Telecommunications University

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TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNIVERSITY, Professor Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State Telecommunications University situated at 61 Moika River Embankment. It was founded as the Leningrad Institute of Communications Engineers in 1930 and named as the Professor Bonch-Bruevich Leningrad Electrotechnical Communications Institute in 1940-92. It received its present-day name in 1993. It is one of the largest centres for training engineers of radio and electric communications and radio electronics. Among its members were B. M. Bulakh, V. I. Velichutin, M. P. Dolukhanov, I. M. Zhdanov, I. G. Klyatskin, A. D. Kratirov, A. L. Mints, A. A. Pistolkors, B. L. Rosing, V. I. Siforov, V. V. Tatarinov, and P. V. Shmakov. There were the following departments in 2002: communications networks, switching and computer systems, multichannel telecommunications, radio communications and broadcasting, communications and biomedical electronics technologies, radio engineering, economics and management, humanities, mixed studies combining full-time and evening courses, and evening and correspondence courses. A Department for Basic Training was established under the chairs of higher mathematics, physics, and circuit theory. There is also a Centre of Pre-entrant Education with preparatory courses, university lyceum, basic schools, and minor departments under its control. The university takes part in joint international programs and cooperates with foreign universities. It is situated in the former M. F. Ruadze's apartment house and assembly hall, originally designed by architect A. Robin in 1851 and built by architects N. P. Grebenka and R. A. Zhelyazevich. Ruadze's Hall later renamed Kononov's Hall accommodated soirees of the Literature Fund featuring F. M. Dostoevsky, N. A. Nekrasov, N. G. Chernyshevsky, and other writers, as well as concerts and theatre performances.

Reference: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций им. проф. М. А. Бонч-Бруевича, 1930-2000: 70 лет. СПб., 2000; Связисты СПб ГУТ и телекоммуникации XXI века: Юбил. науч. конф.: Сб. тр. СПб., 2001.

А. P. Kupaygorodskaya. Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich
Bulakh B.M.
Chernyshevsky Nikolay Gavrilovich
Dolukhanov M.P.
Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Grebenka Nikolay Pavlovich
Klyatskin I.G.
Kratirov A.D.
Minz Alexander Lvovich
Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeevich
Pistolkors Alexander Alexandrovich
Robin Adrian
Rosing Boris Lvovich
Ruadze Maria Fedorovna
Shmakov Pavel Vasilievich
Siforov Vladimir Ivanovich
Tatarinov Vladimir Vasilievich
Velichutin V.I
Zhdanov Ivan Mikhailovich
Zhelyazevich Rudolf Andreevich
Moika River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 61
Связисты СПб ГУТ и телекоммуникации XXI века: Юбил. науч. конф.]: Сб. тр. СПб., 2001
Ленингр. электротехн. ин-т связи им. проф. М. А. Бонч-Бруевича. - Л. 1980.
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет телекоммуникаций им. проф. М. А. Бонч-Бруевича, 1930-2000: 70 лет. СПб., 2000