Most universities ask for your official enrollment certificate (справка об обучении) or academic transcript from your Russian university, proof of your current enrollment status or completion date, your school attestat (secondary education certificate) from Russia, and certified English translations of all academic documents. Some universities also ask for degree-evaluation agencies like WES or ENIC-NARIC to assess your Russian credits and how they translate to their own system. Always check your destination university's transfer admission requirements before you order so we provide exactly what they need.

An enrollment certificate (справка об обучении or академическая справка) proves you attended a university and lists the courses and grades you completed — it can be issued at any time, even while you are still a student. A diploma is issued only after you graduate and proves you earned a complete degree. If you are transferring mid-degree, you need the enrollment certificate to show what you have already completed. If you are applying for graduate school or a job after graduation, you need your diploma. We offer both services — see our Diploma page for postgraduate applications.

Yes. You can authorize us to request your records on your behalf by signing a power of attorney (доверенность). We send you a template, you sign and notarize it, and we submit it to your university's registrar office along with a request for your official enrollment certificate and academic transcripts. Your university will mail the documents to us, and we handle translation and apostille from there. This adds time for mail delivery, but many students abroad use this method successfully.

Yes, in most cases. If you are applying to a university abroad, applying for a student visa, or submitting credentials to an evaluation agency, that institution will usually ask for an apostille on your Russian academic documents under the Hague Convention to verify they are authentic and unaltered. Always confirm your specific destination's requirements before you order.

We translate your academic records faithfully and completely, including all course names, grades, and credit hours as recorded by your Russian university. However, whether the receiving university accepts those credits as equivalent to their own is entirely up to their admissions and academic policies. That decision belongs to the receiving institution, not to us — they will evaluate your transcript against their own system and curriculum and decide what credits to grant. We provide accurate, certified translation; the university does the credit mapping.

Certified translation of enrollment records typically takes 3-5 business days if you already have official documents in hand. Apostille processing with the Ministry of Education takes 7-14 business days. If you need to retrieve records from your university first, add 5-10 business days depending on how quickly the university responds. Tell us your deadline when you order — we can often prioritize, and we email you a scanned copy as soon as the apostille is issued so you have a working version while the original travels by courier.