HUT has traditional cooperative relations with many universities and research institutes in Russia and other countries in Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Czech, and Slovak. A large number of HUT staff have graduated from institutions in these countries.

A number of cooperative training programmes have been established between HUT and universities of Russia and Eastern Europe, such as: Saint Peterbourg Electrotechnical University, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Technical University Prague, Budapest Technical University, etc.