RUT is a leading transport educational institution and hosts the biggest university complex in Moscow, Russia.

The Russian University of Transport is the oldest institution of higher technical education in Russia founded in 1896.

For more than 120 years of history, more than 650 thousand highly qualified specialists with higher and secondary professional education have left the university.

More than 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union and Socialist Labor, transport industry leaders, world-famous scientists, members of the Russian government, governors, mayors of large cities, prominent public figures, prominent representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and culture, and top businessmen are among the graduates of RUT.

In Soviet times, the university was notable for being one of just a few institutions in the upper echelon that did not participate in the state-directed antisemitism campaign in higher education.