History
The university was founded in 1952 in Xi'an, Shaanxi with the Russian Department of Northwest University, the Russian Department of Lanzhou University, and the Russian training class of the Chinese Communist Party merged as Northwest Russian Academy. At its establishment, it was one of the four earliest language schools in the People's Republic of China（the other three located at Beijing, Shanghai and Sichuan）, and the only one that teaches most foreign languages in Northwest China .
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