University of Culture and Arts, St. Petersburg State

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UNIVERSITY OF CULTURE AND ARTS, St. Petersburg State, located at 2 Palace Embankment and 4 Palace Embankment, was established in 1918 as the first Russian Institute for extra-curriculum education. It became the N. K. Krupskaya Institute of Political Education in 1924, being the Communist Institute for Political Education from 1925 to 1941. It was the Library Institute in 1941-64. From 1965 to 1994 it became the N. K. Krupskaya State Institute of Culture. It became the St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture in 1995. It has carried the present-day name since 1999. In 2002, the university consisted of the following faculties: the Library-Information Faculty; the Faculty of Cultural Studies; the Faculty of Arts; the Faculty of Museum Science and Excursion Work; the Faculty of History of the Russian Culture; the Faculty of Culture of Family and Childhood; the Faculty of Management and Economics; the Faculty of Social and Cultural Technology; the Faculty of the History of World Culture; the Faculty of Information Technology and Media Design; the Faculty of Variety Art and Artistic Communication; the Faculty of Producing; the Faculty of Distance Education; the Faculty of Music Training; the Faculty of People's Instrumental Art. The university also has extramural and preparatory departments. The buildings of the university are of historical and architectural importance, dating from the end of the 18th century to the first half of the 19th century: house 2 was the house of I. I. Betskoy, 1784-87; house 4, the house of N. I. Saltykov, 1784-88, J. Quarenghi was the architect.

References: Русская культура и высшая школа: Тез. межвуз. науч. конф., посвящ. 75-летию С.-Петерб. гос. акад. культуры. СПб., 1993; Указатель содержания научных трудов Санкт-Петербургской государственной академии культуры (1956-1993 гг.). СПб., 1996.

А. P. Kupaygorodskaya. Betskoy (Betsky) Ivan Ivanovich
Krupskaya Nadezhda Konstantinovna
Quarenghi Giacomo
Saltykov Nikolay Ivanovich
Dvortsovaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Dvortsovaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Указатель содержания научных трудов Санкт-Петербургской государственной академии культуры (1956-1993 гг.). СПб., 1996
Русская культура и высшая школа: Тез. межвуз. науч. конф., посвящ. 75-летию С.-Петерб. гос. акад. культуры. СПб., 1993