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[lonkiloi]

I recently received my TESL certificate from Oxford Seminars and Im looking for a job in Russia. My first choice would be to work in Ekaterinburg, I have lived there before and have friends there. My friends there have recommended such sites as rabota66.ru and e1.ru to help find a job, but those sites are very, very broad.

Does anyone have any idea how to go about looking for a job in a particular city? Or maybe someone has experience working in Ekaterinburg? I am not against working somewhere else in Russia (although I would like to avoid Moscow and St. Petersburg) but I figured I should go for my first choice as hard as I can before I settle for something else.

Any ideas, comments, questions are welcome!

Thanks!!

[maruss]

There was a franchise school of either English First or Language Link there which advertised a vacancy a few years ago because the teacher they had there was leaving after several years service.Although both of these firms are not recommended in Moscow for reasons which are widely known,franchises vary enormously from one place to another so it might be worth you approaching them both about Yekaterinburg.Apart from that,it will probably be very hard for a foreign teacher to get work in a provincial city,especially with the new visa rules which have just come in and require all teachers to have a work permit specifically for that firm and job.If you read about what happened to a guy who went to LL in Krasnoyarsk,you will see what can go wrong so having friends there already is a very big advantage!
As a place do bear in mind that it's not Moscow and that there will be far less foreigners around and less English spoken etc but there is no shortage of consumer goods and the economy there is quite vibrant with German companies etc having invested quite heavily in key industries.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.

[mdk]

What I would do is walk down Leninsky prospekt until you get to the University. It has a big statue of Sverdlovsk in front of it and it is past the puppet theater. Oh yeah, you already know Ekaterienburg. Anyway, stay away from Uralmash - I have been told.

Then you go into the University and find the English department and then ask the director this question. If that doesn�t work, try Novosibirsk or Tomsk. In Tomsk there are three universities right along Leninsky prospekt (Funny how Russian towns all have a main street called Leninsky Prospekt). Try Ms. Kovalenko on the 3rd floor of TUSUR. She�s nice and I am sure she could use an english teacher with a visa.