We study at vgik.

My friends and I study at the cameramen’s department of the Cinema Institute. We learn to make films. We study many subjects. Our professors teach the students how to make documentary and feature films. We study many theoretical subjects and we learn to do practical work. We learn to shoot and cut our films. Our students usually do all the creative and technical work during the production of their short films. The teachers criticize our work when we make mistakes and they are glad when we make progress. We know that the film studios of our country need good film-makers. We understand it very well and try hard to master our profession.

A Few Words About Education in Russia (р.262)

Young people in our country have every opportunity to study and to get a higher education. At present one can see a lot of changes in Russia's traditional system of education. There ap­peared a great number of private educational institutions (uni­versities, institutes, colleges, schools) where you have to pay for your education.

Young people have a wide choice of state-controlled and pri­vate education.

The state education in Russia is free of charge. Students can find all the books necessary for their studies in the libraries and reading-rooms of their institutes. They can also make experi­ments, carry out research work and different kinds of practical work in the laboratories and workshops of their institutes.

To enter an Institute you have to take entrance examinations which are rather difficult. Students are able to study in evening and day-time departments. A student who does not work and attends a day-time department is called a full-time student. A student who combines work and studies and attends an evening department is called a part-time student.

The training of specialists at our institutes combines theo­retical studies with practical work and industrial training. At the end of each term students are to submit their course (term) papers or designs.

If the students do well, they get scholarships. To pass the examinations successfully students have to work hard dur­ing the academic year. They may fail in the examinations if they miss classes, and do not study regularly. Students must take ex­aminations and credit tests in time. Sometimes they are allowed to take them in advance.

The Perm State Institute for Arts and Culture

I am a student. I study at the Perm State Institute for arts and culture. The institute for arts and culture was founded in 1975. The institute has 30 specialized studies and classrooms, all necessary musical instruments. The library with 2 reading rooms amounts 160 000 volumes in its book stock and 1500 items in the record collection. The students are provided with 2 large hostels giving accommodation to 100% of the demand. There are dining rooms in both buildings of the institute.

More than 1500 students study in the day and extra mural departments of our institute. Many of them live in the hostel and get state scholarships.

Nowadays the institute has four faculties: the faculty of mass and cultural education, the arts-and-pedagogical faculty, the faculty of arts, the faculty of documentary informational communications.

The faculty of mass and cultural education trains managers for the sphere of culture, managers in tourism, specialists in marketing, directors of mass events and culturelogists.

The arts-and-pedagogical faculty trains choreographers, folk instruments orchestra conductors, directors for amateur theatre companies and choir conductors.

The faculty of arts trains solo singers, folk instruments performers, artists, actors.

The faculty of documentary informational communications trains documentation managers, managers of information resources, specialists of informatics in social and cultural activity.

175 instructors work at the institute, among them there are many professors and doctors of sciences and many lecturers.

There are many chairs at the institute, which carry out scientific work. They are the following: the chair of management, the chair of mass and cultural education, the chair of social Sciences, the chair of foreign languages, the chair of chorus conducting, the chair of orchestra conducting, the chair of choreography, the chair of stagecraft, the chair of informatics, the chair of librarian affair and bibliography, etc.

There are scientific circles nearly at every chair. Students may take part in the work of the students’ scientific Society. The results of research work are reported every spring at scientific conferences.

Every year the Perm State Institute for arts and culture gives our country many highly qualified specialists for the sphere of culture and recreation.