The Unified State Exam gives graduates the opportunity to freely apply for admission to universities throughout Russia. However, when entering a university in another city, a student invariably wonders about the living conditions in the new place. A very convenient option in this case is a student dormitory. This is usually cheaper than a rented apartment and more convenient. Read our collection of dormitories and campuses of which universities can be called the best in Russia.

STUDENT HOUSE ON LOMONOSOVSKY

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Dormitory opening date: 2016

Location: on the territory of Moscow State University on Lomonosovsky Prospekt, 15 minutes from the main building of the university

designed for 2708 people

Structure: The student's house on Lomonosovsko, briefly DSL, is a 14-16 storey building with a total area of 76,500 square meters. Students live in 2 and 3-bed rooms with an individual kitchen and bathroom. The kitchens are equipped with induction hobs, kettles and refrigerators. The living rooms have beds, wardrobes, desks, bedside tables, bookshelves and chairs according to the number of residents.

For the first time, residential premises for students with disabilities have been designed at Moscow State University. For example, on the ground floor of the hostel there are 12 living rooms for wheelchair users. One room is designed for one student. Also, for the comfort of students with limited mobility, there is an additional shared kitchen on the ground floor.

The hostel has a conference room, 24-hour reading rooms, a medical unit, as well as a dining room, gym, recreational areas, a music room and several lounges for themed events. The House has its own bicycle parking and a separate waste collection point. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the entire hostel.

Cost of living: 1200-1400 rubles per year

TOAZANCAMPUS

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Campus opening date: year 2013

Location:“Universiade Village”, 5 minutes to the metro, 25 minutes to KFU

Number of students living: more than 10,000 people

Structure: Most of the nonresident students of the Kazan Federal University are accommodated in the “Universiade Village,” where there are 20 five-story buildings designed to accommodate 14.5 thousand people. The total area of the campus is 53 hectares, of which more than 14 hectares are green areas.

Initially, the campus was built to accommodate athletes participating in the 2013 International University Games. After the completion of the competition, the Universiade Village became the student campus of the main university of Tatarstan.

Kazan Campus is a European format campus. Students live in spacious 3- and 4-bed rooms. Each room has its own kitchen, laundry and bathroom, modern furniture, free wireless Internet. Two meals a day are provided, including in halal format. Each building has classrooms and recreation areas. There is a medical center on campus.

Cost of living: economy - 3150 rubles per month, comfort - 4050, luxury - 4500.

Minuses: strict internal routine

STUDENT CITY "DUBKI"

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Campus opening date: year 2009

Location:“Student town Dubki” is located in the village of VNIISOK in Modmoskovye

Number of students living: up to 3,223 people

Structure: The town consists of 3 residential buildings designed for 487 apartments. Students live in real apartments with all amenities. There are 1, 2, 3 and 4-room apartments. The kitchens are furnished: kitchen set, table and chairs. In terms of appliances, each apartment has: a refrigerator, a microwave, an electric stove, a washing machine, an iron, as well as a clothes dryer and ironing board. Students have at their disposal rooms for independent work and Wi-FI, a gym, a sports ground, as well as a first-aid post and an ATM. The hostel is adapted for disabled people, which is extremely rare.

Cost of living: 5400 rubles per month.

Minuses: there is no canteen (buffet), the road to the university takes 1.5 hours

FEFU CAMPUS

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Campus opening date: built in 2009-2011 in preparation for the APEC Summit

Location: O. Russian in Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan

Number of students living: up to 10,500 people

Structure: FEFU campus is one of the best in the world. In Russia, even Moscow State University does not have such an educational complex. The total area of the campus is 140 hectares, of which 55 hectares of land are allocated to the landscape and park area. This gigantic territory contains educational buildings (380 classrooms), most of which are connected by passages, residential complexes corresponding to three-star hotels, food outlets (34), conference halls and exhibition areas, a university medical center, huge parking lots, and a stadium. , as well as parks, waterfalls, fountains, and an equipped embankment. Full-time students can be accommodated in 3, 3 and 4-bed rooms. There are rooms for students with limited mobility.

Cost of living: from 2600 to 3900 rubles per month

Minuses: some university schools are not transferred to the island

INNOPOLIS

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Campus opening date: year 2012

Location: science city Innopolis 40 km from Kazan (Tatarstan)

Number of students living: about 600 people

Structure: InnipolisUniversity is a young and promising Russian university specializing in the field of IT education. University students live in one of four residential buildings for two or five people. These are spacious and comfortable rooms with an individual kitchen and bathroom. The kitchen and living room are equipped with the necessary appliances and furnished with new modern furniture.

There is free wireless Internet throughout the campus, and security is provided by 24-hour security. There are canteens for students (buildings 1 and 4 of the campus, as well as in the main building of the university), there is a student clinic, cleaning service and laundry. Students have access to a sports hall for team sports, a gym, a tennis court, and a ski track. Students can even visit the Finnish sauna, hammam and swimming pool for free.

