Key facts & figures

  • 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.
  • In June, 2011 LETI celebrated its 125th anniversary.
  • 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.