ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is situated in the city of St. Petersburg, occupies a group of early 18th-century buildings on the Neva embankment of Vasilievskiy Island.
St.Petersburg State University is the oldest university in Russia, founded by a decree of Peter the Great together with the Academic Gymnasium and Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on January 24, 1724.
In the course of almost three centuries of its existence, the University has acquired a wealth of experience in international co-operation in the spheres of science, education and culture. It now has about 100 direct agreements of co-operation with universities in 50 countries of the world.
St.Petersburg State University can justly be regarded as an international seat of learning, with as many as 1500 undergraduate and postgraduate students from Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia taking a course of study here every year.
One of the University’s important characteristics is the functioning of 11 research institutes as its structural units alongside the 19 faculties, which enables the staff and students to combine the teaching-learning process with fundamental research both in the sciences and humanities. University students, Russian and foreign, are free to choose of study as well as take additional courses if they so wish.
The university curricula take into account the latest scientific developments and are based on the profound knowledge and teaching experience of generations of academics and educationists.
Saint-Petersburg State University currently has an enrollment of more than 32,000 undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Every year about 4500 foreign students from more than 90 countries of the world participate in various academic programs. The university offers education in 71 fields of study. It has 31 programs of professional higher education and 22 areas of study for graduate students. There are 19 major faculties, a Department of Military Training, and a Department of Physical Education and Sports.
As of 2004, the university has a teaching staff of 4,055, and counts seven Nobel Prizes winners among its graduates. It is made up of 19 specialized faculties (departments), which are:
· Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Control Processes
· Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies
· Faculty of Chemistry
· Faculty of Economics
· Faculty of Geography and Geoecology
· Faculty of Geology
· Faculty of History
· Faculty of International Relations
· Faculty of Journalism
· Faculty of Law
· Faculty of Management
· Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
· Faculty of Medicine
· Faculty of Oriental Studies
· Faculty of Philology and Arts
· Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science
· Faculty of Physics
· Faculty of Psychology
· Faculty of Sociology
· Faculty of Military Studies
· Chair of Physical Culture and Sports
Research Institutes:
· Astronomy
· Biology
· Complex Social Researches
· Computing Mathematics & Control Processes
· Chemistry
· The Earth's Crust
· Geography
· Information Technologies
· Mathematics & Mechanics
· Physics
· Physiology
· Radio physics
Research Institute of Computational Mathematics & Control Processes
Fields of scientific activity: Methods of Numerical Analysis; Mechanics of Controlled Systems; Continua Mechanics; Theory of Controlling Mechanisms.
Director — Dr. Dmitry A. Ovsiannikov, Professor of Physics & Mathematicstel.: +7 812 428-7179, 428-4235fax +7 812 428-7189e-mail: chitrow@apmath.spbu.ruhttp://vmpu.spbu.ru/index_en.html
Research Institute of Biology
Fields of scientific activity: Genetics; Plant Physiology & Biochemistry; Vertebrate Zoology; Enthomology; Embryology; Ichtyology & Hydrobiology; Cytology & Histology; Invertebrate Zoology; Botanics; Microbiology; Geobotany & Ecology; Soil Geography; Agricultural Chemistry.
Director — Dr. Dmitry V. Osipov, Professor of Biology2, Oranienbaumskoye shossePetrodvorets, St.Petersburg, 198504tel.: +7 812 427 5451, 427 7132fax: +7 812 427 7310, 428 7733e-mail: adm@paloma.spbu.ru
The Academician A.A.Ukhtomsky Research Institute of Physiology
Fields of scientific activity: Physiology of Nervous System; Evolutionary Physiology; Physiology of Secretory Processes; Neuro-muscle Physiology; Developmental Neurobiology; Psychological Physiology; Physiology of Sensomotoric Systems; Structural & Functional Adaptations; Physiology & Molecular Immunology; Intracellular Regulation; General Biochemistry; Biochemistry of Nervous System & Metabolic Processes; Protein Chemistry; Enzymology.
