Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University) – the leader in the Russian professional education system that assimilated the best traditions of domestic higher education institutions. Gubkin University was founded in 1930 by the outstanding scientist, honored worker of science and technology of the RSFSR academician Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin. Since 1930 Gubkin University has trained more than 100 thousand graduates, Candidates and Doctors of Science. The University is justifiably proud of his graduates, working in all leading Russian Oil and Gas Companies. Affiliates of the Gubkin institute exist in Orenburg, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.