Online conference between Baikal State University and Turkish students was held recently.
The interaction between Russian universities and Turkish school graduates and students was organized by Rossotrudnichestvo (Россотрудничество), Russian House in Turkey.

This event is the main part of the selection campaign of Turkish graduates for quota places of the Russian Government. For a few days online meetings between countries were held, on which Russian universities represented themselves and Turkish young people and their parents could ask questions about study and life in Russia.

Baikal State University participated in such event with Turkish audience for the first time. The communication was hold in Turkish. BSU was represented by a postgraduate student of the university, Salamov Natik. He told about the history of BSU, popular and promising areas of study, requirements for applicants and their education documents.

As the presentation of Baikal State University aroused great interest among participants, a lot of questions were asked. Most of all, school graduates and students from Turkey were interested in such issues as the duration of study at the Preparatory faculty, opportunity to study in English, University infrastructure, student life and, of course, the city of Irkutsk itself.

Some of them were worried about the cold weather in Siberia and long way to Irkutsk, but Natik Salamov, who came from warm Azerbaijan, was able to convince Turkish students not to be afraid of Siberian winters and told about interesting places and sights of Irkutsk city and Lake Baikal.