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Hostel complex:

Now - St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Library. Printing house

Polytechnic bookmark. In one of the distant outskirts of St. Petersburg, in the suburban area "Sosnovka", owned by the Ministry of Finance, on June 18, the solemn laying of the first in size and broad internal organization of a higher specialized educational institution, the so-called polytechnicum, took place. This institute will have four departments: financial and economic and metallurgical. The Institute with all the necessary services will occupy a huge area - about 15 acres, and will include the following buildings: the main building, which will concentrate all the audiences (about 20), the metallurgical department, drawing rooms, an assembly hall, libraries, a museum; its length is over 100 sazhens. Among the audiences will be those that will accommodate too 600 people. Near. another building is under construction. This is the chemical pavilion, which will house the chemical laboratory. Next come: a building for mechanical workshops and boiler houses, a hostel for 800 people, a building for apartments for professors, directors, etc. The main building will have three floors, the chemical pavilion - two and the hostel - 4 floors. So far, only three buildings have been laid - the main one, the chemical pavilion, and the hostel. By autumn, the buildings will be completed in rough construction, and in the fall of 1901 it is planned to open an institute, in which 1,800 students can be admitted for the first time. The program, curriculum and regulations for the institute have not yet been developed. So far, the Ministry of Finance has allocated about 2,890 thousand rubles for the construction of the Polytechnic. In order to speed up the construction, an electrical transmission of mechanical energy was installed. Approximately 1,700 workers work on the construction site.

("Builder", 1900, No. 11-14, stb. 513-514, added miraru1)

On September 30, 1909 (in the 10th anniversary year), the Council of the Institute decided to petition the sovereign to name the university after Emperor Peter the Great. On January 19, 1910, Nicholas II signed the Decree "On the assignment of the name "St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Peter the Great" to the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute." The university had this name until 1918: before the Decree of the People's Commissariat of Education on the abolition of diplomas and certificates, ranks, titles and degrees (the professorial council of the institute was subject to dissolution, departments at institutes were renamed into faculties, the director became rector). On July 5, 1918, the institute became known as the First Petrograd Polytechnic Institute.

St. Petersburg St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great(FGAOU VO SPbPU, full name - Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University", informal name - Polytech) is the oldest (since 1899) Russian multifunctional state higher educational institution.

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General information

The university includes 12 basic institutes, faculties of additional education, a branch in the city of Sosnovy Bor, a complex of research units, including a joint scientific and technological institute, scientific and educational centers, a number of specialized research and production structures, a sports complex, a dispensary and recreation centers . Provides graduation of engineers, economists, managers in 101 specialties, bachelors and masters in 51 areas of science and technology, graduate students in 90 scientific specialties. Contingent of students: 30197 Human. The teaching staff includes 25 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, over 500 professors, doctors of sciences.

Included in the top five technical universities in the country.

In July 2013, the university was among the winners of the competition for the status of "Leading Universities of Russia".

The nearby Politekhnicheskaya Street and the Politekhnicheskaya metro station are named after the university.

Name history

Leaders

Rectors and directors

1. Gagarin, Andrey Grigoryevich (01.1900 - 02.1907) - director
2. Posnikov, Alexander Sergeevich (03.1907 - 09.1907) - director
3. Meshchersky, Ivan Vsevolodovich (09.1907 - 09.1908) - director
4. Posnikov, Alexander Sergeevich (09.1908 - 09.1911) - director
5. Skobeltsyn, Vladimir Vladimirovich (09.1911 - 09.1917) - director
6. Radtsig, Alexander Alexandrovich (09.1917 - 12.1918) - rector
7. Shatelen, Mikhail Andreevich (12.1918 - 05.1919) - rector
8. Levinson-Lessing, Franz Yulievich (05.1919 - 11.1919) - rector
9. Ruzsky, Dmitry Pavlovich (11.1919 - 08.1921) - rector
10. Zalutsky, Leonid Vasilyevich (08.1921 - 01.1922) - rector
11. Vorobyov, Boris Evdokimovich (01.1922 - 06.1925) - rector
12. Baikov, Alexander Alexandrovich (06.1925 - 10.1928) - rector
13. Kobozev, Pyotr Alekseevich (11.1928 - 08.1929) - rector
14. Shumsky, Alexander Yakovlevich (08.1929 - 12.1929) - rector
15. Davtyan, Yakov Khristoforovich (02.1930 - 06.1930) - rector 1930-1934 - the institute was divided into several branch
16. Schreiber, Georgy Yakovlevich (07.1934 - 07.1935) - director
17. Tyurkin, Pyotr Andreevich (07.1935 - 07.1936) - director
18. Evdokimov, Vasily Grigorievich (08.1936 - 07.1937) - director
19. Novikov, Kirill Vasilyevich (09.1937 - 06.1938) - director
20. Smirnov, Sergey Antonovich (06.1938 - 11.1940) - director
21. Tyurkin, Pyotr Andreevich (11.1940 - 12.1941) - director
22. Serdyukov, Sergey Andreevich (03.1942 - 09.1944) - director
23. Kalantarov, Pavel Lazarevich (09.1944 - 06.1946) - director
24. Shmargunov, Konstantin Nikolaevich (06.1946 - 06.1951) - director
25. Alabyshev, Alexander Filosofovich (06.1951 - 03.05.1956) - director
26. Smirnov, Vasily Sergeevich (03/05/1956 - 03/05/1973) - rector
27. Seleznev, Konstantin Pavlovich (05/17/1973 - 05/23/1983) - rector
28. Vasiliev, Yury Sergeevich (05/23/1983 - 09/30/2003) - rector, president (with the rights of a rector)
29. Fedorov, Mikhail Petrovich (30.09.2003 - 05.2011) - Rector
30. Rudskoy, Andrey Ivanovich (since 05.2011) - rector

Presidents

1. Vasiliev, Yury Sergeevich (since 10.2003) - President, Chairman of the Board of Trustees

teachers

Graduates

Story

Founding 1899-1914

Witte's closest associates in organizing the SPbPI were Comrade Minister of Finance V.I. Kovalevsky and scientist-chemist D.I.Mendeleev. All three were subsequently elected honorary members of the institute, and their portraits were installed in the Council Hall.

