Area of St Petersburg University development

On behalf of the Chairperson of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, an interdepartmental working group was set under the leadership of the Minister of Economic Development to work out proposals to create a new campus of St Petersburg University. The working group also included representatives of the administrations of St Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, the presidential plenipotentiary office in the Northwestern Federal District, the State Duma, the Federation Council, and federal agencies.