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State Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg


Categories / Science. Education/Educational Institutions

STATE INSTITUTE (UNIVERSITY) OF FINE MECHANICS AND OPTICS, St. Petersburg (14 Sablinskaya Street) was founded in 1930 on the basis of the Technical School of Fine Mechanics and Optics. In 1994, it received university status and its present-day name. The university prepares workers for the technology industry in the fields of optics and optoelectronics, informatics, computing techniques, laser techniques, etc. In 2002, there were the faculties of information technologies and programming, computer technologies and management, optical informational systems and technologies, physical engineering, natural science, fine mechanics and technologies, and humanities. The university includes the Institute of Complex Military Education and the Instrument Technical School. The university also houses the Petersburg Branch of the Russian Federal University Computer Network and the Petersburg Association of Internet Education. One of its buildings is the former House for State Institutions (49 Kronverksky Avenue; 1912-13, architects M.M. Peretyatkovich, M.S. Lyalevich).

References: Жаров А. Ф., Потеев М. И. Ленинградский ордена Трудового Красного Знамени институт точной механики и оптики: (Крат. ист. очерк). СПб., 1992; ИТМО: годы и люди. СПб., 2000.

А. P. Kupaygorodskaya.

Persons
Lyalevich Marian Stanislavovich
Peretyatkovich Marian Marianovich

Addresses
Kronverksky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 49
Sablinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14

Bibliographies
ИТМО: годы и люди. СПб., 2000
Жаров А. Ф., Потеев М. И. Ленинградский ордена Трудового Красного Знамени институт точной механики и оптики: (Крат. ист. очерк). СПб., 1992

The subject Index
Municipal Institutions Buildings (entry)



Grivtsova Lane

GRIVTSOVA LANE, running from the Moyka River Embankment to Sennaya Square. Starting in 1739, the lane was known as Malaya Sarskaya Street. From the 1770s to 1871, the section extending to the Ekaterininsky Canal was called Konny Lane

Kronverksky Avenue

KRONVERKSKY AVENUE, between Troitskaya Square and Mytninskaya Embankment, on the Petrogradskaya Side; its semicircular arch includes the territory of Alexandrovsky Park. The avenue was constructed in the first half of the 18th century

Municipal Institutions Buildings (entry)

MUNICIPAL INSTITUTION BUILDINGS. Buildings intended to house various institutions (education committees, military enlistment, sanitary and medical committees); subject to the City Duma and City Government

Nepokorennykh Avenue

NEPOKORENNYKH AVENUE translated as the Avenue of the Unconquered, a part of the central ring road running between Muzhestva Square and Piskarevsky Avenue and crossing Kushelevka and Piskarevka

Petrogradsky District

PETROGRADSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg, with its administration located at 19 Bolshaya Monetnaya Street. The district was formed in 1917, and in 1936 the Primorsky District was separated from its territory