The design and construction was carried out by an architectural workshop under the direction of E. F. Wirrich. The project included a complex of buildings forming a self-contained campus similar to those that existed at Cambridge and Oxford. The complex included the main building, a chemical pavilion, two dormitories and a mechanical building. When designing the main building, Wirrich used the design of the Berlin Higher Technical School. The central part and the general plan of the building almost completely repeat the Berlin building.

The ceremonial laying of the buildings was carried out on June 18, 1900. Construction was carried out from 1900 to 1905; the main building was completed in 1902. The building was built in the neoclassical style, typical for St. Petersburg architecture of the late 19th century. A monumental white building with an H-shaped configuration. The interior layout, with all lecture halls facing southwest, maximizes the use of natural light.

Fundamental library SPbPU

The fundamental library of the university began its work simultaneously with its opening in 1902. At various times, collections of books by S. Yu. Witte, professors of the Institute P. B. Struve, Yu. others

The composition of the library funds is determined by the disciplines being studied, but in addition to the collections of literature on natural, exact and applied technical sciences, traditional for a technical university, it contains sections of the humanities: history, law, economics, finance, etc. The library funds also include those donated to it personal collections of scientists of the Institute.

1914-1941

By 1960, laboratories for energy systems, automation, telemechanics, metallurgy, turbine building and compressor building were created at LPI. At the same time, a system of "continuous work practice" was introduced at the institute. Freshmen who did not have production experience alternately studied and worked at the plant. K. Marx, Metallic Plant, Svetlana Production Association, Krasny Oktyabr Plant, Glavleningradstroy.

In 1961, in accordance with the new regulation on higher educational institutions, the election of rectors and deans was restored.

Since 1960, there has been a rapid construction of new buildings of the Institute. By 1962, a sports complex, a high-voltage building (TVN), two new educational buildings, a polyclinic building, a dispensary, an archive and a hostel on Nepokorenny Avenue were built.

The construction of new buildings was continued in the late 70s - early 80s. Two dormitories were built on Grazhdansky Avenue and Nepokorennykh Avenue, a new academic building, a building for the preparatory faculty on Polyustrovskiy, and the building of the Institute of International Educational Programs on Grazhdansky Avenue.

New design bureaus were created: OKB "Impulse" and a special design bureau for technical cybernetics (now - TsNII RTK).

In July 2007, the rector of the university, Mikhail Fedorov, told the Prime-tass news agency that within the framework of the national project "Education", a research institute for new materials and technologies would be created on the basis of the institute. 520 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the construction of research institutes.

In 2012, SPbPU was among the 21 Russian universities that won the competitive selection for the right to receive a subsidy from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science in order to increase their competitiveness - Project 5-100.

Structure

The University provides training in 208 profiles within 57 areas of bachelor's training, in 13 specializations within 10 specialties, as well as in 216 master's programs within 55 areas of master's training. Since 2014, training has been carried out on educational programs of higher education - programs for the training of scientific and pedagogical personnel in graduate school in 25 areas, as well as training of scientific, pedagogical and scientific personnel in the framework of postgraduate education in 94 specialties.

The university includes 13 institutes, subdivisions of additional education, branches in the cities of Cheboksary, Sosnovy Bor, Cherepovets, a complex of research units, including a joint scientific and technological institute, scientific and educational centers, a number of specialized research and production structures.

The campus is located in the north-east of the city, includes 30 educational and research buildings, 15 dormitories, 10 residential buildings, the House of Scientists and a sports complex.

In 1996-2005, there was the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Technologies of SPbPU, formed on the basis of the branch faculty.

Basic institutions

According to order No. 794 dated 04.10.2012, in order to unite all departments of the Polytechnic University, basic institutes were created as part of the university - technical, physical and humanitarian-economic:

Base Institute	Institute	Departments and higher schools
Technical	Institute of Civil Engineering	Department "Water management and hydrotechnical construction" Department of "Hydraulics" Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Ecology Department "Strength of materials" Department of "Building mechanics and building structures" Department "Construction of unique buildings and structures"
Technical	Institute of Energy and Transport Systems	Department "Nuclear and Thermal Energy" Department "Engines, cars and tracked vehicles" Department "Wheeled and tracked vehicles" Department "Compressor, vacuum and refrigeration engineering" Department "Theoretical foundations of electrical engineering" Department "Thermophysics of power plants" Department "Technique of high voltages, electrical insulation and cable technology" Department "Turbine engines and installations" Department "Turbines, hydraulic machines and aircraft engines" Department "Electric Machines" Department "Electrical systems and networks" Department "Power plants and automation of energy systems" Department of "Electrical Engineering and Power Engineering"
Technical	Institute of Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering and Transport	Department "Automatic" Department of "Engineering graphics and design" Department "Computer technologies in mechanical engineering" Department "Design and technological innovations" Department "Materials, technologies and equipment of foundry production" Department of "Machine Science and Basics of Design" Department "Machines and technology of metal forming" Department "Metallurgical and foundry technologies" Department of "Mechatronics and robotics (at the Central Research Institute of the RTK)" Department "General and inorganic chemistry" Department "Welding and laser technologies" Department of "Machine-Machine Engineering" Department "Theory of mechanisms and machines" Department "Technological processes and equipment of automated machine-building industries" Department "Technology and research of materials" Department "Technology of structural materials and materials science" Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology Department "Transport and technological systems" Department of "Physical Chemistry and Technology of Microsystem Engineering" Department "Functional materials and technologies"
Technical	Institute of Computer Science and Technology	Department of "Intelligent Automation Systems" Department "Measuring information technologies" Department of "Information security of computer systems" Department "Information and control systems" Department of "Computer intelligent technologies" Department "Computer systems and software technologies" Department "Ship Information and Control Systems" Department "Distributed Computing and Computer Networks" Department "System Analysis and Management" Department "Systems and technologies of management" Department of "Project Management"
Technical	Institute of Military Technical Education and Security	Department of "Life Safety" Department "Fire safety" Department "Management and protection in emergency situations" Department "Extreme processes in materials and explosion safety" Faculty of Military Training
Physical	Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications	Department of "Biophysics" Department "Integral Electronics" Department of Quantum Electronics Department of Space Research Department of Medical Physics Department "Radiotechnical and telecommunication systems" Department of Radiophysics Department "Theoretical Physics" Department "Physics and Technology of Nanostructures" Department of Plasma Physics Department "Physics of semiconductors and nanoelectronics" Department of "Physical Electronics" Department of "Experimental Physics" Department "Experimental Nuclear Physics"
Physical	Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics	Department of Higher Mathematics Department "Hydroaerodynamics, combustion and heat transfer" Department "Mechanics and control processes" Department "Applied Mathematics" Department "Telematics (at the Central Research Institute of the RTK)" Department "Theoretical Mechanics" Department of "Continuum Mechanics" (on the basis of IPMash RAS)
Economic and humanitarian	Institute of Industrial Management, Economics and Trade	Graduate School of Domestic and Foreign Trade Graduate School of Public and Financial Management Graduate School of Marketing and Small Business Graduate School of Industrial Management and Economics Graduate School of Commodity Science and Service Department "Management processes of science-intensive industries" International Graduate School of Management
Economic and humanitarian	Humanitarian Institute	Graduate School of Social Sciences Higher School of Foreign Languages Department of "Linguodidactics and Translation" Department of "Engineering Pedagogy and Psychology" Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication Department of "International Relations" Department of Applied Philology Educational laboratory for teaching the Russian language Department "Theory and History of State and Law" Student legal consultation ("legal clinic") Educational and research forensic laboratory Educational research laboratory Center for Additional Educational Programs
Economic and humanitarian	Institute of International Educational Programs	Department "Basic training of foreign citizens" Department "Russian as a foreign language"
Technological	Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Physical culture	Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism	Department of "Sports disciplines" Department "Theory and methods of physical culture" Department "Physical culture and adaptation"

