Astrakhan

Astrakhan is a unique place of the Lower Volga and the Northern Caspian region, the biggest trading centre on the Great Volga way; Russia’s gates to the East. It is a city, combining strict classic European forms with inventive peculiarities of Eastern architecture.

<Astrakhan> can be translated from Greek as <The khan’ s star> or < The Star-city>. In different times it was also called Adjitarkhan, Ashtarkhan, Guitarkhan, Tsitarkhan.

The Kremlin

The music theatre

Lenin’s Park

The drama theatre

The Commercial Industrial Bank

The embassy of Iran

Astor-the biggest supermarket

The Volga River

The bank of Volga

The Russian Venice

Khaltyrin Street

The Astrakhan State University

• ASU is the biggest university in Astrakhan. It has 10 Departments or faculties: Sociology, Natural Science, Law, Economics, Foreign Language…… Our university consists of several buildings in different parts of the city. ASU provides accomodations for foreign students and students who live far from the city.

• We’re the students of foreign language faculty. Our faculty which is situated in the historical center of the city is very beautiful indeed. Our department has close relationships with European and Arabic countries, students from France, Germany, Iran, Turkey come to study on different exchange programs.

The system of educationThe system of educationThe system of education in Russia differs from the educational system of Hainan University. The students who pass the entrance exams successfully can study for free and the government will pay for the education. Such brilliant students take grants and win different scholarships. After graduating from the university you can take the postgraduate course.We study at the university for five years.

Recently, there appearced a new language in our department, Chinese. We are the first to study it. We came to Hainan University are on the exchange programm and hope our universities will become friends.