Saint Petersburg State Forestry University (Russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный лесотехнический университет им.

С. М. Кирова (СПбГЛТУ) (also known under its former name Лесотехническая академия "Forestry academy", Rus.

ЛТА (LTA)) is a higher education institution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1803 by an edict of Emperor Alexander I. Saint Petersburg State Forestry University is a state-owned higher education institution, giving undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate education; it trains, retrains, and provides professional development for, people with degrees for industry work, research and teaching in the field of forest management, timber industry, wood mechanical processing, forest chemical industry, wood-pulp and paper industry, hydrolysis industry; it carries out theoretical and applied research.

The university is a leading science and methodology center for the network of forestry degree colleges of Russia.

[2] A division and five institutes of the university are located in four buildings on the grounds of an oldest park in the city with total area exceeding 65 hectares, founded in 1827.