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      🖼 Polytechnic History Museum

      Политехническая улица, 29, корп. 2Д

      The museum of the university of Witte, Ioffe and Kapitsa: instruments, documents and the story of the "polytechnic town".

      • The institute was founded on 19 February 1899 on the instruction of Finance Minister Sergei Witte; Dmitri Mendeleev helped organise it.
      • Classes began in autumn 1902 in four departments: economics, electromechanics, shipbuilding and metallurgy.
      • After Bloody Sunday in 1905, classes were suspended until autumn 1906.
      • In 1909 the Aeronautics Courses opened here — Russia's first aviation school.
      • In 1911 Russia's first higher automobile school appeared here.
      • From 1934 to 1940 the university was called the Leningrad Industrial Institute.

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      • The Polytechnic, Sosnovka and the Benois garden
      • The Polytechnic Campus among the Pines

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