Far Eastern Federal University

Far Eastern Federal University is located in Vladivostok. Its history began in 1899 with the opening of the Eastern Institute, which became the first higher educational institution in the Far East. On October 21, 2009, the President of Russia signed a decree establishing the Far Eastern Federal University on the basis of the Far Eastern State University. The full reorganization of the university was completed in 2011.

Priority directions in the development of the university were adopted: energy resources and energy-saving technologies, the study of ocean resources, nanotechnology, biological and medical technologies.

Since 2009, the university has been studying in more than 600 educational programs.

Now the university has 24,000 students and about 500 graduate students. Lectures at the Far Eastern Federal University are conducted by 1,598 teachers, and the total number of employees is 5 thousand people. This university is the only Russian university that has an accredited branch in Japan.