The department maintains strong scientific relations with Russian and foreign construction and technical universities in such cities as Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Vologda, Tyumen, Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Kyiv (Ukraine), Minsk (Belarus), Kishinev (Moldova), Odessa (Ukraine), Warsaw, Gdansk, and Glivitsy (Poland), Mikkeli (Finland), Brno (Czech Republic). The Department has tight working relations with leading R&D institutions: VNIIvodgeo, Academy of Municipal Infrastructure, Center for Environmental Safety of St. Petersburg, SUE Vodokanal of St. Petersburg, etc.