Rostov-on-Don State Academy of Agricultural Machine Building
Rostov-on-Don State Academy of Agricultural Engineering was established in 1960 as a factory-technical school with Rostselmash.
In 1991, the VTUZ was transformed into the Rostov-on-Don Institute of Automation and Technology of Mechanical Engineering (RIATM), and in 1995 it received the status of an academy and was transformed into the Rostov-on-Don State Academy of Agricultural Machine Building.
Now the teaching staff of the Academy includes more than 230 people, including 140 candidates of science, 20 doctors of science and professors.
Faculties of Rostov-on-Don State Academy of Agricultural Machine Building:
- Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Energy and Natural Resources
Student Accommodation
While getting education, all the students are provided with comfortable rooms for living in hostels for students. All the rooms are provided with the Internet access, TV set and telephone. There are bathrooms, lavatories and kitchens for students in the hostels. Usually, students use accommodation facilities on the sharing basis. All students’ hostels are safe and secure as they are under the protection of the police during 24 hours.
Rostov-on-Don City
Rostov-on-Don or Rostov-na-Donu is the largest city in the south of Russia, the capital of the Rostov region and the Southern Federal District. It is a major administrative, cultural, scientific, educational, and industrial center and a major transport hub of southern Russia.
Informally, Rostov-on-Don is called “the Gate to the Caucasus” and the southern capital of Russia.
Rostov-on-Don features
The City Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of September.
Rostov-on-Don stands on the banks of the Don River, about 46 km east of the Azov Sea and 1,070 km south of Moscow. The climate is temperate continental. The average temperature in January is minus 3 degrees Celsius, in July – plus 23.4 degrees Celsius.
Rostov-on-Don has a specific unique outlook because of its rich historical and cultural heritage. There are about 1,000 objects of cultural heritage in the city, including 482 architectural monuments (16 monuments of history and culture of federal importance), 70 archaeological monuments, 8 large memorial complexes, 106 monuments, and about 400 memorial plaques.
It is a major transport hub of the southern part of European Russia: several highways of federal and regional importance, the railway “St. Petersburg – Rostov-on-Don – Caucasus”, a navigable waterway from the center of Russia to the Black Sea. Also, there is an international airport in the city (regular flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg).
Rostov-on-Don is a large educational and scientific center of Russia. Southern Federal University is one of the largest universities in the country (about 56 thousand students).
Also, the city is one of the largest jazz centers of the country. It has become a tradition to hold the following art festivals: “Donskaya vesna” (“Don spring”), “Mini-fest”, “Russian comedy” and international jazz festivals.
