International Students Testimonials

Ida Bagus Ngurah Parthayana, Indonesia

National Research Tomsk State University

They provide Russian language preparatory courses, this is important when you are going to study in another country

I’m second year student at TSU. First 10 months I studied at the Preparatory Department, and now I am first year in Economics. Language of the country where you study is very important. That is why I chose Russia; they provide Russian language preparatory courses. During the first semester it was quite difficult - to listen to the lectures, to make assignments but Russian students were really helpful and supportive of me. In the end I past the first semester and I hope that in the future I will only get excellent grades.

I like the University. When I was choosing a university, I was looking for the best and reading on the Internet a lot about TSU. As a result I decided to study here. By the way, on my way to Tomsk a funny thing happened with me. I got lost at the airport in Moscow. But there I met Konstantin Belyakov (that time I didn’t know that he happened to be a vice-rector). He introduced himself simply as TSU employee and helped me to get to Tomsk. Only on TSU campus, I found out who he really was. It was unexpected but fun. It’s so great that such helpful people work at TSU. My classmates often ask me how I bear the cold. In fact all the Siberians want to move to a warm country while all the inhabitants of warm countries like snow. I like Siberia however when the temperature was – 40o C; it was quite difficult.