relief image of the State Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation, above it along the edge – the inscription in a semicircle "RUSSIAN FEDERATION", framed on both sides with double diamonds, under the coat of arms on the left – the designations of precious metal and alloy samples, on the right – the content of chemically pure metal and the trademark of the mint, at the bottom in the center in three lines – the inscription "BANK OF RUSSIA", face value of the coin "3 RUBLES", year of issue "2024"

relief images of the main building of St. Petersburg State University and the symbols of the university framed by a pattern of lines made in the technique of laser matting; there are relief inscriptions: at the top of the circle - "ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY", at the bottom – "founded in 1724".

300 corrugations.

St. Petersburg State University is one of the largest scientific and educational centers in Europe and the world. Founded in 1724 by decree of Emperor Peter I, it is the only university in Russia that celebrated its 300th anniversary. Thousands of outstanding scientists, public, state and political figures, writers, artists and musicians studied and worked at the university: Dmitry Mendeleev, Alexander Popov, Ivan Turgenev, Peter Stolypin, Ivan Pavlov, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Vasily Dokuchaev, Alexander Blok, Mikhail Vrubel, Mikhail Glinka, Nikolai Roerich, Lev Landau, Leonid Kantorovich, Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and others. Graduates of the university have repeatedly won the Nobel Prize. Today, more than 20 thousand students study here, more than 15 large laboratories and 23 resource centers have been created, which are part of the country's leading Scientific park. The St. Petersburg State University Information and Library Complex is the best university library in Russia and is not inferior to university libraries from the top ten world rankings in terms of printed publications, rare books, manuscripts and electronic sources. The main building of St. Petersburg State University - the building of the Twelve Colleges – is an architectural monument of the XVIII century.

Artists: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), O.G. Shepel (reverse). Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), A.N. Bessonov (reverse).