Asteroid 829, Academia, was discovered on August 25, 1916 by Grigory Neujmin at Simeis Observatory near Simeiz, Ukraine. Maximilian Wolf discovered it independently on August 31 at Heidelberg and that was announced first. It has a period of 4 years, 52 days and is about 27 1/5 miles in diameter (43.76 kilometers).
It was named to honor the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in 1714.
The original headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg
Its meaning, according to Henk Middleraad, is: education. Other possibilities are academia, academics or subjects that are academic, i.e., moot.