Classics courses are taught all over Russia, not just in Moscow and St. Petersburg . Instruction and research are conducted both in "VUZes" (higher education establishments) and secondary schools that emphasize the humanities. Among the VUZes in Moscow there is first the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU) in whose Faculty of History ancient studies are offered mainly in the prestigious and long-time distinguished Department of Ancient History. In the same Faculty of History there is a Department of Archaeology, an Archaeological Laboratory, and a Department of Ancient Languages. In the Faculty of Philology there is a large and separate Department of Classical Philology. Ancient philosophy is taught in the Faculty of Philosophy and there are courses in Roman Law conducted in the Department of the History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law.

A second major institution for the study of the Classics in Moscow is the Russian State Humanities University. In its Institute of Eastern Cultures, courses are given dealing, among others, with Ancient Egypt, the Archaeology of Ancient Palestine, the Historical Books of the Bible, and Latin. The RSHU Center for the Study of Religion has offerings in the History and Philosophy of Religion, Introduction to Mythology, Christian Archaeology, Latin, and "Three Christian Capitals" (Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem). In the Department of the History and Theory of State and Law (Faculty of History, Political Science and Law), instruction is given in Roman Law and the History of Rome. In the same Faculty but a different Department (General Political Science and Special Political Disciplines) there is a course on the Political Ideas of Antiquity. Another major RSHU Classics location is the Department of Ancient Culture, to be found in the Division of Philology and History. Here one can study Ancient Greek and Latin, Ancient Mythology, Ancient Epigraphy, Ancient Social and Political Forms, the History of the Study of Antiquity, Contemporary Problems for the Study of Antiquity, the History of Ancient Humanistic Thought, Greek Civilization, Ancient Art, and the Poetics of the Ancient Greek Epic. Within the same Division Ancient Theatre is taught in the Department of Theatre Studies. Likewise at RSHU courses in Ancient Philosophy are available in the Department of the History of Foreign Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy), and the Department of Universal History of the Faculty of History handles such areas as the History of the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, "Philosophers and Saints" and the Early History of Rome and of Italy. The RSHU Institute of Linguistics has a separate Department of Ancient Languages where talented scholars teach the Ancient Theory of Language and Style as well as Latin and Greek. Within the RSHU Faculty of the History of Art there is a Department of the History and Theory of Culture where instruction is available in the History of Historical Sciences and Historiography, and the Theory and Methodology of Culture. The Department of the Universal History of Art, the Department of Museology, and the Scientific-Instructional Center of Restoration and Expertise are additional units of the RSHU Art History Faculty.

A third Moscow institution in which extensive study of the ancient Classics is carried on is the Moscow Jewish University, whose Faculty of History includes the Department of Ancient and Medieval General and Jewish History, where such courses are taught as Ancient Greek History; the History of the State and Law of Imperial Rome and the History of Human Behavior after the Example of Rome; the History of Jewish and Greco-Roman Culture in Late Antiquity; the History of the Ancient Near East and Northwest Asia Minor – Anatolia, Upper Mesopotamia, the Eastern Mediterranean; Early Christianity, the Apocrypha, and Asia Minor in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods; the History of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity; Egyptian Art, Egyptian and Comparative Mythology, and the Archaeology of Egypt. In the Department of World and Hebrew Literature a course is conducted on the History of Foreign Literature (including Greek and Latin) and another on Biblical and Ancient Literature. In the Department of European Languages instruction is given in Comparative Linguistics, Indo-European Languages and Studies, and the Culture of the Ancient Near East.

A fourth, and long-established, learning center in Moscow is the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Here, in the Faculties of Philology, Foreign Languages and History, There are likely to exist ample opportunites in different formats to study aspects of the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds.

Other, more recently founded, institutions where courses dealing with the ancient world may be available are the Independent University of Moscow, the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Moscow State Linguistic University and the Russian People’s Friendship University (Faculties of Foreign Languages and General Educational Disciplines, Humanities and Social Sciences, History and Philology, Law, and the Institute of Foreign Languages).

A very important secondary school for Ancient Studies in Moscow is the Museum Graeco-Latinum, located on Novodevichij Prospekt, near the famous Novodevichij Convent and Cemetery. This campus represents a potential major source of Classical scholars for the future and, though still small and struggling for finances and instructional materials, has become very attractive over the past few years to hundreds of young students who, together with their parents, see it as a bastion for high-quality traditional Classical education.

