List of higher education and academic institutions in Saint Petersburg

Original headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences - the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg

The Imperial Academy of Arts edifice for the academy was built in 1764-89 to a design by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Alexander F. Kokorinov.

Saint Petersburg has long been a leading center of science and education in Russia and houses the following institutions:

Universities and tertiary institutions[]

• Russian Academy of Sciences (1724)
• Saint Petersburg State University (founded 1724)
• Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen University) (founded 1797)
• (founded first decade of the 18th century)
• Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (1738)
• Imperial Academy of Arts (founded 1757)
• (founded 1798)
• Saint Petersburg Mining Institute (Горный институт) (founded 1773)
• Saint Petersburg Military engineering-technical university (1810)
• Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (1828)
• Pulkovo Observatory (1839)
• Ivan Pavlov's Medical Academy and research center. (founded 1880s)
• Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1862)
• Alexander Military Law Academy (founded 1867)
• Saint Petersburg Academic University (2002)
• Saint Petersburg Medical and Technical Institute
• (1809)
• Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (1886)
• Saint Petersburg State Medical University (1897)
• Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University (1899)
• (1809)
• (Корабелка) (1899)
• Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy (former Tenishev's College) (1899)
• Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (1900)
• Pushkin House (1905)
• Pushkin Leningrad State University (1992)
• Saint Petersburg State Medical Academy (1907)
• St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (1930)
• Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation ("ГУАП") (1941)
• (founded 1900)
• Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts (1918)
• Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical Academy (1925)
• Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (1930)
• Baltic State Technical University ("ВОЕНМЕХ") (1932)
• (Mozhaysky University)
• Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry
• St. Petersburg Christian University (1990)
• European University at Saint Petersburg (1994)
• Smolny College (1999)
• Saint Petersburg State University of Civil Aviation (founded 1955)
• (1832)

Primary and secondary schools[]

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International schools serving foreign expatriates:

• Anglo-American School of St. Petersburg
• Deutsche Schule Sankt Petersburg (German school)
• (French school)
• International Academy of St. Petersburg, Russia