Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen (Russian State
Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen, Herzen University) is
one of the leading pedagogical higher educational institutions of the
Russian Federation. Since January 1, 2015, the full official name is the
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education
“Russian State Pedagogical University named after I.I. A. I. Herzen. The
only pedagogical university included in the "Top-100" universities in
Russia according to the magazine "Expert" (45th place, 2015).
The
university is named after the Russian writer, politician and philosopher
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen.
In 1797, the St. Petersburg Orphanage, by order of Emperor Paul I,
was equalized in rights with the Moscow branch of the Orphanage (the
institutions had existed since 1764). In the same 1797, he was taken
under the patronage of Empress Maria Feodorovna, who gave significant
scope to the care of orphans. RGPU them. A. I. Herzen, considering
himself the successor of the ideas and values of the Orphanage,
considers 1797 to be the date of its foundation.
In the
Orphanage, orphans were given not only food and shelter, but also a
profession. Here the foundations of female pedagogical education were
laid: classes were created for the training of governesses, mentors,
teachers of music, languages, callisthenia (physical education). In
1837, the classes were reorganized into the Orphan Institute, which
received the name of Emperor Nicholas I in 1855. For girls from
heterogeneous families, the Alexandrinsky Orphan Institute was created,
which in 1905 became the first women's vocational school to train
nannies, milliners, and teachers for primary heterogeneous schools.
In 1903, on the basis of the commercial pedagogical courses of the
Orphanage, the Higher Women's Pedagogical Institute was established
(since 1912 - the Imperial Institute). He produced subject teachers for
gymnasiums. This institute became the country's first state institution
of higher education for women.
In 1918, on the basis of the
Orphanage, by order of the People's Commissariat of Education, the Third
Petrograd Pedagogical Institute was founded, which began to graduate
thousands of teachers annually for newly created schools. In 1920, the
Institute was named after A. I. Herzen. In 1922-1923, the 1st and 3rd
Pedagogical Institutes were merged into the Petrograd State Pedagogical
Institute named after A. I. Herzen.
The scientific and
educational work of the Institute did not stop even during the years of
military trials of the Great Patriotic War. In 1942, the Academy of
Communist Education named after N. K. Krupskaya was attached to the
institute. He was evacuated to the Urals in the city of Kyshtym. In the
post-war years, the institute turned into the largest teacher training
center in the USSR.
In 1957, the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute
named after M.N. Pokrovsky was merged with the Institute named after
A.I. Herzen.
January 21, 1991 LGPI them. A. I. Herzen was
certified as a university and received the name "Russian State
Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen."
In 1993, the
university became one of the first universities in Russia to start an
experiment on the introduction of a multi-level system of higher
education.
There are more than 30 scientific schools at Herzen
University.
In 2014, the Expert RA agency included the university in the list of
the best higher educational institutions of the Commonwealth of
Independent States, where it was assigned a rating class "D".
In
2019, the university entered the Times Higher Education (THE) University
Impact Rankings 2019, where it took 101-200 positions.
In 2022,
the university entered the Three Missions of the University
International Ranking, where it took a position in the range of
1301-1400 (63-71 places among Russian universities).
Also in
2022, it took 36th place in the RAEX ranking "100 best universities in
Russia" and 40th place in the ranking of the influence of Russian
universities (RAEX), 2022.
In the RAEX subject rankings, the
university is included in the lists of the best universities in 4 areas
of training: teacher education, geography, linguistics and foreign
languages, and psychology.
institutions
Institute of Oriental Studies
Childhood Institute
Institute of Defectological Education and Rehabilitation
University
of the Foreign languages
Institute of Information Technology and
Technological Education
Institute of History and Social Sciences
Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography
Institute of the Peoples
of the North
Institute of Pedagogy
Institute of Psychology
Institute of Russian as a Foreign Language
Institute of Physics
Institute of Physical Culture and Sports
Institute of Human
Philosophy
Institute of Art Education
Institute of economics and
management
Faculties
Faculty of Life Safety
Faculty of
Biology
Faculty of Geography
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of
Philology
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Law
Branches
Volkhov branch
Vyborg branch
Dagestan branch
Branch in Tashkent
(Republic of Uzbekistan)
Museum of the History of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A.
