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sans-serif"><b>University of St. Petersburg</b></font><p> <font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=red><b>EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION</b></font><p> <p><p> <b>Location:</b><br><a href="/geo/838/000069631/" class=proflink>St. Petersburg, Russia</a><p> <b>Founding Date:</b><br>28-Jan-1724<p><b>Official Website:</b><br><a href="http://www.spbu.ru/">http://www.spbu.ru/</a><p><p><font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>STUDENTS</b></font><p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000114413/"><font size=-1>Alexander Blok</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Nov-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Russian Silver Age poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000024896/"><font size=-1>Joseph Conrad</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Aug-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Heart of Darkness</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000160233/"><font size=-1>Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Linear programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/103/000032007/"><font size=-1>Alexander Kerensky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1881</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Head of pre-Bolshevik Russian government</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/163/000159683/"><font size=-1>Nikolai Krylenko</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Government</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-May-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jul-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Soviet prosecutor executed during the Great Purge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000099496/"><font size=-1>Lev Landau</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Superfluidity of helium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/179/000022113/"><font size=-1>Vladimir Lenin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1870</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Revolutionary leader of Soviet Union</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/790/000029703/"><font size=-1>Osip Mandelshtam</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Acmeist Russian poet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/164/000168657/"><font size=-1>Dmitri A. Medvedev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Russia, 2008-12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/593/000091320/"><font size=-1>Dmitri Mendeleev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Periodic Table of the Elements</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/656/000087395/"><font size=-1>Ivan Pavlov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conditioned reflexes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000099554/"><font size=-1>Aleksandr M. Prokhorov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Invention of the maser and laser</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/693/000022627/"><font size=-1>Vladimir Putin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Head of State</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Oct-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of Russia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000100242/"><font size=-1>Nikolay Semyonov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Chemist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/371/000123002/"><font size=-1>Barbara Slavin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Journalist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1951</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sr. Diplomatic Reporter, USA Today</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/697/000055532/"><font size=-1>Ivan Turgenev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Author</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Sep-1883</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fathers and Sons</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000162624/"><font size=-1>Georgy Voronoy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Voronoi diagram</td> </tr> </table> <p><font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS</b></font><p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000159299/"><font size=-1>Daniel Bernoulli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1700</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Mar-1782</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Fluid dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/954/000048810/"><font size=-1>Leonhard Euler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1707</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Sep-1783</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>The Elements of Euclid</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000160233/"><font size=-1>Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Apr-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Linear programming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000042311/"><font size=-1>Mikhail Lomonosov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early father of Russian poetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000125765/"><font size=-1>Ilya Mechnikov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Researched the immune system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/656/000087395/"><font size=-1>Ivan Pavlov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1849</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Conditioned reflexes</td> </tr> </table> <p><font size=+1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES</b></font><p> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_administrator"> <tr><th><b>Name</b></th><th><b>Occupation</b></th><th><b>Birth</b></th><th>Death</b></th><th><b>Known for</b></th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000042311/"><font size=-1>Mikhail Lomonosov</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Poet</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1765</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early father of Russian poetry</td> </tr> </table> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=111314" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> 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