Nizhnevartovsk State University of Humanities (NSUH) was established in 1988.  It is a unique higher educational institution on the territory of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District. 

Today Nizhnevartovsk State University of Humanities is a dynamic Institution of Higher Vocational Education. It’s a leading Institution of Higher Education for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District. Its departments cover a number of educational trends including high quality staff training in the sphere of science, education, economics and culture. It offers training in many branches of modern science and humanities. Year after year, Nizhnevartovsk State University of Humanities always features in the top five best pedagogical, linguistic and humanitarian universities of Russia. About 5000 students and post-graduates students study at the university today. The teaching staff is represented by highly qualified specialists: 47 doctors and professors, 160 candidates of sciences and associate professors.

Nizhnevartovsk State University of Humanities comprises 9 faculties and 23 departments and two dissertation councils for defense of candidate’s and doctoral dissertations. Furthermore, the university also contains 6 research laboratories, the Open-Air Museum “Sibirskie Uvali”, comprehensive library facilities, the University Publishing House and printing shop plus a Sports and Recreation Centre.