Ivanovo State Chemical-Technological University

The Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology is a respected polytechnic school training engineers for various industrial facilities in the region and abroad. With truly distinguished teaching quality and superb facilities the university ensures students’ academic excellence of international level. We graduate specialists in a wide range of academic pathways – from technology, economy and management to social work, humanities and natural sciences.

The main mission of the ISUCT is training of modern specialists, engineering professionals, scientists and well-prepared economists. The goal is to provide a good career and professional prospects in the labor market.

The main activities are education, research, carrying out public events.

The ISUCT also carries out international cooperation in the field of science and education. The ISUCT strive to observe the general world trends in the development of science and education. There are globalization of education, creation of international research teams, mobility of students, professors and staff. In the international cooperation the ISUCT also strive to a high level of knowledge, education using research, creation of professional engineering schools, the education of students on the basis of universal human values, involvement of different institutions in solving the problems of education.

ISUCT provides a wide range of training programs:

• Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees;
• PhD’s and DSc’s degrees;
• Various internships and career enhancement programs;
• Specialist retraining courses;
• Russian as a foreign language;
• Access courses;
• Network cooperation for academic mobility;
• Extra courses (electives).

Faculties of Ivanovo State Chemical-Technological University:

• Department of Analytical Chemistry
• Physical and Colloidal Chemistry Department
• The Department of Processes and Apparatus of Chemical Engineering
• Department of technological machinery and equipment
• Electrochemical production technology department
• Organic Chemistry Department
• Department of food technology and biotechnology
• Department of General Chemical Technology
• The Department of Engineering Cybernetics and Automation
• Department of Chemistry and Technology of Higher Molecular Compounds
• Inorganic Chemistry Department
• The Department of Information Technology and Digital Economy
• Department of industrial ecology
• Fine Organic Synthesis Technology Department
• Department of chemical technology of fibrous materials
• Department of technology of ceramics and nanomaterials
• Department of technology of electronic materials and devices
• Department of technology of inorganic substances

Student Accommodation

Dorms consist of eight rooms per floor, with 2-3 people per room. Each floor also has one kitchen and two toilets, and the basement has a shower. Students cannot select their own rooms. We encourage students to apply early, as the number of rooms are limited. Some students may not be comfortable with dorm rules, as they are often considered strict.

All Dormitories have the following facilities:

• Kitchen
• Laundry room
• Medical aid cabinet
• Gym
• Reading room
• Free Internet connection

Ivanovo City

Ivanovo is a city located in the central part of European Russia, about 300 km northeast of Moscow, the administrative center of Ivanovo Oblast. It is also known under such names as the “city of brides”, the textile capital of Russia, as well as the “Russian and Red Manchester”.

Ivanovo – Features

The city of Ivanovo is located in the center of Ivanovo Oblast on the banks of the Uvod River, about 100 km from Yaroslavl, Vladimir, and Kostroma. Unlike these neighboring cities, Ivanovo developed primarily as an industrial center with a significant number of industrial enterprises. The City Day is celebrated at the end of May.

The climate is temperate continental. Summer is warm, but not hot; winter is moderately frosty with permanent snow cover. The coldest month of winter is January with an average monthly temperature of minus 12 degrees Celsius, the warmest month of summer is July, which average monthly temperature is plus 18.8 degrees Celsius.

Public transport in Ivanovo is represented mainly by mini-buses. In addition, the city has a network of trolleybus routes. There are 7 universities in the city: polytechnic, chemical-technological, energy, Ivanovo State University, medical, agricultural, and fire rescue academies.

In the northern part of the city there is the Ivanovo Northern Railway Station, which is a large railway junction. The first railway station was built in 1894. In 1934, a new, more spacious train station was built next to it, which to this day is the largest architectural monument of modernism in Russia. There are regular daily trains to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Ivanovo is traditionally considered the center of the textile industry in Russia. At the moment, the number of textile enterprises has slightly decreased compared to the times of the USSR, but there are a lot of sewing enterprises. Today, food industry enterprises are developing, as well as trade and services. Also there are several chemical enterprises in the city.

Ivanovo, the center of light industry, received an unofficial name the “city of brides”, since a large number of women worked at its fabric manufacturing and processing enterprises. Andrei Mironov’s song “Well, why are we not a couple”, sounded in the Soviet movie “Honest, Intelligent, Unmarried” (1981), also played a certain role in the popularization of this expression. In each of its three verses there are such lines:

I tell you about my love again and again,

But when I will be tired of it,

You should know that I’ll go to Ivanovo,

And Ivanovo is a city of brides.

Ivanovo is one of the historical and cultural centers of the country located in the center of the famous tourist route known as the Golden Ring of Russia. The city has a number of different museums, 8 pilgrimage tourism sites, and about 400 historical and architectural monuments.

In the 1920s-1930s, the city experienced its heyday, due to its reputation as a revolutionary and proletarian city. In the number of architectural monuments of those years it is second only to Moscow in the Central Federal District. The architecture of the avant-garde is widely represented here (including constructivism), which includes about 50 buildings. Also, there are several almost completely preserved pre-revolutionary textile factories, which may be of interest to those interested in industrial design.