Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого, romanized: Sankt-Peterburgskiy politekhnicheskiy universitet Petra Velikogo), abbreviated as SPbPU (СПбПУ), is a public technical university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The university houses one of the country's most advanced research labs in hydro–aerodynamics. The university's alumni include Nobel Prize winners, such as Pyotr Kapitsa and Zhores Alferov, physicists and atomic weapon designers such as Yulii Khariton, Nikolay Dukhov, Abram Ioffe, Aleksandr Leipunskii, and Yakov Zeldovich, aircraft designers and aerospace engineers, such as Yulii Khariton, Oleg Antonov, Nikolai Polikarpov, and Georgy Beriev, and chess grandmasters, such as David Bronstein.

Type

National research university

Founded

1899

Students

30,197

Also known as

Saint Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University