Cost of living: 2000 rubles per month

Minuses: small town, located far from large populated areas

When choosing a university to study at, many students overlook one of the most important factors - the quality of student life. But a university campus, or campus, is one of the components of a student’s full-fledged education and recreation. The surrounding environment plays a vital role in how a student feels during their studies and how satisfied they are with the education they receive.

We have selected five of the most modern campuses in Russia [many photos]

Siberian Federal University

Where is: Krasnoyarsk
Campus structure: was formed in 2006 by merging the four largest universities in the city of Krasnoyarsk. It is envisaged that the campus will occupy 650 hectares, and 22 facilities will be built on its territory. The campus includes academic buildings, a library building with storage facilities for 3 million volumes, a sports complex, a congress hall, student dormitories, official housing for teachers, hotels, a cinema complex and shops. At the moment, a new student dormitory and two academic buildings have been built, housing the Institute of Space and Information Technologies, the Institute of Humanities, the Institute of Philology and Language Communication and the Institute of Urban Planning and Regional Economics.
What is taught: The list of educational programs is very diverse - from physical and mathematical sciences to design. The full list can be found.

New SFU building

Siberian Federal University Scientific Library

New dormitory for 600 people

Learning Campus

New University dormitories

Astronomical Observatory named after. V.P. Engelhardt KFU, reconstructed in 2013

Educational and laboratory building

Dormitories and warm transition to the academic building

This is how our top five best campuses in Russia turned out. Which Russian campuses would you include on this shortlist?

Most foreign students live in a dormitory while studying in Russia. As a rule, it is located near educational buildings; the cost of living here is much lower than in a rented apartment or hotel.

What kind of dormitories are there for foreign students in Russia?

Dormitories in Russian universities are of several types: corridor, block and apartment. In corridors, showers, toilet rooms and common kitchens are located on the floor, in block rooms - in each section. In apartment-type dormitories, the bathroom and kitchen are located directly in the apartment. Many universities have dormitories of all three types, and international students can be accommodated in any of them, depending on availability.

This happens, for example, at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the Siberian Federal University (SFU). At Novosibirsk State University, all foreigners live in a block-type building; at Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky (Lobachevsky University) – bellhop. And at Tyumen State University (TSU), foreign students are accommodated exclusively in apartment-type dormitories.

Some Russian universities accommodate their foreign students in modern hotel-type dormitories. For example, at the Kazan Federal University (KFU) they live in the Universiade Village quarter, which was built for participants of the 2013 Universiade, held in Kazan. And at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), students are accommodated in a complex built for the 2012 APEC summit. The living conditions correspond to the level of a four-star hotel; the rooms are regularly cleaned by maids.

The dormitories of some universities are located in historical buildings. Thus, foreign students of the National Research Technological University "MISiS" are accommodated in a unique building built at the beginning of the twentieth century - the "House-Commune", an architectural monument of the constructivist era. But this does not mean that students live in insufficiently comfortable conditions - recently the hostel was completely restored and modernized, but retained its historical appearance.

Living conditions in dormitories

Typically, one to four people live in each room. As a rule, undergraduate students live in two or three, less often four, people in a room, master's students are most often accommodated in twos, but graduate students in some universities are accommodated in singles. Foreign students can be accommodated either together with Russian students or in buildings allocated specifically for citizens of other countries.

For example, at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), foreign students of the preparatory department, who have only recently arrived in Russia, live separately - university specialists help them adapt to student life. And at the Baltic Federal University (IKBFU named after Immanuel Kant), foreigners live together with Russians and thus improve their knowledge of the Russian language, and also become more familiar with the culture of the new country.

It is not for nothing that the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) has a reputation as one of the most international universities; they adhere to the following rule: students from different countries must live in each dorm room. This way they gain cross-cultural communication skills, learn more about the traditions of other peoples and learn to negotiate.

One of the popular options for “cultural exchange” is cooking national dishes. The guys prepare their usual food and treat their neighbors. Kitchens in most dormitories are equipped with electric stoves, microwave ovens, and sometimes a basic set of dishes. This is enough to cook lunch or dinner.

Most dormitories of Russian universities are within walking distance from the main academic buildings. However, students at some universities have to travel to lectures by transport. Thus, students of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) come to the academic building by metro or bus - the journey takes 25-40 minutes. And the FEFU campus area is so large that students and teachers move around it on free shuttles.

Much attention is paid to student safety. For this purpose, many dormitories have video surveillance systems installed, and watchmen and security staff work around the clock. Typically, students enter the building using passes, and in some dormitories even using fingerprints. In addition, a fire safety system is installed in each building. In a word, the administration of the hostels is trying to do everything to ensure that foreign students live comfortably and calmly. Some universities even send dormitory staff to English courses so that they can more easily communicate with and help residents from other countries.

Cost of living in student dormitories

The price depends on the city where the university is located, the type of dormitory, the number of students living in one room, and some other factors. For example, at Peter the Great St. Petersburg University (SPbPU), the cost of living varies depending on the type and form of education, educational program, as well as the level of comfort. Students studying on a budget will have to pay 960 rubles (about $16) per month, and those studying on a contract basis will have to pay from 3,000 rubles (from $50) per month.

