Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1886 |
| Rector | Vladimir Kutuzov |
| Students | 8,000 |
| Address | ul. Professora Popova 5, 197376 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation |
| Website | http://eltech.ru/en/university |
Coordinates: 59°58′21″N 30°19′21″E / 59.97250°N 30.32250°E
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина)) founded in 1886, and is one of the oldest higher education institutions in Saint Petersburg.
The University is a leader in the study of the fields of radio engineering, telecommunications, control processes, computer engineering and IT, electronics, biomedical engineering, management and linguistics.
The university is one of six in Saint Petersburg to still have a military department. It continues to be popular: many students enroll in order to "wipe out" or satisfy the requirement for compulsory military service.
A. S. Popov, the inventor of the radio, worked in this university. There is a memorial museum to A. S. Popov in the university. Z. I. Alferov, Nobel Laureate in Physics for his achievements in the field of heterostructure, also worked in this university. At one point he was a dean of the faculty of electrotechnics (now faculty of electronics).
There is a legend that V. I. Lenin once spent a night hiding from the police at the university. Now the room where he hid is unofficially called "Lenin's Lecture Hall".
In early Soviet years the university changed its title from "in the name of Emperor Alexander III" to "in the name of V. I. Lenin". This new title was awarded while Lenin was still alive, and required his personal permission. It was an honor for an institution to gain this prefix and only the best establishments had it.
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