Saint-Petersburg University

Saint Petersburg State University is the first higher education institution in Russia to be consistently rated among the world’s top universities in various rankings. We are open to cooperation and enjoy strong ties with global research and academic community. SPbU scientists conduct research in almost all fields of knowledge, provide expertise and consulting, and work in close collaboration with Russian and international partners.
Many outstanding scholars and cultural figures have studied and worked at SPbU, among them such Nobel Prize winners as physiologist Ivan Pavlov, biologist Ilya Mechnikov, physicist and chemist Nikolay Semyonov, physicists Lev Landau and Aleksandr Prokhorov, philosopher and economist Wassily Leontief as well as mathematician and economist Leonid Kantorovich.