In 1886 Technical College of Postal and Telegraph Services was founded in St. Petersburg.
In 1891 it was granted the institute status and became the first institute of higher education in Europe with major in electrical engineering.
In 1899 Institute was named as Electrotechnical Institute of Emperor Alexander III.
In 1987 Institute started to work on educational programs in fields of radio engineering, electronics, automation, medical and biological engineering for 175 Russian institutes of higher education.
In 1992 it was granted the university status and was renamed as St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University (SPb ETU "LETI").
In 1993 LETI was the first in Russia to graduate PR specialists on Faculty of Humanities.
In 1999 Faculty of Economics and Management was organized in LETI.
In 2000 Zhores Alferov, a Chairman of Department of Optoelectronics of LETI, was the winner of Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 2011 LETI was recommended as one of two coordinators of national educational program of Nanotechnology Network.
University campus today includes 7 buildings, which are located in the city center near Botanical garden of Russian Academy of Sciences; 7 student dormitories are located in the neighborhood.
There are about 120 school laboratories with the floor space over 9 000 square meters and 160 lecture rooms with a total area about 10 000 square meters.
The library of LETI contains more than 1,2 million publications.
There are 7 faculties in St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University.
LETI provides education in 19 scientific fields for Bachelors and 53 educational programs for Masters.
There are 9 Dissertation committees in 24 scientific fields in LETI. There are 8 teacher research schools and two of them have a status of leading scientific schools in Russia.
Today the staff of LETI includes about 2300 people with more than 200 professors and PhDs, over 700 candidates of science, 20 laureates of national and international Prizes, 5 correspondent members of Russian Academy of science.
In 2010-2011 70 monographies, 11 textbooks and 263 educational publications were released by the staff of our University.
About 9 000 students, including international students from different countries, study in LETI simultaneously.
LETI has graduated 3550 Bachelors and Masters, 370 candidates of science and 5 PhDs from over 100 different countries.
More than 40 high-technological enterprises and research organizations of St. Petersburg are in strategic cooperation with LETI.
65 universities and institutes from over 20 countries are LETI`s partners in educational activity.
