Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov, was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61), a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg, and is the oldest and one of the largest universities in which country/nation?
Pyotr Pletnyov Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov (Russian: Пётр Александрович Плетнёв ; August 21 [O.S. August 10] 1792 , Tebleshi, Tver Governorate — January 10 1866 [O.S. December 29, 1865] ) was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61) and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841).
National University of Uzbekistan National University of Uzbekistan is the oldest and largest university of Uzbekistan; it has 13 schools. The university was founded in 1918 as Turkestan People's University, with 1,200 students; in 1920 it was reorganized as Turkestan State University (Russian: Туркестанский государственный университет ), and in July 1923 it was renamed the First Central Asian State University (Russian: Первый Среднеазиатский Государственный Университет ), a name it retained through the end of the 1950s. In 1960 the name was changed to the V.I. Lenin Tashkent State University (Russian: Ташкентский государственный университет им. В. И. Ленина ). With the independence of Uzbekistan it became the National University of Uzbekistan.