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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the Periodic Law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered.
Etu is a form of boxing practiced in Flores, Indonesia.
Mikhail Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.
Constantin Dmitrievich Perskyi was a Russian scientist who is credited with coining the word television (télévision) in a paper that he presented in French at the 1st International Congress of Electricity, which ran from 18 to 25 August 1900 during the International World Fair in Paris. At the time, he was Professor of Electricity at the Artillery Academy of Saint Petersburg. His paper referred to the work of other experimenters in the field, including Paul Gottlieb Nipkow and Porfiry Ivanovich Bakhmetiev, who were attempting to use the photoelectric properties of selenium as the basis for their research in the field of image transmission.
Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance was a public university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was established in 1930 as Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics. In 2012, it united with Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics and Saint Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics to create Saint Petersburg State University of Economics. The campus of the university occupied the buildings of the former Russian Assignation Bank.
Saint Petersburg has always been known for its high-quality cultural life, and its best known museum is the Hermitage.
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" is a public university. It was founded in 1886 as a Technical College. LETI, as it is popularly called, received the status of a higher education institution in 1899 and became known as Electrotechnical Institute. The University has programs in fields of radio engineering, telecommunications, control processes, computer engineering and IT, electronics, biomedical engineering, management, and linguistics.
Aptekarsky Island is a relatively small island situated in the northern part of the Neva delta. It is separated from Petrogradsky Island by the Karpovka River, from Kamenny Island and Krestovsky Island by the Malaya Nevka and from the Vyborgskaya region of St-Petersburg by the Bolshaya Nevka. It has an area of approximately two square kilometres.
Ludwig Minkus, also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus, was an Austrian composer of ballet music, a violinist and teacher of music.
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.
Vladislav Alexandrovich Ivanov was a Soviet physicist and engineer, who proposed in 1959 the basic principles of magnetic resonance imaging, decades before this technique was demonstrated by Paul Lauterbur.
George de Bothezat was a Romanian-Russian American engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight.
Sergey Vladimirovich Fomin is a Russian American mathematician who has made important contributions in combinatorics and its relations with algebra, geometry, and representation theory. Together with Andrei Zelevinsky, he introduced cluster algebras.
Ivan Ivanovich Borgman was a physicist from the Russian Empire, who first demonstrated in 1897 that X-rays and radioactive materials induced thermoluminescence.
Yury Yurievich Boldyrev is a Russian economist and politician, he was a Senator from St. Petersburg from 1993 to 1995, and Deputy Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of Russia from 1995 to 2001. Boldyrev was one of the founders of the Yabloko party, but left in 1995.
Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan is a Russian film director and actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2009).
Boris Innokentievich Zubarev was a Russian physicist. Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Aleksandr I. Kolpakidi is a Russian writer and historian.
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