From your first question to enrolment.
Start with your study level, programme and previous qualification. Confirm an available admission route with the Academy before following the formal application steps. For a transfer, use the separate transfer guidance.
Know which stage you are at.
Explore and enquire
Compare study levels and use the online form to ask about your eligibility, documents, deadlines and entrance examinations. Describe your previous qualification, intended programme and intake. An enquiry is not an application.
Submit a formal application
Once the applicable intake and submission period are confirmed, use an accepted submission method and provide the required documents. Ask how to check that your application is complete.
Complete admission requirements
Follow your examination schedule and any further document or contract requirements. Remote examinations need specific approval; do not assume the process is fully online.
Confirm enrolment
An offer or positive admission decision is not, by itself, enrolment. Confirm that the required steps are complete and that you have been formally enrolled.
Use the right submission route.
The 2026/27 bachelor’s, specialist and master’s rules list submission in person or through an authorised representative, by a public postal operator, or through EPGU/Gosuslugi, Russia’s government services portal. Ask which route you can use. This website’s enquiry form and ordinary email enquiries do not replace these methods.
Postgraduate research training has separate rules allowing email submission, with requirements for presenting original identity documents before examinations. Follow the relevant procedure: bachelor’s, specialist and master’s rules (in Russian) or postgraduate rules (in Russian).
Prepare a document list.
For bachelor’s, specialist and master’s admission, plan for an identity document, your education certificate or diploma and supplement, certified Russian translations, recognition evidence if required, and proof of funding eligibility where applicable. Confirm the complete list for your case before paying for document services.
Legalisation concerns a document’s authenticity and legal use. Recognition concerns the qualification’s educational status. These are different from the Academy’s admission decision. Requirements depend on the exact document and where it was issued; see the National Information Centre guidance (in Russian).
Prefer email?
The online form is available without opening an email app. Alternatively, copy priem@sgla.ru into the To field of a new message in your usual webmail service. Subject: “International enquiry — [level and programme]”. Copy and complete these details:
Dear Admissions Office,
My name: [name]
Citizenship: [country or countries]
Country or jurisdiction of qualification: [place of issue]
Qualification, awarding institution and year: [official details]
Preferred study level: [level]
Preferred programme: [name or code]
Intended intake: [academic year]
Current Russian level: [describe your experience, or say beginner]
Please advise on eligibility, the application route and documents for my chosen programme.
No passport scans or other identity files are needed for this first enquiry. Ask for the correct document-submission instructions before sending personal documents.