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  A Virtual Tour of St. Petersburg, Russia
Although not yet 300 years old, St. Petersburg is a city crammed with historical and cultural associations and a refined air of mystery.
Petersburg State University - The impressive red-and-white Twelve Colleges building was built in the 1740s and since the early 19th century has played host to one of the most prominent universities in Russia.
St Isaac's Cathedral - Built in the first half of the 19th century by the French architect Auguste Montferrand, this enormous cathedral features impressive solid granite columns, incredibly detailed mosaic icons, a magnificent gilded dome and the most impressive views of the city from its high colonnade.
www.saint-petersburg.com /virtual-tour/index.asp   (1316 words)

  
 Study Abroad Russia: St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University
In St. Petersburg, Shostakovich composed his first great symphony and Lenin began his political career when his brother was hanged by the czar.
Started as the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute in 1899, it became one of the major universities in Russia and later in the Soviet Union.
The University is a complex of modern lecture and study rooms and training and research laboratories equipped with technical and teaching aids as well as computers.
www.aifs.com /college/css/stpetersburg/location.htm   (349 words)

  
 ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION
St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television is the oldest higher learning school in Russia training specialists for cinematography and television.
This is one of the fundamental principles of education at St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television.
A universal integrodifferential criterion in the form of the multidimentional characteristic functional is developed for the expert estimation of image and sound quality.
www.ceebd.co.uk /ceeed/un/ru/ru543.htm   (1940 words)

  
 Center of Russian Language and Culture
The Center of Russian Language and Culture of St. Petersburg State University is one of the major centers of short-term study programs for international visitors to Russia.
Petersburg and its environs provide rich cultural material on which much of the Center's course materials are based.
Breathtakingly beautiful, historic St. Petersburg offers a wealth of possibilities for excursions and cultural activities, such as the Hermitage Museum, one of the largest and most prestigious art museums in the world and the Mariinsky Theatre, home of the renomned Kirov Ballet.
www.crlc.pu.ru   (637 words)

  
 St Petersburg State University - The "Twelve Colleges" Building
In 1835 the building (by that time standing empty) was given to St. Petersburg University and now serves as its main building.
One of the most prominent universities in Russia, it has received international recognition thanks to the chemist Dmitry I. Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table of Elements), the physicist Alexander S. Popov (who invented the radio simultaneously with Marconi) and many other major scholars.
Eight Nobel Prize winners are graduates of St. Petersburg State University (including the biologist Ivan Pavlov, the economist Vasily Leontiev and the poet Joseph Brodsky).
www.saint-petersburg.com /virtual-tour/state-university.asp   (251 words)

  
 THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST PETERSBURG - student
The partner universities are as follows: Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of Helsinki.
St Petersburg Government and City Legislative Assembly granted the University a lease on a building in the historical centre of the city and allocated recurrent funds for its maintenance.
The University is largely financed by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the International Higher Education Support Programme/Open Society Institute (The Soros Foundation).
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 Saint Petersburg State University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Petersburg State University (Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет) is one of the oldest Russian educational institutions, established in the city of Saint Petersburg on January 28, 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great.
In the period between 1803 and 1819 the University formally did not exist; the institution founded by Peter the Great - Saint Petersburg Academy - had already been disbanded, whereas the institution that was later used as basis for the Saint Petersburg University was still known as the Main Pedagogical Institute (Главный Педагогический Институт).
St Petersburg University occupies a group of early 18th-century buildings on the Neva embankment of Vasilievsky Island.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Petersburg_University   (250 words)

  
 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - ST. PETERSBURG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION
The Penn-Pavlov Agreement (dogovor) was established in 1992 between the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the St. Petersburg Medical Institute (the Pavlov).
Russia, St. Petersburg, and the Pavlov Medical University continue to deal with the problems of reorganization from a centrally managed government-run nation-wide network for health care to a more decentralized approach based to an ever greater degree on local determinants, market forces, and the emergence of a non-governmental insurance industry.
In 1993 the Pavlov established a "practice plan" called the "Delor Medical Center of the St. Petersburg Pavlov Medical University" ("delor" is an acronym from the Russian words for "délovaya organizátsia" = "business organization") Contracts are made with insurance companies, with enterprises which maintain their own employee health facilities, and with other outside agencies.
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 The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - University Heads See Hope In Falling Student Numbers
While the problems confronting higher education in St. Petersburg and Russia in general are described by many experts in the field as being daunting, some argue that universities can capitalize on the developing socio-demographic situation in the region.
Andrei Berezhnoi, a student at the St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University also said that the majority of his professors at the university are elderly.
A professor at the St. Petersburg-based Baltic State Technical University, who wished to remain anonymous, believes the problem does not concern all higher education institutions and that it is particularly acute in technical fields.
www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=17911   (600 words)

