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Saint Petersburg State University

Russian federal state-owned higher education institution

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API endpoint URL	https://idp.spbu.ru/idp/shibboleth protocol: Shibboleth
archives at	Q134606105 inventory number: Ф. 14 Central State Archives of St. Petersburg inventory number: Ф. Р-7240
award received	Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Lenin Stalin Prize Order of the Polar Star Friendship Order
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Saint Petersburg State University alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Commons category	Saint Petersburg State University
coordinate location	59.9419, 30.2989
count of students	26,000
country	Russia Soviet Union Russian Empire
described by source	Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary statement is subject of: Q24497550 Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary statement is subject of: Q24740575 Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary statement is subject of: Q111311903
different from	Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University Imperial Academy of Arts Repin Institute of Arts Herzen University Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology Saint Petersburg Mining University
field of work	higher education
founder	Peter the Great
has part(s)	Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Oriental Studies of the St. Petersburg University School of Journalism & Mass Communication Saint Petersburg State Institute of History Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty, St. Petersburg State University School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management, Saint Petersburg State University Geological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University The Faculty of Geography and Geoecology Faculty of Applied Mathematics - Control Processes, St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty of Sociology of St Petersburg University Faculty of Physics, State University of Saint Petersbourg Faculty of Philology of Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Philosophy at Saint Petersburg State University Institute of Chemistry of Saint Petersburg State University Economics Faculty of Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University Q135063530
headquarters location	Saint Petersburg country: Russia; located in the administrative territorial entity: Saint Petersburg; postal code: 199034; coordinate location: 59.9420, 30.2990; located on street: Universitetskaya Embankment; house number: 7-9
image	Spb 06-2012 University Embankment 06.jpg media legend: Vue partielle des Douze Collèges. (fr) Matmex SPbGU.JPG Himfak SPbGU.JPG Faculty of Journalism.jpg Philological Faculty of University SPB.jpg
inception	8 February 1724 identity of subject in context: Academic University at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences 20 February 1819 22 January 1724 reason for preferred rank: official website
instance of	public university open-access publisher
IPv4 routing prefix	195.70.193.0/24 77.234.199.0/24
located in the administrative territorial entity	Saint Petersburg Vasileostrovsky District Municipal Okrug #7
located on street	Universitetskaya Embankment
location	Twelve Collegia Vasilyevsky Island
member of	BRICS Universities League
motto text	Hic tuta perennat (la) Здесь в безопасности пребывает (ru)
named after	Andrei Zhdanov start time: October 1948; end time: January 1989 Andrei Bubnov start time: 1933; end time: 1937 Saint Petersburg
native label	Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (ru)
official name	Императорский Санкт-Петербургский университет (ru) start time: 1821; end time: 1914; used by: Imperial St. Petersburg University Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет» (ru) start time: 1991 Императорский Петроградский университет (ru) start time: 1914; end time: February 1917 Петроградский университет (ru) start time: February 1917; end time: June 1918 Первый Петроградский университет (ru) start time: June 1918; end time: October 1919 Петроградский университет (ru) start time: October 1919; end time: January 1921 Петроградский государственный университет (ru) start time: January 1921; end time: January 1924 Ленинградский государственный университет (ru) start time: January 1924; end time: April 1933 Ленинградский государственный университет имени А. С. Бубнова (ru) start time: April 1933; end time: October 1937 Ленинградский государственный университет (ru) start time: October 1937; end time: February 1944 Ленинградский ордена Ленина государственный университет (ru) start time: February 1944; end time: October 1948 Ленинградский ордена Ленина государственный университет имени А. А. Жданова (ru) start time: October 1948; end time: 1969 Ленинградский ордена Ленина и ордена Трудового Красного Знамени государственный университет имени А. А. Жданова (ru) start time: 1969; end time: January 1989 Ленинградский ордена Ленина и ордена Трудового Красного Знамени государственный университет (ru) start time: January 1989; end time: 1991 Санкт-Петербурзький Імператорський університет (uk) start time: 1821; end time: 1914 Імператарскі Санкт-Пецярбургскі ўніверсітэт (be) start time: 1821; end time: 1914 Ленінградскі ордэна Леніна дзяржаўны ўніверсітэт імя А. А. Жданава (be) start time: 1 October 1948; end time: 1969 Leningrádi Állami Egyetem (hu) start time: 1921; end time: 1948 Zsdanov Állami Egyetem (hu) start time: 1948; end time: 1991 Ленінградскі дзяржаўны ўніверсітэт (be) start time: January 1924; end time: April 1933 Leninqrad Dövlət Universiteti (az) start time: January 1924; end time: 1991 Sankt-Peterburq Dövlət Universiteti (az) start time: 1991 Petroqrad Dövlət Universiteti (az) start time: January 1921; end time: January 1924 Petroqrad Universiteti (az) start time: October 1919; end time: January 1921 Birinci Petroqrad Universiteti (az) start time: June 1918; end time: October 1919 Petroqrad Universiteti (az) start time: February 1917; end time: June 1918 Petroqrad İmperator Universiteti (az) start time: 1914; end time: February 1917 Sankt-Peterburq İmperator Universiteti (az) start time: 1821; end time: 1914 Ленінградський державний університет (uk) start time: October 1937; end time: 1991 Ленінградський державний університет (uk) start time: 1924; end time: 1933 אקדמיה למדעים של סנקט פטרבורג (he) start time: 24 January 1724; end time: 1803
official website	http://www.spbu.ru/ language of work or name: Russian http://english.spbu.ru/ language of work or name: English http://chinese.spbu.ru/ language of work or name: Chinese
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time: 31 October 2022 Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
parent organization or unit	Government of Russia
ranking	242 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022 315 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2024 270 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2023 253 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012 240 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014 233 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015 256 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016 258 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017 240 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018 235 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019 234 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020 225 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021 365 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2025 375 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2026
rector	Emil Lenz Karl Fedorovich Kessler start time: 1867; end time: 1873 Andrey Beketov start time: 1876; end time: 1883 V. Sergeevich Aleksandr Zhdanov Ivan Borgman start time: 1905 Vladimir Shimkevich start time: September 1919; end time: May 1922 N. S. Derzhavin start time: 1922; end time: 1925 Alexander Voznesensky start time: 1940; end time: 1947 Aleksandr Aleksandrov start time: April 1952; end time: October 1964 Valentin Aleskovsky Lyudmila Verbitskaya start time: April 1994; end time: 2008 Nikolay Kropachev start time: 21 May 2008
replaces	Imperial St. Petersburg University
said to be the same as	Imperial St. Petersburg University
short name	СПбГУ (ru) start time: 1991 ЛГУ (ru) start time: 1924; end time: 1991 ЛДУ (be) start time: 1924; end time: 1991
social media followers	4,882 point in time: 4 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 213250415 21,200 point in time: 1 February 2025; YouTube channel ID: UCvwsZFBgcmSuTgRcRocWFhg
topic's main category	Category:Saint Petersburg State University