College and Lyceum

The Natural Science Lyceum was established in 1995 on the initiative of the Education Committee of St. Petersburg and the Polytechnic University. In 2009, in accordance with the decision of the Academic Council of SPbPU and on the basis of the Order of the Rector dated February 11, 2009 No. 70, it became a structural subdivision of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The lyceum implements an educational program of secondary general education with in-depth study of mathematics, physics and computer science.

In 2011, the Leningrad Electrovacuum College became part of the Polytechnic University as a structural unit and received a new name of the University Polytechnic College "Radiopolytechnicum". Joining the university made it possible to bring the process of training mid-level specialists to a new qualitative level. A number of special disciplines are taught by the teaching staff of the university. Part of the laboratory and practical classes for college students are conducted on the basis of the laboratories of the university.

Faculties of retraining of specialists and additional education

• Higher School of Engineering
• Higher School of Industrial Management and Economics IPMEiT
• International Scientific and Educational Center for Financial Monitoring
• Intersectoral Institute for Advanced Studies
• Scientific and Educational Center "Engineering Pedagogy"
• Scientific and Educational Center "Information Security"North-Western Scientific and Educational Center in the field of public-private partnership
• Center for Additional Professional Programs of the Civil Engineering Institute (TSDPP ISI)

Evening department

In the evening form of education, you can get an education in most areas and specialties of the university. The evening section is divided into two sections:

• Informatics, radio and telecommunications, electrical engineering (specialties of the electromechanical, radiophysical faculties and the faculty of technical cybernetics)
• Economics, mechanical engineering and construction (specialties of the power engineering, mechanical engineering faculties and the faculty of economics and management)

Branch

• Institute of Nuclear Energy in Sosnovy Bor (YaE)

see also

Ratings

In 2012, SPBPU won 135 grants from the St. Petersburg Government Committee for Science and Higher Education.

According to QS World University Rankings in 2013, it ranks 6th among all universities in Russia and 2nd among Russian technical and technological universities.

In March 2013, it received the highest level of "AA", taking 3rd place among 58 Russian universities in the Academic Ranking of Higher Education Institutions in 2013, which is held by the European Scientific and Industrial Chamber according to EU standards.

In 2015, the university participated in the ranking for the first time Times Higher Education, entering immediately into the list of 250 best universities in the world. Among all Russian universities, SPbPU of Peter the Great took the 2nd place, losing only to Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov

In 2015, it ranked eighth among 24 Russian universities in the international University Ranking by Academic Performance. In April of the same year, it took 6th place among Russian universities in the Quacquarelli Symonds subject ranking in the field of Physics and Astronomy.

In July 2015, it ranked 5th among Russian universities and 991st in the overall ranking among more than 22,000 universities ranked by Webometrics experts.

→ On the history of the creation of information-measuring, computing and control complexes for space research in the USSR (contribution of scientists from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin)

On the history of the creation of information-measuring, computing and control complexes for space research in the USSR (contribution of scientists from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin)

A. Yu. Glebovsky, V. M. Ivanov

The role of space projects in the development of fundamental and applied sciences

“... A person should strive beyond the limits of what is achievable.
Otherwise, why heaven?
Robert Browning
poem "Andrea del Sarto", line 98

Significant stimuli and sources of scientific and technological progress are the efforts and achievements in the military fields, related, in particular, to the creation of new methods of early detection and remote tracking of objects, orientation on the ground, the creation of traffic control systems for cargo delivery vehicles and combat operations. Research in the military-technical fields contributed to the development of the most important areas of fundamental and applied sciences, including nuclear physics, optics, acoustics, cybernetics, automatic control theory, communication and coding theory, cryptology, computer science, logistics, etc.

The fruits of defense scientific research were discoveries that made it possible to create a wide range of new sources of energy, materials, technologies, modes of transport, computing, telecommunications, robotic and intelligent systems, the use of which on a global scale for peaceful purposes can hardly be overestimated. Suffice it to recall that the first electromechanical (Z3 in Germany, Magk-1 in the USA) and electronic (ENIAC in the USA) computers were created to solve ballistic problems - calculating the trajectories of projectiles during firing, and subsequently the trajectories of missiles.

Achievements in rocket technologies opened the era of space exploration for scientific and practical purposes, opened up new horizons for fundamental geophysical, meteorological, environmental and astrophysical research, made it possible to create new types of satellite communications and geopositioning.

At the end of the 60s. within the framework of the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) project in the USA, with the participation of three leading universities, the defense network ARPAnet was created. A group of graduate students led by Professor Leonardo Kleinrock at UCLA University (Los Angeles) developed a packet network architecture based on a hierarchy of protocols on which the modern Internet is based.

The middle of the last century passed in the conditions of ideological and military-political confrontation between the USA and the USSR, which led to their fierce rivalry in strategically important areas of science and technology, primarily related to the development of nuclear missile potential and space technologies of these countries.