Director — Dr. Igor E. Kanunikov, Ph.D. (Biology)tel.:+7 812 328 3721, 323 4690fax +7 812 323 2454e-mail: igorkan@mail.ruwww.fnii.pu.ru
Research Institute of Chemistry
Fields of scientific activity: Analytical Chemistry; Chemistry of Natural Compounds; Colloid Chemistry; Electrochemistry; Inorganic Chemistry Macromolecular compounds; Organic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Physical Organic Chemistry; Radiochemistry; Quantum Chemistry & Chemical Physics; Solid State Chemistry; Thermodynamic & Kinetics.
Director — Dr. Alexander B. Valiotti, Ph.D.(Chemistry)tel. +7 812 428-6739fax +7 812 428-6939e-mail: niichem@chem.spbu.ruhttp://www.chem.spbu.ru/general.html
Research Institute of laser technologies
Fields of scientific activity: The laser analyst & Spectroskopy; Optical crystals; Electrochemistry & Chemistry of Amorphic Substances.
Director — Dr.Yuri S. Tverianovich, Professor of Chemistry5, Ulyanovskaya ulitsa, Petrodvorets, St.Petersburg, 198504, Russiatel. 428-4480 fax 428-7479e-mail: info@home.rclph.spbu.ru
Research Institute of Geography
Field s of scientific activity: Society Geography & Regional Politics; Environmental Evolution; Landscape Research & Thematic Cartography; Geosystem Diagnostics & Modelling; Terrestrial Ecosystems; Regional Oceanology.
Director — Dr. Anatoly I. Chistobayev, Professor of GeographyTel. +7 812 328-6750, 328-7904Tel./Fax +7 812 328-7904e-mail: chisto@ms4426.spb.edu
The Levinson-Lessing Earth Crust Research Institute
Fields of scientific activity: Paleogeography, Paleontology; Carbonate Sedimentation; Lithology & Marine Geology, Ecological Geology; Physical & Chemical Methods for Mineral & Rock research; Hydrogeology; General geology; Soil Science & Civil Engineering; Petrology; Petrophysics & Mathematical Geology; Theoretical & Applied Mineralogy; Genetic Mineralogy & Geochemistry of Rare Elements; Crystallogeny; Simulation of Natural Crystallogenic Processes; Electromagnetic Methods of Earth Crust Studies; Geoelectrochemistry, Applied geophysics.
Director — Dr.Vitaly V. Kurilenko, Professor of Geology & Mineralogytel. +7 812 328-9466 e-mail: vvk@ecri.pu.ru
The Smirnov Research Institute of Mathematics & Mechanics
Fields of scientific activity: Applied Mechanics; Software Eng. & Expert Systems; Math. Methods of Continua Mechanics; Applied Software; Mechanics of Composites; Theoretical Cybernetics; Statistical Modeling Operations Research; Physical Mechanics; Gas Dynamics; Computation Methods; Problems of Informatics; System Software; Strength of Materials; Aerodynamics; Mathematical Linguistics.
Director — Dr. Gennady A. Leonov, Professor of Physics & Mathematicstel.+7 812 428-6998;fax +7 812 428-7039e-mail: admin@math.spbu.ruhttp://niimm.spbu.ru/tambur_eng.htm
Research Institute of Physics
Fields of scientific activity: Atmospheric Physics; Optics and Spectroscopy; Nuclear Physics; Molecular Spectroscopy; Solid State Electronics; Chemical Physics; Polymer Physics; Photonics; Solid State Physics; Theoretical Physics; Mathematical & Computational Physics; Molecular Optics & Biophysics; Earth Physics; Quantum Magnetism; Quantum Electronics; Theory of Complex Systems; Dynamics of Elastic Media.
Director — Dr.Yevgeni I. Riumtsev, Professor of Physics & Mathematics1-1, Ulyanovskaya ulitsa, Petrodvorets, St.Petersburg 198504, Russiatel.: 428-7220, 428-4501fax 428-7240e-mail: apver@paloma.spbu.ruhttp://www.niif.spbu.ru/index_en.html
Research Institute of Radiophysics
Fields of scientific activity: LF Radio Waves Propagation in the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide; Cosmic Radio Radiation; Radiogeophysics; Electromagnetic Waves Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media; Physical Background of Radionavigation; Electrohydrodynamics of Dielectrics; Electrodynamics of Nonstationary Nonlinear Media; EHF Electronics.
