The International Department takes part in international accreditation of educational programs, educational exhibitions, and also supervises the recruitment and educational process for foreign students in basic and additional educational programs.

Department staff

Gagarina Elena Yuryevna – Head of Department, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor

Sorokina Ekaterina Alekseevna – leading specialist

Buvanenko Anastasia Marksovna – leading specialist

Maksayeva Matsak Mergenovna – specialist

Pivchulina Lyudmila Vladimirovna – specialist

Contacts

414000, Astrakhan, st. Bakinskaya, 121, room 322

e-mail:  interdep@astrasmu.com

+7 (8512) 66-94-89

Registration of invitations for entry (office 307)

e-mail:  invitation@astrasmu.com

Working hours:  9.00 – 17.30
Lunch break:  13.00 – 13.30

Main functions of the department

  • coordinates the international activities of the university departments;
  • is responsible for recruiting specialists and organizing the enrollment of foreign students in basic educational programs;
  • promotes the expansion of academic and scientific contacts with educational, scientific and other foreign organizations;
  • organizes and supervises the educational process for foreign students in basic and additional educational programs;
  • organizes recruitment and support, registration of documents for foreign citizens, provides assistance in preparing documents for admission;
  • interacts with consular services, embassies, Russian cultural centers to promptly resolve issues related to foreign citizens studying at Astrakhan State Medical University, and also provides foreign students with the opportunity to meet with representatives of the region’s national diasporas; issues invitations to enter the Russian Federation.  
  • assists foreign applicants and students of the preparatory department in submitting documents for the recognition procedure to the Russian Accreditation Agency;
  • provides language support for foreign students with other structural divisions of the university;
  • prepares documents for the legalization and equivalence of the Astrakhan State Medical University diploma in foreign countries, including the “European Supplement”.