In addition to the campus buildings built in 2012, FEFU has several dormitories on the mainland. Students who moved into them this year described the condition in which they received the rooms. According to them, the living conditions in the dormitories of the federal university can be called unsatisfactory, to say the least.

FEFU students are provided with eight dormitories for living in the city. The cost there is significantly lower than on campus: almost 500 rubles per month per person, while on-campus accommodation costs from 2,700 to 7,000 rubles. At the same time, there is practically no mention of city dormitories on the official website of FEFU: there are no photographs of the rooms and the buildings themselves, and from the information you can only find the cost of living. Students find all this data themselves through special groups on social networks and through word of mouth.

As students are told, 2-5 year students who have academic and financial debts to the university or an average score for the last session below 4.25 are sent to the mainland FEFU dormitories.

The conditions in most city dormitories are difficult to compare with campus ones - in some places there are no mattresses, and in others there are no beds. Students can only dream of a desk, an ironing board, or at least a shared tile.

“Of course, I’m not picky, but I want to eat and wash. There is no kitchen, no washing machines and no hot water. When I first came here, I was shocked, the entire floor was strewn with cockroaches, there was nowhere to step. The taps did not work, there has been no hot water for a month, there is a draft from the window even when it is closed. I was already cold and sick. The room is very small, there is even nowhere to put things. The next room is absolutely terrible, the walls are bare, there are even more cockroaches, the window doesn’t open, everything is in terrible condition,” shares a 2nd year student Anastasia Bilyk. She knew that students with low scores were sent to the mainland, but she was not prepared for such conditions. Anastasia was settled at 21 Derzhavina.

According to students, they have now stopped placing people in hostel number 13 on Derzhavina, 19A - there are no places. Many consider this hostel to be one of the best - built relatively recently for foreign students. Toilet and shower per block; 4 to 6 people live in the block.

“I live on Derzhavina, 19A, but they are not moving there now - they say there is no room. But they exist, I myself lived in a block where there were 4 free places. Apparently, no one just wants to do this,” said Novel, student at the FEFU School of Economics and Management.

Apart from dormitory no. 13, students consider the first one, on Aleutskaya, 65, to be the best. There are rooms for 2-3 people and, as on campus, there is a shower and toilet per room. But getting into this hostel is almost impossible - there are no places either. Many foreign students live here.

This year, due to the large influx of students, a hostel was opened at 1 Nekrasovsky Lane. It was not open for 3 years, but now students are being accommodated there again. Students of the Far Eastern Federal University who move in are faced with mold, holes in the windows, walls and floors.

“Yesterday we were given directions to Pogranichnaya, 26, we were there, and we were told that there were no places. It is full, 165 people in total. Everyone is sent to Sukhanova, 1, but everything there is now full too. Yesterday my friend and I were moved into one room there - one bed, no mattresses, nothing. There are no conditions there - there is mold and mildew in the room. There is only one shower for the entire dorm and there is no hot water, there won’t be until the end of September. Today we came to ask for another dorm,” said a student of the FEFU School of Engineering in line at the distribution center.

But even in order to get a room in the city, the guys need to wait in a long line, sometimes it takes several days.

“I was given a direction to Gogol, 19, I arrived there, and they said that there were no places. Today I’m standing in line again to get a referral to another dorm,” complains one of the students in line at the placement center at 19A Okeansky Prospekt. Here they give directions to hostels located on the mainland.

Registration for the queue begins in the evening of the previous day. Students who do not get an appointment on the day of application write their names on a piece of paper before leaving, creating a list for the next morning. The office is open from 9.00 to 18.00. At 10.00 the line on the sheet numbers more than 100 people. As students say, in the evening it’s not crowded at all. After receiving the referral, the guys go to move into the dormitory itself.

The guys who ended up on the mainland were divided into two camps: some believe that they can simply renovate the rooms and live in peace, while others are going to fight this. Thus, on the Change.org website it has already been created in the name of the President of the Russian Federation and the Minister of Education. More than 650 people signed it within 24 hours.

In addition, proactive students promise that their activities will not end there and complaints will be written to the prosecutor’s office, the sanitary and epidemiological station, the administration of the Primorsky Territory and other authorities.

The editors of VL.ru sent an official request to the FEFU press service about sending students to mainland dormitories and about their complaints about the condition of the rooms. At the time of publication, university representatives did not provide answers to questions asked.

