Institute of Oriental Studies, sometimes also rendered as Institute of (or for) Orientalism may refer to a number of research and education institutions worldwide in the field of Oriental studies: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, formerly of the USSR Academy of Sciences, a research institute in Moscow and Saint Petersburg (under this name since 1930) Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, a university-level educational institution in Moscow in 1920–1954 A number of "Institutes of Oriental Studies" within the Academies of Sciences of many Republics of the USSR See also Oriental Institute (disambiguation)