The 6th annual Russian Education Fair - 2011 was opened on May 12 at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in New Delhi. The large-scale presentation of the Russian educational institutions was organized by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in India, Representative office of the Federal Agency for Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation, Russian Center of International Education, and Association of Russian Universities Working in India.

At the opening ceremony of the exhibition Rector of the Tver State Medical Academy and President of the Association of Russian Universities Working in India Prof. Mikhail N. Kalinkin stated that the goal of the event is to present the diversity of opportunities that the Russian educational market can offer: “Although majority of the Indian citizens move to Russia for medical education, we would like to pay attention of the younger Indian generation on the advantages of the technical education in Russian universities as well”.

Along with the Tver State Medical Academy, the exhibition was attended by Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Moscow Aviation Institute, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Mari State Technical University, Russian Peoples' Friendship University, St. Petersburg Sate Medical Academy named after Mechnikov, Volgograd State Medical University and other universities.

After the exhibition kick-off in New Delhi, the Russian delegation visited the cities of Chennai and Ahmedabad.

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