2006

Starting dates: 6*. and 20. November; 4*. December 2006. Beginners can start on the dates marked with an asterisk (*).

• Services included: tuition as booked, assessment test, teaching materials, course certificate, guided walking city tour, free Internet access
• Course length: Minimum course length is 2 weeks, maximum is 4 weeks, non-extendable.
• Terms and Cancellation fees: There is no refund in case of cancellation under any circumstances.
• Course location: St.Petersburg, Moscow or combined (2 weeks St.Petersburg followed by 2 weeks Moscow.

Please contact any of our authorised agents or use our booking form for if you want to register for this course. For a course description, please click here.

Daria graduated from the St. Petersburg based Foreign Language Institute in 2000 (specialising in French and English) and has been working ever since in the travel and hotel industry, focusing mainly on inbound tourism. At Liden & Denz, she will fine-tune our existing programme but also bring in new, unconventional ideas. Our activities programme will continue to be online at www.lidenz.ru/activities/.

For our team, the new site allows for fast and easy updates. The upgrade has also given us the opportunity to fully integrate our tourist services and expatriate courses. We have also added corporate references to our course feedback section. Please let us know how you like the site!

Liden & Denz students now have the unique opportunity to get prepared for the test and pass the exam in-house at both schools. The TRKI exam is held on 2 days and can be taken every week of the year.

The first student to take the exam in Moscow was Paul Al-Windi from Sweden, who passed the TRKI-1 with an impressive result of 94%.

Together with one of our teachers, you will sail through the Neva river in St. Petersburg eastwards to the Ladoga and Onega lakes and crossing the Vogobalt channel. You then enter the famous Volga river, continue to sail south and stop near old medieval cities on Russians Golden Ring like Yaroslavl and Uglich.

Your teacher is also your guide and lessons during the cruise will be alternated with interesting excursions on your way down to Moscow. A detailed course description including departure dates and fees you will find here. Use our normal sign-up form for booking this tour.

Natalia has been with the school almost since its opening in early 2004 and has been instrumental in
meeting our ambitious growth targets over the past two years.

The daughter of a diplomat, Natalia grew up in Austria. After finishing law school in Moscow she worked as a lawyer, before moving on to mass media as the producer for the Moscow office of Swiss State Television SF DRS.

The St.Petersburg airport (Pulkovo) will be completely closed and no flights will be operated on these
3 days. In connection with this we ask you to take note of the following:

For all courses starting on Monday, 17. July the arrival day should be Friday, 14. July (or Thursday, 13. July). Pickup transfers will be organised for free for all students arriving on 13. or 14. July. Please note also that accommodation fees will include the appropriate number of additional days.

For all students finishing their courses by 14. July the departure day should be Friday, 14. July. No compensation is provided for classes missed on 14. July. If a student stays in a host family and leaves on Tuesday, 18 July we will have in some cases to lodge to the same host family (but different room) a student arriving on 13. or 14. July.

Let us know if anything is unclear or if you have any questions regarding the above.

We have taken out many photos, which are out-of-date and added almost 70 new pictures of our two centres, of St.Petersburg and Moscow. The pictures will give you a realistic feeling of the atmosphere in and around the Liden & Denz centres. Just click on Gallery on our main menu.

Our Moscow baby is growing up quickly – all our 10 classrooms were busy for most of the year. This is remarkable if you remember that we started operating in Moscow only in early 2004.

We take this opportunity to thank all our students for having chosen
Liden & Denz to improve their Russian. We never had so many
returning students as this year, which is absolutely great. We also
would like to thank all our partners in the international education
sector who did an excellent job this year. Without your support we
would not be where we are now!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!

S Novim Godom!

Walter Denz