Herzen University The Herzen State Pedagogical University

Herzen University

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) • one of the largest universities in Russia; • 20 faculties and more than 100 departments; • named after the Russian writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen; Alexander Herzen • 13 May 1797 (B-day);

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) The Imperial Foundling House developed as a complex educational establishment carrying progressive ideas of upbringing based upon charity and patronage; The Imperial Foundling House foundling orphans, disabled children, and children from failed marriages;

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) basis for women's pedagogical education; 1837 - the "Women's Foundling Institute"; After 1885 it was called Nicholas' Foundling House; the Women's Pedagogical Institute – 1903; Students and Professors in the Women's Pedagogical Institute Chemical Laboratory, 1915

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) The first Russian pedagogues for deaf children were educated and their first works on the subject were created here; In 1864, a pedagogical seminary was created for countryside students; M. V. Chistyakov, V. A. K. D. Ushinsky Zolotov, K. D. Ushinsky had an influence on restructuring the departments of the foundling house;

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) In 1918 - the First Pedagogical Institute; the first higher education facilities in Russia that specialized in pre-school and primary school education and defectology.

People who worked in Herzen University Kurchatov, the father of the Russian nuclear physics school; professor A. Gershun, the founder of the optical industry; the astronomer S. Glasenapp; academician V. Ipatieff, an army general and a chemist; A. Fersman, the pioneer of geochemistry, professor V. Perekalin, P. Kapterev, V. Soroka-Rossinsky, and A. Pinkevich; chemists V. Verkhovsky, and A. Favorsky, L. Vygotsky the botanist V. Komarov, geographers V. Semenov-Tian-Shansky and Yu. Shokalsky, physiologists L. Orbeli and K. Bykov, the mathematician G. Fikhtengolts, historians E. Tarle, V. Struve, A. Presnyakov, S. Oldenburg, B. Grekov, philologists S. Ozhegov, L. Scherba, V. Zhirmunsky, N. Marr, writers M. Gorky and E. Zamyatin, and many others.

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) The University employs: more 1700 scholars; 1000 of whom hold Candidate of Science degrees; 300 are Doctors of Science; 6 are academicians; 9 are corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education; 23 are Honoured Scientists of the Russian Federation; n 2012 Professor A. Grib, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, was awarded the gold medal by the Telesio-Galilei Academy of Science (TGA 2012)

The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (formerly Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute) Famous graduates: N. Zabolotsky, A. Kushner, V. Sangi, A. Chepurov, L. Reznikov, A. Morozov, L. Egorova; 15 January 1998 Herzen University was included in the list of the State Corpus of Heritage Sites in Russia; N. Zabolotsky

HERZEN UNIVERSITY TODAY 5 institutes; 21 faculties; 3 affiliations in the towns of Volkhov, Vyborg, and Makhachkala; over 130 departments; 3 research centers; 27 educational and cultural centers including the Linguistic Center, the DAAD Resource Center, and the St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation.

HERZEN UNIVERSITY TODAY 57 educational programs integrated in 10 groups (32 Bachelor’s programs, 2 Specialist programs and 23 Master’s programs) programs in Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences;

HERZEN UNIVERSITY TODAY Faculty Institute • Institute of Childhood Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy Faculty of Fine Arts • Institute of the People of the North Faculty of Biology Faculty of Life Safety • Institute of Natural Science Institute of Foreign Languages Faculty of Information Technologies Faculty of Russian as a Foreign Language • Institute of International Relations Faculty of Special Education • Institute of the Humanities Faculty of Mathematics Institute of Economics and Management • Institute of Postgraduate Education Faculty of Physics Faculty of Music Institute of Economics and Management • Research Institute of Continuous Teacher Education • Research Institute of General Education Faculty of Law Faculty of Geography CENTERS Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Physical Education • St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation Faculty of Human Philosophy • DAAD Information Center in St. Petersburg Faculty of Philology • American Studies Resource Center Faculty of Chemistry • Chinese Cultural Center Faculty of Technology and Entrepreneurship • Center of Spanish-speaking Cultures • Center of Portuguese Language and Literature • Cultural and Educational Center «Fennoskandia»

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