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Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication

General Information

Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication was established on the foundation of Irkutsk State Linguistic University. It was a university in Irkutsk, Siberia in eastern Russia founded in 1948. In 2016, it was integrated into Irkutsk State University as the newly created Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication. The university consists of two institutes (the Institute of Cross-cultural Communication and the Institute of Educational Technologies) and two independent faculties (the Social Sciences Faculty and Education-by-Correspondence Faculty). The university gives linguistic education from secondary school to university to post-graduate and post-doctoral research programs. A national license empowers the university to train professionals in 17 major areas at 10 faculties. Annually, more than 700 students use the opportunities for additional educational services at Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication. It is a site for international language proficiency exams such as the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and the Test of Proficiency in Korean.  

Study Programs

  • Social Sciences Faculty
  • Education-by-Correspondence Faculty
  • Institute of Cross-cultural Communication:
  • Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication
  • Linguistics. The Russian language
  • Institute of Educational Technologies:
  • English Language Faculty
  • Romance Languages Faculty
  • German Language Faculty
  • Humanities Faculty
  • Social Sciences Faculty
  • Education-by-Correspondence Faculty

Accommodation and Housing 

Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communication offers accommodation to its students. Dormitories consist of eight rooms per floor, with 2-3 people per room. In each building, on each floor, there is a shared kitchen equipped with electric stoves and cutting tables. The provision of residents with hard equipment (bed, table, chair, bedside table, bookshelf, chandelier) and soft equipment (mattress, pillow, blanket, bed linen, towel, curtains, bedspread) is 100%. Utilities for water, heat, energy supply, and sanitation are provided in full.