The Imperial St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, which was founded in 1868 by the Royal decree of the Emperor Alexander II, is one of the oldest Russian natural-science societies. It belongs to that honored and famous group of scientific societies founded in the 1870s under the leading universities of the imperial Russia. For many years the Society was historically connected with St Petersburg University as its structural subdivision, but since 1992 it was registered as an independent regiona...

FSUE "FCDT "Soyuz" – is one of the leading enterprises of the Russian Federation in the field of chemistry and technology of solid propellants, development of power units for missile systems of different appointment, space systems, systems of direct energy conversion, as well as the creation of dual-use technologies. The enterprise was founded in October 1947 on the basis of the experimental and research plant 512, which produced gunpowder charges for the legendary "Katyushas" during the Great P...