Amur State University is a leading Russian university and the largest and fastest growing university in the Far East, founded in 1975 in Blagoveshchensk, the capital of the Amur region. It has 10 departments, including the Department of Mathematics and Information, the Department of Engineering Physics, the Department of Power Engineering, the Department of International Relations, the Department of Languages, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Economics, the Department of Arts, and the Department of Supplementary Education.