
 sports complex;
 research library;
 PFUR Publishing House;
 polyclinic and Medical centre;
“Interclub international culture club”;
 driving school;
 kindergarten;
 children’s health camp «Yuventa»;
 PFUR museum.
Every nation has its history, traditions and, of course, pecu-
liarities of its cuisine. In order to enjoy the world national cui-
sines at full length, you need to visit the places where it was
initiated.Youneedtovisitcanteens,cafesandrestaurantsnext
to the University.
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Healthcare at PFUR
MedicalserviceisprovidedtoPFURstudentsandemployees
in accordance with the treatment and rehabilitation facility:
 Polyclinic #25
 In-patient clinic (for emergency care and rehabilitation of
PFUR students)
 PFUR Medical centre
 Health and recreation resort
Activities:
 Annual medical examination of all students, PFUR aca-
demic team and employees;
Preventiveinspectionofinternationalstudentsbeforethey
start their studies at PFUR;
 Consulting teaching and academic team of the Institute
of Medicine and Faculty of Upgrading skills of healthcare
workers;
 Offices for diagnostics (Ultrasonography, endoscopy, ar-
throscopy);
 Office for computer tomography;
 Liver fiber scanning lab.
Inaccordancewiththeconceptofdemographicpolicyofthe
RF for 2020, PFUR has worked out‘Health’program. A number
of events in accordance with the offered program is aimed at
examining, curing, rehabilitating and preventing disorders of
reproductive health state of PFUR students during the years of
their studies.
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Research library was established in May 1960. January 1,
1967,thelibraryhad350,000units.AnnuallytheLibraryre-
ceived 50, 000 books and brochures, more than 1, 200 units
of Russian and foreign literature.The Library fund in foreign
languages consisted of 15, 000 units.
In December 1983, new building for fundamental library
was established with the territory of 7, 500 sq.m. Total ter-
ritory of the Library including all the University buildings is
over 9, 000 sq.m.The library fund included 1, 219, 500 units
in January, 1984.
In 1989, an experimental project of automated system‘Li-
brary 2’ (MSU) was launched, to be later followed by new
versions of the system. Since 1990, new materials arriving
at the library have been registered in the Electronic cata-
logue and the books that came before 1990 were also added
to the catalogue. ‘Automated system of loan’ was launched
and started working at the library in the Main building since
2002. In2006,theLibrarystartedworkingintheAutomated
information library system‘MARK-SQL’.
In2008,PFURResearchLibrarywasreorganizedintoStudy
and research information Librarian center (Research library).
The major task of the library is to provide resources for edu-
cation process and scientific and research activities.The Cen-
tre assistants carry out informational and educational and
cultural work.
Todaytotallibraryfundofprintedmaterialsisover1,800,000
units. Annually the Centre receives about 20, 000 units. The li-
braryfundisunique,itincludesprintedandelectronicversions
of unites in Russian and foreign languages. The total amount
of the fund is 90, 000 units in 70 languages.
In 2009, the website of the Library was launched http://lib.
rudn.ru, which became a unique platform to access the library
services and information content.
In 2011, a new Electronic-library was created using the
‘MegaPro’program which allows the librarians and library at-
tendants to use cloud technology and services. ELS is the first
ELS created by the University. ELS was officially registered as
the means of Mass media and data base which allows to get
access to the library resources from the Internet, search need-
ed materials and get access to the full versions of the books.
Today the ELS includes 5, 500 full text materials, over 380, 000
bibliography notes.
The Library is connected to 36 universal and professional
text and bibliographic databases for study and research.You
can also get information materials online.
September 1, 2011, presentation centre ‘Rare book’ was
opened. The collection consists of 3, 000 books of XVII-XXI c.
There you can find old books, limited editions, hand-writ-
ings, mini-books and many other rare books in different for-
eign languages in different fields of studies. Part of the col-
lection is presented in the electronic version and is already
accessible with ELS.
Since March, 6, 2012, a bilateral agreement between
Study and research information Librarian center (RESEARCH
LIBRARY) and Research Library MSU was signed, so both
PFUR students and academic team can use the funds of both
universities.
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NumberofreadersofPFURResearchlibraryisestimatedto
be over 27, 000. Automated loaning system with coding and
RFIDtechnologieshasbeenlaunchedatthelibrary.Electron-
ic version is available to the readers on the Internet. System
