The Digital Pre-University Faculty organises winter schools ‘Dive into Russian in Moscow’ and ‘Dive into Russian in Moscow: advanced level’ for foreign citizens

Dates: 24 November to 7 December 2025; 1 February to 14 February 2025*.

* Dates may vary depending on the wishes of the participants and the set of groups.

Place: Moscow, 10k3 Miklukho-Maklaya St., Russian Language Institute.

Dates may vary depending on the wishes of the participants and the set of groups.

The Digital Pre-University Faculty's winter school programmes ‘Dive into Russian in Moscow’ will help participants to immerse themselves in the language environment through a combination of intensive study and a very interesting cultural and educational programme. Russian language lessons with leading RUDN teachers, excursions, walks around the capital, sport activities, interesting events and master-classes are just a small part of what awaits the participants of the school this summer.  The students will be able to get acquainted with Russia, Russian culture and national traditions, which will definitely make their time in Moscow exciting, colourful and memorable!

The programme offers full accompaniment for participants who have never studied Russian, in English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi.

The Winter School programme has educational, enlightenment and adaptation goals, including acquaintance with the Russian language, socio-cultural specifics of Russia, its cultural values, historical and cultural heritage.

Participants will be able to develop and improve their language, speech and communicative skills in Russian language to the extent of A1, A2 levels (depending on the chosen programme), necessary for successful communication in the language environment using a certain set of language tools.

Dive into Russian in Moscow

Module I. Introductory phonetic course:

• Welcome to Russia!
• Let's get acquainted.

Module II. A1 level:

• This is me and my family.
• Let's go shopping.
• Going to the post office for packages.
• My hobbies.
• My typical day, plans and goals.

Dive into Russian in Moscow: advanced level

Module I. Level A2:

• Let's get acquainted (case system of the Russian language).
• Where I live, what I dream of (prepositional case: meaning and functions).
• You've done your job - walk free! (types of verb: CB and NCV).
• You can't catch a fish out of the pond without work (accusative case: meaning and functions).
• If you go quietly, you will go farther (verbs of motion).
• Everything has its time (dative case: meaning and functions).
• Where will we go in the summer? (verbs of motion with prefixes: NSV, SV).
• What is written with a pen cannot be chopped down with an axe (Instrumental Case: meaning and functions; Genitive Case: meaning and functions).