Orenburg State Agrarian University
The Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education «Orenburg State Agrarian University» is a modern institution of higher education that provides training of highly qualified specialists in engineering, agronomy, veterinary, forestry, management, information technology, law and other professions. It was founded in 1930.
The educational process is provided by 7 faculties, 3 institutes and 5 branches. Selection of entrants and their vocational guidance are conducted through the implementation of the program «Agroclasses of the Orenburg region», Centers for Pre-University Training (CPD), Association of Educational Institutions for Continuous Agricultural Education, which includes 30 educational institutions of various levels (vocational schools, colleges, technical schools, universities).
Faculties of Orenburg State Agrarian University:
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of agricultural technology, land management and food production
- Faculty of Biotechnology and Nature Management
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of secondary vocational education
- Economic Faculty
- Law Faculty
Student Accommodation
Today Orenburg State Agrarian University is not only teaching, scientific activity, but student life. As they say, “who didn’t live in the dormitory, was not a student.” The University has on its balance 4 dormitories located in campus. The total number of places for students is 1705. Students live in rooms for two, three men under sanitary standards (6 m2 per 1 student).
In the dorms there are all conditions for students to feel like at home. Rooms are equipped with necessary furniture: beds, tables and chairs. Each dorm lobby is comfortable, cozy kitchen, sanitary facilities and rooms.
In the campus there are a dining room, a sanatorium, sports facilities and student disco. In the campus there is a local computer network with Internet access.
Orenburg City
Orenburg is a city in the south of the Urals in Russia, the capital of the Orenburg region. The city stands on the Ural (former Yaik) River, near the mouth of the Sakmara River, 1,458 km south-east of Moscow. The unofficial name of Orenburg is “Asian capital” of Russia.
Orenburg features
The climate in Orenburg is temperate continental. The average temperature in January is minus 11.8 degrees Celsius, in July – plus 22.3 degrees Celsius.
Orenburg main industries are natural gas extracting, oil processing, machine-building and light industries.
On a pedestrian bridge across the Ural River there is a symbolic sign – a border between Europe and Asia. But this border is defined in different ways in various sources.
There is an international airport, Orenburg-Central named after Gagarin (IATA: REN, ICAO: UWOO), located 19 km east of the city. Flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Samara, Kazan, Ufa, Yekaterinburg are available.
Today, Orenburg has more than 30 hotels. The four-star hotels: business-hotel “Rostoshi”, “La Vie de Chateau”, “Steppe Palmira,” “Don Quixote”, “Orenburg”, “Fakel”. The three-star hotels: “Armada Comfort Hotel”, hotel “Rostoshi”, “Mia”, “Breeze”, “Victoria”, “Yuzhniye Vorota”, “Niva”.
