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Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPbGASU) (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (СПбГАСУ)) is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg. The University is cooperating with the City Government in making decisions in regard of reconstruction of the city historical centre and its suburbs. Scientists affiliated to the University have carried out a works in the historical centre's reconstruction and new districts` development. The University's laboratories enable to carry out the investigation of the technical condition of buildings and structures using methods that avoid destruction. The University has a faculty of 629 men and women. It numbers 4 Corresponding Members and 7 Councillors of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, 89 Doctors of Science and 357 Ph.D.s. Presently there are approximately 8400 students, among them 282 foreign students from 54 different countries of the world, concentrating their studies in science and engineering, and 243 post-graduates (among them 21 foreigners), working on their Ph.D. and DSc theses at the University. Scientific-research work is being carried out in the fields of science and construction. The University carries out its editorial activities publishing educational and scientific literature. Important elements of the innovation infrastructure of the University are: Scientific-Technical Council; Scientific-Technical Library which is a treasury of modern scientific-technical literature and rarities; basic chairs and scientific research laboratories. Scientific-research results received by the University specialists are published in scientific journals and other publications. (“Vestnik Grazhdanskih Inzhenerov”, “Ingenernije Sistiemi”,“Peterburgskiy Stroitelniy Rinok”, etc.).