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Tomsk Polytechnic University. Anastasia Henzel SS 2008 CMI. Agenda. Motivation Tomsk City Fligths TPU and courses Rent Food Costs Leisure Time Travel. Motivation. Home country Wish to study in russian language Improve my economic and business language skills
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Tomsk Polytechnic University Anastasia Henzel SS 2008 CMI
Agenda • Motivation • Tomsk City • Fligths • TPU and courses • Rent • Food • Costs • Leisure Time • Travel
Motivation • Home country • Wish to study in russian language • Improve my economic and business language skills • To live in Russia for some months • Russian mentality relive • Siberian winter with a lot of snow • Siberian sauna • Winter sports
Tomsk City Tomsk (Russian: Томск) is a city on the Tom River in the southwest of Siberian Federal District, Russia, the administrative centre of Tomsk Oblast. One of the oldest towns in Siberia, Tomsk celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2004. Population: 487,838 (2007)
Flights • S7 Frankfurt (Main) – Moskow – Tomsk (daily) (www.s7.ru) • Lufthansa Frankfurt (Main) - Moskow, S7 or Krasair Moskow –Tomsk (daily) • S7 Frankfurt (Main) – Moskow – Novosibirsk (daily) • Lufthansa Frankfurt (Main) – Moskow, S7 Moskow – Novosibirsk (daily) • You can also go by train!!! Berlin – Warsaw – Minsk – Moskow – Novosibirsk – Tomsk (ca. 1 week) • Or by bus!!! Ludwigshafen – Moskow – Novosibirsk – Tomsk (ca. 5 days)
TPU and courses • TPU was founded in 1896, best technical university in Siberia • 21 laboratories and academic buildings, 8 faculties • Courses in management in Russian or English (http://www.iie.tpu.ru) • Also courses in Russian language, history, literature • Lessons: Monday – Saturday, 1,5 h, without stable time-talbe and lunch break • All courses are required courses, without lecture notes, you havetake notes yourself
TPU and courses My courses at TPU: 1. Manufacturing Organisation and Planning 2. Personnel Management and Organisation Behavior 3. Foundations of Pricing 4. Mangerial Decision Making 5. Organisation Theory 6. Logistics 7. Marketing 8. History of Siberia 9. History of Russia 10. English 11. Russian language (Grammar) 12. Conceptorsphere of Russian culture (Literature)
Rent Dormitory • International hostel in A.Ivanova Street for free! • or hostel in Usova Street together with russian students for free! Flat • 1-room-flat in Tomsk city – ca. 300 Euro – direct inquiries at Mrs. Anna Tseluyko, exchange coordinator (incoming students)
Food • Cafeteria at university for ca. 2 – 3 € (starter, main dish, salad, dessert) – not recommendable • Cafeteria at internation hostel A. Ivanova for ca. 2 – 3 € - recommendable • Coffee bars around TPU for ca. 3 – 7 € - recommendable • Don´t buy shashlik in kiosks! – food piosoning.
Costs • Partner university – without tuition fees!!! (normally costs one semester ca. 1,500 €!) • Books – ca. 10-20 € for one, altogether I spent ca. 50 € for 3 books • Copies – ca. 5 Cent for 1 page • Internet – ca. 2 € for 1 hour using Exchange rate: 1€ = ca. 36 Ruble
Leisure Time • Nature: Tom-River, woods and lakes!!! • Sport: skiing, ice-skating, snowboarding – in winter outside and all kinds of sports inside (TPU offers for free!) • Clubs: Fakel, Irish Pub, and co. – every day open • University: Culture house, English club • Cinema: Kinomir, Max, Kinoclub • Tea house • Trips / travels • Visiting friends
Travel • Ferry along Tom-river • Siberian summer house (Dasha) • Siberian sauna in the nature • Novosibirsk – capital city of Siberia • Krasnoyarsk – rock climbing -> Stolbi • Lake Baikal • Altai mountains • Mongolia or China • Wladiwostok • Moskow or St.Petersbourg