At the Cross-Border University (CBU®) you can join a Master’s degree programme in six study fields, and History is among them. Studies are made on both sides of the border, in Finland and in Russia. The extent of the studies is two years and 120 ECTS credits. You can apply for the studies, if you have a Bachelor’s degree and a good command of academic English.

Universities offering CBU studies are in the Russian Federation – Moscow Lomonosov State University, St. Petersburg’s State University, St. Petersburg’s State Polytechnical University, Petrozavodsk State University and European University at St. Petersburg, and in Finland the University of Helsinki, the University of Joensuu, the University of Kuopio, Lappeenranta University of Technology and the University of Tampere.

This year CBU® in History includes the following courses:

• The Flexible Frontier. Change and Continuity in Finnish-Russian Relations (book-exam)
• Russian political history (Prof. Sergey Verigin)
• Finland and the Soviet Union: political history from 1939 to 1991 (Prof. Kimmo Rentola)
• Internet Resources for Historians: Practicum
• Academic Writing in English Course
• The Economic and Social History of Finland (Niklas Jensen-Eriksen et al.)
• Economic History of Russia (Prof. Leonid Borodkin et al.)
• The History of Nordic Countries (Ass. Prof. Irina Takala & Ass. Prof. Ilja Solomeshch)