Presidents of The Saint Petersburg, USSR, and Russian Academies of Sciences
The following persons occupied the position of the Academy's President (or, sometimes, Director):
- Laurentius Blumentrost (Лаврентий Лаврентьевич Блюментрост), 1725—1733
- Hermann-Karl von Keyserlingk (Герман Карл фон Кейзерлинг) 1733—1734
- Johann Albert von Korff (Иоганн Альбрехт Корф), 1734—1740
- Karl von Brevern (Карл фон Бреверн), 1740—1741
- (Post vacant, April 1741—October 1766)
- Count Kirill Razumovsky, 1746—1766 (nominally, till 1798)
- Count Vladimir Grigorievich Orlov (Владимир Григорьевич Орлов), 1766—1774 (Director)
- Aleksey Rzhevsky (Алексей Андреевич Ржевский), 1771—1773 (Director)
- Sergey Domashnev (Сергей Герасимович Домашнев), 1775—1783 (Director)
- Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova, 1783—1796 (Director; sent into de facto retirement in 1794. Simultaneously served as the President of the Russian Academy)
- Pavel Bakunin (Павел Петрович Бакунин), 1794—1796 (acting Director), 1796—1798 (Director). Simultaneously served as the President of the Russian Academy
- Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai, 1798–1803
- Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev, 1803—1810
- (Post vacant, April 1810–Jan 1818)
- Count Sergey Uvarov, 1818–1855
- Dmitry Bludov (Дмитрий Николаевич Блудов), 1855–1864
- Fyodor Petrovich Litke, 1864–1882
- Count Dmitry Tolstoy, 1882–1889
- Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, 1889–1915
- (Post vacant, June 1915–May 1917)
- Alexander Karpinsky, 1917–1936
- Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, 1936–1945
- Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, 1945–1951
- Alexander Nesmeyanov, 1951–1961
- Mstislav Keldysh, 1961–1975
- Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov, 1975–1986
- Gury Marchuk, 1986–1991
- Yury Osipov, since 1991
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