Identifiers in other databases

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article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Online	sankt-peterburgo-universitetas
ARWU university ID	Saint-Petersburg-State-University
BabelNet ID	03495134n
BHCL UUID	f434034e-3ca3-447e-919d-0127109ad707
BIBSYS ID	1542227327511 90966728
CiNii Research ID	1140000791647647616 subject named as: Sankt-Peterburgskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet
Dissernet institution ID	sankt_peterburgskiy_gosudarstvennyy_universitet
DOI prefix	10.21638 10.18199 subject named as: St. Petersburg State University
Dzen ID	spbu
ELMCIP ID	10849
ELNET ID	a11380093
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)	Vi2oL subject named as: 圣彼得堡大学; last update: 2 March 2024
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)	137301
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID	topic/Saint-Petersburg-State-University subject named as: Saint Petersburg State University
Facebook username	SaintPetersburgStateUniversity
FactGrid item ID	Q538689
FES digital collections entity ID	367922
Freebase ID	/m/02_jjm
GND ID	5114370-7
Google Maps Customer ID	12054677609849111103
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)	3533032 subject named as: САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ
GRID ID	grid.15447.33
Habr company ID	spbu
HAL structure ID	318803
Harper's tag	university-of-saint-petersburg
IdRef ID	233607994
Instagram username	spb_university
ISNI	0000000122896897
J9U entity ID	987009348977305171
Japan Search name ID	サンクトペテルブルク大学
Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID	5114370-7
Libraries Australia ID	49285711
Library of Congress Authorities ID	no92026966
LittleSis organization ID	95152 260202
Medvik ID	kn20020321798
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	172901346
NACSIS-CAT author ID	DA1304835X
National Library of Latvia ID	000035518
National Library of Lithuania ID	LNB:V*13447;=BF
NL CR AUT ID	kn20020321798 subject named as: Sankt-Peterburgskij gosudarstvennyj universitet ko2003164964 subject named as: Leningradskij gosudarstvennyj universitet
NSK (VIAF) ID	000051005
NSK ID	981005678758109366
NUKAT ID	n00073235
Odnoklassniki ID	group/52456865595587 community/6095700118
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100004285
OpenAlex ID	P4310312746 subject named as: Saint Petersburg State University
OpenSanctions ID	NK-RUcSHFbZD3X8A5WRQGms4v
OverDrive publisher ID	%D0%A1%D0%9F%D0%B1%D0%93%D0%A3
QS World University ID	saint-petersburg-state-university
Quora topic ID	Saint-Petersburg-State-University СПбГУ-Saint-Petersburg-State-University
RERO ID (legacy)	A000193503
Ringgold ID	48544 subject named as: Sankt-Peterburgskij gosudarstvennyj universitet
ROR ID	023znxa73
Russian organisation number	1037800006089
Rutube channel ID	24725063
SNARC ID	Q74388
Telegram username	spbuniversity language of work or name: Russian; subject named as: Ландау позвонит spbuniversity1724 language of work or name: Russian; subject named as: Что там в СПбГУ
Times Higher Education World University ID	saint-petersburg-state-university
UK Parliament thesaurus ID	434633 subject named as: St Petersburg University
VIAF cluster ID	11145003631561340450
VK username	spb1724
WorldCat Entities ID	E39QQPVp7MkpgXpdgdyRbqRTTR E39QH7JmmJWxpwDGwMfchYcjxt
X (Twitter) username	spb_university start time: 8 November 2010; point in time: 31 March 2020; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 213250415
YouTube channel ID	UCvwsZFBgcmSuTgRcRocWFhg start time: 20 September 2011; point in time: 19 January 2025; subject named as: СПбГУ; number of works: 632; number of subscribers: 21,200; number of viewers/listeners: 1,003,609
‎Scilit organization ID	1020
‎Yale LUX ID	place/06894ce8-4b52-46c8-b95f-53f00cfd1cdb

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