All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade
Russian Foreign Trade Academy, RFTA, VAVT (Всероссийская академия внешней торговли, ВАВТ) is a Russian university (academy) for students of law and economics.
Place
VAVT is situated in Moscow, between Pudovkina street and Vorobievskoe shosse. Today it is a complex of administrative and university buildings. There is also a gym with modern equipment and swimming pool, large halls for conferences and 2 canteens for staff.
History
The Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia decorated with the order of International Friendship is a state educational establishment of higher professional education founded in 1931 as the only educational establishment of the country intended to train executives and employees for work in foreign trade on the basis of higher education and practical work experience.
VAVT today
The Academy today – is:
- a full profile higher educational establishment which trains personnel for work in the field of foreign economic activity
- targeted at its specialized educational niche, i.e. training of specialists who shape and implement the Russian foreign trade policy
- more than 15 thousand graduates holding different positions in the foreign economic sphere
- highly qualified professors and tutors experienced in teaching, conducting scientific research and with a lot of practical work experience
- fundamental and applied scientific research in the field of international trade, law and Russian foreign economic policy
- dozens of textbooks on economics, law and management recommended by the RF Ministry of Education and Science as the basic textbooks for all higher educational establishments…
- unique methods of teaching foreign languages which have no parallel in the country’s educational practice
- partnership relations with foreign training centers of related profile