St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University

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St. Petersburg
State
Polytechnic
University
English
8 grade

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Brief information
A relatively large educational institution is the St. Petersburg State
Polytechnic University. It has more than 30,000 students enrolled in
406 bachelor's and master's degree programs. The University offers
lecture courses in engineering, economics and management.
St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University ranks 47th in the ranking
of universities in the BRICS countries. He received high marks for the
ratio of teachers to students and for the percentage of employees
with the title of Doctor of Philosophy. The university boasts a large
number of foreign applicants.

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Location
Peter
the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the
.
main building, is located in Russia, in the city of St. Petersburg
on 29 Polytechnic Street, and so, there are only 98 branches in
St. Petersburg.

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Full name and time of
foundation
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU, full name
— Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher
Education "Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University",
unofficial name - Polytech) is a higher educational institution in St.
Petersburg. It was founded in 1899.

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History
St. Petersburg Polytechnic University named after Peter the Great is an
outstanding architectural structure, not inferior, perhaps, in its beauty to some
manors and palaces of St. Petersburg. The creation of polytechnic universities in
Russia is one of the achievements of the "Witte times". The style of performance
is neoclassicism .The initiator of its creation was the Minister of Finance S. Y.
Witte, his deputy V. I. Kovalevsky and scientist D. I. Mendeleev.The purpose of
creating such an educational institution was the need for "a form of polytechnic
institutes that would contain various departments of human knowledge, but
would have an organization not of technical schools, but of universities, that is,
an organization that is most capable of developing young people, giving them
universal knowledge."Initially, it was intended for the reproduction of the
managerial, economic, scientific and technical elite. Classes officially began on
October 2, 1902.

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Interesting facts about Spbgpu
● On the territory of the Institute is the Church of the Intercession of
the Most Holy Theotokos.
● The teaching staff of the university includes 60 well-known Russian
scientists, academicians, doctors and figures of science and culture,
including V.I. Gessen.
● Of the graduates, 142 are well-known Russian scientists, cultural
figures, and politicians. Including P.L. Kapitsa (founder of MIPT, a
prominent scientist), A.V. Venediktov (winner of several USSR
prizes), K.V. Rusakov (Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee).