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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'.
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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.
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As of
2004, the university has a teaching staff of 4,055, and counts seven
Nobel Prize winners among its graduates.
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.
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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