  
 St. Petersburg State University Foreign Students Department International Exchanges Center St. Petersburg State ...
Center of European Documentation, the only one in St. Petersburg, is a subscriber for all official Documents of the EU and it functions in School of International Relations as well as the Council of Europe Regional Center, the UN office and the republic of India Documentation Center in St. Petersburg.
To meet you at the airport, or railway station in St. Petersburg, candidate should inform us via e-mail or by fax the exact date and time (Moscow time) of arrival, as well as flight number or number of the carrier two or three days before the arrival.
Petersburg State University (SPbGU) is situated in the historical center of the city close to famous monuments.
www.dip.pu.ru /russian/abitur/foreign_intro.htm   (1037 words)

  
 St Petersburg, Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Founded in 1876, St. Petersburg is the fourth largest city in Florida with a population of approximately 250,000 people, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
Petersburg is part of the Tampa—St. Petersburg—Clearwater metropolitan statistical area, which is the twentieth largest in the United States with a population in excess of 2.5 million people.
Petersburg is located on Florida's central Gulf coast, across Tampa Bay from the city of Tampa Bay.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/florida/st-petersburg   (653 words)

  
 St Petersburg Mathematical Society
The St Petersburg Mathematical Society was founded in 1890 on the initiative of V G Imshenetskii who had earlier founded the
The next President was Yu-K Sokhotsky who had studied at the Physics and Mathematics Faculty at the University of St Petersburg, becoming a professor there in 1883.
It looks strange that in St Petersburg, which was undoubtedly the main mathematical centre of Russia in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, a mathematical society was created that late and played, apparently, a nonessential role, being less known than its counterpart in Moscow, for example.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Societies/St_Petersburg.html   (409 words)

  
 St. Petersburg State University - PREMIER-VOYAGE Russian Travel Company
Close to the University you will see the Rector's House (No. 9) where the Russian poet Alexander Blok (1880-1921) was born on November 28 and spent his childhood in the family of his grandfather, Andrei Beketov, Rector of the University.
The University's philological and oriental studies departments occupy House No. 11, the former palace of Emperor Peter II (1715-1730), the grandson of Peter the Great.
Petersburg Shore Excursions  Tours in St. Petersburg
travel.inc.ru /spb/center/basil_island/state_university   (232 words)

  
 The St
The first collection, at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, contains approximately 25,000 volumes, representing up to 200,000 titlesÑalthough we do expect a good number of repeat titles by the time we are finished.
As a final note, the Catalog Project in St. Petersburg has generated an intriguing side-effort, which is a growing graphics collection of all the exquisite monastic and other seals found stamped on the wood-block manuscripts of the collections.
The presence of a seal is recorded in the St. Petersburg Catalog, and the seals each have their own unique identification number under the "GSP" file series in the ACIP Graphics Collections.
www.asianclassics.org /mission/stpetersburg.html   (795 words)

  
 St. Petersburg State University
Petersburg State University is located in the cultural capital of Russia.
Petersburg really comes alive during the summer, when daylight stretches to near endlessness and tourists of all nationalities flock to the city, creating a cosmopolitan atmosphere and a boost in population to support nightlife and culture.
Petersburg State University (SPbGU) is the oldest university in Russia.
www.sras.org /university.phtml?m=6   (538 words)

  
 St. Petersburg Summer Law Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The St. Petersburg Summer Law Institute presents English-speaking law students with the rare opportunity to study international and comparative law in the historic cities of Novgorod and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The St. Petersburg Summer Law Institute is sponsored by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the University of Arkansas School of Law, and the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law.
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, the University of Arkansas School of Law, and the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law are accredited by the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools.
www.law.csuohio.edu /academics/stpete/index.html   (339 words)

  
 The Hallmark & Traditions
The Polytechnical University is under the direct jurisdiction of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education.
According to the decision adopted by the Ministry the Technical University was certified and recognized as one of the country's leading institutes.
Among the University faculty there are outstanding individuals, specialists with leadership positions in industry, economy, governmental bodies of St.Petersburg and the Region, holders of distinguishing academic and research titles and honorary awards.
www.spbstu.ru /english/index.html   (756 words)

  
 The School of Russian and Asian Studies: Educational Institutions: Universities: St. Petersburg Electrotechnical ...
Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) was founded in 1886 as the Engineering College of the Department of Post and Telegraph of Russia.
In 1992 the Institute was granted university status and became the first Electrotechnical University in Russia.
Today St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University is one of the leading centers of higher education and research in Russia.
www.sras.org /university.phtml?m=63   (280 words)

  
 InterUniversity Centre Canada
The St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance: This section of the Russian language faculty specializes in teaching the Russian language to foreigners.
However, St. Petersburg does not appear to be a likely flashpoint for the immediate outbreak of armed hostilities.
The university is located in a former finance ministry building, and is quite ornate from the outside.
www.interuniversity.com /St.Petersburg/handbook.htm   (4608 words)

