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Far Eastern Federal University company history timeline

1899

FEFU was established in 1899 as the Eastern Institute (Восточный институт) as a higher education institution specializing in oriental studies and training for administrative, commercial and industrial institutions in the Far East.

1918

1918 — with the support of Oriental Institute a private Department of History and Philology and the Higher Polytechnic College were opened.

1920

1920 — Oriental Institute and several private educational institutions were united into State Far Eastern University.

1956

The university was merged with the Far Eastern State Technical University (FESTU), Pacific State University of Economics (TSUE) and the Ussuriisk State Pedagogical Institute (USPI). It was reinstated in 1956 as Far Eastern State University by the Council of Ministers of the USSR, two years after Nikita Khrushchev visited Vladivostok.

2000

In 2000, its English name was changed to Far Eastern National University, however the name in Russian remained unchanged and references to the university under its old name were common.

2008

In 2008, the university was reformed again by presidential decree into its current form, officially changing the name to Far Eastern Federal University and a new purpose-built campus planned.

2013

July 1, 2013 — commissioning of the FEFU Medical Center, which is the most modern clinic in the Russian Far East meeting the highest international standards.

September 1, 2013 — the first academic year started on the FEFU new campus.

2014

November 2014 — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the new FEFU Laboratory Building, where the largest scientific laboratories of the university and experimental equipment of the world level are concentrated.

2015

September 2015 — FEFU campus hosted the first Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) under the Decree of the President of Russia.

2016

2,500 participants, top managers of 57 international companies from 28 countries, and the CEOs of more than 200 Russian companies attended the second EEF in 2016.

2016 — FEFU moved up to the group of universities of 551–600 band in the QS World University Rankings.

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