Russian Exchange Program
Summer In St. Petersburg
The St. Louis University High School Russian program offers students studying Russian at the Junior and Senior levels the unique opportunity to spend three weeks immersed in the language, traditions, and culture of contemporary Russia. The program runs from mid-June to early July, and involves an exchange with a school in St. Petersburg, Russia. Highlights of the trip include a homestay with a Russian family, daily classes of intensive Russian taught by teachers from the host school, numerous excursions to museums, local places of interest, and a weekend trip to Moscow. The cost for the trip this year is approximately $2,900, and fund-raising opportunities are available to offset some of the costs. Usually students participate in their Junior year, and this year 9 Juniors are taking part in the exchange, which is the only one of its kind among all the languages offered at SLUH. Additionally, the program carries course credit, which appears on each student’s SLUH transcript. The exchange provides not only the rewards and excitement that all international travel offers, but also the type of first-hand experience with Russia and Russian that can’t be recreated in the classroom. All this, in one of the most exciting, historically-fascinating, beautiful cities in the world, makes the trip a most memorable experience each year.
Take a look through some photos of previous years' exchanges!
The 2006 group enjoys the Throne Hall of the Catherine Palace
The "Changing Of The Guard" at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin in Moscow
The 2003 Jr. Bills pose near one of the many fountains at Peterhof, just a quick rocketboat ride across the Gulf of Finland from St. Petersburg
Looking down the barrel of the "Tsar Pushka" or Tsar's Canon inside the Kremlin
The 2004 group poses in front of the gates of the Catherine Palace.
