Saint Petersburg State University
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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.
Famous Alumni and Faculty
- Victor Ambartsumian | Karl Ernst von Baer | Vasili Bartold | Pafnuty Chebyshev | 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
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