The luxurious campus in Russky is the pride of the entire Far East. However, this year many students were provided with living space on the mainland. But those who received state-owned square meters cannot be called lucky. After all, the living conditions of students at the country’s largest university are far from ideal.

There are almost 20 thousand full-time students at the federal university. But such an army of young people needs not only to be trained, but also to be settled somewhere. And this is not easy to do! When students arrived to get a place in the dormitory, photos with comments appeared on social networks:

Group “Overheard in FEFU”:

“Wasn’t it obvious what would happen if everyone was moved in at the same time?”

"It was absolute hell."

“I arrived at 6.30 and was only 315th.”

“I was 1300 sometime from 10.00 in the morning! Checked in around 24.00.”

The students were afraid to speak openly on camera. They talked about how everything happened incognito.

Ivan Ivanov, student: “The queue is 200-300 people long. People who came from Kamchatka and Sakhalin, Blagoveshchensk, Yakutsk lived in hotels for several weeks because they could not get into the hostel.”

Irina Krasina, student: “For example, I come from Yakutia, and they tell me: “Sorry, there are no places!” Where should we live? This is the first time such a settlement has taken place.”

As the students say, they were resettled haphazardly. For example, some girls were placed with boys. Students will not remember such a settlement!

Veronika Goloborodko, student: “There were no such problems at all. They settled in calmly: a girl means a girl is accommodated, boys means boys. It wasn’t that it was a girl... But here you have two boys, rejoice in male attention.”

This year, 7 thousand newcomers entered the university. They are trying to settle yesterday's schoolchildren on the island. So that their first days of school are spent in comfort. But many people got not so luxurious apartments.

Sergey Stanchik, correspondent: “As students say, now mostly only first-year students live on Russian Island. And second- to fifth-year students are sent to dormitories on the mainland. These are mostly C students or those who have some kind of debt. There are a lot of both of them at the university! Of course, the conditions in most city dormitories are difficult to compare with campus ones.”

Ivan Ivanov, student: “Everyone complains. They arrange the rooms themselves. They are making repairs. 70 percent with your own furniture.”

Ilya Nikiforov, student: “There are no pieces of plaster. Holes in the floor. The glass is broken."

Nikolai Efimov, student: “When we entered the room, there were two cabinets. They are generally just terrible. When they started doing the renovations, when they started peeling off all the wallpaper, there were a lot of dead cockroaches under the wallpaper. It's a mess here. The building itself is in disrepair. The room has wooden windows and only one frame. The heater is on and it’s already a little cold. We have already spent eight thousand on repairs. The wall was painted black because here...”

But soon the situation will change for the better for some. As a university representative explained, many of the guys were placed on the mainland temporarily and now the second wave of settlement has already begun.

Alexey Magalyas, head of the FEFU press service: “Before the start of the academic year, the university administration carried out large-scale work to increase the number of rooms. In addition, about 2 thousand places were prepared. The campus is already ready to accept more than 10 thousand students. Most of the places were distributed in the first wave between nonresident freshmen and senior students in accordance with the performance rating. The second wave of campus move-in is now underway, during which unoccupied rooms, about 730 of them, are being transferred to senior students from mainland dormitories.”

However, a petition has already been created on the website change.org addressed to the President of Russia and the Minister of Education and Science. More than eight hundred people have already signed it. We will keep the situation under control.

Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) was created on the basis of four united universities in Primorye: Far Eastern State University,Far Eastern State Technical University, Pacific State Economic Universityand Ussuri State Pedagogical Institute. The order to merge these four largest universities into one was signed on January 27, 2011, and the complete reorganization into a new university was completed by June 1, 2011.
FEFU has many differences from standard university programs.

Thanks to Nastya, Alisa, and Ksyusha for the walk around the campus.

You can see more details about the university itself. After theSeptember 8-9, 2012ATEC summit on Russky Island, all buildings were transferred to the university, however,he moved to the new campus in July-August 2013; due to the contractor’s failure to commission the campus, he did not move in 2012, as planned in advance. In February 2013, 90% of the FEFU campus buildings on the island were put into operation. Russian (all buildings have been commissioned, except for the laboratory building and the medical center).According to Wikipedia:

3. The central foyer of building A. It was here that all the main events of the ATEC summit took place.

4. In terms of design, I really liked this building, both externally and internally! Looks very cool!

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6. On the other hand

7. As Alice explained to us, this is not only available at FEFU. But this was the first time I saw such a thing. In general, in terms of usability and external design of signs, FEFU is the best university I have seen. I recently visited my MIREA and realized how lousy everything is here...

