Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University ''' is a higher education institution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1803 by an edict of Emperor Alexander I. Saint-Petersburg State Forestry University is a state-owned higher education institution, giving undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate education; it trains, retrains, and provides professional development for, people with degrees for industry work, research and teaching in the field of forest management, timber industry, wood mechanical processing, forest chemical industry, wood-pulp and paper industry, hydrolysis industry; it carries out theoretical and applied research. The University is a leading science and methodology center for the network of forestry degree colleges of Russia.
History
The university was founded in 1803.
On May 19, 1803, a royal edict approved the Statute of Establishment for a Practical Forestry School in Tsarskoe Selo. In a number of official documents the college was termed the Tsarskoe Selo Forestry Institute.
In January 1811 the Tsarskoe Selo Forestry Institute was transferred to Saint Petersburg's north-bank Vyborg Side . After the Orloff Forestry Institute was added, it was renamed the Forst-Institut.
In 1813 the Forst-Institut was combined with Kozelsk Forestry Institute. The joint educational establishment was styled the Saint-Petersburg State Forestry Institute.
In 1826—1833 the architects I. F. Lucchini and A. Nellinger erected four separate academic buildings.
In 1829 the Forst-Institut was renamed the Forestry Institute, and the length of study was increased from 4 to 6 years, and it opened admission to children aged 10 to 14.
In 1837 the Saint-Petersburg Forestry Institute reformed into a military school named the Forestry and Surveying Institute.
In 1862 Forestry and Surveying Institute closed down, and the Forestry Academy was formed.
In 1863—1864 buildings of Agricultural Institute were transferred from Gora-Gorki to the Forestry Academy, and the Saint-Petersburg Agricultural Institute was set up with two departments: Agronomy and Forestry.
In 1865 the Forestry Academy closed down.
In November 1877 the Agronomy Department of the Agricultural Institute closed down in connection with the Forestry Department's transformation into Saint-Petersburg Forestry Institute
In 1914 the Saint-Petersburg Forestry Institute renamed the Petrograd Forestry Institute.
In 1924 it was renamed the Leningrad Forestry Institute.
On July 26, 1993, it was renamed the Sergey Kirov Saint Petersburg Forestry Academy.
On April 30, 1997, it was renamed the State Higher Education Institution Sergey Kirov Saint Petersburg Forestry Academy.
On February 10, 2011, it was granted the status of a university.
Structure
A division and 6 institutes of the university are located in four buildings on the grounds of an oldest park in the city with total area exceeding 65 hectares, founded in 1827.
Science and Humanities Division
Forest and Nature Management Institute
Timber Machines and Transportation Institute
Institute for Tree Biomass Chemical Processing and Technospheric Safety
Forestry Management and Economics Institute
Institute for landscape architecture, construction and wood processing