Rivalling (some would even say surpassing) Moscow as the hub of Classical Studies in Russia is St. Petersburg, with its world-class, decades-old State University. The Faculty of History has a very distinguished Department of the History of Ancient Greece and Rome and houses the Center for the Study of the Ancient World, which now is perhaps the most important and extensive medium in all Russia for disseminating Classical Studies through its Internet website. The Faculty of History likewise houses the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Art History. Other major subdivisions are the Faculty of Law, where Roman Law and Jurisprudence are taught, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and the Faculty of Philology, containing a very large and well-known Department of Classical Philology and a Department of General Linguistics. Within the Faculty of Philosophy the Departments for the History of Philosophy and for the Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies likewise offer major instructional and research components dealing with the ancient world.

A few years back in St. Petersburg there was founded the St. Petersburg Classical Library (Bibliotheca Classica Petropolitana), which is gradually becoming a major resource and depository for materials, mostly literary, dealing with the ancient world. In 1996, with the substantial material support of the C.H. Beck Publishing House in Germany, the SPCL established the international periodical Hyperboreus, which comes out in two fascicles yearly, and many of whose articles are published in the West European languages (even those done by Russian scholars are provided with West-European-language summaries).

A recent, and still very modest, St. Petersburg institution for instruction in the Ancient Classics is the Russian Christian Humanities Institute, located on an embankment street of the Fontanka River. It offers a broad array of courses in the Classics (History of the Ancient World, Ancient Literature, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Mythology, the Greek and Latin languages, Ancient Art, the Ancient Theatre, Ancient Religions). This nascent and promising institution is greatly helped by part-time teaching staff from its well-established and world-famous sister institutions like the State Hermitage Museum and St. Petersburg State University.

Apart from the SPSU and Hermitage other VUZes exist in St. Petersburg that contribute, though in more modest ways, to Classical studies. The Herzen State Pedagogical University has many Faculties with programs that, to some extent, deal with the ancient world (Philology, Social Sciences, Foreign Languages and Literatures including Ancient Literature and the Teaching of Latin and Greek, Humanistic Philosophy, and Fine Arts). In St. Petersburg also are located the International University of Fundamental Studies (in whose Departments of Philosophy, Linguistics and History there are no doubt study segments related to antiquity), the St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy, The St. Petersburg State Technical University (Faculty of Humanities), and the European University.

Like its counterpart in Moscow, the Museum Graeco-Latinum, only with many more decades of history and experience behind it (to say nothing of numerous distinguished alumni), the St. Petersburg Classical Gymnasium offers a very solid traditional education in the Ancient Classics. Other Classics - oriented secondary schools in St. Petersburg are the University Preparatory School and the Peterschule (with German-language and Classical education).

Even when one goes outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg there are VUZes in many Russian cities where substantial programs in Ancient studies are to be found. On these campuses a number of instructors were originally trained in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In Kazan’ State University the Faculty of History’s Department of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages offers course work in Hellenism, Hellenistic Culture, Ancient and Medieval Latin, the History of Roman Law, Antiquity and Its Relationship to the Contemporary World, the Socio-Cultural Problems of Ancient and Medieval History as Reflected in Russian and Foreign Historiography, the Imperial Roman Tradition in Western Europe, and The Problems of the Theory and History of Political Relations in Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Light of the Historiography of the Last Two Centuries. At Kemerovo State University the Department of General and Classical Linguistics of the Faculty of Romance-Germanic Philology has courses in Ancient Greek, Medical Latin, Roman Poetry, Roman Prose, and Ancient Mythology, while the Department of Archaeology in the Faculty of History offers work in the History of Ancient Greece and Rome, Archaeological Source Studies, Archaeological Reconstruction, Restoration of Archaeological Materials, Ancient Archaeology, Mathematical Methods in Archaeological Study, Production Technology in the Most Ancient Times, and Museology.

At Kuban State University in Krasnodar the Department of the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, in the Faculty of History, Sociology and International Relations, provides courses in Ancient Greek and Latin, Ancient Literature, Archaeology, Ancient Philosophy and Ancient Greek History. At A.M. Gorjkij State University in Perm’, ancient studies are represented by a solid young faculty in the Department of Ancient History and the Middle Ages, within the Faculty of History, as well as in the Faculty of Philology. In Petrozavodsk State University, in the Republic of Karelia not far from St. Petersburg, courses in Polybius and the Historiography of the Hellenistic Period are taught in the Faculty of History, while in the Department of Philology of the Faculty of Philology instruction is available in such areas as Greek, Latin, Combined Latin and French, Tradition and Perspectives in Classical Education, and Ancient and Christian Traditions in Pushkin’s Poetry and Other Russian Literature.

In the Rostov-on-the-Don State University the Faculty of History contains a large Department of the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, with majors in Archaeology, Ancient History, History of World Culture, History of the Middle Ages and History of World Religions. There are also a Faculty of Philology and Journalism, a Faculty of Philosophy and Culturology (with a Department of the History of Philosophy), and a Faculty of Law.

In the P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl’ State University, to the northeast of Moscow, the Department of General/World History in the Faculty of History has a large menu of course offerings dealing, besides the expected Greek and Latin languages, with antiquity in general, the History of Ancient Greece and Rome, the Religion and Mythology of Antiquity, the Ancient East, the Foundations of Archaeology, the History of Natural Science and Technology in Antiquity, the Political History of the Roman Republic, Macedonia in the Hellenistic Period, the History of the Earliest Religions, the History of Early Society, Early Mythological World Views, and the History of Early Christianity.

At the Bashkir State University, located in the city of Ufa in the Bashkortostan Republic, the Department of Archaeology, the Ancient World and Medieval History in the Faculty of History, besides an extensive array of courses on the history, art and archaeology of the Southern Urals, offers courses on the History of Ancient Greece, Ancient Greece in the Context of Italian Neo-Classicism, Man in the Ancient Cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean (3^rd-1^st millennia B.C.), the Main Problems of the Eastern Mediterranean from 500-350 B.C., the Eastern Mediterranean in the Greco-Roman Period (4^th-1^st centuries B.C.), the History of Ancient Rome, the History of the Middle Ages, Roman Law, the historiography of antiquity in Italy and other countries, Russia and the Ancient Heritage, and Historical Thought in Antiquity. The Department of Philosophy in the same Faculty has instruction in the History of World Religions. In the Departments of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines and Historiography and Source Studies, both of which are in the Faculty of Bibliography and Historical Sources, there will be found teaching segments that touch on antiquity, such as the courses in Palaeography and in the History of Science and Technology. The Faculty of Philology has sections on General and Comparative Linguistics, the History and Theory of Literature, Foreign Literature and the History of World Artistic Culture, and the History of Culture and Religion, while the School of Romance and Germanic Philology includes courses in Latin, as, for example, the Linear Syntax of Roman Elegy, and Foreign and Ancient Literature.

At Irkutsk State University in Siberia the Faculty of History houses a strong Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, with courses in the History of the Ancient World, Roman Law, Latin, the History of World Culture, the History of World Religions, Ancient Democracy, Monuments of Archaeology, and Museology. In the same Faculty at Irkutsk the Department of World History and International Relations conducts a course entitled Ancient Mythology in Historical Development.

At the Nikolaj Ivanovich Lobachevskij Nizhnij-Novgorod State University, the Faculty of History again is home to the Department of the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, and has course offerings in the History of Hellenism, Rome in the Period of the Civil Wars, the Federated States of Hellenistic Greece, Ancient Federalism and the Achaean League, Fundamentals of Archaeology, the History of the Black Sea Coast in the Period of Hellenism, the Countries of the Mediterranean in Ancient and Medieval Times, plus the Ancient Greek and Latin Languages. The Department of the History of Religion and Culture teaches the Philosophical Foundations of the Culture of Ancient Greece, and Museology. Likewise in Nizhnij Novgorod, at the separate N.A. Dobrolyubov Linguistic University, the Faculty of Philology has a Department of the Latin Language with no fewer than seven teachers. At Novosibirsk State University the Faculty of Humanities has a Department of General History, which provides courses in the Mythology of the Ancient World, Roman Civilization, the History of the Roman Empire, the History of the Middle Ages, the History of the Latin Book, the Ancient Culture of the Etruscans and the Intellectual Life of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. In the same Faculty the Department of Ancient Languages gives instruction in Greek and Latin plus a variety of other tongues of antiquity, while the Department of the History of Culture includes in its program the Literatures of Greece and Rome.

In the city of Pereslavl’-Zalesskij at the Pereslavl’ State University Branch of the Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, the Section of Culturology of the Department of Humanistic Studies offers work in Primitive Culture, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Mesopotamia, the Eastern Mediterranean (Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine), Ancient Greece and Rome, and Byzantium. Recent student projects have dealt with such topics as Egyptian pyramids, Creto-Mycenaean culture, mythical creatures, the personality of Alexander the Great, Aristotle as the author of logic, and the role of Latin in contemporary European languages.

In southern Russia at Volgograd State University, the Faculty of History and International Relations has a distinguished Department of Archaeology and Ancient and Medieval History that specializes in the history and culture of the Sarmatians. In the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Technologies the Department of Culturology and History of Philosophy teaches European Traditionalism from Ancient Greece On and Mythology as an Aspect of Culture.

