The university Sun Yat-SEN of Moscow ( 莫斯科中山大学 ) was a place of training of the Chinese revolutionists for the Chinese Communist party (PCC) and the Guomindang (GMD) in the years 1920 and had a major influence in the Chinese modern history.

In 1923, Sun Yat-SEN, the founder of the GMD started to adopt a policy of alliance with the PCC and the Soviet Union after having undergone many frustrations and having realized that it was impossible to have a republic in China which can rest on the secret societies and the lords of the war. The Soviet Union and the PCC answered with passion and enthusiasm. In 1925, the Soviet Union created in Moscow the university Sun Yat-SEN to train Chinese revolutionists. The university was named Sun Yat-SEN the year of its death, to show the respect that the Soviet Union and the PCC had for the contribution which Dr. Sun made to the Chinese revolution. Borodine, the consultant of the GMD sent by the Soviet Union directed the recruitment of the first pupils. These pupils were selected among the elites of the PCC and the GMD. The main mission of the university was to educate the pupils on the theories Marxiste and Léniniste, to form executives with the movements of mass and to make truths Bolcheviks of them.

The professors came mainly from Soviet Union, among which of old Bolsheviks like Karl Radek, which was the first president of the university. Because the pupils had passed and formations different, some outgoing of the Chinese universities, others being famous revolutionists or scholars, others finally having little education but a great practice of the communist movements, the university gathered the pupils in various levels and provides them courses according to their level of education.

The courses exempted by the university were centered on the basic theories of the Marxism and Leninism, and the lessons which one could draw from the movements of international Communism. The pupils could learn the means and the practices from the mobilization of crowd and propaganda. The university gave also courses on the art of warfare, courses theoretical and formation.

Apart from the courses, there were regular conferences on the international communist Mouvement and the Chinese revolution, conferences given by leaders of the Komintern, Soviet Union, PCC, among which one finds Stalin, Trotsky, Zhang Guotao and Xiang Zhongfa.

Although the course of the studies is only two years, its impact was very strong on the pupils. Among the latter, one finds the 28 Bolsheviks, Deng Xiaoping, Zuo Quan and other eminent members of the PCC and also of important members of the GMD like Chiang Ching-kuo, He Zhonghan, Deng Wenyi.

In 1927, alliance between the GMD and the PCC were broken and the pupils concerned with the GMD were returned to China. When the power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky reached his roof, Radek was returned and replaced by its assistant Pavel Mif who was too ambitious to limit himself to the space of the campus. Mif became the vice director of the department of Far East of the Comintern and played a big role in the decisions of the PCC.

The university was closed with the beginning of the year 1930.