Steklov Institute of Mathematics

The Steklov Institute of Mathematics, also called the Steklov Mathematical Institute, is a premier research institute in Moscow that specializes in mathematics and is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is named for Vladimir Andreevich Steklov, who in 1919 founded the Institute of Physics and Mathematics in Leningrad. That institute was split into physics and mathematics parts in 1934, and the mathematical part became the Steklov Institute and moved to Moscow. Its first director was Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov. The old Leningrad building became a department that is now a separate institute in Saint Petersburg.