Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU)

Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) was founded in 1940 as the Karelian-Finnish University and was renamed in 1956. During its 70-year-long history, the university has trained more than 60000 highly qualified specialists. Among its graduates there are academicians, ministers and world-famous specialists in culture and science, heads of enterprises and workers of various branches of industry of the Northwest and Northern economical regions of Russia.

The university has joined the best twenty classical universities of the general Russian Universities\' rating of 2009 and has won the first place on the Internationalization criterion and the 6th place in the Brand nomination.

The university now comprises 85 chairs and 17 faculties: Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Mining and Geology, Faculty of History, Faculty of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Baltic and Finnish Philology and Culture, Faculty of Industrial and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Physical Engineering, Faculty of Philology, Faculty of Ecology and Biology, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, as well as Preparatory Faculty, Faculty of Improvement of Professional Skills, and Faculty of Postgraduate Education in the Sphere of Medicine. The university also includes 3 branches, of which two are located in Karelia - Priladozhsky branch (Sortavala), Belomorsk branch (Belomorsk) and Kola branch is located in Apatity, Murmansk region; more than 40 international, regional and university innovation centers, training and production facilities, Publishing house, Scientific library (one of the largest libraries in the European North of Russia which funds total more than one million four hundred thousand books), Botanic garden.