SPBGIK (St. Petersburg state institute of culture)

Federal state-funded educational institution of higher education "St. Petersburg state institute of culture" — a higher educational institution on preparation and advanced training of specialists in the field of culture and art.

Assets

For July, 2018 has faculties:

• Library and information faculty
• Faculty of information technologies
• Faculty of arts
• Faculty of world culture
• Faculty of welfare technologies
• Faculty of musical art of a platform

History

2014

In 2014 there was a renaming of the university into "The St. Petersburg state institute of culture" in connection with the law "About Education in the Russian Federation"

1999-2014

From 1999 to 2014 St. Petersburg State University of culture and arts carried the name.

1993

In 1993 it is renamed into the St. Petersburg state academy of culture.

1991

In 1991, together with the city, the institute changed the name again — it became the St. Petersburg state institute of culture of N.K. Krupskaya.

1964

In 1964 replaced the name with the Leningrad state institute of culture of N.K. Krupskaya.

1942

In 1942 the institute was a part of Teacher training college of M.N. Pokrovsky. As independent educational institution the Leningrad state library institute of N.K. Krupskaya was recovered by the order of Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on June 15, 1945.

1941

In 1941, before the war, the institute was renamed again — into the Leningrad state library institute of N.K. Krupskaya.

1925

In 1925 the institute was reorganized into Communistic political and educational institute of N.K. Krupskaya.

1924

In 1924 the institute is renamed into Teacher training college of a politprosvetrabota and receives a name of N.K. Krupskaya.

1918

The university was founded on December 19, 1918 when in Petrograd the Petrograd institute of out-of-school education was open.