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• Application for invitation for a short-term visa (visiting scholars)
• Application for invitation for a student visa
• Learning Agreement (example)
• Application form
• Russian Foreigners Law (Russian version only)
• Information from the Migration Police of Tomsk Region (Russian version only)
• The foreign education and (or) qualifications recognition in RF
• Information from Russian Federation Customs
• Psychological Aspects of Preparing to Live in Another Culture

Dear International Visitor/ Professor/ Student, We are very pleased that you are interested in visiting or studying at our university. We would like to offer some necessary information that you need to know before you travel to the Russian Federation. 

Student visa
To study at a Russian university, international students need to have a student visa. Citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan do not require a student visa. Nationals of other countries have to apply for a RF student visa before arriving in Russia. In order to apply for a RF visa you will have to submit our official invitation along with your visa application and other supporting documents to the Russian diplomatic mission. For your official invitation you are required to fill in the application for invitation for a student visa and send it back. Invitations are issued by the migration police. They reserve one month for the invitation to be issued.
However the final decision about visa issue is taken by the Russian consulate. When applying for your Russian visa, please be aware that you may be required to provide additional documentation such as proof of insurance, sufficient financial means etc.
Normally students receive a single entry visa for 3 months. If you maintain your student status, your visa will be extended for one year and multiple entries. Further extensions occur every year. Once you are exmatriculated, you student visa will also be invalid.
Important!!!: International students can study only at the inviting university.
We encourage all international students to read how to prepare to live in another culture.

Visitor visa (conference, workshops …). This type of visa is called "scientific and technical cooperation":
Please contact the nearest Russian diplomatic mission or us to enquire if you require a visa to enter the Russian Federation for a short term visit. In case you need a visa, you will need an official invitation from our university. For your official invitation you are required to fill in the Application for invitation for a short-term visa (visiting scholars, teachers) and send it back. Please note that this visa cannot be used for employment or any other activity requiring salary, fees or access to funds.
Please be informed that university invitations and the visa issued may not be used for tourist purposes.
The visitor visa cannot be extended. The period mentioned in the visa is the period of stay in the Russian Federation. You may not stay in the Russian Federation beyond the date mentioned in the visa.

International Information Office of Tomsk State Pedagogical University was organized in 2000. The office deals with planning and coordination of international relations of TSPU.

The tasks of the International Information Office of TSPU are:

• Development of cooperation with foreign universities and organizations;
• Providing TSPU scholars, faculty members, postgraduates and students with information about current national and international programmes and grants;
• Providing visa and registration services to TSPU foreign visiting scholars, teachers and students;
• Assistance in organization of international conferences, seminars and foreign delegations’ visits to TSPU;

Contact information

Postal address: International Office, ul. Kievskaya, 60, Tomsk, 634061, 
Russian Federation
Location: pr. Komsomolsky, 75, room 204 ULK, Tomsk, 634041
Tel. +7 3822 52 11 23,
Fax +7 3822 52 20 66,
E-mail: infocent@tspu.ru, 
Skype: infocent.tspu

Office hours

Monday — Friday: from 08-30 to 13-00, from 13-45 to 17-15, GMT +6 hours

Official holidays:

News and Announcements International Partners Rankings

Department for International Affairs

• Development of cooperation with foreign universities and organizations
• Agreements
• Participation in international educational exhibitions;
• TSPU international activity supervising
• Opening and support of foreign organizations’ representative offices at TSPU

Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75, office: 237
Tel.: +7 382 231 1334, 1128
E-mail: infocent@tspu.ru

Head: Vadim Zyubanov
Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75, office: 237
Tel.: +7 382 231 1334
Internal line:1132
E-mail: zyubanovvy@tspu.ru

Expert: Anna Ageeva
Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75, office: 237
Tel.: +7 382 231 1334 
Internal line:1128
E-mail: ageeva@tspu.ru 

International Office Coordinator: Margarita Kviram
Address: 634041, Tomsk, pr. Komsomolsky, 75, office: 237
Tel.: +7 382 231 1334
Internal line:1128
E-mail: kviram@tspu.ru

International Information Center

• Providing visa and registration services to TSPU foreign visiting scholars, teachers and students
• Academic exchange supervision of students and faculty members according to the agreements between TSPU and foreign universities
• Participation of TSPU scholars in joint research and academic programs
• Assistance in organization of international conferences, seminars and foreign delegations’ visits to TSPU
• Organization of internship abroad for TSPU students

• Information for International Students and Visitors
• News and Announcements
• International Programs
• International Partners
• TSPU Students on Academic Exchange Programs
• Russian language schools

On May 14th, 2014 a delegation of Russian language teachers from Indonesia, Mongolia, Vietnam and India visited TSPU on a professional development programme “Teaching Russian as a foreign language”.

The guests learnt different programmes: presentation of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, programmes and projects aimed at the development of educational cooperation and promotion of our university in the Asia-Pacific region. The teachers visited the exhibition of pedagogical innovation education and the Museum “Magic World” named after A.M. Volkov.

Dear colleagues and friends! Please accept my sincere congratulations on the Victory Day! No matter how many years have passed since May 1945, we never forget heroism, courage and bravery of the generation who defended our fatherland. I wish our dear veterans, the entire staff of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, good health, happiness, well-being, confidence in the future and peace! TSPU

Rector V.V. Obukhov

Russian Science Citation Index has updated indicators of universities. Data of April 17, 2014: Hirsch Index of TSPU reached 61^st position.
(11-12^th position is shared with the First Moscow Medical University). g- TSPU citation index reached 106 position ( 9-10^th position is shared with Novosibirsk State University). The total amount of TSPU citations increased to 17,359 (29th place among all universities)

10-12 April 2014 Tomsk State Pedagogical University participated in the 15^th Kazakhstan International Exhibition “Education and Career” (Almaty, Kazakhstan). 

Address: 634057, Tomsk, ul. Karla Ilmera, 15/1, office 210

Address: 634057, Tomsk, ul. Karla Ilmera, 15/1, office 208

The faculty of technology and entrepreneurship has been hosting the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Peoples of Siberia for several years.

The exposition is original; it accumulates the creative energy of several generations of graduates of technology and business. Basically the exhibits are graduate works of the students who studied artistic processing of materials, design and fashion design. The exhibition presents works extensively in the technique of wood carving, processing bark, burning, art dolls in a stylized folk costumes.