Scenes of Student Life in Russia

Students of the faculty of journalism of Moscow State University read newspapers next to the statue of scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, whom the university is named after.



On Jan. 25, students around Russia celebrate Tatyanas' Day, or Students' Day, to mark the end of exams. It is also the day when Russia's top university MGU — or Moscow State University — marks its birthday.

Students sit on a bench in a park in central Moscow.

Students of Stavropol State University take part in the celebration for Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, in Russia's southern city of Stavropol.

Students hold a portrait of the first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin during a meeting to commemorate his first flight in the city of Barnaul in Russia's Altai region.

Students of the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry carry torches, symbolizing the university students who died during World War II, as they take part in a procession to mark the upcoming Victory Day in Moscow.

Students watch the effect produced by the ignition of paraffin heated up to 400 degrees Celsius after contact with water during a demonstration at a local grammar school in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Students dance at the annual St. Valentine's Day Waltz party at the Siberian Federal University in the city of Krasnoyarsk.

A student attends a lesson in Sharia law at the Russian Islamic University in the Chechen capital Grozny.

A student smokes on a street in Moscow.

Students from the Siberian Federal University team squeeze into a car during a local competition and attempt a Guinness Book of World Record for the most people in a car in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.