Russian to foreigners

The National Registration Center for Study Abroad
Moscow, Russia

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Course Description:

'' The school was founded in 1992 as a private organization teaching Russian to foreigners. The school, which is Swiss owned, was recognized by the local St Petersburg government as a private language training institute in 1995.

This Russian language school was also the first in Russia to attract substantial attention from the corporate sector. Among their clients are PWC, Credit Suisse, the EBRD, Scotland Yard, British Airways, the UNHCR and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to name just a few.




The school operates year-round and is situated in a quiet area of St. Petersburg’s historic center, and also operates in downtown Moscow. The St. Petersburg center offers ten modern classrooms, a self-access center and cafeteria make the school big enough to enjoy a language school feeling but small enough to ensure that teachers, staff and students socialize easily both inside and outside the classroom. In addition to their own teaching staff, the school recruits additional lecturers from first class academic institutions like the St.Petersburg State University. The school not only provides excellent teaching methods and facilities but further strives to familiarize students with Russia, both culturally and emotionally.





In St. Petersburg, the school is very centrally located close to the Metro Ligovsky Prospekt and is easy accessible from any point in the city. Bars, restaurants but also many theaters are within walking distance. All classrooms are located on the 4th floor. There is no elevator. The school is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week, provides PC workstations and offers full internet access to all its students. The school cultural officer who is responsible for the sights program is also the school’s ticket handling agent for all venues in the city. The school’s in-house travel agency handles onward journeys to other parts of Russia, deals with visa issues and arranges rail/flight tickets. Other facilities include a range of Russian and international newspapers, satellite TV, a fast and inexpensive courier service for incoming and outgoing mail, free and unlimited internet access and other services.





The splendid palaces of the tzars, the world famous Red Square, majestic church towers and impressive underground stations; the hectic pace of modern life in Moscow unfolds against the backdrop of its glorious past. Day and night, the sheer diversity of life is simply fascinating, as are the people with their incomparable warmth and hospitality. The city of 10 million inhabitants is indeed the "Soul of Russia".




Since the fourteenth century, Moscow has maintained and propagated a sense of its own destiny. With its lively street life, dense city traffic and neon advertising, Moscow is becoming more and more like a western metropolis. Nevertheless, old Russia is still evident. The innumerable churches with their onion-shaped towers, the old buildings and palaces and, of course, Red Square and the Kremlin, give the city centre a unique character. Moscow is both familiar and exotic, and perhaps that is its special charm.




The weather in Moscow is variable, with average temperatures in summer reaching 25-30°C/77-86°F. There are often thunderstorms in August and cooler weather in the second half of the month.




St. Petersburg is located at the mouth of the Neva River which flows east from Lake Ladoga into the Gulf of Finland. Home to almost five million people, Petersburg lies across more than forty islands created by the Neva delta. Helsinki is 380 kilometers to the northwest, Tallinn 340 kilometers to the west and Moscow 640 kilometers to the southeast. The city is on Moscow time, three hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or four hours during daylight savings (the last Saturday of March to the last Saturday of September).




St. Petersburg is not all that far from the Arctic Circle. This means long and harsh winters with average daytime temperatures of -5 to -10° Celsius (14 to 23° Fahrenheit) when the sun spends a few hazy hours above the horizon before disappearing for the next eighteen. The flip side of this is the fantastic white nights between June 11 and July 1 when there is a brief spate of dusk at around three in the morning and light for the rest of the day. Locals wander about in a zombie-like daze, partly out of sheer wonder at the light in the wee hours and partly from the never-ending partying that goes on at this time of year. Spring comes late to St. Petersburg with snowfall common through April and only in May do trees (and people) start coming to life again. Autumn is absolutely beautiful, with deciduous trees shedding their colors at the beginning of October.





Almost all of the "sights" in St. Petersburg are located in the historic city center, through which runs St. Petersburg’s central nervous system and most famous thoroughfare, Nevsky Prospekt. Nevsky’s 4.5 kilometer (2.8 mile) stretch from the Admiralty in the north to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in the southeast is lined with shops, bars, restaurants, fancy hotels, and a never-ending tidal wave of pedestrian traffic often harder to navigate than a cavalry charge.


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Phone:414 278 0631

School Address:

The National Registration Center for Study Abroad
PO Box 1393
Milwaukee, WI 53201
United States
phone: 414 278 0631
fax: 414 271 8884
study@nrcsa.com

Jobs & Resumes: Moscow
Houses & Roommates: Moscow

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