Accommodation in a hostel (MIPT) costs 1000-1200 rubles (17-20 dollars) per month. In the capital's dormitories of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI - 600 rubles ($10) per month, and in the Obninsk branch - 500 rubles ($9). At SFU, accommodation fees range from 590 to 930 rubles (from 10 to 16 dollars) per month, depending on the type of dormitory.

At Tyumen State University, the cost for all students is the same and is 670 rubles (11 dollars) per month. The fee for a dormitory on the UrFU campus does not exceed 1,100 rubles ($18) per month. FEFU students pay 3,700 rubles ($62) per month for double occupancy.

The room usually has all the necessary furniture (bed, wardrobe, table, chair, bedside table, etc.). Students are also provided with a mattress, blanket, pillow and bed linen. Some dormitories also purchase hangers, curtains, bedspreads and household appliances for students. For example, in the dormitories of South Ural State University (SUSU) there are irons, ironing boards, clothes dryers and vacuum cleaners on the floor - they can be used for free.

In some hostels you can choose the ascetic option and pay only for accommodation in the hostel. And somewhere you can rent additional household appliances (they will be located directly in the room). Thus, in TPU the cost of living is 800 rubles (about 13 dollars) per month, and taking into account the use of electrical appliances (refrigerator, microwave oven, kettle, TV) - 1040 rubles (17-18 dollars) per month.

Each student dormitory has laundry rooms. In some universities, washing machines are located in the kitchens, and you can use them at any time and for free. Other universities have special laundry rooms. Thus, the cost of one washing and drying cycle at ITMO University is 150 rubles (2.5 dollars), washing clothes at TSU costs 50 rubles (about a dollar).

The Internet is available in all Russian universities. Some universities, for example, IKBFU. I. Kant or MISiS provide a completely free package, but more often Wi-Fi is available only in classrooms, libraries and dormitory halls; you will have to pay extra for using the network in the room, or you can connect high-speed Internet via a dedicated line.

In the halls of the TSU dormitory you can connect to Wi-Fi for free. And for using the Internet in your room you will have to pay from 150 rubles (2.5 dollars) per month. At NSU, the cost of connecting to the worldwide network is 400 rubles (about 7 dollars) per month. SibFU dormitories have several tariffs - from 250 rubles (from 4 dollars) per month and higher, depending on the speed.

In general, the cost of Internet in Russia, both landline and mobile, is one of the lowest in the world. For example, the price of a standard package of mobile services, which includes Internet traffic, is 200-300 rubles (3-5 dollars).

Close to the hostel

Student campuses of Russian universities are often a “city within a city” - all the necessary infrastructure is adjacent to the dormitories: shops, cafes and canteens, pharmacies, bank branches, and so on.

SUSU operates a budget hairdressing salon on campus. Numerous national cafes and restaurants are open on the territory of RUDN University, where students can eat tasty and inexpensive food.

The FEFU campus has a swimming pool, gyms, and health and fitness centers. NSU also has a swimming pool, tennis courts and halls for outdoor games. It is noteworthy that there are sports complexes in almost all Russian hostels. You can study for free or for a small fee. At ITMO University, for example, one visit to the gym costs 100 rubles (1.5-2 dollars).

Also, numerous sections are open in all universities - both sports and creative. At KFU, students can diversify their leisure time and enroll, for example, in an art studio, in the dormitory of the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" there is a film club, and students who live in the HSE dormitories have the opportunity to practice dancing, yoga or boxing.

You will find more detailed information, as well as photographs of dormitories that Russian universities provide to foreign students, on our website. To do this, go to the university’s page and go to the “Dorms” section.

ATTENTION! IMPORTANT INFORMATION! Next residential complex 10/02/2018

Opening hours of the student administration. town:

08/28/2018 - 09/09/2018 from 10.00 to 20.00 daily, seven days a week;

From September 10, 2018, check-in will be from 10.00 to 18.00 (Lunch 13.30-14.15); Saturday and Sunday are days off.

Number of buildings: 2 buildings.

Number of storeys: 16th and 18th floors.

Total area: 36,516.2 sq. m

Living space: 14,009 sq.m

Capacity: 2074 places

The main advantages of the State University Dormitories are:

Location:
On the territory of the State University of Management;
2 minutes walk from the metro station and the Vykhino platform;
30 minutes drive to the center of Moscow.

Nutrition:
A shared kitchen is located on each floor. The room is equipped with magnetic locks: access is provided using electronic cards for residents of a specific floor.
In addition, on the territory of the University there is a Student Canteen, 3 cafes for teachers and students, 7 buffets in different buildings of the University, as well as two coffee shops.

Internet:
There is a free Wi-Fi network on all floors.

Household rooms, provision of bedding:
There are rooms for washing clothes on each floor. The rooms are equipped with magnetic locks: access is provided using electronic cards for residents of a specific floor.
Linen exchange rooms are open every Wednesday from 10:00 to 22:00.
There is a medical office on the 1st floor.

Sport:
The dormitory buildings contain a gym and assembly halls for active leisure and various events.