I. Herzen
The Museum of the History of the RSPU (then LGPI) was
founded in 1974 by A. A. Akhayan (1908-1977), Honored Worker of Culture
of the USSR. It contains materials reflecting the history of pedagogical
institutions in St. Petersburg, starting from 1770.
The materials
are stored in the personal funds of professors of literary criticism N.
P. Grinkova (1895-1961), F. P. Filin, methodologists for teaching
natural sciences P. I. Borovitsky (1846-1966), S. A. Pavlovich
(1884-1966 ), chemistry V. N. Verkhovsky (1873-1947), teachers A. P.
Pinkevich (1884-1939), V. N. Soroka-Rosinsky and others.
The
museum stores letters, postcards, drawings, autographed photographs of
famous scientists, writers, artists, composers, artists: V. M.
Bekhterev, L. F. Lesgaft, I. I. Tolstoy, V. A. Dogel, P. F. Kaptereva,
O. F. Bergholz, L. Dudin, E. A. Dolmatovsky, Yu. V. Tolubeev, L. I.
Egorova and many others.
The museum's fund contains more than
16,500 photographic materials.
Fundamental library named after
Empress Maria Feodorovna
The Fundamental Library of the University
has contributed to the research and teaching activities of the
University.
In 1873, a reading room was opened at the Orphan
Nicholas Institute; in 1877, the first rules for working in the capital
library appeared, and in 1887 it received the status of fundamental.
After the revolution, large book stocks of a number of closed
educational institutions joined the library funds, including: the First
Women's Pedagogical Institute; Higher Women's Historical, Literary and
Legal Courses of N. P. Raeva; Higher Women's Natural Science Courses M.
A. Lokhvitskaya-Skalon; the former Preschool Institute and the Institute
of Pedology and Defectology (Institute of Social Education), etc.
In 1941, the libraries of the Institute of Journalism named after
A.I. V. V. Vorovsky, Communist Pedagogical Institute named after N. K.
Krupskaya, part of the library of the Institute of the Peoples of the
Far North, the Second Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and the
library of the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute. M. N. Pokrovsky.
By the decision of the Academic Council of the University No. 7 dated
April 25, 2002, the fundamental library of the Russian State Pedagogical
University named after. A. I. Herzen was named after Empress Maria
Feodorovna.
Proceedings of the Russian State Pedagogical University. A. I. Herzen
Since 2018 at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after. A.
I. Herzen, a program to support scientific periodicals is being
implemented, within the framework of which work was launched to create
and develop 8 network scientific journals.
Journal of Applied
Linguistics and Lexicography
Physics of Complex Systems
Amur
Zoological Journal
Journal of Integrative Cultural Studies
Integrative Physiology
Language Studies and Contemporary Humanities
Comprehensive Childhood Studies
Human psychology in education
The main territory of the university occupies most of the block,
bounded by Nevsky Prospekt, Kazanskaya Street, Gorokhovaya Street and
the Moika River Embankment (postal address - Moika River Embankment,
48).
On the Moika, 48 buildings of different eras (baroque, early
classicism, empire, late classicism) are among the most mature monuments
of the corresponding periods in the history of architecture. The
architectural complex has an original picturesque appearance due to the
free, asymmetric arrangement of architectural structures, monuments,
park compositions. The complex of buildings occupied by the Herzen
University is included in the UNESCO list of world heritage sites under
international protection.
Separate faculties of the Herzen
University are located in other parts of the city.
The main building of the university - the palace of K. G. Razumovsky
- is located at 48 Moika Embankment (architects A. F. Kokorinov,
Wallen-Delamot). Since 1797, the palace housed the St. Petersburg
Orphanage, since 1834 - the orphan's department (since 1837 - the
Nikolaev Orphan's Institute), since 1918 - the Pedagogical Institute
(now the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen).
The entire second floor of the building is pierced by a corridor,
the walls of which are decorated with paintings dedicated to the past of
the orphanage (mainly landscapes). Corridor extensions form three halls
- Guardianship, Imperial and Rector's (from north to south). These halls
contain portraits of people who played a significant role in the
formation and development of the Orphanage, the Leningrad Pedagogical
Institute, Herzen University.
The building houses the
administration of the university and some services.
