Pushkin Leningrad State University (

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

: Ленинградский государственный университет имени А.С. Пушкина) is a university in Russia, located in

Pushkin, Saint Petersburg Pushkin (russian: Пу́шкин) is a municipal town in Pushkinsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located south from the center of St. Petersburg proper, and its railway station, Tsarskoye Selo, is directl ...

. It was established in 1992 as Leningrad Oblast Pedagogical Institute. It provides training at all levels of post secondary education including

bachelor degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ye ...

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

, PhD courses as well as

vocational training Vocational education is education that prepares people to work as a technician or to take up employment in a skilled craft or trade as a tradesperson or artisan. Vocational Education can also be seen as that type of education given to an ind ...

and

continuing education Continuing education (similar to further education in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland) is an all-encompassing term within a broad list of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United ...

courses. In 1999 the university was given its current name after the Russian poet

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

. It comprises the following Faculties: *Faculty of Economics and Investment *Faculty of Psychology *Faculty of Philology *Faculty of Special Education and Social Work *Faculty of History and Social Science *Faculty of Physical Education *Faculty of Philosophy Culture Studies and Arts *Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Studies *Faculty of Law *Faculty of Natural Science Geography and Tourism *Faculty of Foreign Language as well as 12 branches (institutes) and vocational college It is currently one of the largest classical universities in Russia

External links

Official website
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