Legalization and translation of the documents

Please pay attention that your Diploma and the Transcript of records should have undergone the legalization (validation) procedure in the country of your previous education.

Legalization is a procedure of giving legal effect to a document issued in one country in the territory of another country. Academic certificates and diplomas can only be legalized in the country of issuance.

Attention! Your documents of the previous education (Diploma and the Transcript of records) must be translated into Russian and notarized before your arrival to the University. If the translation has been made on the territory of the foreign country, back sides of your documents (or their scan copies) should have an Apostille and/or consular legalization stamp.

Duly certified translations must be accompanied by copies of the translated documents.

!!! Please make sure that spelling of the name and surname is the same in all documents and their translations.

Center of educational services for international students

At the customs area you must fill in a migration card. The purpose of the visit should be specified as (STUDY in Russian). Keep the migration card until your departure from Russia.

On the same day or the day following your arrival, except weekends, you should come for registration to the Center of educational services for international students. You are to submit the documents listed below:


  1. Passport and its notarized translation into Russian language; 
  2. Migration card; 
  3. Original educational documents and their  notarized translation into Russian; 
  4. Result of recognition of foreign educational documents in the absence of an agreement between countries; 
  5. 10 photos 3*4 cm; 
  6. Filled in questionnaire; 
  7. Medical insurance policy (if you have your own medical insurance policy, please have the insurance agreement with you); 
  8. Medical certificate of health with vaccination records; the document from a medical institution in the applicant home country confirming the absence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS, viral hepatitis B and C.

Please be aware!             
Each foreign student arriving in Russia must submit his/her passport with the visa and the migration card for registration to the Center of educational services for international students within 3 days after the date of crossing the border of the Russian Federation. The penalty for late registration may vary from paying a fine to deportation from Russia.           
All foreign students should extend their student visas 45 days prior to the visa expiration date.             
Students are required to take out medical insurance policy annually and undergo fingerprint registration, photography and a medical examination upon arrival.

Student’s obligations

  • Each University student arriving in Russia is required to get medical insurance policy to receive medical care.
  • Each University student arriving in Russia is also required to undergo fingerprint registration, photography and a medical examination.
  • Make sure that your bank card has a limit that will allow you to pay for the dormitory, etc. (in case of payment by card).

Contact: 
Center of educational services for international students: 
• office 251, 2nd floor (5/7, Dvinskaya street)
• Visiting hours: 9:30 – 17:00 
• cent_edu@gumrf.ru • +7(812)251-62-28