[5][6] In 1926, Vietnamese students were sent to study in Russia under an initiative of Hồ Chí Minh.
A number of them served the Soviet Army during World War II.
[7] Ho Chi Minh himself studied in Moscow in the 1920s, along with other senior members of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
[8] They were followed by an estimated total of 50,000 Vietnamese who studied in Russia during the Cold War.
[10] Notable Vietnamese students who have studied in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union include Quynh Nguyen, a pianist from Hanoi who received a scholarship to Moscow's Gnessin State Musical College.