Saint Petersburg State University

This article covers Saint Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad State University ); for other universities in Saint Petersburg see List of Universities in Russia # City of Saint Petersburg .

Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет
motto	Hic tuta perennat
founding	January 28th jul. / February 8, 1724 greg.
Sponsorship	state
place	St. Petersburg
country	Russia
Students	~ 32,000
Networks	Coimbra Group , IAU
Website	www.spbu.ru

College building of the university

College building of the university

The State University of Saint Petersburg ( Russian Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет ) is a state university in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious universities in Russia .

history

St. Petersburg State University was the first university and higher scientific educational institution in the Russian Empire . It was simultaneously with the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences on the decree of Peter I on January 28th ^jul. / February 8, 1724 ^greg. founded. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had delivered the designs to the Tsar.

Initially, the university presented itself as a pure research facility of the Academy of Sciences. Since 1726, public lectures have been held at the university. In the period from 1803 to 1819 the university did not formally exist because the Academy of Sciences, which was linked to the university at the time, was dissolved. However, the Pedagogical Institute continued to exist , which subsequently formed the basis for founding the current university.

The status of a college and today's rank as a university was not until February 8th ^. / February 20, 1819 ^greg. awarded when this status was given to the Pedagogical Institute . The three founding faculties of the university included the philosophical-legal, the historical-philological and the physical-mathematical faculties. In 1854 the Faculty of Eastern Languages ​​was added.

At different times, also due to changing political influences, the university had different names, such as University of Petersburg, University of Petrograd, Zhdanov State University of Leningrad and University of Saint Petersburg. The university is partly housed in a series of buildings from the early 18th century, the twelve colleges , on the banks of the Neva on Vasilyevsky Island ; some faculties are located in newly built buildings in the Petersburg suburb of Peterhof .

Faculties

Today, the university is home to 24 faculties, these include the biological faculty, the Faculty of Ostwissenschaften, the geological faculty, journalism faculty, historical faculty, the Faculty of Psychology , the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics , Faculty of computer science, the physical faculty, the chemistry faculty, the economics faculty, the law faculty, and the sociology faculty.

Graduates

Vladimir Putin (left) and his successor in the office of Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev , both studied in Saint Petersburg

Important graduates of the university include:

• Wiktor Ambarzumjan (1908–1996), Armenian astrophysicist
• Leo Bagrow (1881–1957), Russian cartography historian
• Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Russian historian and Turkologist
• Kazimieras Būga (1879–1924), Lithuanian linguist
• Pawel Durow (* 1984), entrepreneur and founder of vk.com
• Jelena Bonner (1923–2011), Russian politician
• Igor Diakonow (1915–1999), Russian linguist
• Vasily Dokuchayev (1846–1903), Russian geologist
• Ivan Jawachishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
• Alexander Dymschitz (1910–1975), Soviet literary scholar
• Boris Eichenbaum (1886–1959), Russian literary scholar
• Wladimir Fock (1898–1974), Russian physicist
• Andrei Fursenko (* 1949), Russian politician
• George Gamow (1904–1968), Russian physicist
• Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian writer
• Dalia Grybauskaitė (* 1956), Lithuanian President
• Lev Gumiljow (1912–1992), Russian historian
• Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864–1920), Russian virologist
• Kerstin Kaiser (* 1960), German politician
• Leonid Kantorowitsch (1912–1986), Soviet economist, Nobel Prize in Economics (1975)
• Wladimir Peter Köppen (1846–1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
• Qanatê Kurdo (1909–1985), Kurdish linguist
• Lew Landau (1908–1968), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)
• Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Soviet politician
• Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), Russian economist
• Dmitri Likhachev (1906–1999), Russian philologist
• Mikhail Lomonossow (1711–1765), Russian poet
• Alexandr Lyapunow (1857–1918), Russian mathematician and physicist
• Juri Matijassewitsch (* 1947), Russian mathematician and computer scientist
• Dmitri Medvedev (* 1965), Russian politician
• Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist
• Nikolos Muschelischwili (1891–1976), Georgian mathematician
• Grigori Perelman (* 1966), Russian mathematician
• Vladimir Putin (* 1952), Russian politician
• Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, scientist, traveler and philosopher
• Nikolai Semjonow (1896–1986), Russian physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956)
• Fyodor Shcherbatskoi (1866–1942), Russian Indologist
• Igor Sechin , Russian politician and manager
• Sergei Sobolew (1908–1989), Russian mathematician
• Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Russian composer
• Władysław Takliński (1875–1940), Polish physicist
• Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907), Georgian poet and journalist
• Sergei Winogradski (1856–1953), Russian microbiologist
• Vladimir Wernadski (1863-1945), Russian geologist
• Michail Wrubel (1856–1910), Russian painter

students

• Radaslau Astrouski (1887–1976), Belarusian politician and activist

cooperation

The Saint Petersburg State University has the following partner universities

• Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg , Germany
• University of Tartu , Estonia
• Technical University of Dortmund , Germany
• Clausthal University of Technology , Germany
• University of Greifswald , Germany
• University of Hamburg , Germany
• University of Paderborn , Germany
• University of Passau , Germany
• University of Potsdam , Germany
• Leibniz University Hannover , Germany
• European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) , Germany
• University of Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II , France
• Ching Yun University , Taiwan
• University of Groningen , Netherlands
• WU Vienna , Austria

Web links

Commons : Saint Petersburg State University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the University of Saint Petersburg

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 16, 2019 .  
2. ^ TU Clausthal - New cooperation partner of the TU in St. Petersburg. In: www.tu-clausthal.de. July 14, 2016, accessed August 3, 2016 . 
3. ↑ uni hh. Report opinions from the University of Hamburg . No. 34 November 1974.