Almost 30 teachers from the former Soviet Union were moved to tears in their meeting with 4,000 Vietnamese alumni in Hanoi on January 17.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training, Nguyen Thien Nhan, represented the 52,000 alumni from various parts of Vietnam to express thanks to their Soviet teachers.

He pledged to further boost friendly and cooperative relations with Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union .

V. Ferovich, who experienced a working mission in Vietnam in 1964, said “In this return, I rejoiced at Hanoi ’s dynamic development and was very happy to see our students make great success in their careers and considerably contribute to all aspects of the social life.”

Former Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan described the deep passion between people of the former Soviet Union and Vietnam as well as the rich culture of Russia as noble cultural values.

He said “Our hearts have been engraved with this value and the Russian soul has blended in with the Vietnamese soul, helping us advance in life.”

This special relationship was marked with the October, 1954 event, when the late President Ho Chi Minh sent 300 first students to the former Soviet Union for higher education.

Of them, 100 were sent to universities, 100 others to vocational colleges and 100 to general education schools. The figure had been surging by time.

Many of the alumni have been promoted to senior positions or become famous artists and experts in various fields in national construction and defence./.