The news about the launch of the first satellite in the USSR on October 4, 1957 was commented in the American press as their national humiliation. The new successful space launches that followed in the USSR and, especially, the orbital flight of Yu.A. Gagarin, became new surprises for the USA. In rocket technology, both countries were at about the same level at that time. However, it was unexpected for the West that, despite the seemingly obvious lag in electronic technology, the USSR had some “secret” effective means of processing trajectory measurements in real time, necessary to ensure multiple successful launches of launch vehicles.

The veil of secrecy was removed only in the early 90s, and in some departmental materials there were brief references to the work of that period carried out at the LII. M.I. Kalinin at the department and in the Design Bureau, headed by Professor T.N. Sokolov. Over the past 20 years, half a dozen publications devoted to this topic have been published, including collections of memoirs of participants in the events.

For a wide range of readers, the most interesting fundamental monograph. It is unique in its breadth of coverage, educational role for the younger generation, depth of consideration and literary manner of presenting the material. Its full title is given on the title page: “A textbook on work and life, or an entertaining documentary story about how the youth of the experimental design bureau of the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute under the guidance of Professor T.N. Sokolova created the first domestic system for automated control of strategic missile forces. Corporate annalistic publications were also published describing the main milestones in the development of NPO "Impulse" and the personal achievements of its employees.

Goals and objectives of the article

Unfortunately, all the publications mentioned above were issued by the publishing houses of St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University and NGOs in small editions, which were distributed by subscription. They are available to a limited contingent of readers in some scientific and technical libraries.

Search queries on English-language sources on the Internet bring only a few fragmentary information about the Signal command and control system for space objects developed at the NPO. An article in the Perestroika-era Washington Post (March 15, 1998) expressed concern about the financial problems at the NGO Impuls and, as a result, the potential threat of the collapse of the Russian missile defense system (!). Here's everything we could find.

I remember the words of Prof. B.E. Aksenov, who headed the Department of IMS in the 90s. He said something like this. “At the end of the 60s. the telecommunications laboratory at the Design Bureau and a group of researchers on a defense project in the United States independently and successfully solved the problem of creating packet networks of computers for their national defense systems. Now the developments of DARPA are known to the whole world, while our achievements in this area are published, basically, only in departmental reports.

In general, it seems that the activities of Prof. T.N. Sokolov, the scientific school he created for automated control of complex distributed systems, historically important projects, research and results that have long been declassified, all this remains “widely known, but in narrow circles” today.

The purpose of this article is to ensure that the information below becomes the property of a wider circle of the scientific and technical community, teachers and students in our country. We believe that these pages in the history of the creative competition of countries in the fields of computer technology and telecommunications can also be perceived with interest in academic and engineering circles abroad.

It does not consider the problems of cooperation and rivalry between related and competing organizations (“Sokolov Department”, OKB / NPO “Impulse”, OKB “Rainbow”, NIIAA, plant named after M.I. Kalinin, etc.), doing a common thing and claiming to receive government orders and to lead in the implementation of government regulations. The details of the distribution of roles and personal achievements of participants in various projects are not discussed. Such information, which is of value primarily for corporate information, is covered in great detail by the heads of these organizations, their leading employees and participants in the events - the authors of articles in the above-mentioned collections.

On the example of one of the outstanding domestic scientific schools and research and production organizations, the presentation focuses on the fundamental moments of the formation of university science in the period under review. The patterns of development and "vegetative reproduction" of generations of creative teams are traced.

The inseparable connection of higher education with the participation of students in fundamental and applied research, in scientific seminars, as well as in real projects at the departments is noted. The principle of involving students in research work, which originated in scientific institutions established about a century ago on the initiative of Professor A.F. Ioffe, and the famous creative "spirit of Phystech" were inherited by the departments of the Physics and Mechanics, and then the radio engineering faculties of the LPI. The most active students were involved in research and projects carried out at the department and in the Design Bureau, led by Professor T.N. Sokolov.

The formation of the scientific school of Professor T.N. Sokolova

Anticipating the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the St. Petersburg Emperor Peter the Great of the Polytechnic Institute, materials were published summarizing the achievements of the Institute's leading scientists. The collection of materials on the scientific ambassador of automated control systems (ACS), the founder of which was Professor Taras Nikolaevich Sokolov, was called "Swift Rise".

Can't think of a better name! This is evidenced by the creative biography of Taras Nikolaevich himself, the range of new scientific directions initiated and supported by him, the scientific achievements of his closest followers and numerous students (T.K. Krakau "T.N. Sokolov"). The level and scope of projects carried out under his leadership on a national scale were highly appreciated and awarded the highest government awards. Chronology of the main milestones in the formation and development of the scientific school of T.N. Sokolov is given in the Appendix and testifies to the unusually high rates of acceleration of work in all areas of this fruitful activity.

Starting with the department, which in 1952 had only 3 teachers (later 3 engineers joined), T.N. Sokolov organized two problematic laboratories with her - one of them on the then new subject of computers of "discrete action". About a hundred talented engineers and scientists soon worked in them (1957-1960). Then, in 1961, the LPI Design Bureau was created. The initial contingent of 500 of its employees doubled by 1963. The successes achieved in the first 10 years by the teams of teachers of the department and employees of the Design Bureau are amazing. The range of theoretical research and engineering developments was rapidly expanding. Their extremely high level is evidenced by publications in the issues of collections of specialized series of Proceedings of the LPI, edited by T.N. Sokolova.

During the first 4 years, a series of analog computers (AVM) "Model1" - "Model4" was created to solve systems of high-order nonlinear differential equations, which made it possible to study the dynamics of various moving objects in conjunction with real equipment. Developing the direction formed at the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics (see appendix), the department increased experience in the field of automatic control of the movement of aircraft, missiles and torpedoes, developed AVM, tracking systems and dynamic stands. A successful debut provided the potential necessary for the second round of the department's evolution. There is a need to create automated systems with digital data processing in the control loop.

Project of trajectory measurements, calculators "Quartz" and "Temp"

In 1956, the government of the USSR decided to start work on launching satellites into orbit using ballistic missiles. To determine the parameters of the missile trajectories, a chain of measuring points (IP) was created, equipped with radar stations (RLS) developed by OKB MPEI. In the era of analog technology, measurement data was intended for displaying coordinates on an oscilloscope, but not for processing them in real time. Accordingly, the problem arose of digitizing, processing, storing and sending data to the computer center. The development of a “converting, averaging and storage device” (POZU) docked with the radar was entrusted to the LPI. Scientific supervisor of the project - T.N. Sokolov, the term for putting the system into operation is one and a half years.

