Student Documents

Student ID Card

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.

Electronic ID Badge

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 .

Scholarship Bank Card

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.

SNILS - СНИЛС

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 *).

Moscow Card

accessible to all undergrads and doctoral students pursuing full-time studies;
provides discounts on public transport in Moscow and suburban trains.

Instructions for applying of Moscow transport card:

1. Apply for a SNILS at one of the Pension Fund offices or «My Documents» offices in Moscow (to apply for the document you need to have original passport and a notarized translation of your passport into Russian).

2. After issuing a SNILS send its copy to your program manager.

3. 2-3 days after sending your SNILS copy to the manager you need to visit the web-page mos.ru and check whether there is your data is in the student register (student’s data must be specified in Russian in accordance with the spelling of the full name in the notarized translation of your passport):

- if the student's data is not found, write email to istudents.support@hse.ru;

- if the student's data is found and displayed correctly proceed to the step 4.

4. Register (create an personal account) on the mos.ru portal and apply for a Moscow social transport card through your personal account:

- the application review period may be up to 30 calendar days;

- the application status can be tracked in your personal account or via the link, a Moscow social transport card is received at the «My Documents» offices selected when submitting the application.

Passport Translation

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.

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