FEFU was established in 1899 as the Eastern Institute ( Восточный институт ) as a higher education institution specializing in oriental studies and training for administrative , commercial and industrial institutions in the Far East . The university was reformed into State Far Eastern University ( Государственный дальневосточный университет ) by Far Eastern Republic authorities in 1920 during the Russian Civil War , until it was closed in the 1930s under Joseph Stalin . It was reinstated in 1956 as Far Eastern State University by the Council of Ministers of the USSR , two years after Nikita Khrushchev visited Vladivostok . In 2000 , its English name was changed to Far Eastern National University , however the name in Russian remained unchanged and references to the university under its old name were common . In 2008 , the university was reformed again by presidential decree into its current form , officially changing the name to Far Eastern Federal University and a new purpose-built campus planned . The university was merged with the Far Eastern State Technical University ( FESTU ) , Pacific State University of Economics ( TSUE ) and the Ussuriisk State Pedagogical Institute ( USPI ) . In 2013 , FEFU opened a new campus in the Russky Island area of Vladivostok after its buildings hosted the 2012 APEC summit . The campus serves FEFU 's 41,000 students , and hosts the annual Eastern Economic Forum . FEFU is a participant of the Project 5-100 state program of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science
2012 APEC summit
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Far Eastern Federal University