Ioffe Institute

Физико-технический институт имени Иоффе

This is an Engineering Institute. Former asylum for the aged poor hereditary nobility of St. Petersburg province. Built in neoclassical style in 1912-1916 by architect GD Grimm. - Building facades are located on two streets - Polytechnicheskuyu and Kurcheshatova. There is a decorative metal fence. Right from the main building in 1970-1980s built a modern multi-storey building of glass and concrete. At the Institute are monuments to prominent physicists, such as a bust monument of AF Ioffe from 1964 and another bust monument to Academician Konstantinov (Памятник-бюст Иоффе А.Ф., Памятник-бюст академику Б.П.Константинову).

Address

Ulitsa Polytekhnicheskaya (ул. Политехническая), 26

Getting there

Near to the Polytechnic University -: 'Политехническая', or Trolley 4, 21, 13, 34, 50 or: 61, 38, 55, 40 to 'Станция метро Политехническая'