In many other VUZes there are obviously taught subject areas and topics dealing with the ancient world, but the web pages of these institutions, as well as printed and electronic world guides to universities, contain only very limited and sketchy information on academic departments and individual courses and faculty members. Ideally it would be nice to have printed updated informational bulletins from these VUZes (and, as well, as many as possible secondary schools). It would also be very helpful to receive from colleagues on Russian campuses e-mail communications with more specific and detailed descriptions of academic programs in the Classics. For the moment, suffice it to list several additional VUZes about which some minimal data are available, and which more than likely have courses dealing with the ancient world. Such campuses include the following:

Adigeya State University, 352700 Adigeya Republic, Majkop, Ul. Universitetskaya, 208. Faculties of History, Philology, Foreign Languages and Law.

Altai State University, 656099 Barnaul, Ul. Dimitrova 66. Faculties of Law, History and Philology.

Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Ignatevskoe Shosse, 21. Faculty of Law (Dept. of the Theory and History of State and Law /Roman Law and Latin; Dept. of Philosophy); Faculty of Philology (Dept. of Foreign Languages)

Bashkir State Pedagogical Institute, 450000 Ufa, Ul. Oktyabrskoj Revolyutsii 3a. Faculties of History, Foreign Languages and Philology.

Checheno-Ingush State University, Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Republic, Groznyi, Ul. Sheripova 32. Faculties of Philology, Romance and Germanic Philology, and History.

Chelyabinsk State Institute of Teacher Training.

Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University.

Chelyabinsk State Technical University (also known as Southern Urals State University), 454080 Chelyabinsk, Pr. Lenina 76 (Faculty of Humanities).

Chelyabinsk State University, 454021 Chelyabinsk, Ul. Br. Kashirinykh 129 (Faculties of Linguistics and Translation, History, Philology, and Law.

I.N. Ulyanov Chuvash State University, 428015 Chuvash Autonomous Republic, Cheboksary, Moskovskij Pr. 15. Faculties of History, Law and Philology.

Dagestan State University, 367025 Makhachkala, Ul. Sovetskaya 8. Faculties of Law (Depts. of the Theory of State and Law, the History of State and Law, Russian and Foreign Languages including Latin), History (Depts. of Archaeology and Ethnology, History of the Countries of Europe and America, Foreign Languages, Ancient and Medieval History), Philology (Dept. of Foreign Literature, including Ancient Literature), Romance and Germanic Philology, and Culture.

Dubna International University of Nature, Society and Man, 141980 Moscow District, Ul. Universitetskaya 19. Depts. of Linguistics and Law.

Far Eastern State University, 690600 Vladivostok, Primorskovo Kraya, Ul. Sukhanova 8. Subdivisions: Institute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Faculty of Jurisprudence, Institute of Law, Faculty of Romance Philology.

Gorno-Altaisk State University, 649000 Republic of Altai, Ul. Sotsialisticheskaya 34. Dept. of General History and the Teaching of History, including the History of the Ancient World (especially Egypt).

Ivanovo State University, 153777 Ivanovo, Ul. Ermaka 39. Faculties of History (including courses on the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, and the Ancient Languages), Law (including course work on Roman Private Law) and Romance-Germanic Philology (including the Department of Romance Philology and Latin and the Department of Foreign Literature).

Kabardino-Balkarian State University, 360004 Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Ul. Chernyshevskovo 173.

Faculty of Law and Institutes of Philology, and Social Sciences and Humanities.

Kaliningrad State University, 236041 Kaliningrad, Ul. Al. Nevskovo 44. Faculties of History, Philology, and Economics and Law.

Kalmyk State University, 358000 Elista, Ul. Pushkina 11. Faculty of Philology.

Kaluga State Pedagogical University, 248023 Kaluga, Ul. St. Razina 26. Faculties of History (Dept. of General History), Philology (Dept. of Literature), and Foreign Languages.

Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University.

Krasnoyarsk State University, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Pr. Svobody 79. Faculties of Philology/Journalism (with Depts. of History of Literature and Poetry, and Philosophy) and Law (Dept. of the History of State and Law).

Mari State University, Mari-El Republic, Yoshkar-Ola, Pl. Lenina 1. Faculties of History and Philology, Law, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, and Culture and Arts.

N.P. Ogarov Mordovian State University, Mordovian Republic, 430000 Saransk, Bolshevitskaya Ul. 68.

Faculties of Philology, Law and Foreign Languages.

K.L. Khetagurov North-Ossetian State University, Republic of North Ossetia, 362025 Vladikavkaz, Ul. Vatutina 46. Faculties of Foreign Languages, History, Law, and Philology.

Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, 173003 Novgorod, Ul. St. Peterburgskaya 41. Faculties of Law, History (Dept. of Universal History with specializations in Universal History and Archaeology), Foreign Languages, Philosophy.

Humanities Institute (of Novgorod State University), 173014 Antonovo, Velikij Novgorod. Faculties of History (Dept. of Universal History and Archive Studies), Philosophy (Depts. of the History of Philosophy, Theory of Culture, and Aesthetics), Philology, Foreign Languages (Dept. of Foreign Literatures), Law (Dept. of the History and Theory of State and Law), and Romance-Germanic Philology (Dept. of Foreign Languages – Interfaculty).

Omsk State Pedagogical University.

Omsk State University, 644077 Omsk 77, Pr. Mira 55A. Faculties of History (including the Depts. of Universal History and Archaeology), Foreign Languages (including the Dept. of Romance-Germanic Philology) , Arts and Culture, Law (including the Dept. of the Theory and History of State and Law), Philology (including the Dept. of Russian and Foreign Literature), and Theology and World Culture.

Orenburg State University.

Perm’ Pedagogical University. Faculty of General History.

Pomor’ State University. Faculty of Foreign Languages (Dept. of French, including instruction in Latin).

Pskov Voljnyj University.

Pyatigorsk Linguistic University.

Rostov State Pedagogical University.

St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological College.

Sakhalin State University.

Samara State University. Faculties of Languages and Literature, History (including World History) and Law.

N.G. Chernyshevskij Saratov State University, 410026 Saratov, Ul. Astrakhanskaya 83. Faculties of History and Philology.

Smolensk Humanitarian University, 214014 Smolensk, Ul. Herzena 2. Faculty of Law (including the Dept. of State and Law, teaching, among others, the History of the Government and Law of Ancient Rome) and the Faculty of Foreign Languages (Dept. of Philology with instruction in Latin).

Syktyvkar State University, 167001 Syktyvkar, Oktyabrskij Pr. 55. Faculties of Philology, Law and History.

Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Pr. Lenina 36. Faculties of History and International Relations, Philology and Journalism, Law, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Foreign Languages.

Tula State University.

Tver’ State University, 170000 Tver’, Ul. Zhelyabova 33. Faculties of Philology, History and Law.

Tyumen State University, 625610 Tyumen 3, Ul. Semakova 10. Faculties of History, Philology, Romance and Germanic Philology.

Udmurt(ia) State University, Udmurt Republic, 426034 Izhevsk, Ul. Universitetskaya 1. Faculties of History, Foreign Languages and Literature, Philosophy and Sociology, Art, Institute of Law.

Ulyanovsk State University.

A.M. Gorjkij Urals State University, 620082 Yekaterinburg, Pr. Lenina 51. Faculties of Philology (including Foreign Literature), Philosophy (including History of Philosophy), History (Depts. of the History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages, and Archaeology) and Art Criticism and Culture (Depts. of History of Art, Culture Studies, and History and Philosophy of Religion); Institute for Advanced Education in the Humanities and Socioeconomic Sciences.

Vladimir State University, 600026 Vladimir, Gorjkovo 87. Faculty of Humanities (Depts. of Law, Philosophy and Sociology, History/Culture and Foreign Languages).

Volgograd State Pedagogical University.

Vologda State Pedagogical University.

Voronezh State Pedagogical University.

Voronezh State University, 394693 Voronezh, Universitetskaya Pl. 1. Faculties of History, Philology, Law and Philosophy and Psychology.

Vyatka State Pedagogical University, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 677000 Yakutsk, Ul. Belinskovo 58. Faculties of Foreign Languages, History, Law, and Philology.

Yaroslavl’ Pedagogical University.

In some of the above-listed institutions it is unclear whether the divisions like the Faculty of Philology or the Department of Foreign Languages actually offer courses in Classical Philology and Ancient Latin and Greek, or concentrate instead on Russian Philology and English, French, German, Spanish and other, modern, languages, literatures and philologies.

Because this segment of CEECS, like all future segments, is a work in progress, I invite readers and colleagues to send in comments, corrections, updates, and as much as possible further information on the topics discussed. Communications should be forwarded by e-mail to choceecs@aol.com or sent by surface mail to: Chester F. Natunewicz, 2107 Teague Road, Houston, TX 77080-6409, USA. In subsequent CEECS segments I shall be presenting detailed lists of Russian Classical scholars, both current and past (since the end of World War II), with names, academic ranks and addresses, and specific teaching and research interests.