Pushkin State Russian Language Institute

Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (Государственный институт русского языка им. А.С. Пушкина) is a federal public higher education institution in Moscow, Russia. It is a leading specialist center for the Russian language, offering higher education, postgraduate and additional professional programs in linguistics, Russian as a foreign language, forensic linguistics, and related fields. The institute ranks 35th among the best Russian universities (Forbes 2026) and 5th for graduate employment in Linguistics and Literary Studies (National Rankings 2026). It has extensive international cooperation and hosts foreign students and teachers from around the world.