8. Debate club. In it, students practice before debates. Surprisingly, I only learned about debates as a form of extra-institutional spending time from Ksenia and Alisa. It turns out that this also exists in Moscow, but not here..

9. Awards

10. Some kind of administrative premises. To be honest, until recently I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was not in a university, but in some kind of business center or hotel.

11. View from the window. On the left is the student dormitory. To be honest, I don’t dare call it a hostel..

12. The Russian Bridge is extremely beautiful!

13. There is a lot of greenery on campus! It has its own pond, waterfall and even some semblance of a stream. Everything looks very cool!

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Having met some of her friends from the faculty on the way with Alisa, they agreed to show us the student television studio. Frankly, I was amazed by the equipment that the university has.

15. Remote control and basic things in the studio.

16. Cameras. They cost about half a million and are given to students who cope well with simpler and uncomplicated shooting subjects.

17. The blue background, as they explained to us, is an analogue of the so-called. "green room"

18. Local creativity.

19. Library reading room. I saw a similar hall in the cultural center in Stockholm. I really liked it there.

20. No, this is not an art installation. This is just sorting through the library, but it looks very cool!

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22. View from the main building. On the left is the medical complex.

23. Once again the central foyer. The photo was taken from the steps. The building is very well made: when you enter it, you find yourself on either the second or third floor. You go down the steps or by elevator. Everything is so beautiful and shiny. I really liked it. A friend who looked at the photos said that it looked like the university where her friend studied in Switzerland.

24. Installation dedicated to the seven hills of Vladivostok.

25. The installation was carried out on an appropriate scale. Looks interesting.

26. An interesting poster that says that Vladivostok is a unique city that has connections with all major cities in Asia. And, by the way, FEFU is the only Russian university that has a branch in Japan.

27. The building is simply dotted with broken lines and non-standard solutions. It has two entrances and exits, so once you get into the main building you can easily exit on the other side and find yourself on the campus itself.

A few words about the building itself. I liked it, as I wrote above. Made stylish and modern. However, apart from the admissions office, the dining room, some administrative premises and the library, there is little in it. Most of the students study in their own “schools” - separate buildings. The only exception is technicians and some other specialties, but they will soon be transferred from old premises located on the mainland to new ones on the island.

28. Campus from above.

29. Central building. Back view. There is a monument in front of him - a dragon. As Alice told us, this is the new symbol of the university. The only question is why it is - it’s not clear. And it costs, as she told us, hundreds of thousands of rubles...

30. Central Alley. In general, the campus is very beautiful. At some moments it seemed to me that we were not on the territory of an educational institution, but somewhere on the sunny coast of Turkey, in some hotel. It is so clean and well maintained there. There is a special company that monitors the cleanliness of the campus. He changes the linen of students in the dormitory and the dormitory itself is designed for two residents and looks more like a hotel room.

Do not forget that there is a fly in the ointment: for example, the famous yellow water flows from the tap there. You can’t drink it, it can’t be filtered or boiled, and you can only drink imported bottled water. There are things like a post office and a store on campus. It was surprising to see a post office on the university campus.

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32. This is what a typical FEFU student dormitory looks like.

33. On campus, the speed should not exceed either 40 or 20 km/h, I don’t remember. For violating the ban, a pass giving the right to travel through the university territory is taken away.

34. Everything looks truly impressive!

35. Local football stadium. As a fan of this sport, I can say with confidence that the surface is very good. I don’t know if it’s possible to play on it in winter or not. The field has its own stands with all amenities - changing rooms and toilets. I think there is even a shower.

36. A little further from the football field there are tennis courts with several surfaces, a volleyball court and something else.

37. Between the stands.

38. View from the campus waterfront. Now it is open to everyone from June 1st. Before this, a special pass was required to enter the university premises.

39. Russian bridge in all its glory.

40. Finally.

The territory of the university is truly huge. In fact, you can walk there all day. There is a rental of bicycles, roller skates, and something else for active recreation.

I guess I'll end here.