Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
| Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет | |
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| Type | University |
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| Established | 1832 |
| Rector | Evgeny Rybnov |
| Address | 2-nd Krasnoarmeiskaia St. 4, 190005 St. Petersburg, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Website | http://spbgasu.ru/main/index/eng |
Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPSUACE) (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (СПбГАСУ) ) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest architecture university in the country.
SPSUACE is the oldest higher education establishment of its profile in Russia. Its history goes back to 1832 when it was established pursuant to the edict of the Emperor Nicholas I as the Civil Engineering Institute. Since then the University has undergone transformations and changed its name several times. The present name was given to the University on June 21, 1993.
During the 179-year period of its existence SPSUACE has provided an excellent professional education for more than 60 000 architects and engineers including specialists who had come from over 50 foreign states. The graduates of the University have contributed a lot into the architectural outlook of Saint Petersburg and other cities of the world. Its academic staff has been well known thanks to such outstanding specialists - architects and designers - as D.I.Grimm, G.D.Grimm, V.A.Schröter, V.V.Evald, N.V.Sultanov, P.Yu.Suser, , A.I.Dmitriev, I.S.Kitner, G.P.Perederiy, K.V.Makovskiy, G.M.Maniser, to name just the few, as well as Senior Lecturers and Professors M.V.Ostrogradskiy, V.V.Ckobeltzin, E.H.Lentz, N.A.Belieliubskiy, N.A.Boguslavskiy, F.S.Yasinskiy, V.A.Gastev, C.N.Numerov, N.Ya.Panarin, P.I.Bozhenov, B.I.Dalmatov, L. М. Khidekel, S.M.Shifrin, N.F.Fiedorov and many others.
During the period after the WW II, the University`s graduates participated in the restoration of the city and industrial objects much destroyed by the enemy. The second half of the XX century was the time when professional knowledge and expertise, experience and traditions were accumulated, and highly qualified specialists in architecture and construction were entitled to start solving actual tasks in architecture, town-planning and creating a residence milieu adhering to the laws of aesthetics, functionality and safety. The economically hard period of so-called "perestroika" (1990s) was gone through relatively painlessly thanks to the selflessness and hard efforts made by the core staff and University administration under the guidance of Professor Ju.P.Panibratov who occupied then the post of the Rector. The university started working in the XXI century having become stronger: new faculties came into being, as well as new computer classes, scientific centres, cooperation agreements with other world`s leading universities and scientific institutions, which made the University ready for all kinds of transformations and changes if they were necessary. Since early XXI century the number of the SPSUACE graduates is over 1000 highly qualified professionals.
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