Between the
5th building and Kazanskaya street there is an "Old" garden. When, after
the revolution, all the buildings on the Moika were occupied by a higher
educational institution, here, in the Old Garden, in a small two-story
outbuilding, a children's hearth (orphanage) functioned for several more
years, then a building was built on this site, where the specialized
Orphanage No. 10 was located At the beginning of the 21st century, the
dilapidated building was demolished and a modern electrical substation
was built in its place in the garden, replicating the appearance of the
wing.
From the side of Kazanskaya Street, the garden is limited
by a lattice, designed by A. N. Voronikhin and which is part of the
ensemble of Kazanskaya Square.
The neighboring buildings (Moika embankment, 50 and 52) are also
buildings of the former St. Petersburg Orphanage. House 50 was built in
1750-1753 according to the design of F.-B. Shot for the wealthy merchant
G. Kh. Stegelman. In 1764, Stegelman's house was purchased by the
treasury. In 1765-1768. the building was rebuilt in the classicist style
by architect Antonio Rinaldi. Later, the main building and side wings
were built on, Stegelman's house and Razumovsky's palace were connected
by a three-story building, extensions were made from the side of the
garden.
The building at number 52 was built at the beginning of
the 19th century, acquired for the Orphanage in 1834. Rebuilt in
1839-1843 according to the project of the architect P. S. Plavov. In
front of the building in 1868, a bust of Ivan Ivanovich Betsky was
installed - an enlarged copy made by the sculptor A.P. Lavretsky from
the original by Ya. I. Zemelgak (1803).
Behind houses 50 and 52
is "Mama's Garden".
On Malaya Posadskaya Street, 26 - the building of the former Women's
Pedagogical Institute. Rebuilt in 1904-1906 by architects A. I. Zazersky
and V. V. Starostin. The interiors of the house church were made in 1906
according to the project of N. V. Sultanov. (Not preserved). Before the
Institute, this site was the building of the Cable Plant (M. M. Chizhov,
1895-1896, F. K. von Pirwitz, 1898).
In the western and eastern
parts of Vasilyevsky Island there are, respectively, the Faculty of
Music (Kakhovsky Lane near the Baltic Yung Square) and the Faculty of
Philology (V. O. Line 1, not far from the Tuchkov Bridge); the latter
occupies the historical building of the Russian Philological Academy,
and the traditions of literature have not been interrupted within these
walls since the beginning of the 19th century.
One of the
buildings of the Institute of Computer Science and Technological
Education is located on Voznesensky Prospekt at 39A (the other part is
located in one of the buildings on the Moika Embankment). The Institute
of the Peoples of the North and the Faculty of Life Safety are located
in the Kirovsky District on Stachek Avenue, the Faculty of Physical
Education is located on Ligovsky Avenue. The Childhood Institute is
located on Moskovsky Prospekt, almost opposite the Frunzenskaya metro
station. Primary school teachers and pre-school education workers are
trained here.
In front of the main building on June 30, 1961, a monument to
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky was unveiled by sculptors V. V. Lishev
and V. I. Yakovlev.
In 1868, a bronze bust of Ivan Ivanovich Betsky
was unveiled in front of the current 1st building. The bust was copied
(enlarged) by the sculptor A.P. Laveretsky from a marble bust by Ya.I.
Zemelgak (1803).
Memorial monument to the Herzen heroes, erected in
honor of students and teachers of the Russian State Pedagogical
University. A. I. Herzen, who went to the front during the Great
Patriotic War.
On the first floor of the main building there is a
plaster bust of Alexander Ivanovich Herzen.
in the Fundamental
Library. Empress Maria Feodorovna has a plaster bust of her.
Behind
the main building, in Mamka's Garden, is the foundation stone of the
future monument to the pelican, which in the early 2000s promised to
give them to the RSPU. A. I. Herzen FC Zenit.
On September 25, 2009,
between building 20 and the building of the dispensary, a monument to
Confucius was opened - a gift to the university from the Consulate
General of the People's Republic of China in St. Petersburg. The
ceremony was attended by Consul General Erlong Tian and First
Vice-Rector of Shanghai University of Foreign Studies Jinhua Tian. In
building 20 on the 1st floor there is a Chinese cultural center.
On
June 19, 2018, next to the 6th building, where the University Admissions
Office is located, the sculpture "Thinking" was opened. It symbolizes
the thoughts of a young man about the future. Young people are faced
with a choice of where to go. The appearance of the second bird at the
bottom of the composition indicates that after some time it will fly off
the shoulder, which means that the right direction will be found. This
monument is the first example of modern sculpture on the territory of
the university. The author of the sculpture is a member of the Union of
Artists of Russia VV Zaiko.
