Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov, was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61), a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg, and is the oldest and one of the largest universities in which country/nation?
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Pyotr Pletnyov Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov (Russian: Пётр Александрович Плетнёв ; August 21 [O.S. August 10] 1792 , Tebleshi, Tver Governorate — January 10 1866 [O.S. December 29, 1865] ) was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61) and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841).
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Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU, Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, СПбГУ ) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia.
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National University of Uzbekistan National University of Uzbekistan is the oldest and largest university of Uzbekistan; it has 13 schools. The university was founded in 1918 as Turkestan People's University, with 1,200 students; in 1920 it was reorganized as Turkestan State University (Russian: Туркестанский государственный университет ), and in July 1923 it was renamed the First Central Asian State University (Russian: Первый Среднеазиатский Государственный Университет ), a name it retained through the end of the 1950s. In 1960 the name was changed to the V.I. Lenin Tashkent State University (Russian: Ташкентский государственный университет им. В. И. Ленина ). With the independence of Uzbekistan it became the National University of Uzbekistan.
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University of the Republic (Uruguay) The University of the Republic (Spanish: "Universidad de la República" , sometimes "UdelaR") is Uruguay's public university. It is the most important, oldest, and largest university of the country, with a student body of 108,886 students (2012). It was founded on July 18, 1849 in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Dr. Roberto Markarián.
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Communist University of the Toilers of the East The Communist University of the Toilers of the East or KUTV (Russian: Коммунистический университет трудящихся Востока , or КУТВ, "Kommunističeskij Universitet trudjaščichsja Vostoka"; also known as the Far East University or Stalin School) was established 21 April 1921, in Moscow by the Communist International (Comintern) as a training college for communist cadres in the colonial world. The school officially opened on 21 October 1921. It performed a similar function to the International Lenin School, which mainly accepted students from Europe and the Americas. It was headed in its initial years by Karl Radek, who was later purged from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The curriculum included both theoretical and practical matters, including Marxist theory, party organization and propaganda, law and administration, theory and tactics of proletarian revolution, problems of socialist construction, and trade union organization.
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Saint Petersburg Police The Saint Petersburg Police (полиция Санкт-Петербурга) is known officially as the Main Administration for Internal Affairs of the City of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast (in Russian: Главное управление внутренних дел Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области). It is one of the oldest police services in Russia and is considered one of the best police departments in the country outside Moscow. Sergey Umnov is the current police chief since February 10, 2012.
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Alexander Belskiy Alexander Andreevich Belskiy (Russian: Алексáндр Андрéевич Бéльский , ] ) was a Soviet specialist in literary criticism, Anglicist (he did researches in realism development in the English literature). Alexander Belskiy founded Perm school of research in non-Russian Philology. Also, he founded the Faculty of Philology at Perm State University and he was its first Dean in 1960–1964 and 1971–1977. Moreover, he founded the Department of Foreign literature at Perm State University, and he was its Head in 1965–1977. His famous student is Boris Proskurnin, the Dean of Faculty of Foreign languages and Literature at Perm State University.
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Svetlana Pletnyova Svetlana Alexandrovna Pletneva (also called "Pletnyeva" and "Pletnyova" Russian: Светлана Александровна Плетнева ) (April 1, 1926 in Vyatka- 20 November 2008 in Moscow) is a Russian and Soviet archaeologist and historian. Like Lev Gumilev, she was a student of Mikhail Artamonov, although she discarded many of the former's theories as mere speculations. She won the USSR State Prize in 1986
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Kyiv National Linguistic University Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukrainian: Київський національний лінгвістичний університет ) is a higher education institution in Kiev, Ukraine. It was founded in 1948 as Kiev State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. It has the status of autonomous institutions. In common parlance it's called "In'Yaz" (Russian: ИнЯз ) which means "foreign languages."
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Ural State Law University Ural State Law University, (former Ural State Law Academy, Ural State Academy of Law, Uralskaja Gosudarstvennaja Juridicheskaja Akademija) (Russian: Уральский государственный юридический университет, "Ural'skiy gosudarstvennyy yuridicheskiy universitet", often shortened to USLU, УрГЮУ ) is a public, research university which includes law schools, colleges, faculties and other public graduate and undergraduate educational institutions. USLU's main campus is situated in the Yekaterinburg, Russia. Founded in 1931, USLU is one of the largest law schools in the Russian Federation.
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University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, German: "Universität Zürich" ), located in the city of Zürich, is the largest university in Switzerland, with over 26,000 students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine and a new faculty of philosophy.
