Seal of Saint Petersburg State University

Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет) one of the oldest Russian educational institutions, established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by decree of Peter the Great. At various times, it has also been known as Petersburg University, Petrograd University, Leningrad State University, and the University of St. Petersburg. In the period between 1803 and 1819 the University formally 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 basis for the Saint Petersburg University was still known as the Main Pedagogical Institute (Главный Педагогический Институт). There is some degree of continuity between the Academy, the Pedagogical Institute and the University. This allows some to claim that the Saint Petersburg State University is the oldest university in Russia. Image File history File links Seal or emblem of Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. ... Image File history File links Seal or emblem of Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ... Portrait of Peter by Paul Delaroche Peter I (Russian: ) (10 June 1672–8 February 1725 [30 May 1672– 28 January 1725 O.S.] ) ruled Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. ...

Famous Alumni and Faculty

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

• Victor Ambartsumian | Karl Ernst von Baer | Vasili Bartold | Vasily Dokuchaev | Leonhard Euler | Vladimir Fok | George Gamow | Nikolai Gogol | Lev Gumilev | Dmitry Ivanovsky | Leonid Kantorovich | Lev Landau | Vladimir Lenin | Wassily Leontief | Dmitry Likhachev | Mikhail Lomonosov | Aleksandr Lyapunov | Dmitri Mendeleev | Boris B. Piotrovsky | Sergey Platonov | Vladimir Putin | Ayn Rand | Nikolai Semenov | Fyodor Shcherbatskoy | Sergey Sobolev | Sergei Winogradsky | Alexander Vasiliev | Max Vasmer | Vladimir Vernadsky

Vasilievsky Island is a district of Saint Petersburg, bordered by the rivers Bolshaya Neva and Malaya Neva (in the delta of Neva) from South and Northeast, and by the Gulf of Finland from the West. ... Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (ÕŽÕ«Õ¯Õ¿Õ¸Ö€ Õ€Õ¡Õ´Õ¢Õ¡Ö€Õ±Õ¸Ö‚Õ´ÕµÕ¡Õ¶ in Armenian, Виктор Амазаспович Амбарцумян in Russian) (September 18, 1908 (Julian calendar: September 5) – August 12, 1996) was an Armenian-Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. ... Karl Ernst von Baer (February 17, 1792 - November 26, 1876) was a Baltic German biologist and a founding father of embryology. ... Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold, also known as Wilhelm Barthold (1869-1930) was a Russian anthropologist who succeeded Wilhelm Radloff as the greatest authority in the field of Turcology. ... Vasily Vasilievich Dokuchaev (Василий Васильевич Докучаев) (1840 – 1903) was a Russian geologist who is credited with laying foundations of soil science. ... Leonhard Euler by Emanuel Handmann Leonhard Euler (IPA ) (April 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist. ... Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok, Владимир Александрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 - December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics. ... George Gamow (pronounced GAM-off) (March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968) , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов) was a Ukrainian born physicist and cosmologist. ... Nikolai Gogol For the James Bond ally, see General Gogol Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: , Ukrainian: ) (April 1, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ... Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov Л.Н. Гумилев (1912–1992), the son of two Russian poets, Nikolay Gumilyov and Anna Akhmatova, was a writer and historian connected with the contemporary movement of Russian Neo-Eurasianism or Pan-Asianism, advancing the view that Russians and Central Asian nomads constitute a super-ethnos, stretching from Poland to... Dmitry Iosifovich Ivanovsky (1864-1920), a Russian biologist who was the first to discover viruses (1892). ... Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (January 19, 1912 in Petersburg – April 7, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. ... Lev Davidovich Landau Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian language: Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics whose broad field of work included the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics and particle physics. ... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин â–¶(?)), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) (April 22 (April 10 (O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of Leninism, which he described as an adaptation of Marxism to... Wassily Leontief (August 5, 1906 – February 5, 1999), born at St. ... Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev (Russian: ; November 15 (28), 1906, St. ... Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) (November 19 (November 8, Old Style), 1711 – April 15 (April 4, Old Style), 1765) was a Russian writer and polymath who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. ... Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Александр Михайлович Ляпунов) (June 6, 1857 – November 3, 1918, all new style) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. ... Mendeleyevs portrait by Ilya Repin. ... Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908-1990) was a Russian academician and archaeologist. ... Sergey Fyodorovich Platonov (1860-1933) was a Russian historian who led the official St Petersburg school of imperial historiography before and after the Russian Revolution. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин, â–¶ (help· info), Pútin; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician, and the current President of the Russian Federation. ... Barbara Branden presented an account of the breakup of the affair in her book, She describes the encounter between Nathaniel and Rand, saying that Rand slapped him numerous times, and denounced him in these words: If you have an ounce of morality left in you, an ounce of psychological health... Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов) (April 15 (April 3, Old Style), 1896 – September 25, 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. ... Fyodor Stcherbatskoy Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy or Stcherbatsky (1866-1942) was a Russian Indologist who laid foundations for the scholarly study of Buddhist philosophy. ... Sobolev, Sergei Lvovich (Russian: Сергей Львович Соболев) (6 October 1908- 3 January 1989) was a Russian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. ... Nitrogen cycle Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky (1856, Kiev - 1953, Paris) is a Russian microbiologist who discovered the biological process of nitrification, the first known form of chemoautotrophy. ... Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1867-1953) was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. ... Max Vasmer (1886 – 1962), German linguist. ... Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (Владимир Иванович Вернадский) (March 12, 1863, N.S. [ February 28, O.S. ] – January 6, 1945) was a Russian mineralogist and geochemist who first popularized the concept of the noosphere and deepened the idea biosphere to the meaning largely recognized by todays scientific community. ...

See also

• List of universities in Russia
• Education in Russia

The following is a list of universities in Russia: Universities offering broad range of degrees 1724—Saint Petersburg State University 1755—Moscow State University 1804—Kazan State University 1880—Tomsk State University 1899—Far Eastern National University, successor of Oriental Institute in Vladivostok, Russia 1909—Saratov State University 1915—Rostov... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Russian educational system. ...

External link

• University Homepage