On September 6, 2018, the opening of the
sculptural composition "Two" took place. The composition is an image of
a pair of happy lovers. The work of the St. Petersburg sculptor A. A.
Arkhipov.
On October 7, 2018, a memorial sign to Vladimir Vysotsky
was unveiled. It is made in the form of a bronze bas-relief (120x80 cm),
an autograph and the words of one of his songs are engraved under the
portrait of Vysotsky: “Peace to your home!”. The bronze bas-relief
became the first monument to the poet in St. Petersburg. The author of
the memorial sign is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia L. A.
Petrova.
On April 15, 2019, a monument to Nikolai Gumilyov was
unveiled. The opening ceremony of the sculpture took place on the day of
the 133rd anniversary of the poet's birth. The monument on the territory
of the Pedagogical University became the first sculptural image of
Nikolai Gumilyov in St. Petersburg. The author of the sculptor is a
member of the Union of Artists A. A. Arkhipov.
On July 23, 2019, 33
lime trees were solemnly planted and the alley of the Total Dictation
was laid. On August 3, 2020, signs were installed on the alley - also
33. It's not just about the number of letters of the Russian alphabet,
but it so happened that approximately the same number of trees is
required to produce paper forms for writing the Total Dictation. Thus,
the alley has become a kind of environmental component of the project,
aimed at restoring natural resources. The signs that adorn the alley
have collected the most “Petersburg” words, one for each letter of the
alphabet. The Petersburg alphabet was compiled according to polls of
citizens. Next to the alley there is a large red letter "á", which is
part of the logo of the Total Dictation.
On November 14, 2019, the
opening of the sculptural composition "Three Graces" took place. The
triptych symbolizes the different hypostases of femininity. The author
of the sculptural composition is a member of the Union of Artists of St.
Petersburg V. A. Petrovichev.
On September 24, 2020, a solemn
ceremony of planting three sakura trees (Prunus serrulata "Kanzan") took
place. The trees were donated to the university by the Consul General of
Japan in St. Petersburg as a token of long-term friendship.
Agrobiological station
Agrobiostation (ABS) RSPU im. A. I. Herzen is located in the village
of Vyritsa, Gatchinsky District, Leningrad Region, is the educational,
methodological and scientific base of the Faculty of Biology. Here,
1st-3rd year students undergo educational practice and conduct
experiments on the topics of final qualification works.
ABS RSPU
has been functioning since 1937 as a subdivision of the Faculty of
Biology for conducting educational field practices in biological,
geographical and agricultural disciplines. At the agrobiological
station, the departments of field crops, vegetable growing, fruit and
berry crops, animal husbandry (poultry, rabbits, bees), plant
physiology, plant taxonomy, genetics, meteorology, local history,
decorative floriculture and tree and shrub species are organized. It
conducts research on environmental monitoring of the Oredezh River, its
tributaries and floodplain reservoirs.
Geostation "Zhelezo" is located in the town of Zhelezo, Luga district, Leningrad region. Here, students of the Faculty of Geography have internships in topography, meteorology, geomorphology, soil science, hydrology, landscape science, geobotany, zoogeography, etc. Students of the faculties of biology and physical culture of the RSPU named after A.I. A. I. Herzen.
On the territory of RGPU them. A. I. Herzen has an active church - the temple of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. It is located in building 20, in the premises of the former house church at the Imperial School for the Deaf and Dumb. During the 70 years of Soviet power, the premises were used in various ways, mainly as a student theater. The premises were handed over to the needs of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1999, although the first service after a 70-year break was held back in 1997. This church is one of the few places in St. Petersburg where Orthodox services are held with sign language translation. The church is located on the 3rd floor of the educational building, however, it has a special entrance and a separate staircase. In 2013, in the opening of a sealed window, on the wall behind the altar of the temple, the image of the Savior was installed by the church community. It is a copy of a fresco by Archimandrite Zinon (Theodore) from the Feodorovsky Cathedral.
Honorary Diploma of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (May 14, 1997) - for merits in the development of higher pedagogical education and culture in St. Petersburg and in connection with the 200th anniversary of its founding.