Gasan Gasanbalaev, Acting First Deputy General Director of the FEDC, noted: “the task of development institutions in the framework of the competitive selection of universities is to identify the most valuable university programs, support their implementation, and become a link between higher education and the real sector of the economy. The implementation of the “Priority 2030. Far East” program will give impetus to the systemic development of universities in the Far East, attract new scientific and pedagogical personnel, and increase the attractiveness of universities for applicants, including those from other countries and regions of Russia.”
Among the 15 regional universities, whose programs will participate in the competition for financial support, are: the Far Eastern State University of Railways (Khabarovsk), Buryat State University named after Dorzhi Banzarov (Ulan-Ude), Sakhalin State University (Yuzhno - Sakhalinsk), Arctic State Agrotechnological University (Yakutsk), Primorsky State Agricultural Academy (Ussuriysk), East Siberian State University of Technology and Management (Ulan-Ude), Amur State Medical Academy (Blagoveshchensk), North-Eastern State University (Magadan), Amur State University named after Sholom Aleichem (Birobidzhan), Vladivostok State University, Transbaikal State University (Chita), East Siberian State Institute of Culture (Ulan-Ude), Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture, Kamchatka State Technical University, Far Eastern State Institute of Arts (Vladivostok).