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Sakhalin State University Sakhalin State University (Russian: Сахалинский государственный университет/tr: "Sakhalinskiy gosudarstvenn'iy universitet") is a university located in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin. It maintains a sister school relationship with Busan University of Foreign Studies and Dongseo University of the Republic of Korea. As a result of this relationship and the large population of local Sakhalin Koreans, students from Korea form the majority of international students at Sakhalin State University.
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Pēteris Stučka Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka (Russian: Пётр Ива́нович Сту́чка , German: "Peter Stutschka" (in contemporary writings); b. July 26 [O.S. July 14] 1865 in Koknese parish, Governorate of Livonia – d. January 25, 1932 in Moscow), was the head of the Bolshevik government in Latvia during the Latvian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the New Current movement in the late 19th century, a prolific writer and translator, an editor of major Latvian and Russian socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals, a prominent jurist and educator, and the first president of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. Stučka's wife, Dora Pliekšāne (1870–1950), was the sister of the Latvian poet Rainis (Jānis Pliekšāns), with whom Stučka shared a room during their law studies at St. Petersburg University.
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Vilnius College of Technologies and Design Vilnius College of Technologies and Design (Lithuanian: "Vilniaus technologijų ir dizaino kolegija" ) or VTDK is a Lithuanian state institution of higher education, established in 1954. It is the third largest university of applied sciences in Lithuania, hosting over 4,000 students and 400 professors and other staff members. In 2008, this college received its current name upon the merger of Vilnius Technical College (Lithuanian: "Vilniaus statybos technikumas" ) and Vilnius College of Construction and Design (Lithuanian: "Vilniaus statybos ir dizaino kolegija" ). It consists of four faculties: the Civil Engineering Faculty, the Design Faculty, the Petras Vileišis Railway Transportation Faculty, and the Technical Faculty. The university is ranked among the top 500 universities in the world.
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Moscow Polytechnic University Moscow Polytechnic University (Russian: Московский политехнический университет , "Moskovskiy politekhnicheskiy universitet") or Moscow Polytech is a university in Moscow. It specializes in the field of automobile and tractor design. It was founded in 1866 as Komissarov Technical School.
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Peter the Great Peter the Great (Russian: Пётр Вели́кий , "Pyotr Velikiy"; ] ), Peter I (Russian: Пётр I , "Pyotr I"; ] ) or Peter Alexeyevich (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич ; ] ; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672  – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May (O.S. 27 April) 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V. Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, westernized, and based on The Enlightenment. Peter's reforms made a lasting impact on Russia and many institutions of Russian government trace their origins to his reign.
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Moscow State University of Civil Engineering Moscow State University of Civil Engineering or MGSU (Russian: Московский Государственный Строительный Университет - МГСУ) is a higher education institution located in Moscow, Russia. MGSU is considered to be flagship of technical science, professional education and advanced research of the civil engineering field within the Russian Federation. The university holds the status of National Research University which is a federal embodiment for universities aimed to be the core of modernization of science and education sector.
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Saint Petersburg (disambiguation) Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city in Russia.
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Lebedev Physical Institute The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS) (in Russian: Физи́ческий институ́т имени П.Н.Ле́бедева Российской академии наук (ФИАН) ), situated in Moscow, is one of the leading Russian research institutes specializing in physics. It is also one of the oldest research institutions in Russia: its history dates back to a collection of physics equipment established by Peter the Great in the Kunstkamera of Saint Petersburg in 1714. The institute was established in its present shape in 1934 by academician Sergey Vavilov. It moved to Moscow and was named after a prominent Russian physicist Pyotr Lebedev the same year. It is also known as Lebedev Institute of Physics or just Lebedev Institute. In Russian it is often referred to by the acronym FIAN (ФИАН) standing for "Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences".
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Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (Russian: Государственный Русский музей ), formerly the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (Russian: Русский Музей Императора Александра III ) is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg. It is also one of the largest museums in the country.
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Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова ) is a music school in Saint Petersburg. In 2004, the conservatory had around 275 faculty members and 1,400 students.
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Sergey Fedorov Sergey Petrovich Fedorov (Russian: Серге́й Петро́вич Фёдоров, alternative English spelling Sergey Petrovich Fyodorov) was a Russian surgeon-urologist, professor of the Imperial Military Medical Academy (1903) and the Imperial Court Surgeon (1913). He is considered the founder of the largest national school of surgery and "the father of Russian urology".