page_title: Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment
hierarchical_section_title: Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Bureau et bibliothèque de Mendeleïev dans son appartement de Saint-Pétersbourg
context_page_description: Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment is a museum apartment of the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev, who is famous for establishing the Periodic table of arranging chemical elements by their atomic masses, which allowed the prediction of properties of elements yet to be discovered.
  It is located in the Twelve Collegia building, now being the centre of Saint Petersburg State University, and in Mendeleev's time called Head Pedagogical Institute with his archives. The street in front of these is named after him as Mendeleevskaya liniya. For security reasons access into the building in general is allowed mostly to authorized persons, such as students and staff of the University. All entrants are to present to the guards their identification documents.
context_section_description: Dmitry Mendeleev's Memorial Museum Apartment is a museum apartment of the Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev, who is famous for establishing the Periodic table of arranging chemical elements by their atomic masses, which allowed the prediction of properties of elements (i.e., simple substances) yet to be discovered.
  It is located in the Twelve Collegia building, now being the centre of Saint Petersburg State University, and in Mendeleev's time called Head Pedagogical Institute  with his archives. The street in front of these is named after him as Mendeleevskaya liniya  (Mendeleev Line). For security reasons access into the building in general is allowed mostly to authorized persons, such as students and staff of the University. All entrants are to present to the guards their identification documents.
caption: Mendeleev's office and library in his apartment in St. Petersburg
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