Orenburg state university

OSU — Mexico!

Representatives of Mexico Embassy in Russia met with OSU Rector, students and professors on the 25^th of April.

Within Mexico Days, cultural attaché of Mexico Embassy in Russia — Horkheo Reynoso and member of Embassy Culture Department — Antonina Vasina accompanied by deputy Head of International Cooperation Department of Culture and External Relations Ministry of Orenburg region — Sergey Kuznetsov and President of Orenburg charity foundation "Eurasia" — Igor Khramov visited OSU. OSU Rector Zhanna Ermakova presented OSU for guests briefly, paid their attention to its scope and work of several language centers.

Horkhe Reynoso reported that cooperation of Russia and Mexico develops generally within intergovernmental education agreement: governments of both countries award grants for students’ training. Today young people from Mexico study in Voronezh, St. Petersburg, Kazan and some other Russian cities. Orenburg is not in this list yet.

Zhanna Ermakova paid attention of guests to such cooperation format as Summer School: students can improve language skills, get acquainted with national culture and listen to survey lectures — to understand whether training at this university is interesting or not. She also suggested Horkhe Reynoso to specify as far as possible needs for training of students from different universities of Mexico — with a view to build extensive relationship between interested parties. Spheres of the most probable interests of Mexican students in OSU are: Linguistics, History, Geology and Archeology.

Horkhe Reynoso delivered lecture for OSU students "Art of Mexico" — about the outstanding Mexican artist of Russian origin, well-known in the world under pseudonym Vladi. He told also about art movement and monumental painting in early 20^th century in his country — about Mexican "muralizm" which had major impact on art of all Latin America.