Assiut University President, Prof.Dr. Tarek El-Gammal, emphasized the university's unique and close relations with the universities of the Russian Federation, which is one of the luminous points in the international relations activities at the university. He stressed the university's keenness to complete the path of cooperation and friendship with its counterparts in Russia . This came during a meeting between the President of the University of Assiut and Prof.Dr. Ahmed Al-Manshawi, Vice President for Graduate Studies with a delegation from the University of Russia for Geological Prospecting under the chairmanship of Dr. Kadim Kasianov, University President; Dr. Vagil Kermov, Vice-President for Graduate Studies; and Dr. Natalya Snov, Professor of Geology at the Russian University and coordinator of the convention . Prof. Dr. Ahmed Al-Manshawi pointed out that the meeting of the President of Assiut University with the delegation included the signing of an agreement between the parties to organize cooperation and joint work within the framework of the visit of the Russian delegation to the University, which is also scheduled to include his visit to a number of the faculties of the University and its special units to recognize the ways of expanding areas of cooperation in the next period.