Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics
The University was set up in 1953. It is the basic educational center of the Federal Agency of Telecommunications covering Siberia and the Far East. It is a great research center aimed at studying telecommunications problems and developing telecommunications technologies.
The SIBSUTIS is the unique school of higher learning in Russia. It has one of the best parks of special simulation equipment as well as hardware and software programs behind the Urals at its disposal. The level of computerization of educational process is very high. The University takes pride in providing accommodation for its students, each of them having a personal Internet access.
Faculties of Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics:
- Mobile Radio Communication and Multimedia (MRM) faculty
- The Faculty of Automatic Electrocommunication (AEC)
- The Faculty of Multichannel Electrocommunication
- Faculty of Economics
- The Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Information Science and Computer Engineering
Student Accommodation
The central campus of University is located in the very center of the city. Students’ dormitory is only 5 minutes walk away from the campus. Each room in the apartment is equipped with: A bed, beddings, desk and chair, curtains. Bathroom is shared between double and triple roommates.
Shared facilities (for all the international students): Refrigerator, microwave, kitchen-range, toaster, TV, cooking utensils (pot, frying pan, knife, cutting board, etc.), laundry room. Free Wi-Fi is available. The dormitory is guarded 24 hours.
Novosibirsk City
Novosibirsk is a city in Russia, the capital of the Novosibirsk region and Siberian Federal District. It is the third largest city of the country after Moscow and St. Petersburg, one of the largest Russian business, cultural, industrial, scientific, trade, and transport centers.
Novosibirsk features
Novosibirsk is located in the south-eastern part of the West Siberian Plain, near the reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station. The city has a continental climate. The average temperature in January is minus 16.5 degrees Celsius, in July – plus 19.4 degrees Celsius.
Novosibirsk City Day is officially celebrated on the last Sunday in June. The largest hotels in Novosibirsk are Marins Park Hotel Novosibirsk, Hotel River Park (Ob hotel), Azimut Hotel Siberia, Tsentralnaya (Central) Hotel, Zolotaya Dolina (Golden Valley) in Akademgorodok. Also the city has hotels of such global hotel chains as Swissotel, Hilton Hotels, Radisson, Marriott International, and others.
It is a major transport hub connecting Siberia, the Far East, Central Asia with the European part of Russia. The city is served by the international airport “Tolmachevo” located 17 km from the center of Novosibirsk. The airport offers regular passenger flights to major cities of Russia, countries of the former Soviet Union, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, China, Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Vietnam, Thailand. The Trans-Siberian Railway passes through the city. Novosibirsk is also an important port on the Ob River.
The main industries are machine building, electric power generation, metallurgy, and food. Novosibirsk is home to the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences located like almost all other higher education institutes in a separate suburb named Akademgorodok (meaning “the town of academicians”).
