39 Notable alumni of
Dnipropetrovsk National University
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Dnipropetrovsk National University is 841st in the world, 290th in Europe, and 10th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 39 notable alumni from Dnipropetrovsk National University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Yulia Tymoshenko
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- politicianentrepreneureconomist
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Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first and only woman in Ukraine to hold that position. She has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada as People's Deputy of Ukraine several times between 1997 and 2007, and presently as of 2014, and was First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for the fuel and energy complex from 1999 to 2001. She has the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
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Leonid Kuchma
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- politicianengineer
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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. After a successful career in the machine-building industry of the Soviet Union, Kuchma began his political career in 1990, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); he was re-elected in 1994. He served as Prime Minister of Ukraine between October 1992 and September 1993. Kuchma took office after winning the 1994 presidential election against his rival, incumbent President Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999. Corruption accelerated after Kuchma's election in 1994, but in 2000–2001, his power began to weaken in the face of exposures in the media. Kuchma's administration began a campaign of media censorship in 1999, leading to arrests of journalists, the death of Georgiy Gongadze, and the subsequent Cassette Scandal and mass protests. The Ukrainian economy continued to decline until 1999, whereas growth was recorded since 2000, bringing relative prosperity to some segments of urban residents. During his presidency, Ukrainian-Russian ties began to improve. Kuchma declined to seek a third term in office, instead supporting Party of Regions candidate Viktor Yanukovych for the 2004 election. Following public protests over the alleged electoral fraud which escalated into the Orange Revolution, Kuchma took a neutral stance and was a mediator between Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. Between 2014 and 2020, Kuchma was a special presidential representative of Ukraine at the quasi peace talks regarding the ongoing War in Donbas. Kuchma's legacy has proven controversial, and he has been described as authoritarian by various sources. Widespread corruption and media censorship under Kuchma's administration continue to have an impact on Ukraine today, and he has been accused of promoting oligarchism.
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Oles Honchar
- Years
- 1918-1995 (aged 77)
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- prose writerwriteropinion journalistjournalistliterary critic
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Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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Borys Filatov
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Borys Albertovych Filatov is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current Mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. He is one of the leaders and founders of the political party Proposition.
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Valerian Pidmohylny
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- lexicographertranslatorwriterlinguist
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Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for the realist novel Misto (The City). Like a number of Ukrainian writers, he flourished in 1920s Ukraine, but was finally constrained and eventually arrested by the Soviet authorities. Pidmohylny was executed by the Soviets in Sandarmokh. He is one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.
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Volodymyr Lytvyn
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- historianpoliticianfaculty member
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Volodymyr Mykhailovych Lytvyn is a Ukrainian politician best known for being Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. Having previously served in that position from 2002 until 2006, he was re-elected in December 2008 after his party agreed to join the former coalition of Yulia Tymoshenko in an expanded capacity and stayed Chairman until December 2012. From 1994 to 1999, Lytvyn was the aide to President Leonid Kuchma and, later, the head of his office.
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Kyrylo Tymoshenko
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- politician
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Kyrylo Vladlenovych Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian politician who served as deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine from May 21, 2019, to January 23, 2023. He was coordinator of Ukraine's Large Construction Infrastructure Development Program. Tymoshenko founded GOODMEDIA agency.
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Serhii Plokhy
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- historian
- Biography
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Serhii Plokhy, or Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
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Andriy Pavelko
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- politician
- Biography
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Andriy Vasylyovych Pavelko is a Ukrainian politician and sports official.
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Kyrylo Wyshynsky
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- editor-in-chiefjournalist
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Kirill Valeryevich Vyshinsky is a journalist. He was the director of RIA Novosti's Ukraine branch (2014-2018). In 2018, Vyshinsky was arrested in Ukraine on charges of treason. In September 2019 he was exchanged to Russia where he continued his journalistic career.
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Leonid Derkach
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Leonid Vasylovych Derkach was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who was Head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 22 April 1998 to 10 February 2001. Called the "Ukrainian Sorge" (Russian: "Украинский Зорге"), he headed one of the five groups in the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia. The Derkach family maintains very close relationships with Oleg Deripaska, Mikhail Fridman's Moscow-based Alfa Group and Petr Aven's Alfa-Bank.
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Volodymyr Horbulin
- Enrolled in Dnipropetrovsk National University
- Studied in 1957-1962
- Occupations
- computer security engineerengineerpoliticianSecretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
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Volodymyr Pavlovych Horbulin is a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, Head of the Council for Foreign and Security Policy, former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former Head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, Dr. of Engineering Science, Professor, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director of the Institute of National Security Problems at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
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Aleksandr Kabakov
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- columnistopinion journalistediting staffwriterprose writer
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Aleksandr Kabakov was a Russian writer and journalist. He was born in 1943 in Novosibirsk, where his family had been evacuated during World War II. He studied mechanics and mathematics in Dnepropetrovsk, and worked in a missile factory after graduation. Eventually, he landed at the railroad industry newspaper Gudok, where he worked for more than a decade; he also worked at Moscow News and Kommersant.
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Hanna Turchynova
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- docent
- Biography
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Hanna Volodymyrivna Turchynova is the wife of former Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov and a former First Lady of Ukraine. She is a Candidate of Sciences, associate professor and dean of the Faculty of Natural Geography, Education and Ecology at the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University.
