Application will open on September 2023 for the Russian Government Scholarships program offered to international and Afghanistan students for the academic year 2024/2025. The Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation provides an extraordinary number of scholarships for international students to do their bachelor, master, or doctoral degree in Russia. It is a great opportunity for students wishing to pursue their higher education in the Russian Federation. The Russian house in Kabul has announced that the application will open on 1st September and will end on 1st November 2023.

If you are willing to pursue your studies in the Russian Federation, do not miss this opportunity to apply to Russian Government Scholarships.

Benefits of Russian Scholarships:

• Free tuition for the whole duration of the selected program
• Maintenance Allowance
• Dormitory accommodation (if available)

The scholarship does not include

• Travel cost
• Living expenses
• Voluntary health insurance policy

Important Details:

• Number of Scholarships: 15000
• Location: Russia
• Education Level: Bachelor, Master, PhD
• Application opening date: 1st September 2023
• Deadline: 1 November  2023
• Organization: Ministry of Science and Education of Russian Federation
• Field of Study: Any field

Required Documents:

• School Diploma (Shahdatnama) for bachelor’s degree (If you have not received the diploma, you can upload your Transcript)
• University Diploma and transcript for Master degree (if you have not received your bachelor’s degree yet or you are in the final year of your university, you can bring verification from your university)
• Master’s Degree Diploma and transcripts, their thesis, and a list of their publications
• Consent to personal data processing
• Passport with validity of at least 18 months from registration date on the website or a copy of your birth certificate
• Photo
• Medical certificate 
• HIV absence certificate/booklet

Note: Your School percentage should be over 80% and Bachelor’s over 70%

Optional Documents:

• Certificate in sports/Olympiads
• Language Certificate
• Recommendation letter
• Publications

Note: Your documents should be translated in the Russian Language.

How to Apply for the Scholarship?

• First, you need to create an account for yourself on the EDUCATION IN RUSSIA website
• After the registration, login and fill out an electronic form
• In the electronic form, indicate Personal Information (Full Name, Date of Birth, Country of Residence, Current Address, Email, and Contact Number)
• Level of your current education
• Upload the required documents
• Russian Language proficiency and other languages
• Select your field and choose six universities you would like to study from those universities available within the quota. (in Moscow and St. Petersburg, you cannot select more than two universities in each city)
• You should print your application and sign it then upload and submit it.

After you completed the form and submitted wait for the invitation to participate in the selection process (Interviews, Tests, Examination)

Those applicants who do not know Russian to a degree sufficient for study in their chosen field must enroll in a preparatory department and study Russian languages for one year.

It will take up to two months after your competitive selection to get notified about your result.

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Russian House in Kabul has announced that registration on the website education-in-russia.com will open. You need to complete the application form, attach a photo, a scanned copy of your passport (❗️passport validity must be at least one and a half years from the registration date on the website❗️), and provide educational documents or proof of your educational background. Submit the completed form through the website and set the electronic request to “For RZU review.”

Important Notes:

The registration and enrollment process will continue until November 1, 2023 (01.11.2023).

Note: Do not use a Google (gmail) email address for registration; it can cause technical issues during website coordination. Please use Russian email service addresses such as yandex.ru, rambler.ru, mail.ru, etc.

In the first stage, there is no need to translate your passport and educational documents into Russian.

Important Notes:

Notes for those who want to apply for Russian Government Scholarships:

Please read all our guidelines and advice carefully before starting the registration process so that you can register without mistakes:

1- Be very careful in choosing the field, university, and city; changing the area, university, and town to scholarships is impossible after being selected.

Before submitting your application form, please review it carefully several times before submitting. Sometimes, mistakes are made in the application form, which may remove the process.

2- Don’t register with unknown persons, non-professionals, and suspicious companies by paying money because they bring you serious problems later.

3- Keep your email address and password that you used to register on the site very safe. If you forget it, it is impossible to recover it.

4- Information about the Russian Scholarships is published only through the Facebook page of the Russian House in Kabul.

5- Some candidates forget to check the “I need to learn the Russian language” section in the application form. Please check the field 28 during the pre-application form. If selected, it will be included in the scholarship of the mentioned student without direct Russian language training in the first semester of the university.

6- All scholarship applicants are respectfully requested not to apply without a valid passport or if the validity period of your passport is less than half a year at the time of registration. Don’t waste your time unnecessarily. The reviewers will not review your application without a valid form within one and a half years of expiry.

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For more details, visit the Education in Russia Website