Classes for foreign citizens, students of the preparatory department, mastering the educational program of preparing people for admission to educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus, began on September 16. The organizer is the department for the implementation of pre-university education and career guidance programs of the Institute for Continuing Education and Retraining at our university. The classes were started by 11 people who came from Cameroon, Congo and China. The training program provides for an intensive Russian language course in the first semester, followed by profiling of training in the second semester (in accordance with the chosen specialty).