Heilongjiang University, located in Harbin, is a provincial comprehensive university jointly established by Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government, China People's Government, Ministry of Education and State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. It is a "double-first-class" domestic first-class university in Heilongjiang Province, and has been selected into the national excellent legal talents education and training plan, the basic capacity-building project of central and western universities, the featured key discipline project, the national high-level university graduate program and the scholarship receiving institution of the China Municipal Government for international students in China.

The school was formerly known as the Russian Team of the Third Branch of China People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, 194 1 was founded in Yan 'an, and was later renamed the Russian Department of the Military Academy of the Central Military Commission, the Russian School of the Central Military Commission and the Yan 'an Foreign Language School. During the period of 1946, some leaders of Yan 'an Foreign Language School and Russian teachers and students moved to the northeast, and were renamed as Foreign Language School affiliated to the Northeast Democratic Allied Forces General Command, Harbin Foreign Languages Institute, Harbin Foreign Languages Institute and Harbin Foreign Languages Institute. 1958 was renamed Heilongjiang university.