Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University \"LETI\" (ETU, ETU \"LETI\", Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный электротехнический университет «ЛЭТИ» им. В.И. Ульянова (Ленина), СПбГЭТУ «ЛЭТИ») is one of the oldest Russian higher education institutions.
It was founded in 1886 as a Technical College. LETI, as it is popularly called, received the status of a higher education institution in 1899 and became known as Electrotechnical Institute. ETU was the first higher educational institution in Europe to specialize in electrical engineering.
In August 2016 ETU “LETI” became the part of the Project 5-100, a Russian academic excellence program.
The University has training programs in fields of radio engineering, telecommunications, control processes, computer engineering and IT, electronics, biomedical engineering, management, and linguistics.
