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St. Petersburg is one of Russia's most important centres for education and scientific research; a sizable proportion of the employed population is engaged in education, the arts, and the sciences. Heading the educational establishments is the city's state university, founded in St Petersburg University

1819. No less renowned and even older are the Academy of Arts, founded in 1757, the Institute of Mines (1773), and the Military Medical Academy (1798). St. Petersburg also has a polytechnic institute (1899), as well as numerous other higher educational establishments, general schools, and specialist and technical secondary schools. A focus for research is the library of the Russian Academy of Sciences (from 1925 to 1991, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.), which remained in the city when the academy's headquarters moved back to Moscow after the Revolution. The research establishments of the Academy of Sciences in the city include the Botanical, Geological, Forestry, and Zoological institutes as well as the Pulkovo Observatory. The city is the principal centre in Russia for Arctic research, notably at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and the Institute for the Study of Permafrost.

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