Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

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Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого
Russian Federation
CampusUrban, city center, 102 hectares
ColoursGreen/Golden
NicknamePolytech
MascotTwo-Headed Eagle
Websitewww.spbstu.ru
University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[2]46 (2022)

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU, is a

Center for World University Rankings.[4][5][6]

History

Imperial Russia

Main Building, 1902

Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute was founded in 1899 as an engineering school in Russia. The main person promoting the creation of this university was the Finance Minister Count

École Polytechnique as an important step towards the industrialization of Russia.[citation needed
]

The first director of the institute became Prince Andrey Gagarin. Unlike the French École Polytechnique, the Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute was always considered to be a civilian establishment. In tsarist Russia it was subordinated to the Ministry of Finance; its students and faculty wore the uniform of the ministry.[citation needed]

An auditorium of the new institute, 1902

The main campus was built on the rural lands beyond the dacha settlement Lesnoye. The location was intended to provide some separation between the campus and the capital city of Saint Petersburg. The institute was opened to students on October 1, 1902. Originally there were four departments: Economics, Shipbuilding, Electro-mechanics and Metallurgy.[citation needed]

Its work was interrupted by the

Peter I of Russia. In 1914 the number of students reached 6,000.[citation needed
]

Ioffe's physics seminar at the Polytechnic Institute, among the people in the picture: Yakov Frenkel sits first on the left, next to him Nikolay Semyonov, Abram Ioffe sits in the center, Pyotr Kapitsa is on the left

With the onset of World War I many students found themselves in the Army and soon the number of students decreased to 3,000. Some students, like future Soviet military commander Leonid Govorov studied at the institute for one month. Part of the institute's buildings were transferred into the Maria Fyodorovna Hospital. Despite the war the institute did not stop its work.[citation needed]

In 1916

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute.[citation needed
]

Revolution

Stalin Prize and Lenin Prize awardee Abram Ioffe

On June 5, 1918 the institute was renamed to First Polytechnic Institute (with the Second Polytechnic Institute being the former Women's Polytechnic Institute). In November 1918

Sovnarkom abolished all forms of scientific decrees, licenses and certifications. There remained only two positions for the faculty: Professor (that required three years of engineering experience) and instructor (with no formal requirements at all). Departments were renamed Faculties (факультеты), and the director became rector. A Soviet (Council) of 11 professors and 15 students was given the main authority in the Institute. One of these 15 students in the Soviet was Pyotr Kapitsa, a future Nobel-prize winner in physics. The Faculty of Physics and Mechanics, headed at that time by Abram Ioffe, focused on atomic and the solid state physics.[citation needed
]

In winter of 1918/1919 there were

Yudenich army. The Institute itself was encircled by stanchions and barbed wire and transformed into a Red Army fortification. After December 1919 the Institute was completely empty.[citation needed
]

Soviet era

The Institute started working again in April 1920 when it became a part of the planning team for the

electronic musical instruments. His first demonstration of the theremin was held in Polytechnic Institute on November 1920.[citation needed
]

After the end of the

Sovnarkom re-established the title Engineer and allowed "children of working intelligentsia" to enter the tertiary schools; prior to this only workers and children of workers were allowed. The number of students enrolled at the Polytechnic Institute reached the 1914 level of 6,000. By 1928 there were 8,000 students.[citation needed
]

In 1930,

Sovnarkom
decided to create a network of highly specialized Engineering schools. On June 30 Polytechnic Institute was closed and a number of independent institutes were created instead:

Soon another Institute of Military Mechanics forked from the Machine Building Institute.[citation needed]

In April 1934, most of these institutes were merged back into the Leningrad Industrial Institute. In November 1940, the Institute almost got its original name back. Now it was named the Kalinin Politechnical Institute (Leningradskij Politekhnicheskij Institut imeni Kalinina) after the President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mikhail Kalinin.

