Saint Petersburg State University

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

History

The State University of Saint Petersburg was the first university and higher education scientific institution of Russia. It was founded together with the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences on adoption of Peter I on January 28, 1724. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had the tsar supplied the designs.

Initially, the university presented as a pure research institute of the Academy of Sciences dar. Since 1726 public lectures were held at the university. In the period from 1803 to 1819, the University formally existed not because at the time linked to the University Academy of Sciences dissolved. However, there still existed the Pedagogical Institute, which in the following years formed the basis of establishing the current university.

The status of a university and today rank as the University was conferred only on 8 February 1819, when this status was awarded the Pedagogical Institute. Among the three founding faculties of the university were the philosophical- legal, historical- philological and the physico- mathematical faculty. 1854 was added at the Faculty of Oriental languages ​​.

At various times, partly due to changing political influences, the University contributed various names, such as St. Petersburg University, University of Petrograd State University Zhdanov Leningrad University of Saint Petersburg. The university is housed partly in a number of products originating in the early 18th century buildings on the banks of the Neva River on the Wassiliewski Island, some faculties are located in newly constructed buildings in the St. Petersburg suburb of Peterhof.

Faculties

Today, the university houses 14 faculties, this includes the biological faculty, the Faculty of Ostwissenschaften, the geological faculty, the Faculty of journalistic, historical faculty, the Faculty of Psychology, the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Faculty of computer science, the physical faculty, chemical Faculty, the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Law and the sociological faculty.

Graduates

Significant graduates of the University are:

  • Viktor Ambarzumjan (1908-1996), Armenian astrophysicist
  • Wilhelm Barthold (1869-1930), Russian historian and turkologist
  • Casimir Buga (1879-1924), Lithuanian linguist
  • Pavel Durov ( born 1984 ), entrepreneur and founder of vk.com
  • Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), Russian politician
  • Igor Diakonow (1914-1999), Russian linguist
  • Vasily Dokuchaev (1846-1903), Russian geologist
  • Ivane Javakhishvili (1876-1940), Georgian historian
  • Dymschitz Alexander (1910-1975), Soviet literary scholar
  • Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959), Russian literary scholar
  • Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Swiss mathematician
  • Vladimir Fock (1898-1974), Russian physicist
  • George Gamow (1904-1968), Russian physicist
  • Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian writer
  • Dalia Grybauskaite (* 1956), Lithuanian President
  • Lev Gumilev (1912-1992), Russian historian
  • Dmitry Ivanovsky (1864-1920), Russian virologist
  • Kerstin Kaiser ( * 1961), German politician
  • Leonid Kantorovich (1912-1986), a Soviet economist, Nobel Prize in Economics (1975 )
  • Wladimir Peter Köppen (1846-1940), German geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
  • Qanats Kurdo (1909-1985), Kurdish linguist
  • Lev Landau (1908-1968), Russian physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics (1962 )
  • Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), Soviet politician
  • Wassily Leontief (1905-1999), Russian economist
  • Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999), Russian philologist
  • Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian poet
  • Alexandr Lyapunov (1857-1918), Russian mathematician and physicist
  • Yuri Matijassewitsch (* 1947), Russian mathematician and computer scientist
  • Dmitry Medvedev (born 1965 ), Russian politician
  • Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist
  • Nikoloz Muschelischwili (1891-1976), Georgian mathematician
  • Grigori Perelman (born 1966 ), Russian mathematician
  • Vladimir Putin (* 1952), Russian politician
  • Nikolai Semyonov (1896-1986), Russian physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1956 )
  • Fyodor Schtscherbatskoi, (1866-1942), Russian Indologist
  • Sergei Sobolev (1908-1989), Russian mathematician
  • Władysław Takliński (1875-1940), Polish physicist
  • Ilia Chavchavadze (1837-1907), Georgian poet and journalist
  • Sergei Winogradski (1856-1953), Russian microbiologist
  • Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), Russian geologist
  • Mikhail Vrubel (1856-1910), Russian painter

Cooperation

The State University of Saint Petersburg has the following partner universities

  • University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
  • University of Greifswald, Germany
  • University of Paderborn, Germany
  • University of Passau, Germany
  • University of Potsdam, Germany
  • European University Viadrina Frankfurt ( Oder), Germany
  • University Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II, France
  • Ching Yun University, Taiwan
  • University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • WU Vienna, Austria
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