Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg

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learned society scientific academy

The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg was the leading scientific institution of the Russian Empire, renowned in the 18th and 19th centuries as a major European center for research and scholarship.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	learned society → scientific academy →
alsoKnownAs	Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg → Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences → St Petersburg Academy of Sciences →
country	Russian Empire →
dissolvedOrAbolished	1917 →
employerOf	Aleksandr Butlerov → Alexander von Middendorff → Boris Jacobi NERFINISHED → Daniel Bernoulli → Dmitri Mendeleev → Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve → Heinrich Lenz → Karl Ernst von Baer → Leonhard Euler → Mikhail Lomonosov → Nikolai Lobachevsky → Nikolai Zinin NERFINISHED → Otto Wilhelm von Struve → Pafnuty Chebyshev → Peter Simon Pallas → Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky → Sofya Kovalevskaya → Vasily Struve → Vladimir Vernadsky →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → chemistry → ethnography → geography → history → mathematics → natural sciences → philology → physics →
foundedBy	Peter the Great →
hasPart	library → museum → observatory → printing house →
inception	1724 →
languageOfWorkOrName	Latin → Russian →
locatedIn	Europe → Russia → Saint Petersburg →
location	Saint Petersburg →
memberOf	European scientific community →
notableFor	being a major European center for research and scholarship in the 18th and 19th centuries → being the leading scientific institution of the Russian Empire →
opened	1725 →
originalName	Imperial Academy of Sciences →
patron	Peter the Great →
publishes	proceedings → scientific journals →
significantPeriod	18th century → 19th century →
successor	Russian Academy of Sciences →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ("Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg") → Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ("St Petersburg Academy of Sciences") → Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ("Imperial Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences") →	alsoKnownAs
Andrei Tupolev ("Academy of Sciences of the USSR") → Leonhard Euler → Mikhail Lomonosov ("Imperial Academy of Sciences") →	memberOf
Leonhard Euler → Mikhail Lomonosov ("Imperial Academy of Sciences") →	employer
Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ("Imperial Academy of Sciences") →	originalName