Safety:
A modern video surveillance system, security and automatic fire alarm with signal output to the central control room of the University.
Availability of storage rooms for valuables.<
Guests can enter the Dormitory from 9:00 to 22:00.

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A guide to the dormitories of leading Moscow universities. A look from the outside and from the inside.

RIA Novosti correspondent Indira Valeeva decided to find out what the situation is with existing dormitories in Moscow.

There are 315 dormitories in Moscow that belong to state universities. They are home to 470 thousand students who came to Moscow from all over Russia and from foreign countries. Despite such large numbers, more than 65 thousand nonresident students cannot get a place in a dormitory - there are simply not enough of them. Students complained to President Medvedev about this situation last fall during a meeting in Skolkovo. After this, the president held a meeting on the social status of students, at which he promised that new dormitories of different types would be built, all illegal residents not related to students would be evicted, and that the Internet in all dormitories would become free.

In the meantime, almost all nonresident students are forced to pay quite a lot of money (500-700 rubles) for slow Internet, since many dormitories have a monopoly on Internet access. As for illegal immigrants, MPGU (Pedagogical University) is most famous for them.

“Students rarely get dormitory rooms and only if you pay the commandant for them. In the dormitory at VDNKh, the first three floors are rented out to migrant families. Anyone from the street can spend the night there for 300 rubles,” says MPGU graduate Maria.

In most universities, the problem with illegal immigrants was resolved several years ago. In 2007-2008, when the Unified State Exam was introduced throughout the country, the flow of visiting applicants increased significantly. Many were denied dormitory space, but after complaints from parents, it turned out that there were places in the dormitories, but they were not given to students at all. Nowadays it is more difficult to find illegal immigrants in Moscow dorms, but there is still a catastrophic shortage of places for freshmen.

“In my first year I wrote an application for a dormitory, they told me that as soon as a place became available, they would call me. They called me in my fifth year, just in time!” - says MSLU (Linguistic University) graduate Marina.

On March 1 of this year, the president was presented with a program “On filling the shortage of places in dormitories for nonresident students,” according to which the cost of building all the necessary dormitories will cost the state 21.1 billion rubles. Considering that the project is still at the consideration stage, a solution to the problem of housing for nonresident students is not expected in the near future.

MIPT (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)
MIPT is a Western-style campus. This campus in Dolgoprudny is similar to a campus not only in structure, but also in spirit - you can feel the atmosphere of a scientific university there. In the “nerds” (special rooms for preparing homework), there is always someone rustling the pages of textbooks and notes.

The main contingent of residents are guys; it seems that they know all the few girls of the university by name. Young scientists put their talents and skills into practice, improving the dormitory. In one of the buildings, there are magnetic locks on the doors of common rooms - laundry, exercise room. The students made them themselves, so that anyone who wants to take advantage of the benefits of the hostel can receive a magnetic card with information programmed on it - which rooms they can enter and which they cannot.

Dormitory location- 5 minutes walk from the Novodachnaya railway station, the train goes to the Savelovsky station in about 20 minutes.

Terms of service- a dormitory is provided to all nonresident students for the entire duration of their studies and to most Muscovites in the first three years. First of all, the dormitory is allocated to those whose journey from home to campus takes more than two hours.

Distance from the university

Conditions

Facilities- the toilet and kitchen are located on the floor, and the shower room is one on five floors.

Entrance to the hostel- until one o'clock in the morning. But they let you in later, you need to warn about this in advance.

Pros of the hostel- students live on campus, right on the university premises. Even Muscovites can live there so as not to waste time on the road. MIPT has an active local government; students do a lot themselves - from renovations in their own rooms to renovations of public spaces. For example, in one dormitory the guys themselves made a smoking room so that their fellow faculty members would not smoke on the stairs. But no one uses the smoking room yet - it’s still more pleasant on the stairs.

Cons of a hostel- not very good living conditions; in such a large area the students could have been accommodated more comfortably. There are very old, unrenovated buildings. Students live far from the city. On the one hand, this gives a reason to be less distracted from difficult studies, on the other hand, it isolates the children from society outside the university.

Egor, fourth year student: “Have you heard this phrase: “He seems to be a decent person, but he drinks like an MIPT student!”? They really drink a lot here. What else can you do, there are no girls here, but you need to somehow take your mind off your studies.”

Alexey, fifth year student: “In the summer, our life is in full swing: a lot of people sing and play guitars, students launch radio-controlled planes, play frisbee, football.”

NRNU MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
MEPhI dormitories, built about five years ago, are considered one of the best in Moscow. Students actually live in their own apartments with a spacious kitchen, balcony, shower and toilet. The layout of the apartments is not bad - the two-room and three-room apartments have a spacious corridor, and the large one-room apartment has a bay window, which makes it very cozy.

The situation is much worse with the decoration of rooms and especially the bathroom, kitchen and bath - it is clear that the materials used were cheap, so they very quickly become damp and even moldy. This is partly the fault of the students themselves.

Most of the apartments and rooms that I visited in the MEPhI dormitory presented a deplorable sight - heaps of clothes, mountains of chip packets, bottles, dirty kitchens, where, of course, cockroaches immediately appeared. Apparently, housework is something too mundane for young physicists and programmers.