of online ordering is working effectively.There isWi-Fi func-
tioning in the library halls.
Library workers constantly give lectures and hold sem-
inars on the library database. They organize exhibitions of
contemporary authors and thematic exhibitions; create in-
formation materials within different fields of their activity.
PFUR library takes an active part in the life of the Univer-
sity. On November, 21, Russian literature meeting took place
with participation of the Russian President V.V.Putin. There
were various sections working, hosting contemporary writ-
ers, translators, publishers, producers, teachers and descen-
dants of Russian classic writers.
Research library is visited by official foreign delegations
and individuals, famous workers of art and education. PFUR
Libraryprovidesgreatinformationsupporttotheeducation-
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PFUR Publishing House
PPC of PFUR was formed in January 1997, on the basis of
Publishing and printing house of Peoples’Friendship University
of Russia.
Today PPH is one of the leading university publishing hous-
es, which annually prints out about 400 units with circulation
of 150, 000 copies.
According to the rating of the Russian university depart-
ments by the Russian Central Institute of Bibliography, PPH is:
 Ranked 5th
in the number of items to publish;
 Ranked 10th
in the total amount of printed works pub-
lished.
The authors publishing at PPH are leading PFUR professors,
teachers and researchers. Experienced editing team of PPH
allows to publish literature almost in all fields of studies.
Besides books, PPH also publishes 4 scientific journals: ‘PFUR
Vestnik’, ‘Contemporary mathematics’, ‘Construction mechanics
of engineering constructions’ and ‘Metaphysics’. The ‘PFUR
Vestnik’ is published in 21st thematic series. 20 of which are
included in the list of Russian cited scientific journals. Works
published in‘PFURVestnik’are counted when standing for PhD
thesis in order to receive the status of a PhD or Doctoral degree
holder.
2011 2012 2013 2014
Types of impression
Number
of titles
Volume
(printed
sheet)
Number
of titles
Volume
(printed
sheet)
Number
of titles
Volume
(printed
sheet)
Number
of titles
Volume
(printed
sheet)
Monographs 36 589 33 516 43 712 40 520
Proceedings of conferences and
collection of scientific papers
102 2156 102 2117 105 2025 98 2451
Textbooks 217 3041 245 3215 346 3868 344 3587
Training and methodical appliances 272 732 329 973 242 650 231 1034
Scientific books, belles-lettres and others 19 348 19 359 20 249 34 143
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PFUR has a good reason to be proud of its alumni.Within 55 years of its work, Peoples’Friendship University of Russia has had
more than 90, 000 specialists who work almost in every part of the world. In order to keep network alive, Association of PFUR
AlumniandFriendswasfoundedin1996tohelpthePFURalumnitodevelopbusinessandculturalcooperationwiththeUniversity.
1965 1975 1985 1995 2005 2014
Number of graduates
PFU/PFUR 227 747 898 1140 3261 5700
Title of the Faculty/Institute Number of graduates (people)
Medical Institute 15,085
Engineering Faculty 14,153
Law Institute 10,373
Philological Faculty 9,894
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 8,964
Economics Faculty 8,548
Faculty of Science 7,040
Agrarian faculty 5,498
Ecological Faculty 1,898
Institute of Foreign Languages 1,524
Institute ofWorld Economy and Business 1,500
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PFUR has trained more than 30, 000 specialists, masters, bach-
elors, PhD and Doctoral degree holders for Asian, African, Latin
American, Middle East, European and CIS countries. Countries
with most number of students studying at PFUR in the Soviet
and modern times:
1. India more than 1, 500
2. China more than 1, 500
3. Lebanon more than 1, 200
4. Syria more than 900
5. Sri Lanka more than 780
6. Nigeria more than 700
7. Columbia more than 650
8. Peru more than 630
9.Yemen more than 620
10. Jordan more than 600
Creating a unique database‘Alumni’in 2012 on the basis of
the Microsoft Dynamics CRM allowed PFUR to systemize and
summarize all the existing information and data on the PFUR
alumni. Thus, the Administration obtains a full list of over 85,
000 alumni as well as such data groups as of:
RF Embassies (123)
Russian cultural and scientific centres (72)
World alumni Associations (62)
Alumni Associations of Soviet and Russian universities in
the regions:
Region Number of Associations
Asia 13
Middle East 14
Europe 11
Latin America 9
CIS 5
Africa 10
In order to provide cooperation between the University and
the Alumni of Russian (Soviet) universities who are living in
different countries, there were 40 agreements signed with the
Alumni Associations of Soviet and Russian universities.
PFUR alumni are demanded everywhere and hold high po-
sitions in the world. Among them there are presidents and
