Refrigeration TechnologyRefrigeration Technology0023-124X2782-4241Eco-Vector10537510.17816/RF105375Research ArticleSt. Petersburg State University of Low Temperature and Food Technologies: into the 21st century with new hopesBaranenkoA. V.info@eco-vector.com15042001904232503202225032022Copyright © 2022, Baranenko A.V.2022<p>The course of the country's leadership towards industrialization and the rapid growth of the refrigeration industry in the 1920s and 1930s predetermined the need to create a single educational and scientific center that would provide the developing industry with refrigeration specialists. On May 31, 1931, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, by Decree No. 431, opened in Leningrad in the building of a former commercial school built in 1872 on Cherpyshev lane, house 9, a center for refrigeration engineering - the Leningrad Educational Mechanical and Technological Refrigeration Plant, which united the institute, the workers' faculty and technical school.</p>automation and controlthermal power engineeringmanagementавтоматизация и управлениетеплоэнергетикаменеджмент