2 years
Full-time programme
295 000 –
590 000 RUB/year
590 000 RUB/year
Tuition Fee in 2026
Russian government and HSE scholarships and tuition fee waivers available
RUS+ENG
Instruction in Russian with some courses in English
News
On February 27–28, 2026, the School of Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) of the Faculty of Humanities held its first Winter Online School for International Applicants.
March 05
From May 12 to September 30, 2026, the "Masters of the Russian Language" competition was held. It was organized by the Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU) and Rossotrudnichestvo.
Ekaterina Sineva, a second-year master's student in the "Russian as a Foreign Language" program, became one of the competition's finalists.
Ekaterina Sineva, a second-year master's student in the "Russian as a Foreign Language" program, became one of the competition's finalists.
On November 14, 2025, Natalia Muravleva, Academic Supervisor of the educational program “Russian as a Foreign Language in Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspective,” delivered a lecture entitled "Complex Cases of Russian Grammar: Verbs of Motion" to third-year Russian language students as part of a long-term academic internship at the Department of Slavic Studies, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (Republic of Serbia).
November 20, 2025
The start of a new academic year is an excellent time to plan the next steps in your academic career. On September 1, HSE University announced the start of its annual Student Research Paper Competition (SRPC-2022). Participation is open to students of Russian and international universities and to 2022 graduates. Last year, a total of 2,196 papers were submitted to the SRPC, of which 435 were from external participants.
Research & Expertisestudentsresearch projectsInvitation to participateStudent Research Paper Competition
September 01, 2022