The task was solved. The analog data of the trajectory of a flying object coming from the radar sensors (polar coordinates - range, elevation and azimuth) were digitized with reference to a single time, averaged, stored in a memory on a magnetic tape, and then transmitted via long-distance communication channels to the computer center. By the way, the Hamming code with error correction was first used here (B.E. Aksyonov). The complex for processing the results of trajectory measurements in real time required the creation of a calculator, which was given the code name "Quartz". It was the country's first specialized digital computer based on PDE ferrite-diode logic elements. The choice of such, at that time, new elements made it possible to increase reliability with smaller dimensions than that of vacuum tubes (transistor technologies in the USSR were still in their infancy).

To speed up the commissioning, by order of the Minister of Education of the RSFSR, senior students of the faculty were involved. In the spring of 1958, Quartz vehicles were installed on five SPs along the flight path of launch vehicles and satellites, serviced by teachers and students. When the 3rd satellite was launched on May 15, 1958, it was possible to automate trajectory measurements. The accuracy of determining the distance to a space object has reached 25 m at distances up to 1000 km. .

In the new generation PDE, germanium diodes were used, and the reliability increased dramatically. To replace the POZU "Quartz" until the 70s, hundreds of machines of the "Temp" series were manufactured, including for sea-based IP, and other specialized systems.

However, PDE semiconductor valve parts increased energy costs, depended on external radiation, required complex installation of multi-turn windings of rings, and introduced other undesirable consequences. From these shortcomings, theoretically, "diodeless" ferrite elements could be free.

Creation of our own unique highly reliable element base

The reliability and durability of the element base were key factors for the projects carried out by the department. The idea of ​​abandoning semiconductor parts since 1959 became the basis of her developments. The schemes proposed by L. Russell, and later S. Yochelson, turned out to be unacceptable in practice. In 1961, a fundamentally new type of ferrite-ferrite logical elements (FFE) was created at the department. The invention was registered in 1964. There were also open publications that describe PFE variants with one and two pairs of information cores, realizing, respectively, functions from two to four logical variables. These elements played a decisive role in the successful implementation by the department of all subsequent projects of national importance, despite the fact that the PFE has a fundamentally lower speed than the PDE, and more complex clock power sources are required.

The advantages greatly outweighed the disadvantages. Single-turn core piercings, simple installation of through windings, fewer electrical connections, simplified manufacturing technology and lower cost have become available. These elements carried out non-destructive reading, retained information when the power was turned off, were resistant to penetrating radiation, operated in an extended temperature range and provided the highest possible reliability indicators - failure rate< 10" 9 1/час. Используя три состояния информационной пары сердечников и трёхфазное тактовое питание, можно было обрабатывать троичную информацию (1, 0, Т), чем достигалось значительное уменьшение объёма оборудования . На этой элементной базе были созданы специализированные вычислители различного назначения наземного, авиационного и морского базирования .

However, in full measure, all the advantages of the FFE listed above were realized only with the transition from structurally isolated logic elements to functional blocks arranged from them - ferrite-ferrite boards (FFP). The prerequisites for this were created in 1960-61. during the implementation of the project for the development of the ground-based complex "Mikron" for the control of ballistic missiles. A number of innovations have been proposed. Most importantly, the concept of constructive integration of the functional components of the product into monolithic, compound-filled, specialized functional blocks, called ferrite-ferrite boards (FFP), was put forward and practically implemented. In fact, these were hand-made integrated circuits (F.A. Vasiliev). As a result of further improvement of circuit, design and technological solutions and methods of algorithmic design, a wide range (dozens of types) of unified FFPs was created and their mass production was launched.

Legends continue to circulate about the reliability, strength, operational stability and durability of the FFP. According to Professor Anatoly Mikhailovich Alexandrov, Deputy Chief Designer of NPO Impulse for Research, for 40 years not a single obvious failure of equipment in operated systems has been recorded (!).

As for the fundamentally low speed of the PFE (clock frequency of the order of 1000 kHz), the low speed of their switching was largely compensated for by the parallel-pipeline principle of information processing inherent in ferrite boards. Like analog machines, FFP processors were designed in such a way that calculations were performed simultaneously by the entire set of specialized digital hardware clocked modules (boards), which in parallel implement the logic for performing specific operations “hardwired” into them.

Thus, in the process of fulfilling this task, it was possible to solve the fundamentally important and seemingly insurmountable problems under the existing conditions of building ultra-reliable distributed systems of automatic control and management in space and defense areas. At the end of 1961 an important event took place. To expand work on the subject of automated combat control systems (ASBU) in the rocket and space fields, an experimental design bureau was created at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. M.I. Kalinin (OKB LII). The head and chief designer of the OKB LII is Professor Taras Nikolaevich Sokolov.

Directions of research and scope of tasks to be solved

In the 70s, creative groups were formed that, under the guidance of their leaders, developed promising scientific areas directly related to the subject of research carried out at the Department of IMS and at the Design Bureau at LPI. Later, a number of recognized scientific schools were formed, created by the leading professors of the department, and two "daughter" departments were also formed (see appendix).

The diversification of the scientific directions established at the department was due to the unusually wide scale of work on the creation of fundamentally new wide-area distributed combat control systems that met the extremely stringent requirements for their operational properties.

In 1966 T.N. Sokolov wrote in the editorial preface to the 1st edition of the above-mentioned collections of articles: “The development of large information and control systems is currently moving towards the creation of logical and computing machines with an ever-increasing complexity of the logical structure, with the unification of geographically dispersed computing devices by communication channels. ..” .

This was said three years before the creation of the defense network in the United States, which gave rise to the global Internet. 15 years later, the goals of the ARPAnet project were published in a very close formulation in a public report by BBN, a contractor for the defense research agency DARPA. . It should be noted that the architecture of wide-area "packet" networks in its modern form was embodied in the ISO / OSI reference model only in 1984.

