1. St. Petersburg State University (English: St. Petersburg State University) is the first university in Russia. It was founded in 1724 by the decree of Peter the Great together with the Petersburg Academy of Sciences. St. Petersburg State University is the first university in the Russian-speaking world and a world-famous university.

It is a public research university, tied with Moscow State University as the highest institution of higher learning in Russia, and a member of the Coimbra Group, the European University Foundation, and the European University Association.

From 1821 to 1914, it was called "St. Petersburg Royal University".

From 1924 to 1991, it was called Leningrad University.

2. St. Petersburg University is an important scientific research, cultural and educational center in Russia. It has produced 9 Nobel Prizes and 3 Fields Medals, and has more than 600 academicians and corresponding academicians of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union and some professional academies of sciences.

Euler, Lomonosov, Mendeleev, Pavlov, Chebyshev, Bunyakovsky, Lenz, Gogol, and Perelman once taught here, and Storey

Ping, Lenin, Kerensky, Turgenev, Markov, Lyapunov, Popov, Landau, Putin and Medvedev studied here.