St. Petersburg State University.1724年創建，是俄羅斯最早建立的大學之一，是著名的綜合性大學，也是俄羅斯教育、科學和文化中心之一。世界最優秀的大學之一，世界排名在70位。是世界知名的眾多學派的源頭，也是進步的社會運動的重大中心之一。

It is disputed by the university administration whether Saint Petersburg State University or Moscow State University is the oldest higher education institution in Russia. While the latter was established in 1755, the former, which has been in continuous operation since 1819, claims to be the successor of the university established along with the Academic Gymnasium and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences on January 24, 1724 by a decree of Peter the Great.

聖彼得堡國立大學（俄語：Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет）位於俄羅斯聖彼得堡，是該國最古老的教育機構之一。

聖彼得堡國立大學在1924年至1948年和1989年至1991年間稱為列寧格勒國立大學，1948年至1989年間稱為A·A·日丹諾夫列寧格勒國立大學。1904年獲諾貝爾生理學醫學獎的巴甫洛夫，也是聖彼得堡大學的畢業生。他創立了高級神經活動的唯物主義學說、現代最大的生理學派和生理學研究新方法

曾任教於此的學者萊昂哈德·歐拉.尼古萊·果戈理切比雪夫巴甫洛夫埃黎耶·埃黎赫·梅契尼可夫德米特里·伊萬諾維奇·門捷列夫納森·羅森

知名校友.克倫斯基.馬爾可夫.屠格涅夫.普京.列寧.眾所周知的俄羅強人斯普京就是這所學校的高材生,佛拉迪米爾·佛拉迪米羅維奇·普京（：Влади́мир Влади́мирович Пу́тин，IPA：[vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪr vɫɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn.

Saint Petersburg State University (SPbGU, Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, СПбГУ) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg. It is the oldest and one of the largest universities in Russia.

It is made up of 22 specialized faculties, 13 research institutes, the Faculty of Military Studies, the Academic Classical School, the Medical College, the College of Physical culture and Sports, Economics and Technology and the Department of Physical Culture and Sports. As of 2014, the university has a teaching staff of 5,800. The university has two primary campuses: one on Vasilievsky Island and the other in Peterhof. During the Soviet period, it was known as Leningrad State University (Russian: Ленинградский государственный университет), in 1948–1989 named after Zhdanov.

 St. Petersburg State University.

First Russian Business School Enters Top 50 of Financial Times Global Ranking.

St. Petersburg State University has become the first Russian institution to enter the top 50 of a Financial Times global ranking of business schools.

The English-language Masters in Management program at St. Petersburg State University's Graduate School of Management placed 46th in the survey, up from 56th last year and 65th in 2013.

The 2015 Masters in Management rankings, published Sunday, were topped for the third year by the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, followed by HEC Paris and the ESSEC Business School in France.