Implementing the comprehensive project to create and develop a campus of the St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Engineering and Optical Design

The campus of the St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Engineering and Optical Design will be built in the Pushkin District of St Petersburg. The campus will include research centres, laboratories, classrooms, housing, and other buildings. The new campus will accommodate 3,600 students, 50 international laboratories, and at least five innovation-driven production facilities which will create 6,000 new high-skill jobs.

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Prepared by the Ministry of Communications.

The signed directive supports the proposal of the St Petersburg Government to implement an investment project in the city’s Pushkin District, providing, among other things, for the creation and development of a university campus of the federal state autonomous institution of higher education St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Engineering and Optical Design (hereinafter referred to as “project” and “ITMO University,” respectively).

The project concept provides for building the ITMO University campus to include research centres, laboratories, classrooms, housing, and other buildings. The planned area under ​​construction amounts to about 400,000 square metres.

In accordance with the project’s benchmarks, the new ITMO University campus will accommodate 3,600 students, 50 international laboratories, and at least five innovation-driven production facilities which will create 6,000 new high-skill jobs.

Approval was also granted to the proposal of the Ministry of Communications to create the joint stock company Highpark of the St Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Engineering and Optical Design to oversee the project’s implementation. It will have an authorised capital of 321 million roubles, fully owned by the federal government.