All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after SA Gerasimov (VGIK) is a federal state educational budgetary institution of higher and postgraduate professional education of the Russian Federation, founded on September 1, 1919 in Moscow. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Since May 2004, VGIK has also been implementing secondary vocational education programs. The Institute prepares creative specialists in the field of cinematography