Study of the Ice Strength on the Road of Life by the Polytechnic Institute

With the onset of the

Kandidat (Ph.D) and Doctor of Science dissertations. Before the end of the siege the Polytechnic Institute evaluated 19 dissertations, many related to military defense.[citation needed
]

Zhores Alfyorov

In 1952, Radio-physics Department was created.[

Nobel prize in physics.[citation needed
]

Current status

In September 1991 Leningrad returned its historical name Saint Petersburg and the Institute was renamed St. Petersburg State Technical University (the word "Technical" was changed to "Polytechnic" in 2002). Finally, in 2015, the institute took its current name Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.[7]

During the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the University issued a public statement strongly supporting Russian actions, calling the assault a "denazification operation" and accusing Ukrainian leadership of endangering the security and existence of Russia and "all of humanity".[8][9] According to Andrey Rudskoy, head of the university, while scientific cooperation with Western universities had been developed over decades, after the invasion it was almost completely destroyed, with foreign universities halting their ties with the university.[10]

World ranking

Students

More than 30,000 students are enrolled in the university. International students countries of origin include US, UK, France, Germany, Finland, Sweden and most of the CIS state members.[citation needed]

Department enrollment

Proportion of student body enrolled in each department, where enrollment exceeds 10%:

  • Economics and Management – 23%
  • Energy, Power engineering and Electrical engineering – 17%
  • Metallurgy, Machinery and Materials processing – 10%[citation needed]

Campus

The campus consists of[11]

  • Buildings – 112; Students dormitories – 15 buildings
  • Students – 30,197 (including 2,916 foreign students)
  • Teaching staff – 3,300; University staff – 5,274

Structural units

Today the Polytechnic University includes 6 associated institutes outside Saint Petersburg in the cities of Pskov, Cheboksary, Cherepovets, Sosnovy Bor, Smolensk and Anadyr.[citation needed]

  • 21 faculties and institutes
  • Over 150 departments, 120 R&E laboratories, 26 research and educational centers
  • 3 branches and 6 representatives
  • St. Petersburg College of Information and Management[citation needed]

Alumni and faculty

The University has graduated over 150,000 students. Notable alumni and faculty include:

David Bronstein

Official names

The university has undergone several name changes throughout its existence. Detailed list of name changes is as following:

  • 1899–1910 – Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute (Санкт-Петербургский политехнический институт)
  • 1910–1914 – Saint Petersburg Peter the Great Polytechnic Institute (Санкт-Петербургский политехнический институт императора Петра Великого)
  • 1914–1922 – Petrograd Peter the Great Polytechnic Institute (Петроградский политехнический институт императора Петра Великого)
  • 1922–1923 – First Petrograd Polytechnic Institute (Первый Петроградский политехнический институт)
  • 1923–1924 – Petrograd Polytechnic Institute (Петроградский политехнический институт)
  • 1924–1930 – Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (Ленинградский политехнический институт)
  • 1930–1934 – Divided into various colleges and branches under a variety of names.
  • 1934–1940 – Leningrad Industrial Institute (Ленинградский индустриальный институт)
  • 1940–1990 – Leningrad Polytechnic Institute (Ленинградский политехнический институт)
  • 1990–1991 – Leningrad State Technical University (Ленинградский государственный технический университет)
  • 1991–2002 – Saint-Petersburg State Technical University (Санкт-Петербургский государственный технический университет)
  • 2002–2015 – Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Санкт-Петербургский государственный политехнический университет)
  • Since 2015 – Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого)[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b "Facts & Figures". English.spbstu.ru. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Institutes". Spbstu-eng.ru. Retrieved Jul 31, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University". Usnews.com.
  5. ^ a b "University Rankings and Student Reviews : Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)". Mastersportal.com. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Ranking 2019-2020". Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
  7. ^ Decision N 407 of the Russian Ministry for Education and Science (2017) Archived 2017-09-18 at the Wayback Machine: on the status of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (s. pages 4-6 in the file for chronology of renamings).
  8. ^ "Message from the Rector of SPbPU in connection with the situation in Ukraine". Spbstu.ru. Retrieved Mar 5, 2022.
  9. ^ "statement by the Rector of SPbPU in connection with the situation in Ukraine" (PDF). English.spbstu.ru. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Russian universities rapidly losing cooperation with West". University World News.
  11. ^ "Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого - Высшее образование в России". Spbstu.ru.
  12. ^ правды», Александр ГАМОВ, Андрей СЕДОВ, Максим ЧИЖИКОВ, Ольга ВАНДЫШЕВА, Александр ЗЮЗЯЕВ, Нигина БЕРОЕВА, Кирилл АНТОНОВ | Сайт «Комсомольской (Dec 22, 2006). "Наследником Туркменбаши может стать следователь московской прокуратуры". Kp.ru -. Retrieved Jul 31, 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ Исмаилов, Эльдар Эльхан оглы (2009). Персидские принцы из дома Каджаров в Российской империи. М.: Старая Басманная. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  14. ^ "Kirovs Lipmans". Latvian Sports (in Latvian). 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2021.

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