The University of Nottingham was founded in 1881, and is one of the best universities in the world and the top 30 in Europe. The University has three campuses: in England, China, and Malaysia. At present, there are over 47,000 students studying at the University of Nottingham.

The cooperation with STOUH began in 2014 and has taken shape predominantly in the humanities. There is an annual student exchange between the universities’ respective Faculties of Philology. Each semester, participants in the programme from STOUH study literature, foreign languages, language-teaching methodology, and other subjects at the University of Nottingham. In turn, students from Nottingham University at STOUH get to know Russian culture, study foreign literature and other subjects, travel throughout Russia, and practice Russian daily in a family setting.