俄罗斯长期以来一直迷住西方，这里是金色洋葱圆顶教堂，广阔广阔的土地（包括十一个时区），沙皇沙皇，残酷的政委，饱受苦难但心胸开阔的人，伟大的作家，当然还有神秘的土地俄罗斯灵魂。现在，这里也是数百家美国公司开展业务，成千上万美国人工作和学习的地方。俄语是世界上主要的语言之一，有超过2.5亿人说俄语，其中包括美国的300万人。在更大的地缘政治背景下，俄罗斯继续在世界大事中发挥着突出的作用，有时甚至是臭名昭著，对俄罗斯的政治，历史和文化的专家从未像现在这样迫切。
The University of Rochester offers degrees in both Russian and Russian studies. The Russian major, minor, and clusters are in the humanities division. The Russian studies major, minor, and clusters can count in either the humanities or the social sciences.<br>The Russian curriculum at Rochester offers students courses in beginning through advanced Russian language study, Russian current events and politics, Russian literature of the last two centuries, Russian civilization, art, architecture, and film, as well as classes focusing on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Nabokov. The Department of Modern Langauges and Cultures (MLC) ran its own summer program in St. Petersburg that brought scores of Rochester students to study Russian and live with Russian host families. Because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we have now begun a Russian language summer program in Tallinn, Estonia, which commenced in 2022 and will run every other year. Students live with Russian host families and study Russian from native speakers. Rochester students are eligible for Mildred R. Burton Travelling Fellowships, which for over three decades have allowed hundreds of students to study abroad in the summer.<br>Our classes boast small faculty/student ratios and our students often pair their Russian major with other majors in the College. Our graduates are highly competitive and have gone on to work in academic positions, in international businesses, in language exchange programs, as teachers of English in Russia, with various NGOs, and as lawyers and professionals in the US.