Student Documents

necessary for all students;
issued by your degree programme’s study office (this usually takes between three and seven working days). Contact your study office to clarify detailed information about a student ID issuing;
confirms student’s status in order to receive remaining documents and student discounts;
must be renewed annually at your degree programme’s study office;
if you have lost your student ID please contact the Student Service Centre.

allows you to enter all HSE University buildings;
issued only if you have a student ID card or a certificate from your programme’s office.

To obtain an e-ID badge visit the Pass Collection Desk. You can find its hours of operation and address here .

necessary for students to receive scholarships or other allowances;
all payments at HSE University are made to cards issued by the "MIR" national payment system.

To apply for a "MIR" card contact the HSE Finance Department.

to submit an application for the Social Card or to be employed, foreign citizens need to obtain a SNILS - СНИЛС (Insurance Number of Individual Ledger Account);
the application for SNILS - СНИЛС is submitted in person to the nearest office of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) or Multifunctional Centre;
after getting SNILS you need to send its data to your study office.

More information about required documents and addresses of PFR and Multifunctional Centres can be found here (see the abstract with *).

accessible to all undergrads and doctoral students pursuing full-time studies;
provides discounts on public transport in Moscow and suburban trains;
an application for a social card is submitted on the web-portal www.mos.ru. A prepared card is collected in Multifunctional Centre “My Documents” selected when filling out the application.. The timeframe for issuing cards usually comes to 30 calendar days.

Find out more about getting your Moscow social card here.

To get a translation of your passport, send a scan of its bio-page to the HSE Expert Translation Centre at translation@hse.ru.

More information about this service can be viewed here.