Metadata: St. Petersburg State University
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg State University
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет
- Postal address:
- 199034, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia nab., d. 7-9, lit. С
- Phone number:
- (812) 328-96-68
- Email:
- spbu@spbu.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- St. Petersburg State University
- Title (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет
- Creator/accumulator:
- St. Petersburg State University
- Date(s):
- 1917/2012
- Language:
- Russian
- German
- Extent:
- 50,000 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
[The fonds is constantly supplemented with new documents, and is being processed; information given is as of October 2016.]
[See also the description of f. 14 (“Petrograd University”) of the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg (TsGIA SPb) and f. R-7240 (“The A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad Order of Lenin State University”) of the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg (TsGA SPb).]
The fonds contains a considerable set of personal files of professors, teachers, researchers, graduate students, students and auditors of Petrograd State University / Leningrad State University, including autobiographical statements, questionnaire forms, personnel records, diplomas and certificates, curricula vitae, lists of research works, extracts from minutes of sessions of various university councils and commissions, informational documents, reports, financial documents, correspondence with university administrators, etc. The materials include personal files of scholars whose research activity was related to the study of Jewish history and culture, in particular, D. A. Abramovich (1932-36), V. G. Admoni (1936-37), M. S. Al’tman (1930s), V. N. Beneshevich (1934-37), V. G. Tan-Bogoraz (1919-30), N. Ia. Bykhovskii (1919-24), L. I. Gessen (1928-31), M. S. Ginzburg (1922), M. M. Gitlits (1937), S. M. Gol’dshtein (1919-25), S. O. Gruzenberg (1924-29), S. M. Dudin (1918-26), G. Ia. Krasnyi-Admoni (1921-27), I. M. Kulisher (1904-33), A. M. Kulisher (1918-19), S. G. Lozinskii (1937-38), D. G. Maggid (1924-25), S. E. Malov (1932-38), N. V. Pigulevskaia (1921-23), A. I. Tiumenev (1921-25), S. A. Uspenskii (1937-39), O. D. Khvol’son (1876-1931), L. Ia. Shternberg (1918-27), and others. The fonds also contains personal files of students and auditors of Petrograd State University / Leningrad State University; these include documents that pertain to the history of Jews in Russia, including birth certificates signed by rabbis, diplomas from Jewish educational institutions, certificates regarding the honorary citizenship of students’ parents; etc., including in the personal files of A. E. Gluskina (1921), Sh. Sh. Erman (1917-18), Sussmann Kisselhof (1918), I.-G. Ia. Melamed (1921), A. A. Shlisser (1917-18), G. M. Shneur (1921), and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The university was established by imperial decree on 8 February 1819; it was founded on the basis of the Main Pedagogical Institute. At its inception, it operated according to the stipulations of a special document titled “Initial Education of St. Petersburg University” and the charter of the Main Pedagogical Institute, from January 1824 the charter of Moscow University and from 1835 on the all-Russian university bylaws. It opened on 14 February 1819, having kept the departmental structure of the Pedagogical Institute (departments of philosophy and law, history and philology, and physics and mathematics). In 1914, it was given the honorary name “Imperial”; from 1917, it was called the University of Petrograd and beginning in 1920, Petrograd State University. Added to its structure were the History and Philology Institute (1918), the Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Institute (1924) and the Geography Institute (1925). In January 1924, it was renamed Leningrad State University (LGU). In the 1920s, the departmental structure underwent frequent reorganisation and was abolished in 1931. In 1933, simultaneously with the university’s naming for the Soviet political and military figure A. S. Bubnov, a new departmental structure was approved. Four departments were restored: physics and mathematics, biology, chemistry, and geology/soil/geography; the rest of the decade saw the formation or restoration of the history (1934), philology (1937), geography (1938) and economics and philosophy (1940) departments. The university was awarded the Order of Lenin in February 1944. In October 1948, it was renamed the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad Order of Lenin State University. In 1969, the university was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. In February 1992, it was renamed St. Petersburg State University.
- Access points: locations:
- St Petersburg
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes 390 series arranged chronologically, alphabetically and by structure; the inventories are not numbered, except for op. 1.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
