Summer schools at TSU welcome international highschool and university students, graduates of foreign universities, professors, and invited Russian and international specialists. Education, offered at these schools, includes not only academic, but also cultural exchange programs. TSU has been working with international students for the past 6 years.
Summer and Winter Schools

- School for Intensive Russian language learning
- When: August and December
- Duration: 3 weeks
- Target group: Humanities and Natural Sciences students with all levels of Russian proficiency
- Language: Russian
- Number of students: min. 8
- Program includes: The Russian language: Speaking and Writing; Russian Culture
- Accommodation: Student Residential Complexс
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, unique theater of living puppets, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music, picnics, Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals)
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive speaking and writing classes
- Advanced grammar topics
- Advanced listening and pronunciation classes
- Discussion of current socio-political and cultural issues
- Introduction to Russian media and work with various types of media texts
- Introduction to the cultureand history of Siberia
- Your Global Opportunities: International Perspectives
- When: January 18–29, 2021
- Language: English and Chinese languages
- Target group: bachelor’s students from Russia and other countries who are potentially interested in applying to the master’s program in International Management and are ready to study in English and partially in Chinese
- Tuition fee: 14 200 rubles (or equivalent in any other currency)
- Contacts:
assoc. prof. Evgenia Kaz, International Coordinator genyakaz92@gmail.com
prof. Olga P. Nedospasova, academic supervisor, TSU master’s program in International Management olgaeconomy@mail.ru
assoc. prof. Evgeniya V. Tikhonova, co-supervisor, TSU master’s program in International Management (Chinese module), Head of the Department of Chinese sie@sud.tsu.ru
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The purpose:
- To acquaint learners with a wide specter of topical issues in management concerned with the Development and Redesigning of Business Strategy; Market Entry; Work in Special Economic Zones; Global Marketing Mix; Business Communication; Problem Solving and Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility; and Doing Business with Chinese Partners.
- Classes are taught by leading faculty at the Institute of Economics and Management, its international partners and members of its Supervisory Board, and also leading faculty from the Department of Chinese, managers from the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and managers from international companies.
- As part of the program, we will be holding an interactive roundtable with guest speakers from the academic and business communities on the topic ‘How are multinational companies responding to trade wars and rivalry between economic powers?’
- The winter school’s program includes 20 online sessions (two a day) lasting 1 hour 20 minutes. At the end of the program students receive certificates which can be included in the applicant's personal portfolio upon admission to the master's program at TSU’s IEM for the International Management master’s program (in English and Chinese) and are entitled to additional points for competitive admission
Download the application for participation in the Winter School
- Cross-cultural Communication and Translation
- When: August
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: Linguistics and Philology students with good level of Russian proficiency (A2-B1)
- Language: Russian, English
- Number of students: min. 8
- Program includes: Interpreting and translation (RU-EN, EN-RU), Russian history and culture
- Accommodation: Student Residential Complex
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, unique theater of living puppets, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music, picnics, Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals)
Curriculum includes:
- Intensive grammar, speaking and writing classes
- Translation from Russian to English and vice versa
- Main translation principles for Russian-English language pair
- Communication basics for different topics
- Russian cinema traditions
- Siberian and Russian culture traditions
- International Summer School at the station "Aktru"
- When: July
- Duration: 9 days
- Target group: international students and young scientists aged 18–35 years old
- Language: English
- Program includes: Geology and Geomorphology studies. Glaciology, Geocryology, Hydrology and Water Resources studies. Ecology of Biosystems, Biogeography and Biodiversity studies. Anthropology and ethnology studies. Field excursions
- Accommodation: Residential Complex for the first and the last days of the program
- The main goal of International Summer School Programme is - to study a unique natural region Gornyi Altay, lifestyles of native ethnics groups and their adaptations to the rapidly changing climate.
The objectives of this Programme are:
- to analyze the better practices of complexinterdisciplinary and transdisciplinaryresearches in Life Sciences, Earth Sciencesand in Social Antropology
- to learn about natural objects, processes andinteractions between man and nature
- to improve field research skills and todevelop complementary skills, such as groupwork and partnership
- The Heritage of Eurasia: Past, Present and Future
- When: August
- Duration: 2 weeks
- Target group: mostly Art and Culture students, but students fromany field of study can participate as well
- Language: English
- Number of students: min. 8
- Program includes: topicalissueson culture, artwork, performing arts; history and culture of Siberia; special elective seminars
- Accommodation: Student Residential Complex
- Cultural Program: Sightseeing tours, museums, concerts of classical, Russian folk and popular music; museums of local lore, art, Slavic mythology as well as TSU museums; Siberian Botanical Garden (the oldest beyond the Urals); classical and puppet theatres, picnics, Extreme Park
- Nowadays the Institute of Arts and culture is extending contacts with different universities abroad.
The aim of this Summer School is:
- to provide international students withan opportunity to study Siberian history and culture, artistic and musical life of Tomsk, big cultural and educational center in Western Siberia
- to get acquainted with TSU training system for specialists in art and culture
- International Summer Field School «Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleobiogeocenoses of the Northern hemisphere»
- When: July - August
- Duration: 2-3 weeks
- Target group: students, postgraduates, and their scientific advisors, researchers (the total number of participants is up to 20 foreach module).
- Language: Russian, English
- Number of students: up to 20 in each module
- Program includes 2 modules:
- South of the West Siberian Plain (forest-steppe zone) – the terminal lake basin of the Baraba lowland
- Southeast Of the West Siberian Plain (thezone of taiga) – the Chulym River basin
- Accommodation: Student Residential Complex for the first and the last days of the program (not included in the price)
The field workshop will be held during the expedition of the Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic continental ecosystems (TSU, Faculty of Geology and Geography). The Laboratory is implementing interdisciplinary research of Mesozoic and Cenozoic biogeocenoses, abiotic and biotic relationships, and problems of extinction and survival of organisms. The field works will be carried out on paleontological and geoarcheological sites, natural and artificial geological sections. There will be lectures and practical training in excavation methods and basic principles of taphonomic and paleoecological analyses, stratigraphic and paleogeographic research