Baikal State University took part in the National Russian Education Exhibition, which was organized at the Russian House in Ulaanbaatar.

Elena Tikhonova, Head of the Department of International Relations, presented BSU educational programs at the exhibition, told the Mongolian youth about the advantages of getting higher education at Baikal State University, about the opportunities to get a scholarship to study in Russia, as well as about the career opportunities for BSU graduates.

Mongolian graduates of the past years are an excellent example of successful career, who came to the exhibition to the stand of their native educational institution to express their respect for Baikal State University, to learn what the university is doing now, to help spread information about BSU among potential applicants in Mongolia.

Sergei Kramintsev, Minister Counselor of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Mongolia, inquired about the preferred directions of study at Baikal State University among Mongolian youth. He visited the pavilion of Baikal State University.

29 Russian universities participated in the exhibition. For two days a large number of citizens of Mongolia visited the exhibition. Among them schoolchildren and their parents, teachers. The Rossotrudnichestvo office in Mongolia sent a letter of thanks to BSU Rector Viktor Ignatenko for his help in organizing the National Russian Educational Exhibition: "On behalf of the Russian Embassy in Mongolia and the Rossotrudnichestvo office in Mongolia, we express our heartfelt gratitude for the support in organizing and holding the large-scale project "National Russian Educational Exhibition-2023"," the letter says.

During the exhibition, representatives of Russian universities participated in the creation of the Mongolia-Russia Friendship Alley. Together with members of the Mongolian-Russian Friendship Society and the Mongolian Association of Alumni of Russian and Soviet universities, schoolchildren and volunteers planted 100 elm saplings. The action in Ulaanbaatar National Park is held every year by order of the country's President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh. It is believed that such plantings help fight desertification and climate change. One tree was named Baikal. In September, representatives of different Russian regions and countries together with Mongolian students from Irkutsk universities planted pine seedlings on Olkhon. One of the trees was named Nairamdal - translated from Mongolian as "friendship".

"The park staff presented the Russian House in Ulaanbaatar with a certificate for planting the alley and undertook to take care of the saplings for three years," said Anna Kulakova, Head of the Culture and Public Relations Department of the Russian House.