The point, however, is not so much that the concepts of information and control systems created at the department (later at the Design Bureau) were far ahead of the analogues of that time known to our developers. The uniqueness of her projects for creating a hierarchical architecture of wide-area complexes of specialized highly reliable automated control systems was as follows. The development of mathematical and algorithmic aspects at all levels of the hierarchy of systems created at the department during the projects was carried out almost simultaneously, starting from the study of the data transmission environment and the creation of models of physical communication channels, methods of noise-immune coding, data packaging and transmission, switching methods, options for storing and displaying results , up to application algorithms. In parallel, the Design Bureau carried out end-to-end design of all engineering and technological aspects, including the element base, ferrite core material, structural modules (board - block - rack - section), power supplies and equipment.

Thus, in contrast to the same ARPAnet, large-scale projects of the Department and Design Bureau, such as the creation of an automated control system, covered in a complex all aspects and aspects of the problem being solved and, accordingly, required the creative participation of many highly qualified specialists from various fields - physicists, radio engineers, technologists, circuit engineers, system engineers, mathematicians, programmers, etc.

There were unique groups of software and hardware developers, research, design and production teams, whose integral scientific and technical potential provided a comprehensive approach to the implementation of the most important government orders, which for many years became the key to successfully solving a number of strategic tasks for the development of domestic space technology in fundamental research and development. defense purposes. Created by T.N. Sokolov, the Department of IMS, NPO "Impulse", as well as affiliated departments and research and production associations are successfully operating at the present time and continue to develop.

Appendix.

Chronology and scope of relevant events

Dates/Years	Scale: event
	USSR: massive German air raids on Kronstadt, detection using the Redut-3 radar (LFTI) made it possible to minimize losses.
	USA: Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor base, heavy losses.
	USA - USSR: W. Churchill's speech at Fulton College, Missouri, marks the beginning of the "cold war" (the end of the period will come in 1991).
October 1949	Leningrad: in LPI im. M.I. Kalinin (LPI) at the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics (FMF) the department "Automatic motion control" was created. After 2 years, the department was headed by Professor Taras Nikolaevich Sokolov.
January 1952	LPI: the Faculty of Radio Engineering (RTF) was created, in its composition the Department No. 4, “Mathematical and Calculating Instruments and Devices”, became known as the “Sokolov Department”.
	Department of Sokolov: 1st graduation - 6 engineers, 2nd graduation - 15 engineers.
	Department of Sokolov: a series of AVMs "Model1" - "Model4" is being created to solve problems of automatic control of the movement of aircraft, missiles and torpedoes.
	USA-USSR: the years of the beginning and end of the "space race" period.
	Department of Sokolov: the beginning of work on the project "Quartz".
	Department of Sokolov: the first 2 problem laboratories have been created and are developing.
February 1958	USA: DARPA, an innovative defense projects agency, was created to coordinate, in particular, rocket and space research.
	USSR: ISZ-Z launched. For the processing of trajectory data received from the radar, POZU "Quartz" was used for the first time at 5 measuring points (IP).
	USA: President D. Eisenhower approves plans for the national space program. The national aerospace agency NASA is created.
	USSR: During this period, support for launches of rockets, "lunar" and satellite flights in the USSR is carried out using the "Quartz" POZU.
	USSR: Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN) were created. The concept of "combat duty" is being introduced and implemented in the Strategic Missile Forces.
	Department of Sokolov: development, implementation to replace "Quartz" and operation until 1975 of improved specialized ICM - "Temp-1".
	Department of Sokolov: development of the layout of the airborne missile VU "Mikron". Fundamentally new solutions have been found that laid the foundation for the future element base based on ferrite-ferrite boards (FPCs).
	USSR: Yu.A. Gagarin. The department provided data processing of the trajectory "Vostok-1" by machines "Quartz" and "Temp-1" at IP.
	USA: suborbital flight of American astronaut Alan Sheppard.
	LPI: the experimental design bureau "OKB LII" was created. Regardless of subsequent renaming, it will be known as the Sokolov Design Bureau.
	USA: Orbital flight (3 orbits) of American astronaut John Glenn.
	USSR - USA: a new phase of the space race (Moon Race) - US President John F. Kennedy announces the national project of landing a man on the moon.
	USSR: S.P. died. Korolev. The world learned the name of the General Designer.
	Department of Sokolov: the second renaming, the department receives a modern name - "Information and Control Systems" (IMS).
	T.N. Sokolov was appointed Chief Designer of the Automated Control System for the Strategic Missile Forces (ACS of the Strategic Missile Forces).
	USA: DARPA on the instructions of the DoD (DoD) is deploying work on the creation of a defense computer network (ARPAnet), which has become the "embryo" of the Internet.
	USA: "Apollo 1", the landing of astronauts N. Armstrong and E. Aldrin on the moon.
	USSR: Adopted by the ACS of the Strategic Missile Forces of the 1st generation (“OKB at LPI”),
	Design Bureau at LPI: to replace the Temp machines, a new generation ILM Buffer-IM (manufactured at the Kalinin plant) was created.
April 1972	USSR - USA: the Soyuz-Apollo project is the end of confrontation in space.
	Design Bureau at LPI: one of its subdivisions "OKB at LPI" is separated and acquires the status of a separate Design Bureau "Rainbow" as part of the NPO Krasnaya Zarya.
	OKB at LPI: transformation into OKB "Impulse" (Ministry of Higher Education of the RSFSR).
	USSR: the 2nd generation ASBU Strategic Missile Forces of the 2nd generation, created in cooperation with the Impulse Design Bureau and other organizations, was adopted.
	OKB "Impulse": a new basic logic element has been created to replace the FFE.
September 1979	T. I. Sokolov ended his life (04/17/1911-09/15/1979).
	International Organization for ISO Standards: EMBOS Open Systems Interoperability Reference Model (ISO/OSI) created.
	USSR: the 1st stage of the ASBU of the Strategic Missile Forces of the 3rd generation, created at the Impulse Design Bureau (in cooperation with other organizations), was put into operation.
	Department of IMS: the "subsidiary" department of KIT separated. Head prof. A.M. Yashin.
December 1991	USSR: the collapse of the state. As a result, the end of the Cold War period.
	Department of IMS: a "subsidiary" department of the RVKS was created. Head prof. SOUTH. Karpov.
	Russian Federation: the 2nd stage of the ASBU of the Strategic Missile Forces of the 3rd generation was put into operation - the development of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO "Impulse".
	FSUE NPO "Impulse": celebrating its 40th anniversary.
October 2012	SPbSPU: the Faculty of Technical Cybernetics (FTC) was reorganized into the current Institute of Information Technologies and Control (IITU).