Dormitory location- 20 minutes walk from Kashirskaya metro station.

Number of residents- 2500 people.

Terms of service- the dormitory is not given to all first-year students, but only to those who have scored a sufficient number of points, that is, more than the passing grade for the budget department.

Distance from the university- 15 minutes walk from MEPhI.

Conditions- one-room apartments for three to four people, two-room apartments for five people (2 and 3 people per room), three-room apartments for 6-7 people.

Facilities- the apartment has a toilet, bathroom, kitchen, corridor, balcony. The kitchen is equipped with the necessary appliances: refrigerator and electric stove.

Entrance to the hostel- according to the rules, entry to the hostel is until 1 am, but many people break this rule. If you wake up the guard, he will let you into the room, but you need to sign up for a special log of late arrivals.

Pros of the hostel- accommodation in apartments with all amenities, free internet with good speed, close to the university.

Cons of a hostel- not all students have enough space. Nevertheless, every year the enrollment of freshmen at MEPhI increases, and the administration is forced to pack in more residents - if previously no more than three people lived in the rooms, now four students have begun to occupy each room.

Sasha, sixth year student at MEPhI: “The hostel is a bunch of people. Left, right, my best friends are everywhere here. I always associate the hostel with fun. Outside the hostel it’s ordinary, but here it’s a completely different atmosphere. Although I liked it better in the old hostel. Yes, there were conditions there "It's worse, the toilet, shower and kitchen are only on the floors, but this brought us closer. And now we are moving away from each other."

Lyosha, fifth year MEPhI student: “Relationships with security are sometimes tense. We only have entry until one in the morning, and even if you came from the neighboring building of the hostel a little later, they are already coming. They also check the bags to make sure there is no alcohol in them. The guys somehow dragged a huge bag of beer onto rope to the thirteenth floor. And on the eleventh floor she caught on something, and everything fell down. What a sight it was!"

RSUH (Russian State Humanitarian University)
The dormitory of the Russian State University for the Humanities at the address "Kirovogradskaya street, house number 25" was glorified in the song Noize MC. The musician himself lived there until he was completely tired of the hostel life. The song, in fact, describes the horrors of everyday life, and not the living conditions themselves. For example, by the line “And next to the bathroom there is a toilet,” you can generally judge the “luxury” that you will not find in every dormitory - in many of them the toilets are shared and located at the end of the corridor, and there may be only one room with showers at the end of the corridor. building.

At the Russian State University for the Humanities, things are much better with this, although there are also plenty of problems - mold grows on the walls in the bathrooms, which cannot be washed off with anything, as well as yellow stains from water. Students demanded to change the bathrooms, but the university has not yet allocated money for this. Many students themselves make cosmetic repairs to their rooms, because some of them are a deplorable sight - scraps of wallpaper hanging from the wall, leaking ceilings and windows that won't close.

Dormitory location- 5 minutes from the metro station st. Academician Yangel.

Dormitory type- block type.

Number of residents- 860 people.

Terms of service- first-year students are not provided with a dormitory. You can queue for a place in the dorm. If you come to the resettlement department every day and remind yourself, then in six months you can move in. True, this does not apply to residents of the Moscow region, even distant ones. They are given a hostel last. Some people move in only in their third or fourth year, and until that time they must rent a room or apartment.

Distance from the university- about an hour from the educational building on Novoslobodskaya.

Conditions- blocks of two rooms, three people live in one, two people in the other.

Amenities a - the block contains a toilet and a bathroom.

Entrance to the hostel- at any time for residents of the hostel.

Pros of the hostel- amenities in the block, no more than three people live in the rooms, next to the metro.

Cons of a hostel- they do not accommodate freshmen, poor repairs in the rooms, very old plumbing, far from the center and the university.

Yulia, master's student at Russian State University for the Humanities: "Someone is very unlucky with their neighbors. My friend lived with a girl who always went to bed at 10 pm. And my friend from the philology department, she came home from school late, and then she had to read a lot at home. And her neighbor She claimed that she could not sleep not only in the light of a night lamp, but also when the pages rustled.

We also have problems with our neighbors on the block. It feels like they save up dirty clothes for a month and then wash everything in one day. They dry everything in the bathroom, there is nowhere else. So our entire bathroom is covered with jeans, dresses, T-shirts - and they think that with such humidity it will all dry out normally. And we can’t even wash ourselves properly - things are everywhere, and they’re dripping.”

MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)
MGIMO has four dormitory buildings, all of them are located in different places: on Profsoyuznaya, in Teply Stan, in Tsaritsyno and on Vernadsky Avenue, near the university itself. In Teply Stan and Tsaritsyno - apartment type. I decided to visit the hostel for foreign citizens on Vernadsky Avenue and the hostel on Profsoyuznaya.

Both hostels are more like economy-class hotels - at the entrance there is not an arrogant security guard or a grumpy watchwoman, but an intelligent-looking concierge in a suit. Smart students emerge from the rooms, clearly not dressed for a scholarship. Students at the dormitory for foreigners on Vernadsky Avenue do not receive a scholarship - almost all foreigners study at MGIMO on a contract basis and pay 4,500 rubles a month for the dormitory.

