The 300th Anniversary of the Saint Petersburg State University

Obverse

a relief image of the National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation, above it along the rim the inscription in a semicircle ‘РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ’ (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) framed with paired diamonds on both sides, under the coat of arms are the chemical symbol and fineness of the metal on the left and fine metal content and the mint mark on the right, at the bottom centre in three lines are the inscription ‘БАНК РОССИИ’ (BANK OF RUSSIA), the coin denomination ‘3 РУБЛЯ’ (3 RUBLES), and the year of issue ‘2024 г.’ (2024).

Reverse

relief images of the main building of the Saint Petersburg State University and its symbol framed with a line pattern, laser treated for matte finishing; and the relief inscriptions ‘САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ’ (SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY’) at the top around the circumference and ‘осн. в 1724 г.’ (founded in 1724) at the bottom.

Authors

Designers: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), O.G. Shepel (reverse).
Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), A.N. Bessonov (reverse).
Mint: Saint Petersburg Mint (СПМД).
Edge: 300 corrugations.

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The Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU) is one of the largest academic and educational centres in Europe and worldwide. Founded in 1724 by the Decree of Emperor Peter the Great, it is the only university in Russia that has marked its 300th anniversary.

The University has been home to thousands of prominent scientists, public, government and political figures, writers, artists, and musicians. Among them are Dmitri Mendeleev, Alexander Popov, Ivan Turgenev, Pyotr Stolypin, Ivan Pavlov, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Vasily Dokuchaev, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Glinka, Nicholas Roerich, Lev Landau, Leonid Kantorovich, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev to name just a few. The University’s graduates won the Nobel Prize multiple times.

Today, the University teaches more than 20,000 students and accommodates over 15 large laboratories and 23 resource centres of the leading Russian Research Park. The SPbU’s library complex is the best university library in Russia which is on a par with the libraries of the world’s top ten universities in terms of the number of printed publications, rare books, manuscripts, and electronic sources.

The main building of the Saint Petersburg State University, the Twelve Collegia, is an architectural monument of the 18th century.

Source: https://spbu.ru