State University of Technology and Design, St. Petersburg

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STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN, St. Petersburg (SUTD) (18 Bolshaya Morskaya Street) was founded in 1930 as the Institute of Textile and Light Industry (in 1935 it was named after S.M. Kirov). It received its present day name in 1992. The university teaches its students to be technologists, constructors, designers and economists; and prepares them for industrial undertakings, as well as work in studios and fashion houses. In 2002 the working faculties included clothing design and technology, textile, chemistry, technology and mechanical engineering, natural science and humanities, as well as economics. The institutes incorporated to SUTD include those of footwear, accessories and design, traditional Russian indigenous crafts, and the Northwest press. Buildings for SUTD were constructed originally for the Russian Bank of External Trade in 1915-16 (architect L.N. Benois, F.I. Lidval; completed by an alternate project in 1929-30).

Reference: Вклад Ленинградского института текстильной промышленности в развитие отрасли: Материалы науч.-техн. конф., посвящ. 60-летию ин-та. Л., 1990.

А. P. Kupaygorodskaya. Benois Leonty Nikolaevich
Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Lidval Fedor (Iogan Friedrich) Ivanovich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 18
Вклад Ленинградского института текстильной промышленности в развитие отрасли: Материалы науч.-техн. конф., посвящ. 60-летию Ин-та. Л., 1990 Russian Bank for Foreign Trade