Director — Dr. Oleg V. Soloviev, Professor of Physics & Mathematics1-1, Ulyanovskaya ulitsa, Petrodvorets, St.Petersburg, 198504, Russiatel./fax +7 812 428-7289e-mail: agpro@agp.ksiri.pu.ru, Yulia.Afanasyeva@paloma.spbu.ruhttp://niirf.spbu.ru
Research Centers:
Training and research laboratory of Ecological Modelling
Laboratory for training in Meteorology
Sablino training and research station
Kusnechnoe training and research base
Training laboratory for computer literacy
Laboratory for stone cutting and lapidary work
The Crimean training and research facility
Centre of ancient studies
European council information and documentation regional center
European Union documentation center
United nations room
Mass Media Centre of the faculty of journalism
Centre for additional study programmes
Information analytic centre
Management and institutional studies
Management Consulting
Public Administration studies
Centre of African studies
Centre of Korean language and culture
St. Petersburg Chinese language centre
Advanced teaching technologies
American and British studies
Fedorov centre for translation studies
International readers'association programme
Italian language and culture
Philological faculty for graduates from other disciplines
Portugeuse and brazilian studies
Medieval philosophy and culture studies
Administrative and political innovations
Cultural studies
The Bible and hebraistic studies
Studying current politics
Political management
Empiric political studies
Yaninino training and research station
Laboratory of political psychology
Laboratory for computer-aided teaching
Laboratory for experimental and applied psychology
Training laboratory for psychophysiology
The M.M. Kovalevsky sociologists'society
Centre of sociological studies
Russian-german centre of social sciences
Centre of sociological research
Centre for monitoring of social processes
Resource centre for social and humanitary studies
The following is list of only some of notable alumni and faculty of St. Petersburg State University:
Kazimieras Būga – Lithuanian linguist and philologist
Pafnuty Chebyshev – Russian mathematician
Leonhard Euler – Swiss mathematician and physicist
Vladimir Fock – Soviet physicist
George Gamow – Russian cosmologist
Nikolai Gogol – Ukrainian writer of Russian literature
Mikhail Gromov – Russian mathematician
Lev Gumilev – Russian historian
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov – Russian mathematician
Dmitry Ivanovsky – Russian biologist
Leonid Kantorovich – Economist; Nobel laureate in Economics in 1975
Vladimir Köppen – Geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
Lev Landau – Physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics in 1962
Alexander Kerensky – Second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government
Vladimir Lenin – philosopher, ideologist; the first head of the Russian SFSR
Wassily Leontief – Economist; Nobel laureate in Economics in 1973
Dmitry Likhachev – Russian scholar
Yuri Linnik – Mathematician
Mikhail Lomonosov – Russian scientist, writer and polymath
Vladimir Lossky – Eastern Orthodox theologian
Aleksandr Lyapunov – Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist
Andrey Markov – Russian mathematician
Nikolay Marr – Historian and linguist
Dmitry Medvedev – politician, businessman, lawyer, the President of Russia (2008 - …)
Dmitri Mendeleev – Chemist; creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements
Sergey Oldenburg – Russian orientalist
Ivan Pavlov – Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1904
Grigori Perelman – Russian mathematician
Vladas Petronaitis – Lithuanian patriot, soldier and martyr
Boris B. Piotrovsky – Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist
Sergey Platonov – Russian historian
Vladimir Putin – the President of Russia (2000-2008)
Ayn Rand – Russian-born American novelist and philosopher
Vladimir Rokhlin – Mathematician
Ivan Sechenov – Russian physiologist
Nikolai Semenov – Physicist and Chemist
Fyodor Shcherbatskoy – Russian Indologist
Antanas Smetona – President of Lithuania
Anatoly Sobchak – Russian politician and a co-author of the Constitution of the Russian Federation Pitirim Sorokin – Sociologist
Igor Stravinsky – Composer
Max Vasmer – German linguist
Vladimir Vernadsky – Russian mineralogist and geochemist
Augustinas Voldemaras – President of Lithuania
Georgy Voronoy – Russian mathematician
Sergei Winogradsky – Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist
Information was taken from the official site of ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSTY: http://www.spbu.ru/e/
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