Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance

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Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет экономики и финансов) was established in 1930 as Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (Ленинградский финансово-экономический институт; hence the colloquial name "Финэк" (Finec)). Since 1990 the university occupies the first place in the official ranking of Russian higher economic educational establishments (ranking of the Russian Ministry of Education). The campus of the university occupies the buildings of the former Currency Bank, which were designed by the famous Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.

History

Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics (LFEI) was created on the basis of the restructured economic faculty of Saint Petersburg Politechnical Institute on the 3 of June 1930. First students were admitted to the Institute in september 1930.

LFEI was enlarged several times, by merging first with the Moscow Institute of Finance and Economics in 1934, then in 1940 with Higher Institute of Finance and Economics (Leningrad) and Financial Academy (Leningrad).

During the World War II the Institute was evacuated first to Essentuki and then to Tashkent. Finec renewed its operations in Leningrad on the 1 of September 1944.

In 1954 LFEI was merged with Leningrad Planning Institute. In 1963 it was named after Russian economist and politician Nikolai Voznesensky. From 1966 to 1991 Yuri Lavrikov was rector of the institute.

On 23 of September 1991 by the decree of the Council of Ministers of RSFSR N.A. Voznesenski Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance was renamed Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. During the post-soviet years the University has firmly established itself among the leaders of the Russian economic schools, being the first in the official ratings of the Russian Ministry of Education for more than a decade. In october 1991 L. Tarasevich has become the rector of the University. In december 2006 Igor Maksimtsev was elected as the new rector.

At present the university enrolls about 13,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, who are given instruction at 11 faculties and 40 departments. Every department provides different specializations, the list of which is revised annually in accordance with the changing conditions of the labor market. Its teaching staff numbers 850, 80% of whom have advanced academic degrees. The latest methods of teaching, modern technologies, and both domestic and foreign experience in the fields of economic organization are used in the academic process.

Notable people

Andrey Illarionov - former adviser of the President of Russia

Alexey Miller - President of the GazProm corporation

Vladimir Alhimov - Head of the State Bank of USSR

Yuri Boldirev

Dmitry Vasil'ev

Mikhail Dmitriev

Alfred Koch

Mikhail Manevich

Faculty

External links

* [http://www.finec.ru/eng/index.htm Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance official site]