Mostly foreign youth from China, Korea, Central Asia, and CIS countries study at MGIMO. Citizens of Central and Western Europe also live in the MGIMO dormitory, but these are mainly exchange students who came to Russia for one or two semesters.

Usually residents of different countries are accommodated in one room. Thus, the Azerbaijani Aziza, who gave me a tour of the hostel, used to live with an Albanian woman, then with a French woman, and now her neighbor is an Italian. From Aziza’s window you can see a rather large parking lot, where I was unable to see a single domestic car. Studying at MGIMO is not a cheap pleasure, and mostly well-off guys and girls live in the university dormitory.

The hostel on Novocheremushkinskaya Street (Profsoyuznaya metro station) is a little simpler, although it also leaves a pleasant impression. Most of the residents there are students of the budget department.

Dormitory location- right next to the tram stop, 10-15 minutes walk from the Profsoyuznaya metro station.

Terms of service- the hostel is available to everyone. Some people manage to immediately get into a block room, while others have to live in a room without a shower or toilet in their junior years, but then they have the opportunity to move.

Distance from the university- 40-60 minutes with two transfers.

Conditions- in corridor rooms: two or three places, at the beginning of the year it happens that a fourth person is accommodated. In the block rooms there are two or three rooms for two or three people and a spacious corridor where you can equip something like a kitchen, although students are not allowed to have electric stoves. Students buy all household appliances - refrigerator, microwave - themselves.

Facilities- those who live in corridor rooms are forced to go to the toilet on the floor and to the shower on the first floor. The block contains a toilet and a bathroom. Boys are moved into blocks less often because they are usually less clean and do not clean up after themselves. Shared showers and toilets are regularly cleaned by technicians. Kitchens for all residents are located on the floor, two on each floor.

Entrance to the hostel- Previously it was until two, then they made it until one, after the riots on Manezhnaya Square they reduced it to 00.30. The official reason is “the worsening crime situation in Moscow.” Security lets students in after half past twelve, but in this case the student must write an explanatory note.

Pros of the hostel- comfortable block rooms, more or less clean corridors and kitchens, a brick, not block building in a good area.

Cons of a hostel- unequal conditions, some live practically in apartment conditions, while others are forced to use a shared shower and toilet.

Artem, fourth year student at MGIMO: “Unfortunately, in recent years the university has begun to increase enrollment in faculties, without providing the required number of places in the dormitories. Therefore, in our dormitory, almost all rooms that are designed for two people live in three people. This is terribly inconvenient and, in fact, contradicts the housing code (the minimum number of square meters per person does not meet the requirements of the law). When I was in my first year, under the old director, many people bought a place for two people for a bottle of cognac, and the third one was given a “dead soul.” Some freshmen at the same time "We had to live with four people in double rooms! There is another point here: at the beginning of each academic year, our dining room is closed, and 14 people are accommodated there! Then, within 2 months, they are resettled in the places of those expelled."

RUDN University (Russian Peoples' Friendship University)
Perhaps everyone should visit the RUDN University campus. This is an entire town in the southwest of Moscow, where you can see people of any skin color, speaking completely different languages and coming from all over the world - Asia, Africa, Latin America. Most of them study and live at RUDN University for free - either the countries of these regions send them to Moscow at public expense, or their education is paid for from the Russian budget.

The majority come from not very rich and, one might even say, insufficiently civilized countries. Probably, this fact can be associated with frequent fires, which most often occur in RUDN dormitories precisely through the fault of the residents themselves - many create a mess that does not contribute to the creation of safe conditions. Every few hours, the superintendent or attendant walks through all floors with a plunger - many students throw food directly into the sink, which constantly clogs it.

Dormitory location- 10-15 minutes by bus from the Yugo-Zapadnaya or Belyaevo metro stations.

Number of residents- more than 8 thousand people.

Terms of service- hostel accommodation is provided to almost all foreign students. It is much more difficult for students from Russian regions to get a dormitory; only a few places are allocated for each faculty; first of all, they go to beneficiaries and Olympiad winners.

Distance from the university- educational buildings are located across the street from residential buildings.

Conditions- in most buildings, students live in small corridor-type rooms.

Facilities- in most buildings the toilet and kitchen are located on the floor, and the shower room is in the basement.

Pros of the hostel- amazing diversity of cultures, cheap and tasty food. RUDN University is a real campus, in shape reminiscent of Western ones, although the conditions, alas, are not.

Cons of a hostel- dirt, smells unusual for Europeans, conflicts between students from different countries who do not always get along with each other. It is also difficult for those who study in difficult faculties - physics, mathematics, medicine. Humanities students study much easier, so they interfere with their hectic lifestyle for those who really need to study.

For many foreigners, admission to RUDN University is a start in life. And no matter how much they scold the conditions of the hostel, Russians and life in Moscow, the majority dreams of staying here and not returning to their country. Almost all cafes, shops, beauty salons and other commercial establishments on campus are open and maintained by former students.

