General Information

The University incorporates 11 Departments, preliminary training courses, 32 Chairs, R & D Division, Ph.D. courses, administrative divisions and maintenance services, a scientific-information centre, commercial centres, social facilities, teaching-auxiliary, cultural and educational subdivisions. 

There exist two University affiliates in Segezha (the Republic of Karelia) and in Kuvshinovo (the Tver oblast).

More than 300 teachers are working at the University including 50 Full Professors, 180 Associate Professors. Of 5000 students learning at the University, 3000 are full-time students.

Many University graduates work at enterprises of the Russian pulp and paper sector situated all over the territory of Russia from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad. However, the majority of the mills are concentrated in the North-West and Central regions. For example, about 100 University graduates are working as engineers and top managers at the enterprises each such as Volga, Vyborgskaya Cellulose, the Syassky Pulp and Paper Mill, the Pitkeranta Pulp Mill, the Saint Petersburg Goznak Mill, the Saint Petersburg Board-Polygraph Mill, etc. Even greater number of graduates (200 and more) is affiliated to the mills each such as Mondi Business Paper Syktyvkar, the Segezhsky Pulp and Paper Mill, the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill, the Kondopoga Pulp and Paper Mill. The University graduates work at a number of well-known companies as well as at other firms, organisations and centres of the pulp and paper industry all over the world.

During recent years, a national educational system reform is being put into effect in Russia. The reform provides for the measures for improvement of the national system of higher education too. It is planned to reorganise the system in such a way that it is adjusted most closely to the European one, which is being created in the frameworks of the Bologna process. Our University is working for the Bologna process implementation.

History

The history of our University dates back to 1931, when the Leningrad Promcooperation Institute was founded. In 1959 it was renamed into the Leningrad Technological Institute for the Pulp and Paper Industry.

In 1993, the Institute got the status of University and was renamed into the Saint Petersburg State Technological University of Plant Polymers. Beginning in the fifties, research works dealing with pulp, paper and board production were being carried out actively in the University.

Now the University is the only higher educational establishment in the Russian Federation providing integrated training of specialists for industrial enterprises engaged in in-depth chemical processing of wood. The majority of University graduates work in the forest, pulp and paper industries, the chemical industry, the power sector of Russia, CIS and foreign countries.

Research and Development (R&D)

The University takes part in several international and federal programmes such as “Research and Integrated Use of Wood Biomass” (since 1990), “The Integrated Use and Renewal of Wood Raw Material” (since 1991). Since 2002, the University is a leading organization in implementing the scientific and technological programmes such as “Environmentally Safe Technologies of Wood Raw Material Harvesting and Processing” as well as “R & D in Priority Lines of Science and Technology Development for 2002 – 2006”.

The Scientific Schools headed by leading scientists of the University gained international recognition. For example, the environmentally safe papermaking technology based on the aerodynamic dry forming method that did not have any world analogues has been developed and implemented at the University. University scientists have developed the closed water-cycle technology for pulp and paper mills, which has been awarded the state prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and engineering.

Presently, the University is developing business relations in the field of machinery building with a number of foreign companies such as Voith, Metso, Andritz, etc.

The University participates regularly in many national and international programmes. University scientists carry out fundamental and applied research in collaboration with their colleagues from U.S.A., Germany, Canada, Poland, France, China, Finland, etc.

The University representatives are members of a number of International Committees and Commissions such as UN FAO ACPWP, COCVER.

Education and Training programs

Procedure of Application

An applicant must complete the Application Form (download the Application Form) and send it by e-mail as an enclosed MS Word file to zsv@gturp.spb.ru

Please write “Application for study” in the Subject field.

In addition, a copy of the form must be printed out, signed and sent along with all required attachments (see the Application Form) by fax to the number: +7 812 786 8600

or in the scanned form by e-mail to zsv@gturp.spb.ru as enclosed files.

