Imperial St. Petersburg University

Saint Petersburg Imperial University was a Russian higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg, one of the twelve Imperial universities of the Russian Empire. University names: Petersburg Pedagogical Institute (1804–14) Main Pedagogical Institute (1814–19) Saint Petersburg University (1819–21) Saint Petersburg Imperial University (1821–1914) Petrograd Imperial University (1914–18) Petrograd State University (1918–24) Leningrad State University (1924–91) Saint Petersburg State University (1991-) History Saint Petersburg University was founded in February 1819 as a result of the renaming and subsequent reorganization of the Main Pedagogical Institute. In the building of the Twelve Colleges, a solemn ceremony of "opening" the university took place. By this time in the building of the Twelve Colleges for more than 15 years, the Pedagogical Institute was located and operated with all its professors, students, ministers, cabinets and collections in terms of the level of education, but did not have the proper status. The number of the first students of the university was 90 people.