Saint Petersburg State University of Technology and Design

Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design is a public university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was founded in 1930. History Founded April 26, 1930 as the Leningrad Textile Institute, spun off from the Leningrad Institute of Technology. On November 6, 1930, the institute moved to its main educational and laboratory building located on Bolshaya Morskaya Street in Leningrad, where the first faculties - engineering and economic, technological - were established. In 1935, the first graduates graduated. In the 1930s, it was called the Academy of Light Industry named after T. S. M. Kirov. The new building of the academy was erected in 1936. There were 5 departments in the academy: printing, textile and sewing, tannery and footwear, food and chemical.In 1940 the academy was liquidated and its functions and property were given to other educational institutions.