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5 unusual facts about Herzen University


Herzen University

The foundling house was based in a unique architectural complex: the palaces of the earl Kirill Razumovsky and Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky on the Moyka in present-day Saint Petersburg.

Located in Saint Petersburg, it operates 20 faculties and more than 100 departments.

Ivan Betskoy

The Saint Petersburg Foundling House was a precursor of the modern Herzen University.

Marina Aleksandrova

Her father Andrei Pupenin served in Soviet army, located in Hungary, and her mother worked as a professor at the Herzen University.

Mikhail Kaneev

In 1961–1983 Kaneev taught at the Herzen Pedagogical University in Leningrad, where he was professor and a head of Drawing Department.



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