EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
St. Petersburg, Russia

Founding Date:
28-Jan-1724

Official Website:
http://www.spbu.ru/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexander Blok	Poet	16-Nov-1880	7-Aug-1921	Russian Silver Age poet
Joseph Conrad	Author	3-Dec-1857	3-Aug-1924	Heart of Darkness
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich	Mathematician	19-Jan-1912	7-Apr-1986	Linear programming
Alexander Kerensky	Government	22-Apr-1881	11-Jun-1970	Head of pre-Bolshevik Russian government
Nikolai Krylenko	Government	2-May-1885	29-Jul-1938	Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge
Lev Landau	Physicist	22-Jan-1908	1-Apr-1968	Superfluidity of helium
Vladimir Lenin	Head of State	22-Apr-1870	21-Jan-1924	Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union
Osip Mandelshtam	Poet	1891	27-Dec-1938	Acmeist Russian poet
Dmitri A. Medvedev	Head of State	14-Sep-1965		President of Russia, 2008-12
Dmitri Mendeleev	Chemist	8-Feb-1834	2-Feb-1907	Periodic Table of the Elements
Ivan Pavlov	Scientist	14-Sep-1849	27-Feb-1936	Conditioned reflexes
Aleksandr M. Prokhorov	Physicist	11-Jul-1916	8-Jan-2002	Invention of the maser and laser
Vladimir Putin	Head of State	7-Oct-1952		President of Russia
Nikolay Semyonov	Chemist	15-Apr-1896	25-Sep-1986	Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Barbara Slavin	Journalist	1951		Sr. Diplomatic Reporter, USA Today
Ivan Turgenev	Author	9-Nov-1818	3-Sep-1883	Fathers and Sons
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Daniel Bernoulli	Mathematician	8-Feb-1700	27-Mar-1782	Fluid dynamics
Leonhard Euler	Mathematician	15-Apr-1707	18-Sep-1783	The Elements of Euclid
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich	Mathematician	19-Jan-1912	7-Apr-1986	Linear programming
Mikhail Lomonosov	Poet	19-Nov-1711	15-Apr-1765	Early father of Russian poetry
Ilya Mechnikov	Scientist	16-May-1845	16-Jul-1916	Researched the immune system
Ivan Pavlov	Scientist	14-Sep-1849	27-Feb-1936	Conditioned reflexes

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mikhail Lomonosov	Poet	19-Nov-1711	15-Apr-1765	Early father of Russian poetry

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