prime-ministers, more than 50 officials of Ministries and gov-
ernmentagenciesin37countriesaroundtheworld.133alum-
ni work for Embassies of 47 countries.
In 2012, PFUR held IIIWorld Forum of Alumni of Soviet and
Russian universities where there were 1, 009 alumni coming
from 140 countries among which 687 foreigners. The alumni
represented more than 50 universities of Russia and the USSR.
PFUR ALUMNI Employment
PFUR alumni receive help at the PFUR Career Centre which
has the following functions:
To support the functioning of the web-portal ‘PFUR – in-
ternships and employment’;
To arrange research on the employment needs of students
at all faculties;
To monitor labour market and potential employers;
Toinformstudentsaboutthevacanciesofthepotentialem-
ployers;
To attract organizations for students’internships on a con-
tractual basis;
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Index of the‘PFUR – internships and employment’web-portal:
Index/period 2012/2013 2013/2014
Unique number of portal visits 249,201 1241632
Number of employers 360 676
Offered positions without internship 126 150
Offered vacancies over 3, 400 over 4, 000
Offered internships 218 240
International organizations on recruiting company’s ads 113 123
Created portal pages for career info from employers 129 512
Index of the Career Centre
Index/period 2012/2013 2013/2014
Number of affiliated partners 424 676
Number of arranged master-classes/presentations by employers 31 40
Number of Career Days/Fair ofVacancies held 4 6
Number of organizations-participants of the Career Days 64 70
Career Centre and TV are co-operating with more than 600
state and commercial enterprises and organizations and are
ready to establish partner relations with Russian and foreign
companies-employers.
The following facts confirm the high demand in our grad-
uates:
Participants of the Career Days carried out by PFUR Career
CentrearethebestRussianandinternationalorganizations,
as well as the Russian government agencies (Moscow Gov-
ernment, Moscow region Government, Gokhran of Russia,
Rosfinnadzor and others).
AnnuallyPFURstudentsareofferedpermanentpositionsin
more than 1, 000 organizations.
Share of graduates working in their field of studies (within
the next 3 years after graduation) in 2013-2014 is 88, 2%.
AccordingtoRostrud,shareofPFURgraduatesregisteredas
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System
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As of today PFUR has a social infrastructure which allows pro-
fessors, staff and students to obtain all kinds of services:
healthserviceatclinic№25attheFacultyofrefreshertrain-
ing of medical staff (FRTMS), at PFUR Medical center;
 network of public catering establishments in academiс
buildings and campus;
 the facilities on campus include shops, dry cleaning, con-
sumer service enterprise, banks etc.
Such infrastructure allows professors, staff and students to
obtain these services directly in the academic buildings and in
the territory of the University.
PFURstaffandfacultyenjoysocialbenefitsandgetfreecon-
sultations from specialists of FRTMS and MC at clinic №25. In
case of emergency the University provides assistance in hospi-
talization to the clinics, where the faculties of the Institute of
Medicine are located.
PFUR Department of Social Development pays great atten-
tion to students. There are specialists who supervise students
ofdifferentsocialcategories:orphans,invalids,victimsofCher-
nobyl etc.
In 2014, more than 15 million rubles were allocated to the
assistance to orphan students.
In November 2000, the University established a kindergar-
ten №896 which works 247. 40 children aged 3-6 attend this
kindergarten.
The University also founded a children’s health camp “Yu-
venta”forchildrenofprofessorsandstaffwhichhasrepeatedly
won a review competition of children’s country camps of Mos-
cow organizations for the best educational work.
Besides, the University campus dorms provide children’s
rooms for students’children.
All students can make use of services and obtain transport
cards and pension insurance policies.
In 1997, in order to implement its social policy PFUR found-
ed a Department of Social Development which includes the
following divisions:
Sector of“Family, Motherhood and Childhood”
Sector of“Recreation and Health”
Sector of“Financial and welfare support for employees”
Sector of“Pension and health insurance”
The Social Insurance Fund is used to pay:
benefits for temporary incapacity for work
maternity benefits
allowance in early pregnancy
child birth benefits
monthly maternity-leave provision
In 2014, the sum of such social insurance benefits exceeded
28 million rubles.
According to the collective agreement children of the Uni-
versity staff can study in PFUR on concessional terms.
Special honor and respect are paid to the veterans.The Uni-
versity does its utmost to help these people. Attention is paid
even to those veterans who don’t work in the University any-
more.