UNIVERSITY  DEPARTMENTS

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

BACHELOR

Profile: - Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

MASTER

Profile: - Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Training programs:

- Chemistry and Technology of Fine Organic Synthesis Products

- Chemical Technology of Macromolecular Compounds

SPECIALISTS

Profile: - Chemical Technology of Organic Substances

Specialized Field: - Chemical Technology of Organic Substances

Specialisation:

- Technology of Fine Organic Synthesis

- Technology of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Preparations

Specialized Field: - Technology of Chemical Processing of Wood

Specialisation:

- Chemical Technology of Pulp and Paper Industry

-  Chemical Technology of Cellulose Composites

- Physics and Chemistry of Plant Polymers, Control of Products of Wood Chemical Processing

-  Certification of Products and Chemical Control of Products of Wood Chemical Processing

Specialized Field: - Chemical Technology of Macromolecular Compounds

Specialisation: - Technology of Packaging Materials

-  Technology of Natural and Synthetic Polymers

- Technology of Painting Composites (based on waste of wood chemical industries)

- Technology of Polymeric Adhesives, Sealants and Compounds (based on products of plant raw materials processing)

- Technology of Polymer Materials for Computers

Specialized Field: - Technology and Design of Packaging Production

Specialisation:

- Technology of Packages and Packing Materials

- Package Utilisation

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

BACHELOR

Profile: - Management

SPECIALISTS

Specialized Field: - Economics and Industrial Management (PPI)

Specialisation:

- Industrial Logistics

- Analytic Activities at Enterprise

- Personnel Management

- Finance Management

- Property Management

- Strategic Planning at Enterprise

Specialized Field: - Management of Organization

Specialisation:

- Finance Management

- Strategic Management

- Environmental Management

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

BACHELOR

Profile: - Environmental Protection

MASTER

Profile: - Environmental Protection

Training Programs:

- Recuperation of Industrial Waste

- Simulation and Control of Environmental Systems

- Air Protection

- Recycling of Industrial and Domestic Solid Waste

- Integrated Use and Protection of Water Resources

- Environmental Audit

- Monitoring of Industrial Enterprises

- Methods of Environmental Quality Control and Environmental Instrument Making

SPECIALISTS

Profile: - Environmental Protection

Specialized Field: - Environmental Protection and Rational Use of Natural Resources

Specialisation:

- Recuperation of Industrial Waste

- Air Protection

- Industrial Ecology and Rational Use of Natural Resources

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICS OF AUTOMATED PRODUCTION

BACHELOR

Profile: - Technological Machinery and Equipment

MASTER

Profile: - Technological Machinery and Equipment

Training program:

- Technological Processes, Machinery and Equipment of Integrated Chemical Processing of Plant Polymers

SPECIALISTS

Specialized Field: - Machinery and Equipment of the Forestry Sector

Specialisation:

- Machinery and Apparatus of the Pulp and Paper Industry

- Papermaking Machine Industry

- Computer Design of Technological Machines and Equipment

- Industrial Management

Specialized Field: - Machines and Apparatus of Chemical Industry

Specialisation:

- Machines and Apparatus of Chemical Industry

Specialized Field: - Design

Specialisation:

- Industrial Design

- Design of Environment

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HEAT POWER ENGINEERING

BACHELOR

Profile: - Heat Power Engineering

MASTER

Profile: - Heat Power Engineering

Training Programs:

- Heat-Mass Exchange Processes and Installations

- Fuel Use Optimisation in Power Engineering

- Optimisation of Vapor Generation Processes and Boiler Operation Conditions

SPECIALISTS

Specialized Field: - Industrial Heat Power Engineering

Specialisation:

- Industrial Heat Power Installations and Heat Supply Systems

- Heat-Mass Exchange Apparatus and Installations

Specialized Field: - Power Engineering of Thermal Processes

Specialisation:

- Power Engineering of Thermal Moist and Low Temperature Processes

- Power Engineering of Waste-Free Technologies

DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMATED PROCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS

BACHELOR

Profile: - Automation and Control

- Electrical Engineering, Electromechanics, Electrical Technology

SPECIALISTS

Specialized Field: - Process and Production Automation in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Specialisation:

- Automation of Industrial Thermal Engineering Processes and Productions

- Process and Production Automation in Forestry Sector

Profile: - Electrical Engineering, Electromechanics, Electrical Technology

Specialized Field: - Electric Drive and Automation of Industrial Installations and Technological Systems

Specialisation:

Electric Drive and Automation of General Industrial Installations and Technological Systems