SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY

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'Saint Petersburg State University' (Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia. It was established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great. At various times prior to 1924, it has also been known as Petersburg University, Petrograd University, and the University of St. Petersburg. From 1924-1948, and again from 1989-1991, the university was called 'Leningrad State University', and from October 22 1948 to January 13 1989 it was called 'A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University'. [1][2]
In the period between 1803 and 1819, the University officially did not exist; the institution founded by Peter the Great - 'Saint Petersburg Academy' - had already been disbanded, whereas the institution that was later used as the basis for 'Saint Petersburg University' was still known as the 'Main Pedagogical Institute' (Главный Педагогический Институт). Since there is some degree of continuity between the Academy, the Pedagogical Institute, and the University, Saint Petersburg State University may be considered the oldest university in Russia.
Like other universities in the Soviet Union, its faculty were purged during various political and ethnic campaigns of the leadership, beginning with the Russian Revolution and continuing through the era of the Great Purge with the killing of Deans of the various faculties, many of them non-Russians who had risen after the revolution, and then the "cosmopolitan" quota purges against Jews in the 1950s.
The university was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1944 and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in 1969.[3]
As of 2004, the university has a teaching staff of 4,055, and counts seven Nobel Prize winners among its graduates.

Contents
List of Faculties
Famous Alumni and Faculty
See also
Partner universities
References
External links

List of Faculties


SPbSU is made up of 19 specialized faculties (departments), which are:

★ the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes

★ the Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies

★ the Faculty of Chemistry

★ the Faculty of Economics

★ the Faculty of Geography and Geoecology

★ the Faculty of Geology

★ the Faculty of History

★ the Faculty of International Relations

★ the Faculty of Journalism

★ the Faculty of Law

★ the Faculty of Management

★ the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics

★ the Faculty of Medicine

★ the Faculty of Oriental Studies

★ the Faculty of Philology

★ the Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science

★ the Faculty of Physics

★ the Faculty of Psychology

★ the Faculty of Sociology
There is also a Faculty of Military Studies and a Chair of Physical Culture and Sports.

Famous Alumni and Faculty


St Petersburg University occupies a group of early 18th-century buildings on the Neva embankment of Vasilievsky Island.



Victor Abartsumian

Karl Erst von Baer

Vasli Bartold

Sergei Berntein

Kazimieras Būga

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Andrew Dodds

Leonhard Euler

Vladimir Fok

George Gamow

Nikolai Gogol

Mikhail Gromov

Lev Gumilev

Dmitry Ivanovsky

Leonid Kantorovich

Chicken Kiev

Wladimir Köppen

Lev Landau

Vladimir Lenin

Wassily Leontief

Dmitry Likhachev

Yuri Linnik

Mikhail Lomonosov

Vladimir Lossky

Aleksandr Lyapunov

Andrey Markov


Nikolay Marr

Dmitri Mendeleev

Sergey Oldenburg

Ivan Pavlov

Grigori Perelman

Vladas Petronaitis

Boris B. Piotrovsky

Sergey Platonov

Vladimir Putin

Ayn Rand

Vladimir Rokhlin

Ivan Sechenov

Nikolai Semenov

Fyodor Shcherbatskoy

Antanas Smetona

Anatoly Sobchak

Sergey Sobolev

Pitirim Sookin

Iplaythe Ukiale

Alexander Vasiiev

Vasily Vasiliesky

Max Vasmer

Vladimir Vernadsky

Augustinas Voldemaras

Sergei Winogradsky

Jeremy Myers

See also



List of universities in Russia

Education in Russia

Smolny College

Partner universities



University of Greifswald, Germany

References


1. Timeline 1946-1949
2. Timeline 1985-1989
3. Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, entry on "Ленинградский университет", available online here
The history of the university, with a particular focus on the Law Faculty, from the 19th century to the perestroika period, is documented in English in David Lempert, Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy, Book 2, Eastern European Monograph Series, Columbia University Press, 1996.

External links



Faculty of International Relations - in Russian and English

University Homepage

School of Management, Saint Petersburg State University

Economic Faculty - in Russian

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