Saint Petersburg State University
St. Petersburg University is the oldest university in Russia. It was founded by Decree of Emperor Peter the Great. Today, St. Petersburg University is the only university in Russia that has marked its 290th anniversary. For almost three centuries of its history, St. Petersburg University has been home to thousands of prominent scientists, public, government and political figures, writers, artists, and musicians. Among them are Dmitri Mendeleev, Alexander Popov, Ivan Turgenev, Pyotr Stolypin, Ivan Pavlov, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Vasily Dokuchaev, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Glinka, Nicholas Roerich, Lev Landau, Leonid Kantorovich, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Medvedev to name just a few.
Among SPbU graduates are six prime ministers of the country and two presidents of the Russian Federation. Nine Nobel Prize winners have studied and worked at the university. The special status of St. Petersburg University is determined by the Federal Law "On the Lomonosov Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University". St. Petersburg State University has the right to conduct dissertation defense according to its own rules and to award academic degrees of Candidates and Doctors of science recognized by the state.
Contacts
- Address
- 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment, St Petersburg, Russia, 199034
- Phone
- +7 (812) 328-20-00,+7 (812) 328-95-39,+7 (812) 328-96-44,+7 (812) 328-94-31,+7 (812) 328-08-42,+7 (812) 328-57-73,+7 (812) 328-95-28, +7 (812) 324-07-78,+7 (812) 328-77-32,+7 (812) 324-07-46
- admission@spbu.ru
- Internet
- https://spbu.ru
- Social networks
Laboratories \ equipment supporting education
The Laboratory of Ultrahigh Energy Physics has been established and operates at St. Petersburg University, which conducts research in order to prepare and implement the ALICE projects at the Large Hadron Collider and experiments under the NICA projects at JINR. The following unique equipment and installations are used in the scientific process: test benches for mechanical testing of ultralight panels for cooling the outer layers of the VTS, equipment for working with silicon detectors, cryogenic vacuum equipment, gas supply systems for the cooling system of ultralight panels, compressor equipment.
In the educational process, an experimental stand is used to work with detection systems for the MPD and SPD experimental facilities at the NICA collider at JINR for conducting scientific research work of students, a computer scientific and educational GRID class for distant work with CERN and JINR databases for student learning.
Academic and research staff
The advanced training programmes for St. Petersburg University research and teaching staff are implemented in compliance with the ‘Regulations on advanced training of the employees of St. Petersburg University’ approved by Order No 791/1 dated 2 February 2021. The Regulations provide various forms of professional training, professional upskilling programs, conferences, internships, etc.
To meet the provisions, employees were periodically sent to the Rosatom Technical Academy.
Staff professional development and training in nuclear area
The advanced training programmes for St. Petersburg University research and teaching staff are implemented in compliance with the ‘Regulations on advanced training of the employees of St. Petersburg University’ approved by Order No 791/1 dated 2 February 2021. The Regulations provide various forms of professional training, professional upskilling programs, conferences, internships, etc.
To meet the provisions, employees were periodically sent to the Rosatom Technical Academy.
International projects in nuclear area
There are no ongoing international projects in the field of nuclear technology.
Outstanding Alumni
Throughout the rich history of the University graduates have become Nobel Prize laureates; ruled the country; headed ministries and departments; have become Olympic champions, poets, and discoverers. Among them are:
1. 8 Nobel Prize winners:
- Ivan Pavlov (Physiology and Medicine, 1904)
- Nikolay Semenov (Chemistry, 1956 (with Sir Cyril Hinshelwood))
- Lev Landau Physics, 1962
- Alexander Prokhorov Physics, 1964 (with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov)
- Wassily Leontief Economics, 1973
- Leonid Kantorovich Economics, 1975 (with Tjalling Charles Koopmans)
- Ilya Mechnikov Physiology and Medicine, 1908
- Joseph Brodsky Literature, 1987
2. World-renowned researchers:
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Andrey Beketov
- Vasily Dokuchaev
- Alexander Popov
- Kliment Timiryazev
- Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky
- Vladimir Fock
- Vasily Struve
- Sergei Zhebelev
- Nikolai Marr
- Boris Piotrovsky
- Mikhail Piotrovsky
- Viktor Ambartsumian
- Lyudmila Verbitskaya
- Mikhail Kovalchuk
- Vladimir Komarov
- Nikolai Nikandrov
- Grigori Perelman
- Stanislav Smirnov
- Dmitry Likhachev
- Vladimir Vernadsky
- Figures in arts
- Sergei Diaghilev
- Igor Stravinsky
- Boris Strugatsky
- Alexandre Benois
- Alexander Blok
- Olga Bergholz
- Nicholas Roerich
- Diana Arbenina
- Boris Grebenshchikov
- Mikhail Vrubel
- Vasily Polenov
- Ivan Bilibin
- Igor Grabar
- Ivan Turgenev
- Dmitry Merezhkovsky
- Fyodor Abramov
3. Entrepreneurs and public figures:
- Igor Sechin Konstantin
- Ernst Boris Kovalchuk
- Pavel Durov
- Andrey Murov
- Aleksei Feliksov
- Dmitry Baikov
4. International public figures:
- Jean-Claude Gakosso