Irkutsk State Transport University

Due to the start of a large-scale construction of the Baikal-Amur railway line, a lack of personnel necessitated the establishment an independent transport institute in the city of Irkutsk. So, Irkutsk Institute of Railway Engineers first opened its doors in Irkutsk in 1975.

For more than four decades of its existence, Irkutsk State Transport University has grown from a corporate railway university into a powerful transport educational complex in the East of Russia. Nowadays the University has a modern developed material and technical base at its disposal. The property of the University includes over 100 buildings and structures, as well as 38 teaching and laboratory buildings and 16 dormitories.

Currently, over 21 thousand people study at the University complex of IrGUPS on the programs of secondary professional and higher education.
The University is actively engaged in retraining and advanced training of railway transport workers. Annually more than 10 thousand people attend advanced training courses at the Institute of supplementary professional education, improving their education level and the quality of training.

IrGUPS takes great pride in its talented teaching staff. The number of the teaching staff is about 1000 people, including 35 members and corresponding members of the branch Academies of Russia and foreign Academies. More than 400 people have academic degrees and titles.

In the field of international educational services, Irkutsk State Transport University acts as a promising and reliable partner in the chain of cooperation development between the universities of the European and Asian continents. Twenty-eight international cooperative agreements connect IrGUPS with threads of friendship, mutual understanding and reciprocally beneficial partnership with universities, scientific and research institutes and industrial collectives of Mongolia, China, the Republic of Korea, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, and the USA.