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24 unusual facts about Saint Petersburg State University


Alesya Alexandrova

Alexandrova was born in Volgograd, Russia where she graduated with her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Economics and Finances.

Alexander Blok

Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg State University.

Alexei Kudrin

Currently, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences in St. Petersburg State University.

Anatoly Vershik

Vershik studied at Leningrad State University, receiving his doctoral degree in 1974; his advisor was Vladimir Rokhlin.

Assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev

Based on these torture allegations and the fact that the two officers were arrested within an extraterritorial compound belonging to the Russian Embassy (i.e. effectively on Russian soil), Russia demanded the immediate release of its citizens; they were represented by the attorney of the law firm founded by Nikolai Yegorov, a friend and fellow student of Vladimir Putin at Leningrad State University.

Boris Tsirelson

He obtained his Master of Science from the University of Leningrad and remained there to pursue graduate studies.

Cancerquest

Through partnerships with St. Petersburg State University, Russia, University of Siena, Italy, Peking University, China, China Medical University, Taiwan and volunteers in the U.S. the website is available in English, Russian, Italian, Chinese and Spanish.

Cecil Hoare

Aged 20, he entered Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, in the Section of Biology, specializing in zoology from his second year.

Grigory Danilevsky

Born into the family of an impoverished landowner, Petr Ivanovich Danilevsky, in the Izyumsky district of Sloboda Ukraine, Grigory was educated in the Moscow Dvoryansky institut (Institute of the Nobility) from 1841 to 1846, then studied law at Saint Petersburg University.

Jüri Talvet

Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from the University of Tartu in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.

Kerovbe Patkanian

Kerovbe Patkanian (Քերովբե Պատկանյան; 1833–1889) was an Armenian linguist, the Professor of Armenian Studies at the St. Petersburg University.

Kerstin Kaiser

Following her studies of Russian at the Leningrad University (now the Saint Petersburg State University), she worked as a teacher at the party school of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) (Parteischule beim ZK der SED "Karl Liebknecht").

Liodor Palmin

In 1856, after his father's death, Liodor Palmin enrolled into the 3rd Saint Petersburgh gymnasium and, upon the graduation, joined the law faculty of the Saint Petersburgh University.

Municipal Okrug 7

The majority of the tourist sights, such as the Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg State University, Imperial Academy of Arts, and the Menshikov Palace are located there.

Nikolai Radin

He finished a Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University (1900), but interested in theater and began to participate in performances.

Samson Kutateladze

His father, Semen Samsonovich, had been a nobleman; he was before the Great October Revolution a student at Petrograd University and then an army officer.

Sergei Yursky

He studied at the Faculty of Law of A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University.

Tamar Gozansky

Born in Petah Tikva during the Mandate era to a Russian Jewish family, Gozansky studied in Russia, gaining an MSc in Economics from Leningrad State University.

Tatyana Apraksina

In 1998, in the building of the Twelve Collegia, Saint Petersburg State University's Center for Contemporary Art held a retrospective exhibit drawn from Apraksina's body of work in parallel with her "March Solo" festival, organized in partnership with the Center for Cultural Studies at the university's department of philosophy.

Valeriu Saharneanu

He attended the Moldova State University (1970–1975) and the Faculty of Journalism of the Saint Petersburg State University (1987–1989).

Vladimir Lichutin

In 1960 Lichutin graduated from the local timber-processing industrial secondary school and enrolled into the Leningrad University's faculty of journalism.

Vladimir V. Tchernavin

In the period from 1912-1917 Tchernavin studied at St. Petersburg University but his studies were interrupted by the war and the October Revolution.

Yuri Burago

Burago studied at Leningrad University, where he obtained his Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees.

Yuri Shaporin

He went on to study law at the Saint Petersburg University.


Alberto Martinelli

He also taught Sociology at Bocconi University of Milan and Political Science and Sociology in various foreign universities, among which the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, University of Valencia, Ain Shams University in Cairo and the Saint Petersburg State University.

Alexander Vovin

Alexander Vovin earned his M.A. in structural and applied linguistics from the Saint Petersburg State University in 1983, and his Ph.D. in historical Japanese linguistics and premodern Japanese literature from the same university in 1987, with a doctoral dissertation on the Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (ca. 1056).

Andrey Yuryevich Tatarinov

December 4 after the polls closed on election to the State Duma art community organized on the Blue Bridge Saint Isaac's Square street theater performance "Antibes", based on the novel "The Possessed" by Dostoyevsky and supported by Sergei Bugaev Afrika and the Faculty of Arts of Saint Petersburg State University (Dean — Valery Gergiev).