Total enrollment 3,082 (1 Dec 2014) Founded 23 May 1931 | Phone +7 499 143-12-35 | |
Address ul. Pudovkina, 4А, Moskva, Russia, 119285 Notable alumni Andrey Yuryevich Vorobyov, Yuri Brezhnev, Sergey Gaplikov, Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, Yevgeny Shevchuk Similar The State University of Manag, Moscow State Institute o, Russian Presidential Academy, Kutafin Moscow State Law, Moscow State Linguistic | ||
Russian Foreign Trade Academy, RFTA, VAVT (Всероссийская академия внешней торговли, ВАВТ) is a Russian university (academy) for students of law and economics.
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Place
VAVT is a complex of administrative and university buildings, situated in Moscow, between Pudovkina street and Vorobievskoe shosse. There is a gym with swimming pool, halls for conferences and two canteens for staff.
History
The Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia is a state educational establishment of higher professional education founded in 1931 as the only educational establishment of the country intended to train executives and employees for work in foreign trade on the basis of higher education and practical work experience.
VAVT today
The academy is a higher education establishment which trains personnel for work in the field of Russian foreign trade policy. It has 15 thousand graduates.
It conducts research in the fields of international trade, law and Russian foreign economic policy. It has published dozens of textbooks on economics, law and management, recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science as the basic textbooks for all higher educational establishments.
VAVT has partnership relations with foreign training centers of related profile.
Alumni
Famous MGIMO alumni include: