Communist University of the Toilers of the East

The Communist University for Workers of the East in Moscow, also Eastern University Far Eastern University or called, was an institution, were formed on the cadres of non-Russian origin in revolutionary theory and practice. It existed from 1921 until 1938.

Target group of the University established by the Government of the Soviet Union and the Comintern in 1921 were originally people of non-Russian nationality, who lived on the territory of the Soviet Union in order to undertake the October Revolution. A short time later, more emphasis was placed on the spread of the revolution in the colonies and dependent territories in Asia. For 1925 students from 10 different states and territories were already in enrolled at the University, and in 1927 there were 74 nationalities.

As in the mid-1920s, the civil war in China beginning in earnest, and there was a high demand for Chinese revolutionaries, a successor organization was founded specifically for Chinese who got the name of Sun Yatsen University.

The University had branches in Baku ( Azerbaijan), Irkutsk and Tashkent ( Uzbekistan).

Famous graduates

• Chiang Ching- kuo, Republic of China
• Liu Shaoqi, People's Republic of China
• Deng Xiaoping, People's Republic of China
• Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
• Nazim Hikmet, the Turkish poet
• Jafar Pischevari, the Azerbaijan People's Government, Communist Party of Iran
• Hassan Israilov, Chechnya
• Khalid Bakdasch, Syrian Communist Party
• Fahd Iraqi Communist Party
• Harry Haywood, Communist Party (United States)
• Manabendra Nath Roy, co-founder of the Communist Parties in Mexico and India
• Sen Katayama, Japanese Communist Party
• Tan Malaka, Communist Party of Indonesia
• Sultan Galiyev, Tatar Communist
• Saltschak Toka, Tuvan People's Republic