The Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (NArFU)
The Arctic zone of the Russian Federation occupies nine million square meters. The Northern Arctic Federal University sees its mission as opening a new page in the high latitude investigation and establishing an innovation and human resource base to foster knowledge-based exploration of the Arctic.
NArFU comprises three campuses, two colleges, and seven and higher schools sharing an enrolment of over 20,000 students and a staff size of 2,500+.
Northern Arctic Federal University delivers high-quality programs in Engineering, Mathematics, Life Sciences, and Humanities. The Arctic represents the core focus of the university’s educational policy.
NArFU has been acknowledged as conforming to the European Foundation for Quality Management criteria and consistent with the requirements of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Following the international expert report, the university is recognized for its excellence and has achieved the highest rating – five stars.
The nucleus of NArFU is Shared Use of Equipment Center “Arktika”, which operates a one-of-a-kind set of advanced lab research facilities.
NArFU operates an expedition project called the Arctic Floating University, launched in 2012 with the grant from the Russian Geographical Society grant and in collaboration with the Northern Territorial Administration for Hydrometeorology.
High on NArFU’s agenda is the international cooperation in the Arctic. Russia’s northernmost federal university, NArFU is a partner to 160 international organizations and 120 agreements with schools, organizations and businesses in 60 countries. Being an Arctic-focused university, NArFU maintains close connections with the universities of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Canada and the USA.
Vigorous efforts are being channeled towards the research and training partnership with Central Europe, East Asia and CIS-counties.
The key strategic intents encompass network university partnership for the Barents Euro-Arctic Region, circumpolar cooperation with the universities of the Arctic Council member and observer states, and joint research and training projects within EU programmes.
NArFU annually hosts around 100 international events involving 500+ partners.
NArFU offers 5 international bachelor’s and master’s programs, and dual-degree ones. More than 50 courses are English-taught.
There are courses of English, French, German, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Chinese languages.
Active work is being conducted by NArFU and its overseas partners to promote research and training projects. NArFU’s international enrolment stands at 800+ students from 55+ countries.
M.V. Lomonosov Northern Arctic Federal University has been selected winner by the RF Ministry of Education and Research project “Universities as Innovation-Generating Spaces”. It has gained recognition as the area’s innovative center of excellence and engine of social growth.
Resource Center for Inclusive Education of Northern (Arctic) Federal University
All equal, all different – this is the overarching aim of a contemporary educational system. Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M. V. Lomonosov is to become the starting point for enabling access to education to the disabled people and people with health limitations in the Northwestern Federal District.
To implement this plan a new Resource Center for Inclusive Education was established at the University in November 2014.
The Higher School of Social Sciences, Humanities and International Communication
The Higher School of Social Sciences, Humanities and International Communication is the largest academic unit of the Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
Its mission consists in facilitating sustainable innovation-driven development of education and research in the sphere of humanities to meet the economic, social and cultural needs of the subarctic regions of Russia and other countries.
The School is now home to more than 1700 students, including 63 from abroad, studying Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degree programs. They are future professionals qualified for research, project management, translation and teaching.
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NArFU currently comprises 15 institutes, 3 colleges, 3 braches and the University Lyceum, with staff exceeding 4,000 employees and enrollment standing at 22,500 students.
NArFU-hosted forums, conferences, public lectures, workshops serve as major venues for opinion exchange between domestic and overseas researchers, politicians, community leaders and world-recognized experts.
Among NArFU’s core activity portfolios is international cooperation in the Arctic.
Russia’s northernmost university, it partners more than 130 international organizations and has entered into 66 partnership agreements with universities and businesses in 29 countries.
NArFU’s strong orientation towards the Arctic is what has predetermined its close partnership relations with the universities in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Canada and the USA.
NArFU is a member of the UArctic Consortium governing bodies.
NArFU’s international enrolment stands at 450 students. They come from 45 countries and are offered 9 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in core Arctic-related areas of knowledge. 48 courses are English-taught. Since 2010, the international student enrolment has increased 20 fold.
Welcome to NArFU! (Vietnamese language)
An opportunity to study the subjects that fascinate you, access to cutting-edge laboratories and world-class training prоgrammes, a chance to meet people of different cultures and learn new languages, experience the authentic Russian winter and explore the Arctic – these are just a few of many reasons motivating international students from all over the world to choose Northern Arctic Federal University in Arkhangelsk.
Arctic Conference. Section 4. Arctic Territories: Prospects for Development and Cooperation
Section 3. Arctic Territories: Prospects for Development and Cooperation
Themes for discussion:
- The demands and problems of sustainable development of the Arctic territories
- Training specialists in accordance with the demands of regional development
- Northern Russian territories' potential for cooperation with neighboring Arctic countries
Moderator:
- Marina Kalinina, Vice Rector, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NARFU)
- Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor of International Affairs, George Washington University
Speakers:
- Alexey Struchkov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to the President of the Russian Federation
- Valery Tishkov, Director, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member
- Irina Khaleeva, Rector, Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member
- Vladimir Pavlenko, Head, Arkhangelsk Scientific Centre, RAS Ural Branch
- Vladimir Bagreev, Head of the Russian Office, Norwegian Russian Chamber of Commerce
- Andrei Podoplyokin, Counsellor of the Governor, Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Vera Smorchkova, Professor, Scientific Advisor, Training for Arctic and Northern Territories Program, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
- Alexey Tomtosov, Vice Rector for Interaction with Federal Structures, North-Eastern Federal University
- Grigory Trofimchuk, Head, Political Consulting Department, Russian-Asian Industry and Entrepreneurship Alliance
- Tatiana Sidorova, Head, International Law Department, School of Law, Siberian Federal University
- Georgiy Cherkashyov, Professor, Department of Geology of Mineral Deposits, Saint Petersburg State University
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The Higher School of Natural Sciences and Technologies
The Higher School of Natural Sciences and Technologies is one of the major academic units of the Northern Arctic Federal University. The history of the School’s departments dates back to 1930s.
The mission of the Higher School consists in creating new knowledge about nature and bioresource management in the Arctic for the purposes of environmental sustainability and security in the region.
The Higher School of Natural Sciences and Technologies is home to 1000 students from Russia and abroad. They are future specialists in a wide range of natural sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, geography, hydrometeorology, ecology, natural resource management, physics and chemistry teaching, information, nano-, bio- and chemical technology, medicine and biophysics. The School trains professionals qualified for research, industry and management in the conditions of the Arctic and the High North.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...