Russian is one of the most difficult languages in the world. However, there are a lot of people who would like to learn it. If you’d like to learn Russian you don’t need to go to Russia, you can learn Russian in many other European countries. We’d like to invite you to learn Russian in Latvia, gain exciting experience, and making new friends.
Daugavpils is the most Russian-speaking city in Latvia, and the second largest city in the country. In Daugavpils, Russian is the language of the everyday communication, and almost all people in Daugavpils speak fluent Russian. Daugavpils is allegedly the most Russian city in the European Union. Therefore, lots of students choose Daugavpils as it provides the best environment for immersion into the Russian language.
Russian language programs are hosted by Daugavpils University. For many years already, the university has been cooperating with the private training center LatInSoft to implement the program “Learn Russian in the European Union”. The program “Learn Russian in the European Union” offers a number of courses in Russian language, literature, history, culture, political science, and Eastern European studies taught in Russian.
These courses cater for individual needs of our students. Most of the “Learn Russian in the EU” students learn Russian for their professional needs and their career development. Therefore, the individual approach towards students’ needs attracts them immensely.
If you’ve decided to learn Russian in Latvia, Daugavpils will be the best choice. Our highly qualified, experienced, and friendly teachers will make your study easy and efficient. We guarantee that at every class you’ll gain knowledge, experience, joy, and a real interest in learning Russian.
You can meet a few of our teachers on the following links:
If you’re planning to learn Russian in Daugavpils within the project “Learn Russian in the EU”, you should apply online at www.learnrussianineu.com. We offer various opportunities for learning Russian, both tailored courses and academic programs Study Abroad for university students, as well as internship and teacher development courses.
Our students can choose whether to stay in a hotel or with a Russian-speaking host family. Our students mainly choose staying with a Russian-speaking host families, where students can take advantage of a friendly atmosphere to practice using Russian in a relaxed and natural way and gain invaluable cultural experience.
At the end of the course, students will dramatically improve their knowledge of Russian, make new friends, and gain cultural experience. Students will also receive an official certificate about the completion of the course. Thanks to the project “Learn Russian in the EU”, everyone has an opportunity to learn Russian, get an insight into the Russian culture, staying in the European Union, without wasting their time and money on acquiring a visa.
As it seems to us, Daugavpils is the best place to learn Russian now, because our city is situated in the EU and NATO, but at the same time 90% of the city’s population speak Russian at home.
Etude on Dvinsk by F.Fedorov
The Baltic region is one of the most catastrophe prone regions of the 2nd millennium, especially its second part; it is the centre of attraction of ‘geopolitical’ interests of the European world. Probably the most tragic fate has befallen to the eastern part of the present Latvia and its multi-titled town of Dinaburg – Dvinsk – Daugavpils. During its 730 years long history, the town went through five rather autonomous periods of development, five different lives (German, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Soviet), and at the beginning of the 1990s it entered into the 6th period.
The history of Dinaburg – Dvinsk – Daugavpils is the history of five attempts by the town to begin its life anew; and this is determined not only by the fact that the town was four times burned down and had to start life from scratch, but first and foremost because each of these periods was characterized by a total change of ethnos and the socio-cultural field.
The present article deals with the cultural space of the town in one of the most efficient periods of its development – from the 1860s till World War I.