Here, at very low prices, you can taste Caucasian, Central Asian, Chinese, African cuisine, smoke a real oriental hookah, buy Indian spices, and have a custom-made pair of shoes sewn from an Uzbek. Previously, people also came to RUDN for a special product - drugs, which, they say, were found in abundance in the hostel in the nineties and early 2000s.

“Time has changed, now there is no such thing here,” says Alexey, a graduate of RUDN University. “Maybe someone is bringing a little something from Africa and Latin America, but not on an industrial scale. I can’t say that they’ve started monitoring more here "It's just a matter of order, the country has just changed. Previously, I heard, they sold this stuff here with all their might, and the local police were directly involved in it. But now no, I've never seen anything like this during my entire study."

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Higher School of Economics)
The new dormitories at the Higher School of Economics are causing two reactions. On the one hand, these are real apartments with all amenities, household appliances and a spacious hall. On the other hand, students must pay for this with “exile” in the Moscow region. Although, in a good situation, they can get to the university in just over an hour, but few people want to make an extra transfer, depend on the schedule, and even spend extra money on a travel card.

Nevertheless, now all those admitted to HSE are accommodated either in one of two buildings in Odintsovo, or even further away - in Dubki. The dormitory on Pokrovka is closed, the rest of the Moscow buildings do not accept first-year students.

In Moscow, students live in three buildings - on Aviamotornaya, Shosse Entuziastov and Studencheskaya. I visited a dormitory that previously belonged to MPEI (Energy Institute), which HSE recently acquired ownership of. The conditions in the hostel on Aviamotornaya are many times worse than in distant Odintsovo. Instead of full-fledged apartments, there are cramped rooms with a toilet and kitchen on the floor and one shower room for the entire six-story building.

Number of residents- about five and a half thousand people. Most of them live in the Moscow region.

Terms of service- hostel accommodation is provided to all non-resident students.

Distance from the university- from half an hour for those who live in a hostel in Moscow, to one and a half hours for those who live in Odintsovo or Dubki.

Conditions- apartment type in the Moscow region and corridor type - in Moscow buildings.

Pros of the hostel- comfortable hostels in Odintsovo and Dubki.

Cons of a hostel- remoteness of the new hostels, not very good conditions in the old ones.

Olya, master's student at HSE: “When we entered the first year, dorms were just about to open in Odintsovo. But it all took a very long time, because they were not accepted for a long time due to some safety standards. Accordingly, they could not move anyone there. And we already We entered, came to Moscow, and we had to live somewhere. Someone was given a cot in an already filled room, but I and quite a large number of first-year students were put in study rooms. There are rooms on each floor where students can study. They pulled out tables from there, put in cots, and we lived there in the first year. But then they left me in the same dormitory on Avtozavodskaya. I didn’t want to move to Odintsovo. Yes, there are good conditions there, but it’s more convenient for me to live in the city, even with a common toilet and shower."

Katya, fourth year student at HSE: “I’m a contract student and have to pay for a dormitory. In the third year, the cost was raised to four thousand. And the train ticket went up in price, it costs a thousand. That is, I had to pay five thousand a month to live in an apartment in the Moscow region with "with a bunch of other students and with the constant supervision of guards and commandants. I could not stand the constant travel on trains and began to rent a room in Moscow."

MSTU named after Bauman
Most of the Bauman hostels are located in Izmailovo and do not offer the best conditions - they are mainly corridor-type dorms, with one shower room on eight floors, dirty toilets at the end of the corridor and rather cramped rooms where both three and four students can be accommodated. Moreover, first-year students still have to fight for this - there are not enough places in the dormitory for everyone.

A new large dormitory recently opened next to the university on Baumanskaya, but students were already complaining that it didn’t even have kitchens. The administration compensates for their absence with microwaves installed in the rooms.

Dormitory location- five buildings a five-minute walk from Izmailovo metro station; four buildings at the Baumanskaya metro station.

Terms of service- the hostel is provided to beneficiaries, Olympiad participants and those who scored a high score upon admission. The rest either have to negotiate with the commandant in some not entirely legal way, or rent an apartment. If a student studies well, he can write an application for a hostel. He may be placed fourth in a room, but his status as a “good student” must be confirmed every year with positive grades and active social work, otherwise he may be evicted.

Distance from the university- 40-45 minutes from the educational building on Baumanskaya.

Conditions- in a small room there are two beds, they can be bunk beds, then four people live there. By the senior year, it becomes possible to stay in a room with three people, or even two people if you’re lucky.

Facilities- in corridor-type dormitories there is a shower room only on the first floor; toilet, washbasins and kitchen - on each floor.

Entrance to the hostel- until 1 am free, after - by call, you also need to sign up in a special register for late arrivals.

Pros of the hostel- not very far from the university, next to the dormitories there is the Izmailovsky forest park and a large market. At MSTU there is a famous tradition - "basins". All students, especially those living in the dormitory, look forward to the day of tub riding throughout their six years of study. After passing their diploma, graduates bathe in the fountain in front of the university, and then ride on basins - first along the dorm stairs, then in the dormitory courtyard, tied to a car with a rope.