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Sergey Nikolsky
- Enrolled in Dnipropetrovsk National University
- Studied in 1925-1929
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Sergey Mikhailovich Nikolsky was a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
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Oxana Boturchuk
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- sprinterathletics competitor
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Oksana Boturchuk is a Paralympic athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category T12 sprint events.
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Andriy Govorov
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- swimmer
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Andriy Andriyovych Govorov is a Ukrainian competitive swimmer who holds the world record, European champion (2016 London) and bronze medalist in world championship (2017 Budapest) in 50 meters butterfly.
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Igor Lopatonok
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- film directorfilm producer
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Igor Lopatonok is a film producer, holding also US and Russian passports. He is known for his work in colorization and 3D conversion and as a documentary filmmaker.
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Mykhailo Zghurovskyi
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- computer scientist
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Mykhailo Zakharovych Zghurovskyi, also spelled as Mykhailo Zgurovsky,, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (in office 1994-1999). Today he is a rector of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.
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Anna Butkevich
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- modelradio personalityactortelevision presenter
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Anna Butkevich is a Ukrainian TV and radio presenter, model, and actress.
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Viktor Kryvenko
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- politician
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Viktor Mykolayovych Kryvenko is a Ukrainian politician.
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Lyubov Sirota
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- writerpoet
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Lyubov Makarivna Sirota is a Ukrainian poet, writer, playwright, journalist and translator. As a former inhabitant of the city of Pripyat and an eyewitness (and victim) of the Chernobyl disaster, she has devoted a great part of her creative output to the 1986 catastrophe. She writes in both Ukrainian and Russian, and also translates from Ukrainian into Russian and vice versa. Her poems have been translated into many languages, including English.
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Elena Sharoykina
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- entrepreneur
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Elena Sharoykina, is a Russian journalist, social communications and corporate consulting expert, environmental activist. She is director of the National Association for Genetic Safety (Moscow), and director of the Russian TV channel Tsargrad. Since 2020 she has been a Putin-appointed member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
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Valeriy Sushkevich
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- politician
- Biography
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Valeriy Sushkevych is a Ukrainian politician and public figure. Member of Verhovna Rada. President of the National Committee of Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine (National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine), head of the Ukrainian public socio-political association "National Assembly of Disabled of Ukraine", president of the Association "Sports Industry of Ukraine."
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Petro Tronko
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- statespersonhistorian
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Petro Timofiyovich Tronko was a Ukrainian academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and veteran of World War II.
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Olha Chervakova
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- 1975-.. (age 49)
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- politicianjournalist
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Olha Valeriyivna Chervakova is a Ukrainian journalist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the eighth convocation.
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Andrij Portnow
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- university teacherhistorian
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Andrii Portnov is a Ukrainian historian, essayist, and editor. He is the chair professor of entangled history of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). and a director of the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe. He specializes in Polish-Russian-Ukrainian history and memory studies.
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Artem Shevchenko
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- journalistwar correspondentopinion journalisttelevision presenter
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Artem Valeriyovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian TV journalist and manager, and is also the CEO of TVi channel.
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Aleksandr Kapto
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- university teachersociologistpoliticianpolitical scientiststatesperson
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Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian sociologist, political scientist, diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
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Leonid Sergienko
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- politician
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Leonid Hrygorovuch Serhienko was born on April 27, 1955, Mykolaivka, Pokrovske Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, USSR) — is a Ukrainian politician, people’s deputy of Ukraine of the IVth, VIIth convocations.
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Ruslan Strilets
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- politiciancivil servant
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Ruslan Strilets is a Ukrainian statesman and politician. On 14 April 2022, he was appointed as the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
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Vladimir Okhotnik
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- chess player
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Vladimir Okhotnik is a French chess player of Ukrainian origin.
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Denys Maslov
- Enrolled in Dnipropetrovsk National University
- Studied in 2000-2006
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- politicianjudgejurist
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Denys Maslov is a Ukrainian judge, lawyer, politician and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy (since July 2022).
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Karekin Arutyunov
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- politician
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Karekin Arutyunov is a Ukrainian politician, former People's Deputy of Ukraine and businessman.
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Mykhailo Sokolov
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- politician
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Sokolov Mykhaylo Volodymyrovych is a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine between 2007 and 2012 and he returned to the Ukrainian parliament in December 2023.
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Alexander Belskiy
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- literary historian
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Alexander Andreevich Belskiy was a Soviet specialist in literary criticism, Anglicist (he did researches in realism development in the English literature). Alexander Belskiy founded Perm school of research in non-Russian Philology. Also, he founded the Faculty of Philology at Perm State University and he was its first Dean in 1960–1964 and 1971–1977. Moreover, he founded the Department of Foreign literature at Perm State University, and he was its Head in 1965–1977. His famous student is Boris Proskurnin, the Dean of Faculty of Foreign languages and Literature at Perm State University.
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Pavlo Khazan
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- deputypoliticianscientist
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Pavlo Khazan is a Ukrainian scientist, politician, Lt. Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian War in Ukraine, co-founder of the environmental monitoring system, and a Deputy of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council (VII and VIII convocation).
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Volodymyr Koshmanenko
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Volodymyr Koshmanenko — Ukrainian mathematician, Doctor of Science, professor, Leading Researcher of the Institute of Mathematics of the NAS of Ukraine.
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Natalia Boytsun
- Enrolled in Dnipropetrovsk National University
- Studied in 1982
- Biography
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Natalia Boytsun is a Ukrainian government official, economist and scientist.