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3. Roads to space. Memoirs of veterans of rocket and space technology. / Sat. articles in 2 volumes. - M.: MAI Publishing House, 1992.
4. Rapid takeoff. Formation and development of the scientific school of Professor T.N. Sokolova. / Sat. Art. under. ed. prof. V.S. Tarasov. - St. Petersburg: Publishing house of St. Petersburg State Technical University, 1995. - 184 p.
5. Mikhailov B.G., Petukhov V.E., "NPO "Impulse"" and large information and management systems. Scientific and technical statements of St. Petersburg State Technical University No. 1 (19). - St. Petersburg: Publishing house of St. Petersburg State Technical University, 2000. - p. 172-180.
6. At the turn of the millennium or "Impulse" yesterday, today, tomorrow. (On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Impulse) / Ed. Mikhailov B.G., Shpagin S.V. and others - St. Petersburg: 2001. - 207 p.
7. Chertok B.E. Rockets and people(in 4 volumes). Volume 3: Hot days of the cold war. 3rd ed. - M.: "Engineering", 2002. - 527 p.
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Mostly related to the second half of the 80s and early 90s of the last century.

Official names of the Polytechnic University (founded in 1899)

	1940-1967		Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin (LPI named after M.I. Kalinin)
	1967-1990		Leningrad Order of Lenin Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin (LPI named after M.I. Kalinin)
	03.04.1990-1991		Leningrad State Technical University (LSTU)
	1991-2002		St. Petersburg State Technical University (SPbSTU)
	16.04.2002-		St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbSPU)

Universities created on the basis of the faculties of the Polytechnic University

	1930		Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute
	1930
	1930		Moscow Aviation Institute (together with MSTU)
	1930		Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute
	1930		Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute
	1930		F. Engels Leningrad Institute of Soviet Trade
	1930		Moscow Transport and Economic Institute (together with MIIT)
	1930		Leningrad Higher Military Engineering School
	1930		Plant-VTUZ at the Leningrad Metal Plant
	1932		Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute
	1944?		Energy Institute of the Uzbek Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Tashkent), on the basis of which the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR was subsequently created

Numbers of study groups

In the 1980s-1990s, daytime study group numbers were three-digit, with an optional Russian letter at the end:

For example, group 192 is the first year of the RFF, the department of radiophysics, and group 486 is the fourth year of the FTC, the department of CAD.

And also at the RFF there were, for example, groups x91A, x91B and x91B.

Faculties

Number	Name	Reduction	old titles
1	Hydrotechnical
2	Electromechanical
3	Power engineering
4	Mechanical Engineering
5	Physical and mechanical	FMF
6	Physical and metallurgical
7	Economics and production management	FEUP
8	Faculty of Technical Cybernetics	FTC
9	Faculty of Radiophysics	RFF	Faculty of Radio Engineering (RTF, 1952-1959) Faculty of Radio Electronics (FRE, 1959-1974)
	Evening electro-radio engineering
	Evening Engineering

Army

In 1983-1989, full-time students of universities, including those with a military department, were called up for active military service in the USSR Armed Forces.

For some, it helped not to be expelled from the institute after a failed summer session. After returning from the army, one could either retake the failed exams or stay for a second year.

• Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On the dismissal from active military service of certain categories of conscripts" dated July 11, 1989
• Order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR N 341 of September 27, 1989 "On the transfer to the reserve of servicemen who have completed the established terms of active military service, and on the next call of citizens for active military service in October-December 1989."
• Certificate of being on academic leave in connection with the call to the USSR Armed Forces

Student Construction Squads (SSO)

In 1948, the first student construction teams in the USSR were created at the Institute. In the summer of 1982, more than 2,300 students of the institute worked at the SSO.

The detachments were divided into "near" (Leningrad and the Leningrad region) and "distant" (Siberia, etc.). In the "near" went to rest, in the "distant" - to earn.

Books about Polytech

• V.A. Smelov, V.V. Cheparukhin. 100 years of St. Petersburg Polytechnic. Our history - // Bridge. 1999. No. 3.
• St. Petersburg State Technical University. - Publishing House of St. Petersburg State Technical University, 1998. - 47 p.
• Historical information about the St. Petersburg State Technical University as a particularly valuable object of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation. Museum complex of urban planning, architecture, art, park construction, history of culture, science and technology. - St. Petersburg, 1997. - 35 p.
• The first 50 years of St. Petersburg State Technical University /V. I. Khozikov. - St. Petersburg: SPbGTU, 1999. - 349 p.
• V.A. Smelov. Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin. - L.: LPI, 1989. - 106 p.

Songs

• Anthem of Polytech (I love Polytech)
• Dubinushka (In the green Sosnovka there is an institute)
• Song of a radiophysics student (I won't deceive myself)
• Ballad about a student (The field is spread modulo five)
• goodbye scholarship

Artifacts

• Advertising leaflet for applicants of the Leningrad Order of Lenin Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin. - L., LPI im. M.I. Kalinina, 1983.

It is one of the largest and most famous technical universities in Russia. Invariably occupies a leading position in the ranking of technical universities in Russia.

The university includes 20 basic faculties, 6 faculties and additional education courses, branches in the cities of Cheboksary, Sosnovy Bor, Cherepovets. Provides the graduation of engineers in 101 specialties, bachelors and masters in 34 areas of science and technology, graduate students in 90 scientific specialties. As of January 1, 2007, 18,050 people studied full-time at the university, in total - more than 28,000 people. The teaching staff includes more than 20 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, over 500 professors, doctors of sciences.

SPbGUEF and SPbGMTU were formed on the basis of the faculties of the St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University.

The nearby Politekhnicheskaya Street and the Politekhnicheskaya metro station are named after the university.

Story

Founding 1899-1914

The construction of new buildings was continued in the late 70s - early 80s. Two dormitories were built along Grazhdansky Prospekt and Prospekt Nepokorennykh, a new academic building, a preparatory faculty building on Polyustrovskiy, and the building of the current Institute of International Educational Programs on Grazhdansky Prospekt.

New design bureaus are being created: OKB "Impulse" and a special design bureau for technical cybernetics (now - TsNII RTK).