Cons of a hostel- amenities are on the floor, the toilets are very dirty, the showers don’t even have full cubicles. Not every dormitory building has a canteen and a store. However, many are on the waiting list for the hostel, which is running out of places due to ever-increasing enrollment.

Kostya, sixth year student at MSTU: “Several years ago, our university became generous and installed plastic windows in the entire dormitory. But the workers did their job so poorly that the meaning of all these expenses was lost. For example, they did not even remove the old window sills, but installed new ones on top of them. Because of this, everything The window sills are now tilted. We asked them for a bottle of beer to cut down a piece of the old window sill, and they installed the window sill straight. But the gaps between the window and the wall remained, they were simply sealed with liquid foam.

We also have a “wonderful” shower. It works according to a schedule - from six in the morning until one in the morning. And on Thursdays it is closed completely - this is called “sanitary day”. To wash, you have to go to the neighboring building through the fire crossing."

Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow State University still remains the most reliable university in terms of providing dormitories. The university is obliged to provide a place for absolutely all nonresident students. In this regard, now in the DAS dormitory they are moving a fifth person into rooms for four, since enrollment increases every year due to the Unified State Examination. The fifth bed has to be placed in the middle of the room or in a nook where, according to the layout of the rooms, there should be something like a kitchen-living room.

Of course, none of the four inhabitants of the room can be happy with the fifth neighbor, even if he is ideal - there is already catastrophically little space in small rooms, and queues for the toilet and bathroom in predominantly female dormitories lead to real conflicts. This is especially true for first-year students who are assigned to older students.

Nevertheless, the MSU dormitories are a kind of legend, and not only nonresident applicants dream of getting into them, but also Muscovite students, for whom the dormitories where their classmates live are associated with freedom and something forbidden.

Perhaps, many people too romanticize the spirit of the hostel, especially looking at two powerful “ships” - the Postgraduate and Intern House (neither graduate students nor interns live there, but that is the name of one of the largest dormitories of Moscow State University) and the Hogwarts towers of the main building of Moscow State University, where accommodates senior and graduate students.

Number of residents- 17 thousand people.

Distance from the university- depends on the dormitory building and faculty. Some live in the same building where they study—senior courses in the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, the Faculty of Geography—and others have to travel from Shvernika Street (15 minutes on foot from the Akademicheskaya metro station) to Mokhovaya to the Faculty of Journalism or Psychology. In any case, students usually spend no more than an hour on the road from the hostel to the faculty.

Conditions- completely different, from single rooms in the main building of Moscow State University to four-bed rooms in the FDS (Branch of the Student House), where each student has about four square meters. This violates the law, since the area of the room must be at least six square meters per person. Moreover, if in most MSU dormitories there is a shower and toilet in every room, then in the FDS the toilet is located at the end of the corridor, and the shower room is on the first floor, and it works according to a schedule, closing once a week for a “sanitary day”.

Additional services in the building- the largest dormitories of Moscow State University are something like a town with extensive infrastructure. There are legends about students who lived and studied in the Main Building and did not go outside for years, but came to lectures in slippers. GZ really has everything, from a good price-quality dining room to a swimming pool. And even if your slippers for attending lectures are torn, you can buy new ones without leaving the hostel.

About the same thing once happened in DAS. In the passage between the two buildings there was a cinema hall, a swimming pool, a sauna, and a massage room. The cinema hall and swimming pool were closed due to their disrepair and could not be repaired for several years, the sauna was closed due to safety precautions, and the massage therapist was kicked out because he was engaged in commercial activities on the territory of the hostel.

For the same reason, the laundry and hardware store are periodically closed - commercial activity on the territory of Moscow State University is prohibited. Therefore, it is necessary to hold tenders to serve the needs of residents of the hostel. But usually this process drags on for a long time, and the administration allows private owners back into DAS. So far we have only managed to modernize the dining room. MSU opened its own instead of a commercial one, prices immediately fell, and the quality of food improved slightly.

By the way, the DAS dining room is located in a monumental room with a huge mosaic covering the entire wall, where, if you try, you can see a round dance of women personifying the Soviet republics. In general, throughout DAS one can feel the former power of the Soviet past, covered with numerous layers of dust.

Sasha, fourth year student at Moscow State University: “I lived in DAS for three years, I liked it, but then I had to move to the Main building. Because of this Unified State Examination in DAS, they began to put us five in a group of four, and it’s absolutely impossible to live like that. Especially when you’re already in your fourth year. In GZ "I live alone, although I can’t say that I really like it there - the building is terribly old, dusty, the plumbing is terrible. Even though I have an individual shower, I still go there in slippers - the dirt is already so ingrained that it cannot be washed off."

About half a million young Moscow residents are nonresident students. Some come from the distant Moscow region, others from the Far East. The majority plans to settle in Moscow for the rest of their lives, while some come for knowledge that will be useful to them in their native regions. These guys, on the one hand, are already adults, and on the other, only yesterday they lived with their parents and it was in Moscow that they first encountered many everyday problems. Moscow dormitories become a school of life for students, where they have to fight for a normal existence.