# Student Reviews

**Source**: https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews
**Parent**: https://english.spbu.ru/admission/preparatory-course-international-students

[#### Preparatory Course student Sheusia on going from ‘completely lost’ to B1 in Russian in one semester](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/preparatory-course-student-sheusia-going-completely-lost-b1-russian-one)

24 February 2026
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### SPbU Preparatory Course student Cui Xinyu: ‘I want to live where my favourite writers lived’](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/spbu-preparatory-course-student-cui-xinyu-i-want-live-where-my)

21 January 2026
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### A mathematical dream takes flight: from Bolivia to St. Petersburg State University](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/mathematical-dream-takes-flight-bolivia-st-petersburg-state-university)

15 December 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### A student at St. Petersburg State University on mobility programmes: ‘You will not just see a new world — you will discover it in yourself’](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/student-st-petersburg-state-university-mobility-programmes-you-will-not)

1 September 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### SPbU student Maksim Kliushin: ‘Russian Academy of Sciences Medal is the recognition of our results by the highest-level scientific community’](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/spbu-student-maksim-kliushin-russian-academy-sciences-medal-recognition)

21 August 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### St. Petersburg State University master’s student wins Contest for Young Foreign-Affairs Journalists](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/st-petersburg-state-university-masters-student-wins-contest-young)

19 June 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### Prep year grind: how an Iranian student earned her spot in St. Petersburg State University](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/zahra-on-prep-course-and-dentistry-free-tuition)

12 May 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### St. Petersburg State University student Grigorii Korolev on helping the front and using video games in patriotic education of youth](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/st-petersburg-state-university-student-grigorii-korolev-helping-front)

11 May 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### Italian student Michelangelo Cerracchio: 'I am here to learn the Russian way of thinking'](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/italian-student-michelangelo-cerracchio-i-am-here-learn-russian-way)

24 April 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)

[#### South African SPbU Preparatory Course student: 'I’d rather work with hardware, it’s harder to automate'](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews/south-african-spbu-preparatory-course-student-id-rather-work-hardware)

28 March 2025
[Student Reviews](https://english.spbu.ru/news-events/student-reviews)