st. petersburg

City: Saint Petersburg Study fees details in Saint Petersburg State university St. Petersburg University was founded in 1819, though some local scholars suggest a much earlier date. One of the most prominent universities in Russia, it has received international recognition thanks to the chemist Dmitry I. Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table of Elements), the physicist Alexander S. Popov (who invented the radio simultaneously with Marconi) and many other major scholars. Among the alumni of the school were many important figures of Russian culture and politics: the writers Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Ivan Turgenev, the poet Alexander Blok, prime minister and reformer