The article is devoted to the current problems of Russian Oriental studies and continues the discussion started in the first issue of the Vostok magazine (2015). Starting from the past, the author analyzes issues related to university education in Vladivostok and suggests ways to develop Oriental studies. Keywords: oriental studies in Vladivostok, Oriental studies education, Oriental studies in Harbin, Russian School of Oriental Studies. The figurative expression "The East is a delicate matter" can be supplemented with the following words: "Where it is thin , there it breaks!". In the first issue of the journal "Vostok" published an article by Doctor of Historical Sciences A. O. Zakharov "To the 60th anniversary of the journal: the future of Oriental studies", which raises very important issues for the Oriental science [Zakharov, 2015, p. 5-8]. The author relies mainly on examples that metropolitan researchers face, but the problems described, alas, are common to all Russian Oriental studies. "Don't choose your relatives and neighbors"," Don't go to another monastery with your own charter " - these sayings are well known to Orientalists, because their analogues can be found in other languages. Having passed from the Urals to the shores of the Pacific Ocean in a single generation, Russia entered, as V. K. Arsenyev aptly put it, "a wedge into the yellow countries" [GAHK, f. 2, op. 1, d. 460, l. 69], thus becoming not only the closest neighbor of China, Korea and Japan, but also of the United States. and a bridge between European civilization and the Far Eastern countries. A. O. Zakharov quite rightly raises questions about the lack of funding for Oriental studies. But is it just him? I would like to express a subjective view of the current state of Far Eastern Oriental studies, starting from the problems of Oriental studies education. The creation of the Eastern Institute in Vladivostok in 1899, which became the first university in a huge region, was due to an economi ... Read more