Saint Petersburg state university’s unified campus will contribute to Pushkin district infrastructure development
There was introduced St. Petersburg State University’s new campus and technological valley in Pushkin district. Both region’s transport infrastructure development and modern functional and architectural concept creation are the key conditions for the successful project implementation.
Single university’s campus territory will occupy at least 150 hectares while the technological valley will occupy about 100 hectares. St. Petersburg State University’s concept implies scientific and technological medical complex placement with an area of 75 thousand square sq. meters, educational and training laboratory buildings, a congress center, dormitories with a capacity of 25000 beds as well as sports infrastructure objects, in particular, a pool and a stadium.
The campus model implies an opportunity for all university students, including those from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, to live on almost 400 000 square meters. In addition, Saint Petersburg State University employees are provided with office apartments on campus and a chance to buy housing on favorable terms near of the future university complex is currently being considered.
A technological valley will be located near of a single campus - an innovative scientific and engineering complex, combining a technology park, R&D laboratories and pilot plants, educational and testing centers as well. Such a neighborhood will strengthen interdisciplinary interaction and will create an effective educational, research and production stages chain, hereby providing both students and scientists with comfortable conditions for training and work.
The total project cost is 45 billion rubles, 19 billion of which will be raised from the federal budget and 26 billion rubles are investor’s funds.
St. Petersburg Investment Committee noted the current project’s investment attractiveness and potential. It is a comprehensive approach to the territory development while implementing a large-scale project of federal significance, which primarily includes new transport routes creation. High-speed tram line the creation along the route from Kupchino metro station to Slavyanka, as well as the Southern latitudinal railway and Kolpinsky highway reconstruction are coming soon.
Together with the currently lacking social infrastructure construction, this will give a powerful impetus to the Pushkin district development, according to the experts.
An interdepartmental working group on St. Petersburg State University’s new campus creation and placement was created in 2013, while being controlled by the Minister of Economic Development. Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister, instructed to provide funds for design work for new St. Petersburg State University campus construction, which is scheduled for 2022–2026, on September 18, 2019.