September 23, 2012
Yuri Kozyrev for The Chronicle
Far Eastern Federal U. has a new $2-billion campus on Russky Island, near Vladivostok, a geopolitically important region close to Manchuria and the Sea of Japan. Skeptics wonder whether students and faculty will come to the windswept outpost, where winter temperatures can drop to minus 49.
Russky Island, Russia
Russky Island, the home of Russia's newest university, is not a hospitable place. The winds from the Pacific Ocean are incessant, and temperatures can plummet to minus 49 degrees. Winters are especially bitter, lasting six or seven months.
Yet Moscow has invested billions of dollars here in hopes of attracting some of the world's brightest young people and reviving a steadily shrinking local economy in this geopolitically sensitive region on the edge of China.
The government
Source: http://feeds.chronicle.com/~r/chronicle/news/~3/GLkoN4IfwPU/
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