A room is for three students. There are two 6-cabin shower rooms and two 5-cabin toilets on every floor. There are two equipped kitchens on every floor. Bed linens are changed every week. The hostel has laundry rooms, a cafeteria and a first-aid room. There is a self-learning room provided with the Internet.
Distance between the foreign-student hostel and main educational buildings
The Preparation Section, Dean’s Office of Faculty of International Academic Cooperation, Passport-and-Visa Support Office are placed directly in the foreign-student hostel. TvSTU Central Building is 300 meters apart from the foreign-student hostel. The other TvSTU Educational Buildings are 10 km away from the foreign-student hostel (municipal buses, trolleybuses and trams are available).
The number of foreign-student hostels
2 hostels
New foreign students transfer from Moscow to TvSTU
TvSTU meets the new foreign students at a Moscow airport and arranges transferring them from the airport to the place they will live and study.
An orientation week for new foreign students
When new foreign students come to TvSTU, its representatives arrange an excursion to the services of Faculty of International Academic Cooperation, the neighborhood (first-aid room, shops, post-office, pharmacy, bank, canteen, cafes, etc.), city transport, explain Russian Federation living and transportation rules, hostel rules, education rules and education program requirements.
Events arranged specially for the foreign students
Russian Language Olympics, scientific-and-practical student conferences, New-Year parties, virtual excursions, Day of Faculty of International Academic Cooperation (FIAC Day), excursions to Tver City and Tver Region museums, excursions to Moscow, St.-Petersburg and Novgorod.
Students activities beyond learning (events, hobby groups or clubs)
Russian Language Department invites to its Russian Language Club and a Cinema Club.
Foreign students take part in ANEFRA Multilanguage Club actively.
TvSTU Student Club and Student Initiative Center attract FIAC students to their activities beyond learning, annually arrange STUDENT SPRING festivals and glorious KVN (JOKING WITTY CLUB) contests.
Additionally, everyone desiring can improve her/his speaking skills in foreign languages for free, master business rights, train her/his psychological self-control, join a sociological student service or enjoy a student PR club.
Opportunities for sports
TvSTU has five gyms, a ski base, summer sports-and-health camp; the university invites its students to lots of sporting groups.
Library fund description
The basic fund of the united local scientific library of TvSTU includes:
– ONE MILLION volumes of learning and scientific literature, unpublished, audiovisual and electronic documents, microforms;
– over 200 names of newspapers, journals, informational publications;
– patent, normative and technical documentation, theses, scientific reports;
– fund of rare books and unique Russian and foreign publications reflecting the development history of natural sciences and engineering in Russia XVIII to early XX centuries, including the top-unique collection of publications about peat.
Supplementary information
The foreign citizens who live in the foreign-student hostel and study by full-time Federal Budget or Quota pay for their hostel 540 Rubles a month; the Contract students pay 630 Rubles a month, 21 Rubles a day.
Student’s expenses
City month food cost
10 076 Rubles
Average lunch cost in TvSTU student canteen
150 Rubles
Moscow-Tver suburb train ticket cost / time taken
480 Rubles / 1:40 h
City transport ticket cost
20 Rubles a trip
Average monthly city transport expenditures (if required to go to remote educational buildings and back every day)
The foreign citizens who live in the foreign-student hostel and study by full-time Federal Budget or Quota pay for their hostel 540 Rubles a month; the Contract students pay 612 Rubles a month, 21 Rubles a day.
Average medical insurance cost for a year
4 100 Rubles
Average monthly mobile telephone use cost
300 Rubles
Opportunities for foreign students employment by TvSTU
TvSTU helps its students to find jobs. TvSTU runs a Center for Contacts with Industries, a Student Labor Exchange, Archimedes Construction Team, Lift Upbringing Team for summer children health camps.
