Beside all the given above it is necessary to present:

* Stale diplomas and certificates in original are presented to all higher educational institutions of Russian federation together with notarized translation into Russian. The text of translation should be notarized by Russian notary or the Consulate of Russian Federation in the country where the documents were issued.

1. for a pre-university foundation program:

• An original document (or its copy attested by a notary) of the full secondary education that gives the right to enter university according to the dwelling country's laws and point out the subjects studied, the marks for them and their Russian, English or French translation officially certified (one of the given languages)

2. for a bachelor program:

• An original document (or its copy attested by a notary) of the full secondary education that gives the right to enter university according to the dwelling country's laws and point out the subjects studied, the marks for them and their Russian, English or French translation officially certified (one of the given languages)
• The certificate of the State pre-university Faculty included in the Education Ministry RF List or the International Citizens Russian Testing Center certificate or a paper with the testing results from  SPbSPU 

3. for a master's degree program:

• An original document or its copy notarially  attested (a bachelor, engineer degree certificate) and their Russian, English or French translation officially certified (one of the given languages)
• A diploma enclosure (academic certificate) with the studied subjects and marks for them and also their Russian or English translation (one of the languages pointed out).

4. for a PhD degree program:

• An original document or its copy notarially  attested  (a master or  engineer degree certificate) with enclosures containing the before studied subjects the marks for them and officially attested Russian or English translations ( one of the given languages)
• A list of published works (if such exist)
• The next work's actuality grounding theses 
• An educational department's conclusion (a chair of a Faculty) regarding the enter possibility with the next work's supposed theme and feasible supervisor's candidature pointed out.

5. for a  scientific probation program:

• The probation period plan
• An educational department's conclusion (a chair of a Faculty) regarding the enter possibility with the next work's supposed theme and feasible supervisor's candidature pointed out.

6. for a Russian language, culture and literature program:

• an inquiry-application with the nowadays Russian studying program existing in SPbSPU or a desired programme pointed out the amount of studying hours per week necessary for the programmer's realization.

Q: What are the entrance exams?

A:

• The international citizen's reception runs on the ground of the exams with aim of defining entrant's abilities to master up the respective educational programmers.
• For the international citizens the following kinds of the entrance exams are set up: an interview, testing or exams depending on the previous education document presented.
• The entrance in the pre-university foundation and Russian language, culture and literature programmers may run without the entrance exams if there is no contest (in a case when the presented educational documents correspond to the IIEP's demands).
• The international citizens entering the basic Faculties (institutes) of SPbSPU should get through a compulsory interview in the chosen Faculty. The interview's results are to be reflected in the entrant's personal application.
• The examination results for international citizens who has finished the State pre-university Faculty included in the Education Ministry RF List can be considered as examinations for the studying in the SPbSPU.
• The international citizens who has finished pre-university Faculties (courses, departments, etc.) including the language ones not included in the Russian Education Ministry's List should pass exams or testing to the IIEP pre-university foundation programmed. The exams and testing capacity and its procedure is set up depending on knowledge of Russian, the amount of before studied material and next profession. The exams (testing) results are reflected in the examination or testing list.