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University of St. Petersburg

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
St. Petersburg, Russia

Founding Date:
28-Jan-1724

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

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Mikhail Lomonosov
Poet
19-Nov-1711 15-Apr-1765 Early father of Russian poetry




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