SZIU RANEPA

The development of managerial education in Russia dates back to the 19th century. Then, in October 1811, the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum opened, educating many outstanding people of that time. The idea of creating a new type of educational institution belonged to the reformer and statesman Mikhail Speransky.

In 1918, with the advent of the USSR, a new educational institution, the First Zinoviev Worker and Peasant University, was opened in Petrograd. The training system included a general education course and special departments: the Soviet government, the Soviet police, the Soviet justice, criminal investigation, agricultural, transport, radio and telegraphy, urban improvement.

In 1944, the Communist University was reorganized into the Leningrad Higher Party School (LCES). In 1989, the LCVF was liquidated and the Political Science Institute was created on its material and technical base.

In 1991, the Government of Russia adopted the Decree “On the Creation in St. Petersburg of the North-West Personnel Center at the Main Directorate for Training Personnel for the Civil Service under the Government of the RSFSR”. From this moment begins the history of the North-West Academy of Public Administration.

In 1995, in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the North-West Personnel Center was transformed into the North-West Academy of Public Administration. SZAGS is included in the system of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

In 2010, the Northwestern Academy of Public Administration (NWACS) was renamed the Northwestern Institute of Management, a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration" and included in the unique All-Russian system of training for the public service and local government under the leadership of RANEPA.