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History of PFUR

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February 5, 1960 Following the Resolution 130 of the
CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers Peo-
ples’Friendship University was founded.
ObjectiveprerequisitesfortheestablishmentofthePeoples’
Friendship University developed at the turn of the 50s-60s.
Massive release of Asian, African and Latin American countries
from the colonial and semi-colonial dependence, a significant
increase in the number of students from these regions, geo-
political needs – these factors necessitated the establishment
of a higher education institution, which would not only train
highly qualified personnel for the countries that have taken
the path of independent development, but also develop the
best educational programs and work with foreign students.
The establishment of Peoples’Friendship University on the 5th
ofFebruary1960wasahistoricalnecessity.Inamatterofdays,
this news spread around the world.
February 21, 1960 During his official visit to Indonesia Ni-
kita Khrushchev , Chairman of the Council of Ministers, deliv-
ered a great speech at the National University of Indonesia
Gadjah Mada, in which he declared that the Soviet govern-
ment in its wish to assist countries in preparing their nation-
al personnel decided to establish the People’s Friendship Uni-
versity in Moscow.
March 17, 1960 Following Resolution 317 of the USSR
Council of Ministers Peoples’Friendship University was given a
number of buildings to arrange the faculties and organize the
educational process, as well as student dormitories: training
building of the Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Min-
istry of Defense (Ordzhonikidze street, 3), most of the barracks
at the Pavlov street, and a complex of buildings of the military
boarding school at the 3rd Cable street.

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March 24, 1960 The rules of admission to the Universi-
ty and the Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on the
appointment of Sergei Rumyantsev as the rector of PFU were
published in the press.
October 1, 1960 Classes began at the preparatory depart-
ment of the University, which enrolled 589 students from 59
countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and 57 Soviet stu-
dents.194professorsandstaffmembers,including4DScpro-
fessors and 26 PhD, associate professors, began to train spe-
cialists for the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
October 1, 1960 PFU founded a Scientific library.

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November 17, 1960 Column Hall of the House of Unions
held a grand opening ceremony of the University.
February 1961The University was named after Patrice Lu-
mumba—aCongolesepoliticalandsocialactivistandasym-
bol of the African peoples’fight for independence.
April 8, 1961 A decision on constructing a complex of
buildings for the University was made and appropriate in-
structions on the allocation of land for construction and de-
sign were given. The University was offered an extensive plot
ofland(70.5hectares)inthe42quarterofSouth-westerndis-
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September 1, 1961The main faculties: Faculty of Science,
Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Economics and Law, Faculty
of History and Philology, Faculty of Medicine and Agricultural
faculty started classes.
February 5, 1962 The first issue of“Druzhba”– authority
of the Board of PFU – was published (withV. Kerov as editor).
March 1962 Sport club“Druzhba”was founded.

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October 2, 1962 Construction of the 1st building of PFU
dorm in the 42 quarter began.
1962 An international student construction team of the
University was formed.
1962-1963 First University Olympics were held.

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February 3, 1964The first defense of the thesis of gradu-
atestudentI.MukhametzyanovforthedegreeofPhDinphys-
ical and mathematical sciences“Problems of stability of mo-
tion during permanent and parametric perturbations”under
academic supervision of Professor A. Galiullin took place in
PFU.
May1963TheauditoriumoftheLomonosovMoscowState
University held a meeting of students, faculty and staff of
MSU and PFU with the Cuban political leader, Comandante Fi-
del Castro.
May 1963 Astronaut GermanTitov visited students of PFU.
March 27, 1964 The first Student Scientific Society in the
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September 15, 1964 USSR Council of Ministers adopt-
ed Resolution 768“On the construction of Peoples’Friendship
University of Patrice Lumumba” which allowed the construc-
tion of academic and auxiliary facilities.
June 29, 1965 The Kremlin Palace of Congresses held the
first graduation ceremony of 228 specialists including 184
students from the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin Ameri-
ca. Chairman of the Council of Ministers A. Kosygin welcomed
the alumni, students and professors.The ceremony concluded
with a concert of amateur talent groups of students from the
countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Soviet Union.
June25,1965ApressconferenceofSovietandforeigncor-
respondents with professors, teachers and the first graduates
of PFU was organized by the State Committee for Cultural Re-
lationswithForeignCountriesofUSSRCouncilofMinisters.The
participants of the conference pointed out the growing popu-
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April 9, 1966 The solemn laying of the first stone of the
new educational complex of Peoples’ Friendship Universi-
ty designed for 4,200 students and graduate in the 42 quar-
ter of South-western district of Moscow took place. The rec-
tor of PFU Rumyantsev laid under the foundation of the first
block a brass capsule with an Act of the start of construction
and a metal board with an inscription “On April 9, 1966 the
construction of the educational complex of Patrice Lumumba
Peoples` Friendship University started”.
June 1966 The first graduation ceremony of the Faculty of
Medicine was held. 93 foreign students from 35 countries and
10 Soviet students graduated, including Ahmed Taki Murad
from Sierra Leone, the owner of a student card № 001.
September 1966 The construction of a building for hu-
manitarian faculties started in Miklukho-Maklaya street.
December 1970Vladimir Stanis was elected PFU rector.

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