In July 2007, the rector of the university, Mikhail Fedorov, told the Prime-tass news agency that within the framework of the national project Education, a research institute for new materials and technologies would be created on the basis of the institute. 520 million rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the construction of research institutes.

Titles

• 1899-1910 - St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute
• 1910-1914 - St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Peter the Great
• 1914-1922 - Petrograd Polytechnic Institute of Emperor Peter the Great
• 1922-1923 - First Petrograd Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin
• 1923-1924 - Petrograd Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin
• 1924-1930 - Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin (LPI named after M. I. Kalinin);
• 1930-1934 - divided into a number of independent institutions with subordination to the relevant sectoral ministries, which financed and supervised the training of personnel for their enterprises. Including: Leningrad Electromechanical Institute (LEMI), Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (LKI) and others.
• 1934-1940 - Leningrad Industrial Institute (LII)
• 1940-1990 - Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M. I. Kalinin (LPI named after M. I. Kalinin)
• 1990-1991 - Leningrad State Technical University (LSTU)
• 1991-2002 - St. Petersburg State Technical University (SPbSTU)
• Since April 16, 2002 - St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University.

Structure

See also ((SPbSPU))

The university includes 20 basic faculties, 6 faculties and additional education courses, an evening department, 3 branches, a scientific complex, a dispensary and recreation centers. The university campus is located in the northwest of the city; it includes 15 educational and 15 research and production buildings, 13 dormitories, 10 residential buildings, the House of Scientists and a sports complex.

Basic faculties

The basic faculties of SPbSPU are unofficially divided into 3 groups:

• Humanitarian and economic
• Technical
• Physical

Humanitarian and economic	Technical	Physical
Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM)	Faculty of Civil Engineering (ISF)	Faculty of Physics and Mechanics (FMF)
Faculty of Law	Faculty of Electromechanics (ElMF)	Faculty of Radiophysics (RFF)
Faculty of Humanities (GF)	Power Engineering Faculty (EnMF)	Faculty of Physics and Technology (FTF)
International Higher School of Management (IMSU)	Faculty of Technology and Materials Research (FTIM)	Faculty of Medical Physics and Bioengineering (FMedF)
Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​(FIA)	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (MMF)
Faculty of Technical Cybernetics (FTK)
Faculty of Integrated Security (FKB)
Faculty of Innovation (FI)

The design and construction was carried out by an architectural workshop under the direction of E. F. Wirrich. The project included a complex of buildings forming a self-contained campus similar to those that existed at Cambridge and Oxford. The complex included the main building, a chemical pavilion, two dormitories and a mechanical building. When designing the main building, Wirrich used the design of the Berlin Higher Technical School. The central part and the general plan of the building almost completely repeat the Berlin building.

The ceremonial laying of the buildings was carried out on June 18, 1900. Construction was carried out from 1900 to 1905. The construction of the main building was completed in 1902 .

The building was built in the neoclassical style, typical for St. Petersburg architecture of the late 19th century. A monumental white building with an H-shaped configuration. The interior layout, with all lecture halls facing southwest, maximizes the use of natural light.

SPbSPU Fundamental Library

The fundamental library of the university began its work simultaneously with its opening in 1902. As of 2004, more than 2,700 thousand items of storage were placed in the library's storage fund.

The composition of the library funds is determined by the disciplines studied, but in addition to the collections of literature traditional for a technical university in the natural, exact and applied technical sciences, the sections of the humanities are widely represented in it: history, law, economics, finance, etc. The library funds also include those transferred to it in gift of personal collections of scientists of the Institute. At different times, collections of books by S. Yu. Witte, professors of the Institute P. B. Struve, Yu. etc. The first hundred books were donated by V. I. Kovalevsky, a statesman and direct executor of the institute's organization project.

The SPbSPU Fundamental Library was the first library in Russia to receive a full-fledged high-speed Internet connection in 1995 and created its own Web server. It has developed an electronic catalog and a full-text database, which are available from the workplaces of librarians, reading rooms, departments and services of the university, as well as for Internet users around the world. Employees and students of the university have the opportunity to obtain information from international databases.

see also

Famous teachers

• Ioffe, Abram Fedorovich - the father of Soviet physics

Famous Alumni

• Ageev, Nikolai Vladimirovich - physicist, chemist and metallurgist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• Alikhanov, Abram Isaakovich - physicist
• Antonov, Alexei Konstantinovich - Minister of the Electrotechnical Industry of the USSR
• Antonov, Oleg Konstantinovich - aircraft designer
• Aristov, Averky Borisovich - party and public figure
• Asafov, Alexey Nikolaevich - submarine designer
• Beriev, Georgy Mikhailovich - aircraft designer
• Botvinnik, Mikhail Moiseevich - chess grandmaster, 6th world chess champion
• Bronstein, David Ionovich - chess grandmaster
• Granin, Daniil Alexandrovich - Soviet writer
• Dukhov, Nikolai Leonidovich - designer of armored vehicles, nuclear and thermonuclear weapons
• Zak, Alexander Naumovich - famous Russian economist
• Imyanitov, Ilya Moiseevich - physicist
• Izotov, Sergey Petrovich - designer of aircraft, rocket and tank engines.
• Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• Karataev, Guriy Sergeevich - Director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Earthmoving Engineering, Honored Builder of the RSFSR
• Kondrusevich, Tadeusz - Catholic Archbishop-Metropolitan of Minsk-Mogilev
• Koshkin, Mikhail Ilyich - creator of the tank T-34
• Kurchatov, Igor Vasilyevich - the father of the Soviet atomic project
• Lebedev, Viktor Nikolaevich - Director of Motovilikhinskiye Zavody
• Leskov, Alexander Vasilievich - metallurgist scientist and party leader
• Pankova, Tatyana Petrovna - People's Artist of the RSFSR
• Perumov, Nikolai Daniilovich - famous science fiction writer
• Polikarpov, Nikolai Nikolaevich - aircraft designer
• Sena, Lev Aronovich - physicist, discoverer of the effect of the same name, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
• Farfurin, Anatoly Nikanorovich - the largest specialist in ship armor and its production technology
• Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich - military leader and party leader
• Shklyarsky, Edmund Mechislavovich - leader of the Picnic group

Notes

Links

p o r Institutes and faculties SPbSPU
Humanitarian and economic	FEM MVSHU GF FUIT LF FIA
Technical