  
 Saint-Petersburg State University
Another part was evacuated to Saratov in February 1942, with only a small fraction of the University staff staying on in the besieged city; they were able to preserve the University's scientific and cultural treasure, defying the unbearable hardships of the siege.
Today St Petersburg State University is a major Russian centre of science, education and culture of international repute.
The discoveries and achievements of the University professors and graduates have become part of the history of both international and Russian science and technology.
www.spbu.ru /e/History/xx.html   (414 words)

  
 St.Petersburg Seminar - Newsletter 14, Center for Jewish Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Center for Jewish Art conducted its fourth biennial Jewish Art Seminar at the Jewish University of St. Petersburg as part of its continuing efforts to enhance the knowledge of local professionals involved in Jewish culture and education.
The framework of this year's Seminar, which was organized in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Jewish University and its Institute for Problems in Jewish Education, was widened to incorporate a large number of courses in different fields of Jewish Studies.
Boris Chaimovitch, currently a doctoral student at the Hebrew University and senior researcher at the Center, was one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Jewish University, and organizer of the bi-annual Seminar.
www.hum.huji.ac.il /cja/NL-14-petersburg.htm   (520 words)

  
 St. Petersburg Summer Law Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1992-1993 he served as a consultant to the Russian government on legislation introducing the first jury trials in Russia since the advent of Soviet power and was privileged to be an official American observer at the first such trial, held in Saratov in December, 1993.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
He has served as chief legal expert to the St. Petersburg Mayor's Office Foreign Affairs Department, is a partner in Musin and Partners, a UK-Russian legal firm and has served as an Arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Chamber for Trade and Industry.
www.law.csuohio.edu /academics/stpete/stpete3.html   (693 words)

  
 University
European University at St.Petersburg (EUSP) is a non-state non-commercial institution of further professional education (raising qualification) for specialists in the spheres of social sciences and humanities.
The University sees its major mission in promoting renovation of the Russia scholarship and education on the basis of combination of the best Russian and international traditions.
The aim of the University activity is to satisfy societal needs in raising and expanding professional qualification of specialists and in developing of their creative and scholarly potential on the basis of achievements of Russian and international experience and cooperation.
www.eu.spb.ru /en/univ/index.htm   (431 words)

  
 The St. Petersburg Times - Overview
The official said one of the victims was Igor Samylin, a senior postal official in St. Petersburg.
PETERSBURG (SPT) — A new bridge over the River Neva is shedhuled to be completed in 4 years, Fontanka.ru reported Monday.
PETERSBURG (SPT) — Police detained a group of drug users who are suspected in a series of knife point robberies involving young children, Fontanka.ru...
www.times.spb.ru /index.php?action_id=2&story_id=17911   (2247 words)

  
 CIEE St.Petersburg
The main university building is located on the banks of the river Neva, directly across from the bronze statue of Peter the Great and St. Isaac's Cathedral, two of St. Petersburg's most famous landmarks.
Petersburg is a beautiful city constructed on a series of islands.
It is the second largest city in Russia, and served as the capital from its completion in 1712 until the Russian Revolution.
www.georgetown.edu /programs/oip/os/sites/russia/st.petersburg.htm   (357 words)

  
 Division of Administration & Finance - USF St. Petersburg
University Police officers are professional state law enforcement officers, drawing authority from State Statute 1012.97.
Officers must meet or exceed stringent educational, training, background, and physical requirements, as well as pass a process of personal interviews, oral boards, a writing exercise, and psychological testing.
Many of our officers have also brought to USF St. Petersburg a variety of experience and specialized training from other law enforcement agencies.
www.stpt.usf.edu /police   (251 words)

  
 Vestnik St. Petersburg University: Mathematics
This journal publishes the mathematics section of Series I of the Vestnik (Herald) of St. Petersburg University, and is one of the oldest Russian mathematics journals in English translation.
Many famous mathematicians are associated with the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at St. Petersburg University, including Chebyshev, Lyapunov, Alexandrov, Smirnov, Kantorovich, to name a few.
Today, mathematics/mechanics faculty members continue the excellent tradition in mathematics associated with the University and the Vestnik is the prime outlet for their research results.
www.allertonpress.com /journals/lum.htm   (103 words)

  
 Remarks and a question-and-answer session with students at St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg - Pres. ...
The second very important facet in my life was when I worked here for the rector of the university as an assistant, helping him in the area of international contacts between and among various universities.
So what we did once, we invited the president of a midsize college from St. Petersburg, Florida, to come here and pay us a visit, since they had the same name.
Carter, who was the head of this college in St. Pete, arranged a visit with one of the Presidents of the United States at the time, and I think his name was Bush.
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