Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Engineers, Russia

 

Now known as the Far Eastern State Transport University (FESTU) was originally established as the Khabarovsk Institute of Railway Engineers on September 8^th, 1937. It was the first technical college in the Soviet Far East aimed at training of qualified personnel for the railroads of the East Siberian and Far Eastern regions of Russia. 

Khabarovsk, is at the junction of the Amur River and the Trans Siberian railway.